- “Trump’s victory is now more likely, not less” – He’s a felon. He’s a criminal – and he is the first President in U.S. history to be convicted of such serious offences. By all the laws of politics the Trump campaign should today be a smoking ruin. In fact, his conviction will help his chances, says Boris Johnson in the Mail.
- “Trump’s conviction is an assault on democracy” – The conviction of Donald Trump by a Manhattan jury is a dark day for American democracy, argues Michael Lind in UnHerd.
- “Donald Trump guilty verdict Q&A” – The jury of seven men and five women at Manhattan Criminal Court deliberated for nearly 10 hours before convicting the former President of all 34 charges of falsifying business records. The Mail answers any questions you might have about the Trump verdict.
- “Keir Stamer caves in and says Diane Abbott can stand as candidate” – The Momentum group, which was set up to support former leader Jeremy Corbyn, hailed Starmer’s flip-flop as a “huge victory”, reports the Mail.
- “How the Diane Abbott saga showed Starmer the limits of his power” – The Labour leader is facing questions after capitulating to the unions and party colleagues, with Rishi Sunak poised to take advantage in next week’s TV debate, according to the Times.
- “Keir Starmer’s revolutionary past that gives lie he is a moderate” – Sir Keir Starmer has risen to the top of the Labour Party without anyone really noticing that he’s a Trot, says Peter Hitchens in the Mail.
- “Axed Labour candidate accuses party of ditching socialists” – Faiza Shaheen, known as the ‘Chingford Corbynite’, says the party is targeting left-wingers because it is so far ahead in the polls, according to the Telegraph.
- “Corbyn leaflet endorsed by mosque chairman who praised Hamas founder” – Mohammed Kozbar of Finsbury Park mosque, once cited in a counter-extremism review, has endorsed Jeremy Corbyn’s candidacy in Islington North, reports the Telegraph.
- “Hamas reported to have stolen $100m from Gaza banks” – Hamas has plundered $100 million from banks in Gaza, according to the Jewish Chronicle.
- “Whisper it, but Rishi Sunak is making an extraordinary comeback” – With Starmer floundering, Farage flailing and Ed Davey acting a fool, a Tory revival is now on the cards, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Tories on brink of wipe out as devastating poll gives Labour a majority of three hundred with Conservatives only just beating Lib Dems” – A poll of 10,000 voters suggests the Tories would return just seven more MPs than the Liberal Democrats, says GB News.
- “The right must unite” – Douglas Murray in the Spectator says Conservative MPs need to stop demonising people (like him) with genuinely conservative views.
- “Iain Dale ends bid to become Tory MP of town he ‘never liked’” – The LBC presenter quit his job on Tuesday to stand as potential Conservative candidate in Kent, but has now withdrawn after some disparaging comments he made about Tunbridge Wells were unearthed by the Lib Dems, according to the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage demands apology from Fiona Bruce after fiery Question Time” – The Reform U.K. President says Fiona Bruce interrupted him with “incorrect facts” about the NHS and should apologise, reports the Telegraph.
- “Mass immigration is about to tear apart British society” – Nobody voted for mass migration; taxpayers have had no say in it; and everybody has been told that they must accept it, writes Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
- “Germany stabbings: Six people injured in Mannheim attack” – A policeman suffered life-threatening injuries and a hard-right activist was wounded in an attack by a knife-wielding Muslim in Germany, says the Times.
- “The Theatre of Victimhood” – There’s something deeply distasteful about trial by social media, whoever’s side you might find yourself on. The onslaught is relentless, and has driven people over the edge. But this week’s victim – Carl Benjamin – suffered a gross injustice, says Frank Haviland in the New Conservative.
- “Woke-washing is ruining art” – Poe-faced preaching spoils the Tate’s ‘Sargent and Fashion’ exhibition, says Laura Dodsworth on her Substack.
- “To use terms like ‘global boiling’ is clearly absolute nonsense” – Professor Ian Plimer tells Freedom Research that the climate alarmism movement and the renewables industry has nothing to do with protecting the environment.
- “The climate scaremongers: Media wrongly frighten air passengers about turbulence” – Paul Homewood in TCW – Defending Freedom says the media is wrong to blame extreme turbulence on climate change.
- “Chelsea Flower Show’s ‘apocalyptic’ climate change boutique” – On her Substack, Charlotte Gill pours scorn on an absurdly alarmist boutique at the Chelsea Flower Show, purporting to show what life will be like in 2099 when the entire human race has been wiped out by climate change.
- “‘Sensitivity readers nearly killed me’ – inside the publishing problem” – An anonymous novelist at a prominent publisher describes being told to make changes to their manuscript in an interview with the Times.
- “‘It was ludicrous’: The civil servant who saw the scandal of Britain’s benefits fraud unfold” – DWP worker says the removal of checks during Covid made the benefit system “fraudster-friendly”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Grenada demands Bank of England pay slavery reparations” – Grenada wants the Bank of England to atone for “atrocious enslavement of Africans” in 18th Century, according to the Telegraph.
- “Memorial to Royal Navy heroes who freed 150,000 slaves is in doubt” – Campaigners had been in talks to install a memorial in Portsmouth harbour for the West Africa Squadron, which rescued 150,000 slaves during the 19th Century. But Land Securities has vetoed it on the grounds that it wouldn’t be “inclusive”.
- “Black victimhood and white guilt has torpedoed a tribute to history” – The heroics of HMS Black Joke, a Royal Navy clipper that waged a fearless five-year war to put an end to the slave trade, are worthy of a Hollywood action movie, says Nigel Biggar in the Mail, decrying the decision to cancel the West Africa Squadron memorial.
- “Mispronouncing a name could breach equality laws” – The Employment Tribunal has found that an Indian bathroom salesman had his dignity violated by repeatedly being called by the wrong name, reports the Times.
- “Victory for press freedom after anonymity law declared unlawful” – Legislation in Northern Ireland, which prevented the naming of sex crime suspects, has been successfully challenged, according to the Times.
- “This is horrific and I want to see it fail as a political strategy” – Lionel Shriver tells Spectator TV that Trump’s conviction has made it fractionally more likely that she’ll vote for him.
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