- “How did Ryan Routh know where Trump would be? The unanswered questions about assassination attempt” – The Telegraph rounds up the key questions that remain for law enforcement following the latest assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
- “Ryan Routh: who is the suspect in the Trump assassination attempt?” – He voted for Donald Trump in 2016. Now, Ryan Routh, a pro-Ukraine activist, is suspected of trying to murder him, write Jacqui Goddard, Charlotte McDonald-Gibson and Bevan Hurley in the Times.
- “Ryan Routh and the murky world of Americans fighting for Ukraine” – The suspect in the assassination attempt against Donald Trump is one of many, including Britons, to face difficulties in trying to help Kyiv after Russia’s invasion, says Anthony Loyd in the Times.
- “Fury at the BBC as Huw Edwards avoids jail” – Huw Edwards’s BBC ex-colleagues are disgusted by his crimes and believe he should have been sent to prison and forced to give back the £200,000 he was paid by their bosses after his arrest, reports the Mail.
- “How a cathedral city became the capital of boarded-up Britain” – In the Telegraph, Hannah Boland questions whether Rachel Reeves can revive Britain’s ailing high streets, given what‘s happened to Coventry.
- “‘I won’t tell people to have more children, even as birth rate falls’” – Despite the falling birth rate and his Government’s fondness for nanny state policies, Keir Starmer has ruled out urging people to have more children, writes Daniel Martin in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer defiant over taking gifts from Lord Alli” – Keir Starmer has defended taking freebies as he hinted he would continue accepting lavish gifts – such as high-end clothing – from Labour peer Lord Alli, according to the Mail.
- “Too many still won’t admit the truth about child grooming gangs” – We must secure justice for the thousands of victims of child grooming gangs and also ensure that this type of industrial-scale cover-up isn’t repeated, says Suella Braverman in the Telegraph.
- “Does Starmer have the gall to send asylum seekers to Albania?” – Keir Starmer’s idea of sending asylum seekers to Albania for processing is just another example of a Government so schizophrenic it’s now considering the very policy it used to condemn, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Starmer is looking to Meloni to solve his migration woes – and the Left can’t stand it” – In most of the vital aspects of the Albania deal, there exists all the same reasons that Left-wing opinion so vehemently opposed Rwanda, notes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Hundreds of migrants storm Spanish border from Morocco” – Hundreds of migrants scaled barbed wire fences in an attempt to storm into a Spanish enclave in Morocco before being pushed back by riot cops, reports the Mail.
- “Is the EU pushing its own mass migration problem in our direction? It sure looks that way” – Mediterranean small boat crossings are falling fast. Yet Brussels will not let the U.K. adopt their own tactics in the Channel, says Tony Smith in the Telegraph.
- “Ben Wallace calls out ‘two-tier policing’ for trail hunts” – Ben Wallace has called for England’s top police officer on foxhunting to be ousted if he can’t enforce the law impartially, following the officer’s claim that trail hunting is a cover for illegal hunting, reports the Times.
- “Graham Brady’s bombshell memoirs: Rishi’s big mistake, Boris’s lockdown outbursts and the ‘real Dave’” – In a series of exclusive extracts in the Telegraph, Sir Graham Brady reveals his never-before-heard conversations with the last five Tory prime ministers.
- “The ‘fabrications’ and resignations that plunged the Jewish Chronicle into crisis” – The Jewish Chronicle has lost credibility – and writers including David Baddiel – after a contributor was accused of making up Gaza war reports, writes Ed Cumming in the Telegraph.
- “Climate change a ‘more fundamental’ threat than terrorism, Lammy to warn” – Foreign Secretary David Lammy is expected to declare that climate change is a more urgent threat than terrorism or dictators like Vladimir Putin, according to the Mail.
- “Net Zero ‘monstrosities’ threaten to scar Loch Ness ‘until the next ice age’” – Scotland’s highlands are at the centre of a heated debate over proposed pumped storage hydro schemes, says GB News.
- “Second-hand electric car prices falling at faster and faster rate” – Leasing companies have warned that EVs are losing value at an “unsustainable” rate as a slowdown in consumer demand causes used car prices to tumble, reports the Telegraph.
- “Evidence suggesting Letby tampered with breathing tubes ‘not credible’, say experts” – Experts have dismissed as “not credible” statistics linking Lucy Letby to a 40-fold increase in dislodged breathing tubes, says the Telegraph.
- “Amazon orders staff back to the office five days a week” – Amazon is to make its white-collar workers turn up at the office five days a week, as tech giants increasingly try to cajole workers back to the office, reports the BBC.
- “Legal right to work from home will boost productivity, says Labour” – Labour has pledged to end the “culture of presenteeism” in Britain’s workplaces, saying that a guaranteed right to work from home will make staff more productive and loyal, according to the Times.
- “The mechanics of hypnosis” – On his blog, Dr. Hugh Willbourn explores “mass formation”, a form of mass hypnosis, and reveals how hidden trances shape our daily thoughts and actions.
- “Gender row erupts at Lib Dem conference as women’s group faces backlash” – The Liberal Democrat conference has been plunged into a gender storm over a campaign group promoting single-sex spaces, reports the Express.
- “Shakespeare play cancelled ‘over song about Gaza and trans rights’” – An adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with a drum’n’bass soundtrack has had its five-week run cancelled due to a disagreement over the lyrics to a song about Gaza and trans rights, says the Mail.
- “Social worker wins £55,000 after row about gender-fluid dachshund” – Local authority bosses must pay a lesbian social worker more than £63,000 after she was disciplined for having “nasty opinions” about a colleague’s “gender-fluid” dog, reports the Mail.
- “Only one man makes Booker Prize shortlist” – Only one man has made the Booker Prize shortlist – a year after the award was criticised for featuring more finalists called Paul than women, says the Telegraph.
- “Why does the National Trust poo-poo its past?” – The National Trust no longer has any interest in the heritage it is supposed to be preserving writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “The Welsh village where English speakers aren’t welcome” – In the Telegraph, Gareth Rees reports on plans for a new housing estate in North Wales being blocked due to concerns that English incomers would cause “significant harm”.
- “Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari review – banality upon banality” – Sapiens made Yuval Noah Harari an intellectual phenomenon. But ten years on, his new book shows that “Big Ideas” can go stale, says Samuel Rubinstein in the Times.
- “Brazil’s X ban: VPN fines mark new internet battlefield, free speech advocates say” – Brazil has imposed an $8,900 per day fine on anyone trying to get around the ban on X by using VPN software, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Devon & Cornwall Police tried to section a disabled 64 year-old man for being Right-wing”– Turning Point U.K. has discovered that Devon & Cornwall Police tried to have a 64 year-old man sectioned because it didn’t like his anti-immigration views.
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