- “Tories cut gap with Labour to 12 points: Sunak makes shock recovery” – According to a shock new poll, Labour’s lead over the Tories has slipped to just 12 points, says the Mail.
- “Starmer accused of lying after it emerges Diane Abbott investigation was completed last year” – Diane Abbott will not be allowed to stand as a Labour candidate at the General Election, reports the Telegraph.
- “Private schools will lose nearly half their pupils under Labour, poll finds” – A new report says Keir Starmer’s VAT plan will mean an influx of 224,000 children into state education meaning the policy will cost taxpayers money, according to the Mail.
- “Reform prepares legal challenge to Labour’s ‘discriminatory’ private schools tax raid” – Labour’s planned tax raid on private education could be challenged in the courts, reports the Telegraph.
- “Angela Rayner council house probe: Police say no further action to be taken as investigation concludes” – Greater Manchester Police says no further action will be taken against Angela Rayner following a “thorough, carefully considered and proportionate investigation”, according to GB News.
- “Britain will soon discover, to its horror, that there is no ‘moderate’ Left” – This election could unleash a Labour Government far more dangerous and extreme than many seem to realise, warns Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
- “Rishi made us all lazy. Only he can dig us out of this mess” – The Prime Minister must set out how welfare can once more be a safety net for the most vulnerable, rather than an ATM for the mildly unhappy, writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “BBC presenter grovels after Farage jibe” – One of the BBC’s star newsreaders entered into a spat with Reform’s Nigel Farage – and lost rather spectacularly, says Steerpike in the Spectaor.
- “The rise of electoral sectarianism” – Multiculturalism is reshaping British political life, writes Sam Bidwell in the Critic.
- “Palestine recognition will harm Irish economy, Israel warns” – Israel has warned Ireland that its decision to recognise Palestine will hurt its economy, reports Brussels Signal.
- “Google AI just estimated that as many as 1.1 million Americans may have been killed by the Covid vaccines” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch asks Gemini, Google’s AI, to estimate how many Americans may have been killed by the Covid jab. The answer is ‘quite a lot’.
- “A Case in point” – Simon Case’s Covid Inquiry testimony illustrates how fixation on abstract ideas like lockdowns can blind decision-makers, leading to disastrous policies, writes Dr. Hugh Willbourn on his blog.
- “Fauci’s NIH consigliere David Morens beaten up at Covid hearing, advised by own attorney ‘tie your shoe’” – U.S. media outlets downplayed or ignored new revelations of corruption within the National Institutes of Health, but you already expected this, says Paul D. Thacker on Substack.
- “Transhumanism: the paradigm behind vaccine mandates and gender ideology” – On Substack, Rebekah Barnett uses a police officer’s vaccine mandate fight and an interview with gender rights advocate Graham Linehan to illustrate a societal shift towards ‘transhumanism’.
- “The danger of convicting with statistics” – Courts have a bad history of using probability, says Tom Chivers in UnHerd, writing about the Lucy Letby case.
- “Why has violent crime declined in Britain?” – Contrary to the impression you’d get perusing Right-wing Twitter/X accounts, violent crime in Britain is not out of control, writes Noah Carl in Aporia.
- “Stabbing rampage leaves three injured in Lyon” – French police say that a suspected knife attacker has been arrested after at least three people were injured in a stabbing rampage in the Lyon subway, according to DW.
- “European Council approves ‘rapid response teams’ to combat ‘disinformation’” – The EU has announced plans to establish “Hybrid Rapid Response Teams” that will be deployed to counter ‘disinformation’ across its 27 member countries, reports Reclaim The Net.
- “In latest threat to German democracy, ‘fascists’ appropriate vacuous club anthem from 1999, use its melody to demand the deportation of foreigners” – On Substack, Eugyppius discusses the latest massively overhyped fascist threat in Germany.
- “India is a democratic success: globalists are so annoyed” – Some proponents of democracy slam leaders like Narendra Modi, but are all for doing business with Beijing, notes Konstantinos Bogdanos in Brussels Signal.
- “SSE’s wind farm fined record £33 million for pushing up household bills” – A wind farm owned by energy giant SSE is to pay a record fine to the energy regulator after overcharging customers, reports the Telegraph.
- “The two faces of EVs: brilliant in town, hopeless in the fast lane” – EVs are mainly overpriced city cars, fine for local use but hopeless on fast motorways, says Neil Winton in Forbes.
- “Toyota shuns electric cars with new generation of combustion engines” – Toyota is to develop a new generation of petrol-fuelled internal combustion engines in the carmaker’s latest bet against electric vehicles, reports the Telegraph.
- “Bridgerton’s big fantasy” – The only physical attribute that works against universal erotic appeal is ‘fat’, writes Zoe Strimpel about the latest season of Bridgerton in the Spectator.
- “We need a new word for ‘woke’, says Lionel Shriver” – Lionel Shriver has appealed for an alternative to the word ‘woke’, saying that even she is sick of the term, according to the Telegraph.
- “Criminalising the truth” – In the New Conservative, Frank Haviland discusses the risks of speaking the truth.
- “Pope Francis apologises after using homophobic term” – The Vatican says the Pope did not intend to use homophobic language after the Italian media quoted him saying there was “an air of f*****ry” in the church, reports the Mail.
- “AI will replace all human jobs but there will be ‘no shortage of goods or services’, says Musk” – Elon Musk says that artificial intelligence will abolish human jobs, resulting in a “universal high income”, according to GB News.
- “Flip flop masterclass” – A video circulating online contains a compilation of Keir Starmer’s most notorious U-turns.
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