- “Keir Starmer laid tribute to Southport victims before going for drinks” – After laying a wreath in Southport, the Prime Minister rushed back to London for a Downing Street party for Labour’s ‘celebrity’ supporters, reports the Mail.
- “Southport police chief wanted murder to be declared a terror attack” – Detective Chief Inspector Jason Pye has said he would have been “happy” for the July 29th outrage to have been classed a terror attack as it would have given him more time to question Axel Rudakubana, says the Mail.
- “Amazon delivered Southport killer’s £1.70 knife ‘to one of his parents’” – The driver who delivered the blade has recorded that the package was given to someone who was visibly over the age of 25 at the then 17 year-old’s £130,000 Merseyside home, according to the Mail.
- “Southport killer was under NHS mental health care for years, hospital reveals” – Axel Rudakubana was being treated for mental ill-health by the NHS, raising more questions about what the state knew about Axel Rudakubana’s state of mind before he carried out the atrocity, reports the Telegraph.
- “Is Prevent failing and can it stop future killings like Southport?” – The shortcomings of the Government’s counter-extremism programme, exposed in the trial of Axel Rudakubana, have led to questions about its effectiveness and its future, says the Times.
- “David Amess’s daughter: Prevent failed my father and Southport victims” – Katie Amess say authorities missed crucial warnings before her father’s murder in 2021, according to the Times.
- “UN law is ‘preventing whole life sentences for teenage killers’” – Sir Keir Starmer is opposed to whole life sentences for teenager murderers such as the Southport killer, Downing Street has indicated, reports the Telegraph.
- “Sadiq, it’s not the spectre of the far-Right that is wrecking London – it’s your woke policies” – Telegraph columnist Camilla Tominey says the Mayor of London is betraying Londoners by saying Trump’s election signals “resurgent fascism”.
- “Enough learnt helplessness. Here’s how Britain ends illegal migration” – Trump’s willingness to withdraw from international treaties which don’t benefit the USA could encourage others to reclaim their sovereignty, writes Guy Dampier in the Telegraph.
- “Deportation flights begin as migrants loaded on military plane” – Deportation flights have already begun under President Donald Trump, as the administration shared images of illegal immigrants being loaded on military planes for departure on Friday, reports the Mail.
- “After eight years, Britain is suddenly falling in love with Trump” – According to Dan Hannan in the Washington Examiner, Trump’s approval ratings among British voters now stand at 34% and rising.
- “How Ireland came crawling back to Trump” – Before the U.S. election in November, there was unanimity among the Irish political classes that Kamala Harris would comfortably win. They’ve changed their tune now, writes Ian O’Doherty in the Spectator.
- “Trump just gave Putin a wake-up call” – Far from cosying up to the Kremlin, the President’s latest threats have sparked deep concern in Moscow, says Francis Dearnley in the Telegraph.
- “Putin says Ukraine crisis could have been avoided if Trump won in 2020” – Putin says the war in Ukraine could have been avoided if Biden hadn’t “stolen” the election in 2020, reports the Mail.
- “Trump and the madman theory of international negotiations” – What should we make of Trump’s statements about Canada, Greenland and Panama? asks Peter Baldwin on his Substack. And what if he really means them?
- “Target ditches all diversity programmes after Trump inauguration” – The retail giant had been accused of embracing a “radical transgender agenda”. But not any more, says the Telegraph.
- “Whitehall’s biggest departments dump Stonewall diversity scheme” – The Home Office and Treasury were among hundreds of public institutions paying in to Stonewall’s diversity champions scheme. But they have all withdrawn, according to the Times.
- “Rachel Reeves: Britain needs a dose of Trump positivity” – The flailing Labour Chancellor thinks it’s time for Britain to quit the slow lane and learn something from the U.S. President, reports the Times. But isn’t he a “white supremacist”?
- “Echoes of Liz Truss as Labour searches for path to growth” – Sir Keir Starmer and his Chancellor are determined to drive through politically risky reforms to get the economy moving – much like the woman they purport to despise, says the Times.
- “Screeching about-turns won’t save doomed Rachel Reeves” – The damage has been done – someone else will have to clear up the Chancellor’s mess, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Labour MP calls for Reeves to impose wealth tax” – The Chancellor is under renewed pressure to reconsider a 2% levy on families worth more than £10 million – in spite of one millionaire leaving the country every 45 minutes, according to the Telegraph.
- “Another major supermarket announces hundreds of job layoffs” – Morrisons has announced hundreds of job layoffs after Sainsbury’s said on Thursday it would cut 3,000 head office staff roles, reports the Mail.
- “Britain’s Net Zero, green energy madness is set for a head-on collision with reality” – We are de-industrialising. The jobs, business, money – and emissions – simply go elsewhere, writes Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
- “Why are so many MPs still clueless about the cost of Net Zero?” – The Climate and Nature Bill would take Britain back to the dark ages – quite literally, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Green King Charles ‘loves Ed Miliband’s Net Zero agenda’” – The Energy Secretary is facing embarrassment over his zealous push to meet Net Zero targets after ministers including Rachel Reeves backed construction of a third runway at Heathrow, something his most enthusiastic cheerleaders, including the King, are bitterly opposed to, according to the Mail.
- “Miliband to ‘throw away a gold mine’ by burying nuclear waste” – The Energy Secretary has been urged to reconsider “stupid” plans to throw away the U.K.’s valuable plutonium stockpile, reports the Telegraph.
- “Thousands of turbines to switch off for Storm Eowyn because winds are too strong” – In another blow to British energy consumers, wind turbines have been switched off due to the stormy weather, meaning we’ll have to spend more on importing energy, says the Telegraph.
- “Revealed: how tunnel through the woods cost £300,000 per bat” – Must read article in the Times about how the £100 million HS2 bat tunnel came to be built – a monument to how difficult it is to build anything in contemporary Britain.
- “The climate scaremongers: No, BBC, hurricanes are not getting worse” – In the Conservative Woman, Paul Homewood says the British weather isn’t getting worse.
- “Labour exempts U.S. military families from private school VAT raid” – A decision to exempt children of American service personnel from VAT on private school fees, but not the service of our own soldiers, sparks fury, according to the Telegraph.
- “Number of children who think they are wrong gender surges 50-fold” – There’s been a steep rise in the number of girls suffering from gendery dysphoria, a new study shows, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why has a man been nominated for Best Actress?” – The 13 Oscar nominations for Emilia Pérez, a musical celebrating a transwoman – who has been nominated for a ‘Best Actress’ Academy Award – are an affront to taste and common sense, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “The fight against gender madness isn’t over” – Mary Wakefield in the Spectator says there’s a great deal more to do to rid the country of the scourge of Gender Identity Ideology.
- “Civil servants threaten strike over returning to office for two days a week” – Civil servants are threatening to go on strike over demands to return to the office for two days a week, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour MP: is hair colour a ‘protected characteristic’?” – Chris Evans, a Welsh Labour MP, has asked the Labour Women and Equalities Ministers if they intend to amend the Equality Act to make hair colour a ‘protected characteristic’ according to Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “Asylum seekers loitering outside school is ‘cultural’ issue, say police” – Police have told male migrants loitering outside the gates of a primary school to adhere to “cultural expectations”, blaming a “cultural” misunderstanding, says the Telegraph.
- “The football fiasco that exposes Labour’s growth hypocrisy” – After promising a bonfire of red tape to boost growth, the Labour Government is creating new regulators at the rate of one a week – the worst of which is the new football regulator, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour is pushing Marxist ideology, says Britain’s ‘strictest headteacher’” – On Planet Normal, Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan interview Katharine Birbalsingh, headmistress of Michaela, England’s most successful school.
- “Why virtue signalling won’t pay” – In her UnHerd column, Kathleen Stock examines the ‘Go Woke, Get Broke’ phenomenon, taking as her subject the Good Literary Agency, which aimed to get ‘minority’ authors published.
- “Reform tops poll for first time” – As the new Labour government continues to struggle, support for Reform U.K. only seems to be growing, writes Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “Lawrence Newport: from banning XL bullies to helping Treasury get its bite back” – Lawrence Newport persuaded MPs to change the law to ban XL Bullies. Now, backed by Dominic Cummings, he is trying to do something about crime and kick-start Britain’s growth, says the Times.
- “Bobby Kennedy’s assassination is back in the spotlight. Did they have the wrong man all along?” – As Donald Trump vows to declassify files relating to the Kennedy assassinations, long-awaited questions might finally be answered, writes Rosa Silverman in the Telegraph.
- “‘The most disgraceful period of recent history’ – MPs savage the MHRA” – On Thursday, Conservative MP Esther McVey led a backbench debate in the Commons criticising the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, says Sally Beck in the Conservative Woman.
- “Medical Journals as Gatekeepers: A Broken System” – Research challenging the safety of COVID-19 vaccines is being silenced by medical journals, stifling critical debate, writes Maryanne Demasi on her Substack.
- “‘I was desperate for the AstraZeneca vaccine to succeed. Then I became alarmed by what I saw’” – Haematologist Dr. Sue Pavord was one of the jab’s biggest cheer leaders. But she knew something was wrong when she saw the side-effects up close, reports the Telegraph.
- “Trump revokes security protection for Covid adviser Fauci” – President Trump has revoked security protection for former U.S. health official Anthony Fauci, according to BBC News.
- “Keir Starmer gets a new job” – Amusing AI-generated video of the Prime Minister re-employed as a Deliveroo driver.
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