- “Special needs children not protected from private school VAT raid, says Bridget Phillipson” – The Education Secretary says that parents who pay to send children with special educational needs to private schools will not be shielded from Labour’s tax raid, according to the Telegraph.
- “VAT raid ‘simply won’t work’, warns Labour MP” – Labour MP Rachael Maskell says the Government’s VAT raid on private schools will leave children with special needs “nowhere else to go” as state schools “aren’t working” for them, reports the Telegraph.
- “Envoys say French and German schools in U.K. should avoid VAT” – European envoys warn that imposing VAT on U.K. international schools could force hundreds of their students to leave, says the Times.
- “Starmer warns that Brits face higher taxes forever ahead of Budget” – Keir Starmer says the idea that governments can “lower taxes and that your public services will run properly” is a “fiction”, according to the Mail.
- “Labour has ‘embarrassing’ problem with senior women, admits top Starmer aide” – One of Keir Starmer’s top aides claims that Labour has an “embarrassing” problem with women in leadership positions, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer suffers biggest fall in popularity for new PM” – Sir Keir Starmer’s approval rating has plunged from a high of plus 11 after his landslide election win to -38 – a net drop of 49.
- “Labour MP suspended after allegedly ‘hitting constituent’ on night out” – A constituent was punched to the ground by Labour MP Mike Amesbury after a row about cuts to the winter fuel allowance and the closure of a local bridge, reports the Standard.
- “Badenoch ‘wary’ of saying she wants to be PM because of toll on family” – Kemi Badenoch says that she is “wary” of saying she wants to be Prime Minister because of the “sacrifice” the job would entail for her and her family, according to the Telegraph.
- “Paedophile avoids deportation under ECHR because it would be ‘unduly harsh’ on his children” – A convicted paedophile avoided deportation by arguing it would harm his children, a case Robert Jenrick calls “madness” and proof Britain should leave the convention, reports the Express.
- “Hamas used hospital as a military base, says ambulance driver” – An ambulance driver at a hospital in the Gaza Strip confirmed that Hamas uses hospitals for terror-related purposes during an interrogation by security officials, according to the Jerusalem Post.
- “The humiliation of Iran” – Iran, for all its rhetoric, has been proven to be a paper tiger, says Yossi Melman in the Spectator.
- “When will Sally Rooney boycott Britain?” – In the Spectator, Brendan O’Neill takes aim at highbrow chic lit author Sally Rooney for putting her name to a letter calling for a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions that are “complicit in genocide”.
- “Authors criticise plan to boycott Israeli book industry” – Lionel Shriver and Howard Jacobson are among a group of authors who have signed a letter opposing the boycotting of Israeli authors and publishers, according to the Times.
- “How ‘big tech’ barons are plotting to steal Britain’s creativity” – Starmer is about to hand our copyright ‘crown jewels’ over to AI, warns Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
- “‘Woke’ chatbots back rent controls and dislike free speech” – The FSU’s Freddie Attenborough discusses a pioneering new study that has found AI chatbots are biased towards Left-wing ‘woke’ thinking in the information they provide to users.
- “Sharron Davies warns free speech is under attack: ‘Cancel culture is a plague’” – Olympic medalist Sharron Davies has taken to social media about the need for laws to be applied “equally” to everyone, reports GB News.
- “Ireland announces new online safety rules for video-sharing platforms” – Ireland has adopted a new online safety code for video-sharing platforms such as TikTok and Facebook to protect people from harmful internet content, according to euronews.
- “Russian ‘floating bomb’ ship docks at U.K. port after weeks of limbo” – A damaged Russian cargo ship packed with 20,000 tonnes of explosive material has been allowed to dock at a British port after weeks moored off the coast, reports the Mail.
- “The village at the front line of Miliband’s march on the countryside” – Lincolnshire locals are protesting to save their countryside from renewable energy infrastructure, says the Telegraph.
- “Britain urged to store nuclear waste in the Earth’s crust” – Ed Miliband has been urged to dispose of Britain’s nuclear waste by drilling boreholes up to five kilometres deep into the Earth’s crust, reports the Telegraph.
- “VW labour chief sounds alarm on mass lay offs and three German plant closures” – Volkswagen plans to shut at least three factories in Germany, lay off tens of thousands of staff and shrink its remaining plants in Europe’s biggest economy as it plots a deeper-than-expected overhaul, according to Reuters.
- “Was there a spike in neonatal deaths when Lucy Letby worked at the Countess of Chester Hospital?” – If Lucy Letby ever does get a re-trial, then the judge should not allow any of the statistical evidence to be presented since it has almost no value, writes Prof. Norman Fenton on the WATN Substack.
- “U.K. fertility crisis: birth rates drop to lowest since records began” – According to the Office of National Statistics, women of childbearing age in England and Wales have, on average, only had 1.44 children each as of 2023, reports the Mail.
- “China to create TV shows and films that promote ‘childbearing culture’” – China will create TV shows, films and plays promoting “marriage and childbearing culture”, as the world’s second-largest economy grapples with a plunge in the number of births, says the Telegraph.
- “How close were hospitals to collapse in Covid?” – Senior NHS staff have revealed to the Covid Inquiry just how close some hospitals were to collapse during the pandemic, reports the BBC.
- “The most devastating report so far” – The U.S. House report on the Department of Health and Human Services Covid propaganda is devastating, writes Dr. Jay Bhattacharya for the Brownstone Institute.
- “Eric Trump warns Keir Starmer risks ‘poisoning’ U.K.-U.S. relations” – Eric Trump says Keir Starmer risks “poisoning” relations with America by interfering in the U.S. election, according to the Mail.
- “The true scale of migrant crossings under Kamala Harris revealed” – The number of migrants who have crossed illegally into the U.S. under Kamala Harris is 25% higher than official figures suggest, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Elon Musk sued over $1 million voter giveaways” – Philadelphia’s chief prosecutor is suing billionaire Elon Musk and his pro-Trump political action committee to halt his $1 million giveaways to registered voters, reports the Hill.
- “Donald Trump will owe his boy Barron if U.S. election is 2016 all over again” – If the Kamala Harris campaign continues to flail, it could be 2016 all over again… and Donald will owe his boy Barron, says Harry Cole in the Sun.
- “‘Children can’t be transgender’” – Tory leadership frontrunner Kemi Badenoch insists children cannot be transgender and warns it is “critical” they are not allowed to make irreversible decisions, according to the Express.
- “NHS says it is ‘transphobic’ for staff not to share toilets with trans colleagues” – NHS staff have been told that women are “transphobic” if they do not want to share ladies’ bathrooms with transgender colleagues, reports the Mail.
- “Woman wrongly sent to male prison because she had ‘masculine features’” – A woman was wrongly sent to an all-male prison and forced to stay there overnight because she had “masculine features”, says the Mail.
- “Get your Progress Pride poppy” – It appears that even the Royal British Legion can’t resist the pull of wokeness, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “Is this why Britain is failing?” – On his Mad World blog, Russell David observes that many British companies have shifted focus from core products to broader ‘woke’ cultural initiatives.
- “Che Guevara was a sadist” – In the Spectator, James Bartholomew reveals the brutal legacy behind Che Guevara’s iconic portrait and challenges his status as a symbol of rebellion.
- “Why Elon Musk’s plan to put a million people on Mars is doomed to fail” – The winners of the Royal Society Trivedi science book prize say that even if the engineering problems are solved, our biology will scupper plans to create a Martian colony, according to the Times.
- “MSNBC compares Trump rally to pro-Nazi rally 85 years ago” – If you don’t yet believe that the culture wars have driven everyone insane, just look at this recent MSNBC coverage of Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden, says Andrew Doyle.
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