- “Kemi Badenoch, symbol of a changing Conservative party and country” – A sometimes tough upbringing in Nigeria helped give the new Tory leader the outsider status and combative personality that has helped her reach the top of politics, say Will Lloyd and Richard Assheton in the Sunday Times.
- “PM urged to take whip from Labour MP who shared ‘white supremacy’ post about Badenoch” – Keir Starmer has refused to remove the whip from a “race-baiting” Labour MP who shared a social media post accusing Kemi Badenoch of representing “white supremacy in blackface”, reports the Express.
- “Jeremy Clarkson says Labour is trying to ‘nationalise the countryside’” – Jeremy Clarkson says the Government’s new inheritance tax policy could be “the last straw for farmers who are already struggling to cope”, according to the Mail. (You can read Jeremy’s column in the Sunday Times here.)
- “‘We can’t afford to let farmers die tax-free’” – Rachel Reeves insists the nation cannot afford to let all farmers continue passing on their estates without paying inheritance tax, reports the Telegraph.
- “Farmer feared to have taken own life in his barn after Labour budget” – A farmer is said to have killed himself in a barn after his children were faced with a 20% inheritance tax bill, says the Mail.
- “James Dyson blasts Rachel Reeves’s ‘spiteful’ budget” – In the Times, Sir James Dyson warns Rachel Reeves that raising inheritance tax on farms and family businesses will be the “death of entrepreneurship”.
- “Rachel Reeves admits she was ‘wrong’ to say taxes did not have to rise” – Chancellor Rachel Reeves admits she was wrong to say during the election campaign that taxes would not have to rise, according to the Mail.
- “Michael Caine says Labour tax raids punish success” – Michael Caine has warned that higher taxes are going to “clobber ordinary people” who are trying to “have a better life”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Reeves under fire from Labour backbenchers over ‘impossible sell’ Budget” – Rachel Reeves is under fire from Labour backbenchers who say her Budget is “impossible to sell” on the doorstop to “horrified” constituents, according to the Telegraph.
- “The single mother suing over ‘discrimination’ of private schools VAT” – A single mother with three children at private school is bringing a legal challenge against the imposition of VAT on school fees, arguing it discriminates against women, reports the Sunday Times.
- “Government delayed Southport suspect terrorism charge over Chris Kaba riot fears, reports claim” – The Government delayed announcing new charges against the Southport stabbings suspect by up to two weeks amid fears of fresh riots, says the Telegraph.
- “‘Migrant hotel king’ rakes in £4.8 million a day” – The ‘king’ of Britain’s migrant hotels Graham King is raking in £4.8 million per day and may become a billionaire from the money earned through housing immigrants in the U.K., reports the Mail.
- “Met launches probe into protester with sign glorifying dead Hamas leader” – The Metropolitan Police have performed a dramatic U-turn and are now investigating a protestor carrying a sign glorifying former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar as a potential terrorism offence, says the Mail.
- “BBC newsroom is ‘out of control’, former director claims” – The BBC’s former Director of Television claims the newsroom is “out of control” and “biased” in its coverage of the Israel-Gaza war, reports the Mail.
- “The boycott of Israeli culture shows how dangerous the morally bankrupt West has become” – Mainstream and respectable groups are mobilising to explicitly target, isolate and ghettoise people associated with Jewish organisations, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Authors are now having their own proxy war” – Sally Rooney and co’s cultural boycott of Israel reveals only their ignorance, writes Hadley Freeman in the Sunday Times.
- “Iran student strips in protest over strict hijab dress code” – Amnesty International has called on authorities in Iran to “immediately and unconditionally” release a female student who was arrested after stripping to her underwear as a public protest against harassment relating to the country’s strict dress code, reports the Guardian.
- “Great-grandfather left gasping for breath on hospital floor for hours” – A great-grandfather was left gasping for breath and crying out in pain as he was forced to spend 12 hours sleeping on a hospital floor, says the Mail.
- “CCC demands uneconomic deep cuts to emissions” – The Climate Change Committee is calling for an 81% cut in emissions by 2035, just as new data shows insulation payback times stretching into centuries, writes David Turver on his Eigen Values Substack.
- “Donald Trump will remove fluoride from tap water, says RFK Jr.” – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says Donald Trump will advise U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from public water if he wins the White House, according to Newsweek.
- “Kamala Harris takes unexpected lead over Donald Trump in Iowa” – Kamala Harris now leads Trump in Iowa – a startling reversal for Democrats who had all but written off the state’s presidential contest as a certain Trump victory, reports the Des Moines Register.
- “Kamala Harris and the rise of Progressive Nothing politics” – On Substack, Eugyppius explores Progressive Nothing politics and explains why he think Left-leaning candidates like Harris are facing a dismal future.
- “Women’s swim team who ousted trans athlete endorses Trump” – A Virginia college swim team joined Donald Trump on stage Saturday night as he rallied his supporters and called for barring transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports, reports the NY Post.
- “M&S trans row after advertising girls’ first bras for ‘young things’” – Marks and Spencer has apologised after advertising bras for teenage girls as being for “young things”, says the Express.
- “Why are churches burning across Canada? Weak response to religious arson has been alarming” – When churches burn across Canada, do they make a sound? The answer, sadly, seems to be no, says Terry Newman in the NY Post.
- “The crisis industry: how activists profit from panic” – On YouTube, John Stossel explores how activists profit by stoking fears about pollution, homophobia, racism and hate.
- “‘She’s one of our own… bring Emily home’” – On X, Sabrina Miller shares a video of Tottenham football fans chanting, “She’s one of our own, she’s one of our own, Emily Damari, bring Emily home” outside the stadium. British-Israeli hostage and devoted Spurs fan Emily Damari has been held captive by Hamas for almost one year and one month.
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