- “Prisoners to be freed after serving a fifth of their sentence” – Prisoners are to be freed after serving as little as 20% of their sentences under the Government’s early release scheme, reports the Telegraph.
- “Releasing prisoners early is a ‘roll of the dice’, warns probation head” – The Chief Inspector of Probation warns that ministers are “rolling the dice” by releasing thousands of prisoners in an effort to tackle the overcrowding crisis, says the Times.
- “Man assaulted three Asian women he berated for their appearance” – A man was sentenced to six months, suspended for two years, after berating three women as “prostitutes” for not wearing traditional Asian dress and for putting on make-up, and then violently attacking them, reports the Telegraph.
- “Tommy Robinson facing jail after repeating claims about Syrian refugee” – Tommy Robinson could face jail after being issued with a new contempt of court claim against him following the airing of a film at a protest in Central London, according to Bolton News.
- “Yvette Cooper faces legal battle over restoring hate crime measures” – Labour has been warned that it will face a legal battle over plans to restore the requirement for police officers to record non-criminal hate incidents, reports the Times.
- “The Times view on recording hate offences: surveillance state” – Placing people on police databases for unverified hate offences is an abuse of power, says the Times in a leading article.
- “Church of England stops Grade II-listed church being converted into mosque” – The Church of England has intervened to stop a disused Grade II-listed church from being turned into a mosque, says the Telegraph.
- “Starmer leaves door open to EU-wide youth-movement scheme” – Keir Starmer has left the door open to a freedom of movement-style deal for young Europeans during a Euro love-bombing mission in Berlin, reports the Sun.
- “Wealth tax looms amid pressure from Labour’s union paymasters” – Rachel Reeves has opened the door to a wealth tax ahead of her maiden Budget, says the Telegraph.
- “Fuel duty could be next tax grab for Labour” – Keir Starmer suggests that anti-motorist measures are on the table for the Budget, despite his pledge not to penalise working people, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer plots outdoor smoking ban” – Nightclub smoking areas, restaurant terraces and even shisha bars could all be axed in shock new plans by Starmer’s Labour Government, says the Mail.
- “Pollsters overestimated Labour’s support by largest margin in 50 years” – The final opinion polls ahead of the General Election overestimated Labour’s vote share by 4.2 percentage points, and underestimated the Conservatives’ vote share by 2.9 percentage points, reveals the Telegraph.
- “France charges Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, releases him on €5M bail” – French authorities on Wednesday indicted Telegram CEO Pavel Durov with six charges related to illicit activity on Telegram, according to Politico.
- “Free speech is dying online” – Mark Zuckerberg’s admission that his social media platforms were pressured to censor public discussion should worry us all, writes Silkie Carlo in the Telegraph.
- “Hope Not Hate – the ‘charity’ built on deceit: part one” – In part one of a three-part series for TCW about Hope Not Hate, Karen Harradine slams the charity for replacing its fight against extremism with a campaign that labels mainstream views as “radical Right”.
- “Hope Not Hate – the ‘charity’ built on deceit: part two” – In the second instalment of her three-part exposé for TCW, Karen Harradine reveals how Hope Not Hate not only distracts from genuine extremism but also brands any serious investigation into it as “phobic”.
- “Britain’s campus free speech crisis is not a Chinese plot” – Is it true that British universities are in hock to the Chinese Communist Party? The answer is yes and no, says Austin Williams in UnHerd.
- “Private schools VAT raid will fail to bring any benefits, Labour peer warns” –A Labour peer has warned Keir Starmer that the Government’s VAT raid on private schools will hit middle- and low-income families hardest and deliver no extra funds for the state sector, according to the Telegraph.
- “Governing based on misleading stereotypes? Who’d have thought it!” – Hardly any independent schools fit the “Eton/Harrow” stereotype, and hardly any parents are millionaires, notes Mr. Chips on his Substack.
- “No wonder children can’t behave. Adults won’t discipline them” – From indulgent parents to slack teachers, young people are growing up without any authority figures, warns Ella Whelan in the Telegraph.
- “Gold is soaring on fears of the economic catastrophe Kamala Harris is about to unleash” – A continuation of unchecked spending threatens to put the global monetary system on a path to ruin, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Why our political establishment has become so childish and naive, and so deranged by the phantom ‘extreme Right’” – On Substack, Eugyppius discusses the ascendancy of the Left, the cultural dominance of the 1968 generation and the growing prominence of head girl-types in the systems that rule us.
- “Climate campaigner appointed National Portrait Gallery director” – The National Portrait Gallery has appointed an eco-campaigner as its new director, according to the Telegraph.
- “Net Zero is becoming a threat to our basic security” – Turning off street lamps to cut emissions is insane. But with Ed Miliband as Energy Secretary, we can expect many more such measures, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “The simplest way to show the Covid shots increase ACM” – Vaccines are designed to cut overall deaths, but Covid shots fall short. Steve Kirsch lays out what he thinks is the clearest evidence yet on his Substack.
- “Colleagues who asked black worker about her hair were not being racist” – A black sales worker who sued for discrimination after her co-workers asked about her hair has been told by an employment tribunal panel that they were not being racist and only showing a “genuine interest” in her, reports the Mail.
- “Taxpayers pay millions to ‘eradicate’ racism in Wales – while NHS waiting lists soar” – In the Telegraph, Dia Chakravarty kicks off a new weekly series that reveals the shocking ways taxpayers’ money is misused. This week, the spotlight is on Wales.
- “The dystopian stupidity of woke” – Lionel Shriver’s new book Mania is a stunning satire of progressive intolerance, says Neil McCarthy in Spiked.
- “Musk has put me off Twitter, says Lineker” – Gary Lineker says that Elon Musk taking over Twitter has put him off using the platform, according to the Telegraph. His BBC managers must be relieved.
- “Ukraine to send troops to Britain to help overthrow communist dictator” – The satirical site the Upper Lip reports that Ukrainian President Zelensky has vowed to deploy troops to Britain to “liberate” the nation from its “communist dictator”.
- “Wetherspoons founder hits back at Ryanair demand for drink limit” – Sir Tim Martin says that calls from Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary to restrict alcohol sales in airport bars to two drinks per person are unnecessary, according to LBC.
- “‘Why I have endorsed President Trump’” – We must resist Marxist-Socialism, neo-Malthusianism and transhumanism with everything we have for the sake of our families, culture, children and humanity, says Dr. Robert W. Malone on his Substack.
- “‘When people read the history of Nazi Germany, they always think they’d be Schindler’” – People like to see themselves as heroes in history, says Jordan Peterson on X. But the pandemic revealed how quickly they turn to moralising and snitching to boost their own sense of superiority.
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