- “State of the Race: Bombshell poll, Reform Surges, 15 days to go” – On his Substack page, Matt Goodwin reports on a stunning poll from his company People Polling for GB News of 1,228 British adults, which puts Labour on 35%, Reform on 24%, Conservatives on 15%, Liberal Democrats on 12%, Greens on 8% and SNP on 3%.
- “Nigel Farage set to win Clacton with ‘biggest swing in modern history’” – The Times reports on a Survation poll that puts the Reform U.K. leader on course for 42% of the vote in the Essex race.
- “Labour on course for biggest landslide in 100 years” – Reform is further eroding Conservative support with Nigel Farage’s party predicted to pick up five seats and the Tories falling to 108, according to a YouGov poll, the Times reports.
- “Britain is about to pass the point of no return” – Labour will have free rein to unleash a technocratic, socialist redistribution of wealth, and to install a Brownite constitution from hell, laments the Telegraph‘s Sherelle Jacobs.
- “Reform turning a crisis into a catastrophe for Sunak” – The polls appear to show there is little the Prime Minister can do to turn the tide, says the Times‘s Chris Smyth.
- “Daniel Hannan: Why telling voters to ‘stop the landslide’ won’t work” – We limp, not blindly, but hardly enthusiastically either, towards the inevitability of a Starmer landslide, already aware that we will regret it – it doesn’t get much more British, says Daniel Hannan on ConservativeHome.
- “Boris Johnson can’t save the Tories from the coming wipeout” – Despite what you may have heard, Boris Johnson neither was asked nor offered to campaign for the Tories, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “The two-party system is dying – and this vote may kill it” – Britain is already voting as if it has proportional representation, but the broken first-past-the-post system is delivering Soviet-style majorities, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Sunak to lose seat in Tory wipeout, major poll predicts” – A survey for the Telegraph predicts a Tory wipeout with Rishi Sunak, James Cleverly, Grant Shapps and Penny Mordaunt failing to make it among just 53 survivors. Note that the survey projects national trends onto constituencies rather than looking at local dynamics such as tactical voting.
- “Kemi Badenoch is the future of the Tory party – no one else survives” – In the same Telegraph survey the Business Secretary emerges as a leading figure on Right to take up the reins.
- “What’s the real reason Jim Ratcliffe is backing Starmer?” – Ross Clark in the Spectator smells opportunism in the changing loyalty of the Brexiteer Tory donor who owns one of Britain’s six oil refineries.
- “It shouldn’t be surprising that a Muslim son of immigrants is funding Reform” – Many second generation immigrants hate open borders as much as anyone, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Why Starmer will struggle to deliver growth” – Unless it changes tack, Labour is likely to find its core task defeated by Treasury sclerosis and entrenched interests, says Juliet Samuel in the Times.
- “Starmer Falsely Claims He Worked in The Police Force In Northern Ireland” – In Keir Starmer’s latest election broadcast featuring footballer Gary Neville the Labour leader falsely claims to have “worked in the Police Force in Northern Ireland”, says Guido Fawkes. In fact he was a part-time human rights adviser to an independent policing board.
- “Watch: Vote for my Tory Cabinet minister friend, says Sir Bob Geldof” – Meanwhile, Live Aid’s Bob Geldof endorses Andrew Mitchell.
- “Second Tory candidate investigated over alleged bet on election date” – Laura Saunders is reported to be under investigation by the Gambling Commission, the Telegraph reports.
- “PM’s police bodyguard arrested over ‘bet on election date’” – Seems they were all at it.
- “We’re set to be the illegal immigrant capital of Europe” – Labour will not stop the boats; it’ll make the UK the number one destination for illegal immigrants, says Suella Braverman in the Telegraph.
- “The silence of the Remainers” – Europe’s populist surge has shattered the simplistic, snobbish worldview of Britain’s pro-EU elite, says Jacob Phillips in Spiked.
- “France’s left-wing coalition would unleash migrant chaos on Britain” – In the Spectator, Gavin Mortimer sets out the extreme pro-immigration agenda of France’s ascendant Left.
- “France is about to bring the EU to the brink of collapse” – The election that Macron has called could lead to a financial crisis and a showdown with Brussels that would dash Labour’s European hopes, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “House Probes NewsGuard’s ‘Fact-checking’ Operations, Citing Federal Funding” – Rep. James Comer, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, last week launched an investigation into the fact-checking firm to examine the impact of NewsGuard on protected First Amendment speech, reports Children’s Health Defence. Comer’s letter specifically draws attention to a Daily Sceptic article.
- “Origins of Covid: A Historic Senate Showdown” – On the Courageous Discourse Substack, John Leake reports on the latest Senate Homeland Security Committee’s hearing on Covid origins, where Dr. Stephen Quay and Dr. Richard Ebright press home the culpability of the U.S. as well as China.
- “Breaking Publication: COVID-19 Vaccines: A Risk Factor for Cerebral Thrombotic Syndromes” – Dr. Peter McCullough reports on his team’s new paper that looks at official safety monitoring data and finds Covid vaccines hundreds of times more likely to cause strokes than the vaccines for flu and other diseases.
- “A potential association between COVID-19 vaccination and development of Alzheimer’s disease” – A new study from Korea finds a potential link between Covid vaccines and Alzheimer’s disease.
- “Just Stop Oil sprays Stonehenge with orange paint” – In their latest bout of criminal damage, Just Stop Oil protesters have sprayed Stonehenge with orange paint as members of the public try to drag them away, reports the Mail.
- “Professor McKitrick: Climate Story Is A Good Way of Expanding Government Power” – Interviewed by Hannes Sarv for Freedom Research, Professor Ross McKitrick says there may be both financial and political incentives behind the interests that are driving the talk of a climate catastrophe.
- “Is this the end for DEI?” – ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’ hiring policies are unprofitable, patronising and regressive and some companies are finding a better way, says Andrew Doyle on Substack.
- “The voting conundrum for socially conservative Christians like me” – In Christian Today, Julian Mann worries about the impact of a Labour Government’s draconian woke agenda on Christians’ freedom of speech and religion.
- “Why won’t this museum let women see its Igbo mask?” – Cambridge’s Pitt Rivers museum is pursuing a regressive policy described as ‘cultural safety’ which means that an African mask cannot be seen by women, writes David Abulafia in the Spectator.
- “Why are the police hounding Maya Forstater?” – The gender critical hero is facing a criminal investigation for standing up for women’s dignity, says Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
- “Review of ‘Debunking the climate change hoax’” – On Rumble, watch Ivor Cummins look in depth at Doug Brodie’s recent climate paper.
- “Disney execs working on the new Star Wars flop” – Darren Grimes posts on X documentary footage of Kathleen Kennedy’s creative process in action.
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