- “Reform U.K. commits to excess deaths and vaccine harms inquiry” – Reform U.K. Leader Richard Tice has committed his party to a public inquiry into excess deaths and Covid vaccine harms, saying the jabs could be responsible for thousands more fatalities than expected, the Telegraph reports.
- “How the doctor behind ITV’s new Covid drama is a Tory-hating activist” – The new ITV drama Breathtaking is based on a book by doctor – and vocal Left-wing activist – Rachel Clarke, a 52-year-old palliative care specialist with plenty of practice as an anti-Tory mouthpiece, according to the Mail‘s Andrew Pierce.
- “Council staff join ‘working from the beach’ culture of logging in from exotic locations worldwide” – A freedom of information request to local authorities has revealed employees have successfully applied to work from as far away as Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica and the U.S., according to the Telegraph.
- “Lee Anderson suspended after ‘Islamophobic, racist’ about Sadiq Khan” – Lee Anderson has been suspended by the Conservative party after he refused to apologise for ‘Islamophobic, racist’ comments about London Mayor Sadiq Khan, the Mail reports.
- “Farage woos Anderson after Tory suspended over Khan comments” – Lee Anderson has been offered a place in the Reform party by Nigel Farage after he was stripped of the Conservative whip after claiming that “Islamists” have “got control” of Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, the Telegraph reports.
- “Starmer has brought shame upon Labour” – Keir Starmer put maintaining the facade of unity within his party ahead of the principle that Parliament cannot be seen to be intimidated, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “The cowardice of our elites is emboldening Islamism” – Lindsay Hoyle’s capitulation to extremists marked a dark day for British democracy, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “Bodyguards for MPs as extremism threat rises” – Private security is being deployed to protect MPs amid warnings that the Israel-Hamas conflict is a “generational radicalising moment”, the Telegraph reveals.
- “Three female MPs given taxpayer-funded bodyguards over safety fears” – Three female politicians have been given taxpayer-funded bodyguards and cars amid growing concerns about MPs’ safety, the Times reports.
- “Met cuts ties with adviser who previously praised Hamas founder” – A prominent mosque chairman who previously praised the founder of Hamas has been removed as an adviser to the Metropolitan Police, the Telegraph reports.
- “Ministry of Justice hosted speaker who said ‘Jews need to get in the queue behind Muslims’” – The Ministry of Justice hosted a speaker who previously said that “Jews need to get in the queue behind Muslims”, in response to concerns about antisemitism, the Telegraph reports.
- “This nihilistic new era of protest is a danger to British democracy” – The idea that people can demonstrate outside MPs’ homes is so outrageous that it shouldn’t even be up for debate, says Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
- “No action against judge who dealt leniently with paraglider protestors” – Senior MPs have criticised prosecutors for dropping an investigation into judge Tan Ikram who dealt leniently with three women protesters exposed for sporting ‘Hamas paragliders’ pictures on their jackets, reports the Mail.
- “Pro-Palestine protesters shut down Tower Bridge” – Activists waving Palestinian flags and carrying a banner that read ‘Save Gaza, Ceasefire Now’ shut down London’s Tower Bridge, says the Mail.
- “France expels ‘radical’ Tunisian imam Mahjoub Mahjoubi over flag comments” – Immigration reforms have made it easier for the French Government to forcibly remove foreign residents, according to the BBC.
- “The shamelessness of Hope not Hate” – Hope Not Hate has shown no interest in speaking out against antisemitism yet thinks that investigating Paul Marshall’s tweets is a worthy use of its time, says Laurie Wastell in the Spectator.
- “Shoppers face £1bn ‘toaster tax’ under plans for new set of Net Zero rules” – The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has unveiled plans to require larger shops to ‘take back’ used electrical items such as toasters for recycling, even if the items were bought elsewhere, the Telegraph reports.
- “BBC should be proud to be progressive, Director General told staff” – The BBC’s Director General Tim Davie told staff the corporation should be proud to be progressive, the Telegraph reveals.
- “The ‘greedy good’ are destroying Britain’s economy” – Liz Truss is right: wokeonomics is destroying the West, says the Telegraph‘s Matthew Lynn.
- “Church of England yet to set up £100m slavery reparations fund after a year” – The Church of England is yet to set up a promised £100 million slavery reparations fund a year after announcing it was “time to take action to address our shameful past”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Church of England set for ‘urgent’ review into asylum seeker policy” – The Church of England is reviewing its policies towards asylum seekers as a “matter of urgency” after it was accused of presiding over a “conveyor belt” of fake conversions, the Telegraph reports.
- “Germany: Interior Minister Looks to Ban Private Gatherings of ‘Right-Wing Extremists’” – Nancy Faeser’s Government colleagues say her plans are more dangerous to the constitutional order than the “Right-wing extremists” she claims to be fighting, according to the European Conservative.
- “Supreme Court set for arguments in most consequential internet free speech case yet” – The Washington Examiner reports that the Supreme Court will hear arguments over the extent of states’ power to hold social media platforms liable for political censorship.
- “Letting women join front-line Army fighting units a ‘failed exercise in political correctness’” – The decision to allow women to join front-line Army fighting units has been described as a “failed exercise in political correctness” after Government figures revealed that only 10 female recruits started infantry and Royal Armoured Corps basic training last year, the Telegraph reports.
- “Trump imitates Biden navigating his way off a stage. Just an absolute masterpiece in comedic entertainment” – Watch Trump mock his political opponent at a rally in South Carolina.
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