- “Starmer to say it will take 10 years to rebuild Britain” – Keir Starmer will warn it will take a decade to rebuild Britain, amid accusations he’s laying the groundwork for Rachel Reeves to announce major tax hikes in the upcoming Budget, reports the Mail.
- “Rachel Reeves is about to hoodwink Britain with a disastrous tax raid” – In the Telegraph, Adam Smith explains how Thatcher’s chancellor could be the unlikely inspiration for Labour’s capital gains tax.
- “Violent offenders let off if they say sorry” – Police are increasingly letting knife and sex offenders escape prosecution if they say sorry, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Shattered illusions” – The authorities’ record contradicts denials of two-tier policing, says Alex Story in the Critic, writing about the grooming gangs.
- “‘No whites’ graffiti investigated by police in Birmingham” – Anti-white graffiti has sprung up across three different locations in Birmingham, reports GB News.
- “The immigration debate is over” – When the crimes, costs, and cultural decay caused by mass immigration are so obvious, why relitigate its non-existent merits instead of acting? asks Connor Tomlinson in the European Conservative.
- “Met says it’s ‘tired of seeing crime’ at Notting Hill Carnival after mother is stabbed” – The Metropolitan Police says it is “tired of seeing crime scenes” at the Notting Hill Carnival after three people, including a mother, were stabbed, according to the Standard.
- “We need more anger about Islamist terrorism, not less” – After Solingen, it’s time for a fightback against both the Islamo-fascists and our complacent elites, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Labour’s outrageous attack on academic free speech” – The recent cascade of disastrous decisions emanating from the DfE has shown all too clearly how the application of crude ideology is a source of danger to all of us, writes David Abulafia in the Spectator.
- “Oxford’s outside bets for chancellor: from anti-woke reverend to hand surgeon” – Fringe contenders are throwing their hats in the ring for the Oxford chancellorship this year, including a banned academic, a plastic surgeon and an anti-establishment lawyer, says the Times.
- “The arrest of Pavel Durov raises awkward questions” – Do the French authorities believe that paedophiles, fascists and Islamists will somehow cease to communicate if the founder of Telegram is put in jail? wonders Owen Matthews in the Spectator.
- “The outrageous arrest of Telegram’s Pavel Durov” – Criminalising social-media executives for user-generated content could set a chilling precedent, warns Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “New Zealand’s Net Zero green energy disaster is a terrible warning” – The Ardern Government’s eco obsession has left NZ facing blackouts, says Bryan Leyland in the Telegraph.
- “Covid bad behaviour wave set to hit classrooms” – Experts warn that schools should brace for a wave of bad behaviour as children affected by Covid reach their difficult teenage years, reports the Telegraph.
- “Lucy Letby’s conviction leaves nurses ‘terrified’ to continue working for NHS” – Nurses have written to Keir Starmer, warning that the Lucy Letby case has left them “terrified” to work in the NHS for fear of being wrongly blamed for patient deaths, says the Telegraph.
- “Roxanne Tickle proves that trans rights now trump women’s rights” – A landmark discrimination case in Australia has found for a trans woman banned from a women-only chat forum – this fake liberalism is a smokescreen, writes Suzanna Moore in the Telegraph.
- “‘We live in such bizarre times’” – On GB News, Andrew Doyle speaks to Sall Grover, CEO of Giggle, who has been found by an Australian court to have discriminated against a trans-identified male for barring him from her women-only app.
- “Doctors quit over review into gender identity services for children” – Doctors are quitting the British Medical Association in revolt at its opposition to banning puberty blockers, reports the Mail.
- “‘Racist’ libraries” – Welsh libraries should focus on providing better services rather than pursuing a divisive anti-racist agenda, says Peter Harris in the New Conservative.
- “Robin DiAngelo plagiarised minority scholars, complaint alleges” – White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo, who believes white people should always give credit to minorities when relying on their work, is now facing a complaint for failing to credit several scholars – two of whom are minorities – in her Ph.D. thesis, reports Aaron Sibarium in the Washington Free Beacon.
- “Darts to bring back walk-on girls on BBC for first time since 2018” – Six-and-a-half years after they were controversially axed, darts’ walk-on girls are set to return to TV screens, says the Daily Star.
- “Ship over troubled waters” – On Substack, Jack Watson gives his take on the sinking of the Bayesian yacht.
- “Kamala Harris and the myth of the glass ceiling” – A female candidate can only break the glass ceiling if she conforms to various Leftist shibboleths, notes Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “How a beloved TV star became liberal Hollywood’s public enemy number one” – Cheryl Hines played Larry David’s wife in Curb Your Enthusiasm. But her real-life marriage – to Trump supporter RFK Jr. – is proving less funny, says Alexander Larman in the Telegraph.
- “An expat’s life in Singapore” – Singapore is the only nation on earth designed to be rid of bottom-feeders at every level of society, writes an anonymous resident for the Pimlico Journal on Substack.
- “‘I struggle to find any way in which this is not a racist policy’” – On GB News, historian and broadcaster David Oldroyd-Bolt says that asking teachers to “challenge whiteness” in schools is effectively saying there is “something sinful and wrong about being white”.
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