- “Democratic dynasty heir RFK Jr. endorses Republican Trump” – Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House and endorsed Donald Trump, reports the NY Post.
- “How will the RFK Jr. bombshell alter the Presidential race?” – Democrats will try to minimise it, but a Kennedy endorsing Donald Trump is big news, says Tim Donner in Liberty Nation News.
- “RFK, Jr. full speech” – On Substack, Dr. Robert W. Malone links to Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s powerful speech delivered at Trump’s recent rally in Arizona.
- “Kamala and Keir are a match made in ‘progressive’ hell” – Kamala Harris and Keir Starmer are united in combining woke ideology with socialist economics, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Kamala Harris: creature of the oligarchy” – The Democratic nominee is a tribune of the elites, says Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
- “Unserious people making for serious times” – On the Bad Cattitude Substack, El Gato Malo argues that growing government power combined with increasing incompetence is creating major risks.
- “Imams blame riots on Zionists” – Imams around the country are blaming the riots on “Zionists”, reveals the Telegraph.
- “NatWest debanks one of Britain’s biggest Holocaust memorial charities with no explanation” – Education charity Yad Vashem U.K. has been informed that, “following a recent review”, NatWest has decided “to cease” all relations with the organisation, reports the Mail.
- “Notting Hill Carnival is ‘ultimate example of two-tier policing’, says ex-inspector” – In the Telegraph, a retired Scotland Yard detective claims that officers are hesitant to make arrests for fear of being accused of racism.
- “Rachel Reeves spoke out on immigration tensions eight years ago. Where is her voice now?” – In 2016, Rachel Reeves warned that Britain was on the brink of chaos if immigration wasn’t addressed post-Brexit. So, why has nothing changed? asks Alp Mehmet in TCW.
- “Crack down on racist hate speech, UN tells U.K.” – The United Nations has urged the U.K. to take action to curb racist hate speech, says the BBC.
- “Islamic State claims responsibility as two arrested over knife attack” – Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a stabbing attack at a festival in Germany which left three people dead, reports Sky News.
- “Synagogue ‘terror’ attack suspect wears Palestinian flag around waist” – An armed man with a Palestinian flag wrapped around his waist set fire to a synagogue in France in what Emmanuel Macron has branded a “terrorist attack”, says DW.
- “Pro-Palestine protesters in Dublin criticise U.S. support of Israel” – A pro-Palestine demonstration has been held in Dublin to criticise U.S. support for Israel’s military offensive in Gaza and call on the Irish Government to do more to help Palestinians, reports the Standard.
- “London council cancels Reginald D. Hunter stand-up show over ‘antisemitic’ joke” – American comedian Reginald D. Hunter has had his upcoming performance at Harrow Arts Centre cancelled after facing a backlash for making a joke about Israel at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, says the Standard.
- “BBC under fire for describing Hamas suicide bomb attacks as ‘military operations’” – The BBC has been accused of whitewashing Hamas’s terrorist activities after describing suicide bomb attacks which killed dozens of civilians in Israel as “military operations”, reports the Mail.
- “BBC has made Jermaine Jenas a scapegoat, claim friends” – According to one of the former footballer’s friends, Jermaine Jenas has been made a scapegoat by the BBC following criticism it received for its handling of the Huw Edwards affair, says the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s war against freedom of speech is built on a lie” – An elementary safeguard of liberal rights and intellectual values should be uncontroversial. But Bridget Phillipson has blocked it, writes Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
- “What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?” – Students should be taught to do more than agree, says a concerned academic in the Critic.
- “Hidden in plain sight: the real international student scandal” – On the HEPI blog, two anonymous professors from Russell Group institutions discuss the quality crisis threatening higher education in the U.K.
- “Union demands time off if temperatures get too high” – A major union has told Keir Starmer that all employees should have the right to stop working under a national maximum temperature for workplaces, according to the Telegraph.
- “Labour is one step away from turning Britain into France” – European labour protections combined with Soviet productivity is the fate that awaits us, warns Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “No.10 pass for Labour donor who gave £500,000” – As cronyism claims swirl around the Government, the TV mogul Waheed Alli – Starmer’s biggest personal donor – gains access normally reserved for staff and officials, write Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire in the Sunday Times.
- “Truss calls for probe into Bank of England as bond crash ‘not my government’s fault’” – Liz Truss has demanded an investigation into the Bank of England after its analysts linked the bond market crash during her brief tenure to risky practices in the pensions industry, reports the Telegraph.
- “Inside Sunak’s disastrous gamble to call the election early” – In an extract from his new book, Telegraph Political Editor Ben Riley-Smith reveals how Rishi Sunak defied his campaign manager and paid the price for calling an early election.
- “‘I was the MP in honeytrap scandal. I felt such guilt and horror’” – Will Wragg tells the Times how a dating app match one lonely night in Westminster cost him his career and destroyed his mental health.
- “What is the point of foreign aid?” – Taxpayers should not have to foot the bill for aid projects in countries which don’t need it, says Daniel Freeman in CapX.
- “Ukraine has found a path to victory” – If given sufficient quantities of Western aid, Kyiv would have the capability to begin restoring its territory in 2025, writes Michael Bohnert in the Telegraph.
- “The fall of Vladimir Putin is now only a matter of time” – Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk will have been intended to bring forward the end of the Putin’s rule, writes Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Miliband’s war on cheap energy has only just begun” – Labour is willing to embrace higher prices to achieve its fanatical Net Zero ambitions, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Ofgem price cap rises” – On the Eigen Values Substack, David Turver explains the reasons behind the latest increase in energy bills.
- “Existing gas pipes would need massive retrofit or crippling de-rating to carry hydrogen” – A new peer-reviewed study has found that existing fossil gas infrastructure is “mostly unusable” for hydrogen without major investment, according to WUWT.
- “Can tree rings really tell us the earth’s temperature 1,488 years ago to 100th of a degree?” – In TCW, Ivor Williams casts a sceptical eye over today’s climate data and interpretations.
- “WHO co-conspirator in creation of SARS-CoV-2, cover-up of the laboratory origins in Wuhan” – On the Courageous Discourse Substack, Dr. Peter A. McCullough slams the WHO’s choice of Dr. Peter Daszak to investigate SARS-CoV-2, claiming it was a cover-up intended to obscure the virus’s origins.
- “World-first lung cancer vaccine trials launched across seven countries” – Doctors have begun trialling the world’s first mRNA lung cancer vaccine in patients, according to the Guardian.
- “The week in numbers” – On the TTE Substack, Prof. Carl Heneghan provides a numerical overview of the week’s top health-related stories.
- “Study of ‘sustainable’ Romani Gypsy lifestyle given £811,000 of taxpayer funds” – A study into how the “sustainable” lifestyle of Romani Gypsy communities can help combat the environmental crisis has been given £810,703 worth of taxpayer money, reveals Charlotte Gill in the Telegraph.
- “How ‘tranny’ became a slur” – The t-word was coined by gay men and used by everyone – until one day, it was rebranded as transphobic, says River Page in the Free Press.
- “Kirstie Allsopp’s fury as social services probe son’s Interrail trip” – Kirstie Allsopp says she was outraged at being quizzed by social services for allowing her 15 year-old son to go interrailing across Europe, according to the Mail.
- “Little Britain creator David Walliams slams cancel culture” – Famed U.K. comedian David Walliams has slammed “cancel culture”, saying that comedy needs to have an “edge” for it to be “explosively” funny, reports the Mail.
- “‘My Führer… RFK Jr. just dropped out of the race’” – On X, the movie Downfall’s Hitler bunker gets a makeover into the Deep State war room, just as the news breaks that RFK Jr. has withdrawn from the Presidential race and endorsed Trump.
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