- “Donald Trump found guilty in hush money case – becoming first ex-President to be criminally convicted” – In a historic decision, a New York jury has found Donald Trump guilty of falsifying business records to commit election fraud, reports Sky News.
- “Trump blasts ‘rigged trial’ minutes after jury finds him guilty” – Ex-President Donald Trump tore into what he called a “rigged trial” minutes after a Manhattan jury found him guilty of all 34 counts against him, according to the Mail.
- “Trump is a convict, but will it matter?” – Do Americans have enough faith in their justice system to believe that Trump is a criminal – or will they think that Joe Biden, and his party, are the real villains? wonders Freddy Gray in the Spectator.
- “Tucker Carlson warns Trump will win election if he’s not killed first” – Tucker Carlson says that Donald Trump’s guilty verdict is due to the U.S. having imported “the third world”, and that he will win the November election “if he’s not killed first”, according to the Mail.
- “Blocked Labour candidate accuses party of ‘racism, Islamophobia and bullying’” – A Left-wing Labour candidate, blocked from standing at the General Election, has accused Labour of a “systematic campaign of racism, Islamophobia and bullying”, reports the Guardian.
- “Diane Abbott is no anti-racist hero” – Identitarian activists are using Diane Abbott’s skin colour to try to absolve her from criticism, says Inaya Folarin Iman in Spiked.
- “Former Tory MP backs Labour at General Election” – According to the BBC, former Conservative MP Mark Logan says that the Labour Party could “bring back optimism into British life”.
- “Why we need to talk about the Labour Party” – Everything the Tories inflicted on the country is about to get a lot faster and harder, warns Tom Ed on his Substack.
- “The Right must unite” – If you add together the Reform and Conservative parties’ share of the vote you have a force that would at least have a chance of power. But the Conservative Party never seems to want those people, writes Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “‘No deal with Tories’ says Reform leader as he slaps down Farage” – Reform leader Richard Tice has dismissed as “banter” a suggestion by Nigel Farage that he would be open to a deal with the Tories, says the Mail.
- “U.S. poised to invest millions in mRNA bird flu vaccine amid H5N1 scare” – The U.S. Government plans to invest millions in mRNA vaccines for H5N1 bird flu as the virus continues to spread in mammals, threatening a new pandemic if it makes the jump to humans, reports the Telegraph.
- “Britain needs to debate the limits of multiculturalism” – Unless Conservatives set out principles on how to make integration work, it will be left to the extremes, warns David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “France stands as a chilling warning for the U.K. today” – In the Telegraph, Anne-Elisabeth Moutet parallels Mitterrand’s 1981 socialist victory in France with the prospect of a Labour Government in July.
- “The West is completely unprepared for Xi Jinping’s next masterstroke” – Growing tensions in the Taiwanese Strait threaten to leave the U.S. and its allies with a grim choice, warns Philip Pilkington in the Telegraph.
- “‘I stood up to the Greens’ trans ideology, then they kicked me out’” – In the Telegraph, ex-Green Party member Darren Johnson discusses being suspended for criticising its dismissal of the landmark Cass report.
- “Lecturer sacked from Bible college for saying ‘homosexuality is invading the Church’” – A Christian lecturer has been sacked from Bible college after his tweet on homosexuality triggered complaints from lesbian students, reports GB News.
- “Your favourite brand no longer cares about being woke” – Activism ain’t selling like it used to, says Michael Serazio in Vox.
- “Ignorant MCC tirade by Stephen Fry fuelling abuse of middle-aged white men” – Insulting the class, gender and background of Marylebone Cricket Club members was classless. Stephen Fry should know better, writes Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.
- “They tried to cancel me (again)” – On Substack, Nick Dixon bats away another hit piece trying to get him sacked from his job.
- “How Vice went from a $6 billion media empire to bankruptcy” – In the Free Press, ex-staffer Michael Moynihan discusses the myriad reasons why Vice has gone bust.
- “Robert De Niro’s hysterical meltdown will only drive voters towards Trump” – Given Biden’s calamitous poll numbers, perhaps celebrity Democrats are relying on shrieking alarmism instead – but that tends to backfire, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “The Biden administration’s DEI bind” – The Biden administration knows that it cannot defend the constitutionality of the equity agenda, writes Dan Morenoff in City Journal.
- “Why ‘artificial intelligence’ keeps getting dumber” – The disastrous launch of Google’s AI Overviews has exposed the fundamental flaws of generative AI, says Andrew Orlowski in Spiked.
- “All eyes on them” – A group of pro-Israesli protestors put some drones up in the air in Berlin to remind people about the hostages. Let‘s do it in London.
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