- “Would raising employer National Insurance break Labour’s pledge?” – Basically, yes, says the BBC.
- “Reeves accused of hypocrisy after admitting NI raid would hit workers’ pay” – Rachel Reeves has been accused of hypocrisy after it emerged she previously admitted that increasing National Insurance for employers would hit workers’ pay, saying Rishi Sunak’s 2022 proposal was “the worst possible tax rise at the worst possible time” and would affect employees’ pay packets, the Telegraph reports.
- “National Insurance raid will be a disaster – and even the Chancellor knows it” – The manifesto promise-breaker will affect working people in the end as additional costs are inevitably passed through to real wages, writes Jeremy Hunt in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer rules out slavery reparations to Caribbean countries” – Downing Street has ruled out paying slavery reparations to Caribbean countries ahead of a major Commonwealth summit, the Telegraph reports.
- “Lammy’s latest slap down is good news for Britain” – Today’s taxpayers do not deserve to be punished for crimes committed long ago, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer met with Taylor Swift after she was granted police escort” – Sir Keir Starmer met with Taylor Swift after the decision was taken to grant her a royal-style police escort, No. 10 sources have confirmed, the Telegraph reports.
- “Sue Gray’s son had free Taylor Swift tickets for gig where she ‘intervened on star’s police escort’” – Sue Gray’s son, Labour MP Liam Conlon, took two seats worth £1,660 for the Wembley concert to which the singer was accompanied by a police motorbike convoy, the Telegraph reports.
- “Now Labour plans to give the unemployed free fat jabs: Keir Starmer to hand out weight loss ‘wonder’ drug to get jobless obese back to work” – The Health Secretary believes the latest generation of weight-loss medicine could have a “monumental” impact on obesity in the U.K. and ease the financial burden on the NHS and the economy, reports the Mail.
- “Wes Streeting’s jabs are no panacea – my own experience of Mounjaro was miserable” – The wonder drug can play its part in tackling obesity, but it is not a magic cure, says Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
- “The ‘fat jab’ has worked for me – and it can help cure our economy” – The Telegraph‘s Allison Pearson says that her weight-loss journey with Mounjaro has been wholly positive and many people would welcome help to improve their lives for the better.
- “BBC locked in row with Conservatives over leadership debate” – The Conservative Party has reached an “impasse” with the BBC in a row over who should select the audience for a live debate between leadership contenders Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick, the Telegraph reports.
- “Have scientists suppressed the truth about Covid’s origins?” – Matt Ridley speaks to Fraser Myers on the Spiked Podcast on the “overwhelming evidence for the lab-leak theory”.
- “Anthony Fauci: The Man Who Thought He Was Science” – Fauci will be remembered as a cautionary tale when power is invested in a single person, writes Prof. Jay Bhattacharya on the Illusion of Consensus Substack as he reviews the ex-public health official’s new memoir.
- “Freedom Research Podcast #17. Dr. Clare Craig. Consequences of the Covid Crisis: We Have Not Had the Pushback We Need” – In the latest episode of the Freedom Research podcast, diagnostic pathologist Dr. Clare Craig says that principles of medical ethics were overwritten during the Covid crisis and we have not had the pushback we need.
- “Apple Watch spookily predicts flu days before symptoms start” – Apple watch owners are shocked by the latest update which can predict when you’re sick days before you actually start experiencing symptoms, according to the Mail. Will this be the next pingdemic?
- “Vauxhall owner hauls staff back to the office in effort to reverse sales slump” – Stellantis, the owner of Vauxhall, has ordered staff back into the office, becoming the latest big business to reverse pandemic-era work-from-home rules, reports the Telegraph.
- “Norway court rejects environmental injunction against oil and gas fields” – A Norwegian appeals court said on Monday it had ruled in favour of the Government in a case brought by environmental activists who sought to halt the development of three oil and gas fields, Reuters reports. So, is our problem our courts or our laws? Both, obviously.
- “Chris Packham ‘smears’ in explosive new book” – Chris Packham has just suffered the publication in America of a marmalade-dropper of a book, says the Mail‘s Richard Eden.
- “Google buys world’s first private mini-nuclear reactors” – Google has struck a deal to buy the world’s first private mini-nuclear reactors, as technology companies race to secure power for their data centres, reports the Telegraph.
- “U.S. gives Israel 30-day ultimatum to increase aid to Gaza – or face arms embargo” – The United States has threatened to suspend arms deliveries to Israel if it does not drastically increase the amount of aid entering Gaza in the next 30 days, the Telegraph reports.
- “Watch: Met Police officer refuses to accept Hezbollah are terrorists” – Metropolitan Police officers have been filmed refusing to call Hezbollah a terrorist organisation and saying that the description is a matter of “opinion”. Watch the exchange in the Telegraph.
- “Amazon executive wears pro-Palestine necklace in promotional video” – A senior Amazon employee has provoked a backlash after wearing a controversial pro-Palestinian necklace in a promotional video for the business, says the Telegraph. The video has since been removed, and the company says it “was not meant to be a political statement”.
- “Boris Johnson: Tories allowed migration to soar because we couldn’t stack shelves” – Boris Johnson has claimed migration to Britain was allowed to soar to record levels because there were not enough workers to “stack shelves” following lockdown, the Telegraph reports.
- “Donald Tusk has challenged the EU’s migration consensus” – Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk shocked Europe this weekend by announcing that his Government would be “temporarily” suspending migrants’ right to asylum, a cornerstone of international migration law, says Michael Kranz in UnHerd.
- “Why EU’s ex-Brexit chiefs are sounding more and more like Nigel Farage” – Now in roles in their native Poland and France, Donald Tusk and Michel Barnier have both drastically changed their tune since doing the bloc’s bidding in the battles over Brexit, says the Telegraph‘s James Crisp.
- “Sara Sharif’s father called police from Pakistan to say he ‘legally punished her and she died’” – Ten-year-old Sara Sharif’s father contacted police from Pakistan, where he had fled, and told them he “legally punished her and she died”, a court heard, the Telegraph reports.
- “Enjoy your local pub while it lasts – before Labour’s ‘banter cops’ arrive” – The local boozer is a safe haven of impropriety and good humour, not one to be policed by our current killjoy Government, says Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “How the Stonewall gravy train came to an end” – As high-profile organisations cut ties with the influential LGBT charity, criticism is mounting against its pervasive gender ideologies, says Sanchez Manning in the Telegraph.
- “As a GP, I see how assisted dying would be a recipe for abuse” – In the Telegraph, GP Katie Musgrave says she dreads being asked to provide assisted dying services as the conflicts of interest and potential for abuse are overwhelming.
- “I was cancelled by Cambridge – and Starmer’s Labour bears the blame” – In the Telegraph, Suella Braverman says that thanks to the blocking of the Tories’ freedom of speech protections, campuses are turning into no go zones for people like her.
- “Woman to get payout after being hounded out of rape crisis centre over gender critical beliefs” – Roz Adams, who was hounded out of a scandal-hit “trans-inclusive” rape crisis centre run by a biological male in a “heresy hunt”, is to receive £35,000 in compensation, the Telegraph reports.
- “AI tools refuse to write in style of controversial French author Michel Houellebecq, publisher says” – The world’s favourite French misanthrope writer Michel Houellebecq is too controversial for the world’s new AI tools, which find his views so offensive that they cannot be repeated, reports France24.
- “Mystery as university Vice Chancellor famous for his free speech campaigning and ‘anti-woke’ views is suspended amid ‘serious allegations’” – James Tooley, Vice Chancellor of the University of Buckingham, is barred from working while an inquiry takes place, students have been told, the Mail reports.
- “Canada’s woke Stasi” – An elderly school trustee who questioned trans ideology has been subjected to a legal witch-hunt, writes Meghan Murphy in Spiked.
- “Why was the world’s richest man @elonmusk not invited to Labour’s U.K. investment summit?” – On X, watch Nigel Farage ask why the “world’s greatest entrepreneur” Elon Musk was snubbed by Labour. “Because he believes in free speech, and we can’t have that now can we.”
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