- “Pro-Palestine protesters wave ‘Zionists control the media’ placards during London march” – Pro-Palestine protesters waved placards alleging that Zionists control the media, as tens of thousands gathered in Central London to demand a ceasefire in Gaza, reports the Telegraph.
- “Blow for Rishi Sunak as Turkey migrant return deal collapses” – A key part of Rishi Sunak’s effort to stop the boats has collapsed after Home Office officials declared that Turkey was not a safe country to send migrants back to because of human rights concerns, says the Times.
- “‘Sunak’s weakness on migration has driven me to leave the Conservative Party’” – In the Telegraph, life-long Tory Martin Howe is appalled by the betrayal of the promises made to the British people in the 2019 General Election.
- “How the British Army lost its way” – Weakened by years of cuts and strategic MoD reductions, the forces are faltering just as the possibility of all-out war is nearing, writes Lucy Denyer in the Telegraph.
- “‘We are on a cliff edge’ – rural communities hit by new banking betrayal” – Elderly customers stand to bear the brunt of Lloyds’ decision to cut services, says Tom Haynes in the Telegraph.
- “Why Rene Benko’s fall threatens to bring down Germany’s elite” – The collapse of Rene Benko’s empire comes at the worst possible time for Europe’s largest economy, writes Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
- “‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point” – Last year, 10,000 sham papers had to be retracted by academic journals, but experts think this is just the tip of the iceberg, says the Guardian.
- “Why are there no British farmer protests?” – Discontent is spreading, but tractors aren’t lining the British streets – at least not yet, writes Liam Stokes in UnHerd.
- “Drivers pay the price as councils fail to fix pothole epidemic” – Drivers are footing the bill for Britain’s crumbling roads as pothole damage payouts from struggling councils dry up, reports the Telegraph.
- “Sadiq Khan praises French plan to charge SUV owners higher parking fee” – The Mayor of London, who has been seen travelling in a convoy of Range Rovers, has endorsed an “innovative” proposal from France to impose higher parking charges on SUV owners, says the Mail.
- “The West’s humiliating electric car climbdown has begun” – Ambitious plans for an electrification-led industrial revolution are in full-scale retreat, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Labour vetoes ex-Barclays chief for Net Zero job after diversity row” – Labour is blocking the appointment of a former Barclays chief as head of Britain’s Net Zero watchdog, claiming that the Government’s shortlist for the job was insufficiently “diverse”, reports the Telegraph.
- “How Amazon plundered British wind power to fuel its growth” – Wind farms that could be decarbonising U.K. homes are fuelling Amazon’s growth instead, says Jonathan Leake in the Telegraph.
- “The real purpose of Net Zero: impoverishment, enslavement and depopulation” – In TCW, Paul Homewood recommends reading Green in Tooth and Claw: the Misanthropic Mission Climate Alarm by Niall McCrae as an act of resistance in itself.
- “We are all doomed!” – On Substack, Stephen Andrews discusses the insanity of Net Zero and how data presentation can be deceptive.
- “Calling Rangers fans ‘huns’ not a sectarian slur, judges rule as they overturn decision” – A panel of Scotland’s most senior judges has found that a sheriff wrongly concluded that the term ‘hun’ was a form of religiously aggravated abuse against Protestants, according to the Sunday Times.
- “Labour’s ‘trans inclusive’ conversion therapy ban will be a disaster” – A Labour government won’t just outlaw attempts to turn homosexuals straight but, crucially, it will most likely make it illegal to try and talk someone out of having an irreversible sex change surgery, writes Joanna Williams in the Spectator.
- “80% of WHO trans experts flagged for conflicts of interest” – A UN panel setting global care standards for trans adults has been accused of cronyism, with four fifths of its members being flagged for conflicts of interest and even of having a financial stake in the group’s work, according to the Mail.
- “Gay teens conflicted by their sexuality hoped becoming trans a ‘cure’” – Gay teenagers, disturbed by their own sexuality, have described deciding life would be better as a transgender person and undergoing surgery, only to regret it several years later, reports the Mail.
- “No, you don’t need to be disabled to play Richard III” – Actors don’t need to share the ‘lived experience’ of their characters, says Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “The crumbling pillars of society” – On Substack, Laura Dodsworth discusses the awful ‘Pride pillar’ – politicians who can barely say the word ‘Jew’.
- “Billionaire Peter Thiel is going to fund and launch a competition that is literally the Olympics on steroids” – Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel is throwing his financial muscle behind an “Olympics on steroids”, whose organiser boasts that athletes will dope “out in the open and honestly”, according to Not the Bee.
- “This is as an ‘open secret’ within the pharmaceutical industry” – On X, the Vigilant Fox has clipped a former Pharma insider telling Tucker Carlson that the true goal of pharma ads on TV is not to sell drugs but to buy off the news media.
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