- “Why Sergeant Major Sunak went over the top against his team’s advice” – Tim Shipman in the Sunday Times tries to get to the bottom of why Rishi called a July election, in spite of being advised not to.
- “Labour rejects Tory National Service plan” – Labour has rejected Rishi Sunak’s ‘National Service’ plan, says the Telegraph.
- “Young royals face National Service under Sunak’s election plans” – Tories say there are limited exemptions and Prince George, his siblings and cousins would be expected to take part, according to the Telegraph.
- “This national service plan is a patronising gimmick” – The idea of bringing back national service to knock into shape teenage tearaways and long-haired layabouts was a staple of my youth, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator. It’s not a serious policy.
- “Sunak is right: National Service is just what Generation Z is crying out for” – In this atomised social media age, societal cohesion needs to be rebuilt. The Prime Minister’s initiative is a great first step, according to Ken Costa in the Telegraph.
- “The Tory MPs standing down at the general election” – Many of those quitting Westminster have already secured lucrative employment, reports the Times.
- “I’m smiling at strangers and picking up dog mess. Why? I’m running as an MP” – In the Sunday Times, Rod Liddle reports from his constituency in Middlesbrough, where he’s the SDP‘s parliamentary candidate.
- “Labour is plotting the greatest assault on property rights in living memory” – Landlords are already treated as punchbags and it’s about to get worse, according to Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “Labour playing ‘politics of envy’ over school tax raids, says Gillian Keegan” – The Education Secretary claims Labour’s VAT raid on private school fees will “increase pressure on state schools” and “potentially cost taxpayers up to £1.6 billion”, reports the Telegraph.
- “The war against Israel in the courts is a danger to Britain’s Armed Forces, too” – Malicious actors are exploiting the ICC and ICJ, and it will have implications far beyond the Middle East, says former Attorney General Sir Michael Ellis in the Telegraph.
- “Muslim Vote frontman suggested Britain helped ‘create racism’” – Abubakr Nanabawa, the head of the Muslim Vote, says Britain created racism, reports the Telegraph. But Nigel Biggar, the author of Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning, begs to differ.
- “Teachers could get legal protection from blasphemy claims” – The Conservative Party manifesto will include new statutory guidance protecting teachers from being penalised for blasphemy, reports the Times.
- “Nellie Bowles: ‘It’s not healthy to tell kids that being white is bad’” – The former New York Times journalist has written a scathing exposé of how liberal politics “went berserk”, says Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “Murder probe continues after woman stabbed to death on beach” – A murder probe is continuing after a woman was killed and another injured in a stabbing on a beach in Bournemouth, reports the Bournemouth Echo.
- “CCTV images of Bournemouth stabbing suspect after Amie Gray stabbed” – Police have released CCTV images of the Bournemouth stabbing suspect after 34-year-old fitness trainer Amie Gray was stabbed to death on the beach, according to the Mail.
- “Trans men ‘becoming postmenopausal’ in their 20s” – A new study has found that some women who take testosterone supplements in the hope of becomign men have bladder and bowel symptoms you’d expect to see in a woman after the menopause, reports the Telegraph.
- “NHS trust sparks backlash over internal trans guidance policy” – Senior managers at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust have signed off on the 18-page document which forces medics to accept patients’ choice of pronouns, says the Mail.
- “Ireland’s ‘progressive’ elite has fallen for a lie” – Its unilateral recognition of Palestine shows the extent to which the country’s leaders now believe total bunkum, according to Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
- “German Minister admits ruinous home heating ordinances were merely a ‘test’ to determine ‘how far society is prepared to go in terms of climate protection’” – Eugyppius is unimpressed by the German Greens’ proposal that all new heating systems installed after 2024 in Germany use no less than 65% renewable energy.
- “Germany’s authoritarian turn” – Thomas Fazi in UnHerd reports on the increasingly authoritarian methods Germany’s liberal political class is resorting to to fend off the threat posed by the AfD.
- “Gerontocratic Tyranny” – On X, Louise Perry says it’s a bit rich of Sunak to tell young people they’ll either have to join the Army or ‘volunteer’ to help old people with their shopping, given that they’ve already been asked to make sacrifices for the elderly and been given nothing in return.
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