News Round-Up

• “Trump signs executive orders to place tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China” – Donald Trump has ordered steep tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada as he demands an end to illegal migration and drug trafficking, the Telegraph reports.
• “Keir Starmer is urged to axe Yvette Cooper as Home Secretary” – The Mail reports that senior Labour insiders are frustrated that the Home Office has shied away from focusing on Islamist violence in the wake of the Southport attack and are pushing for Yvette Cooper to be shown the door.
• “Treat pick-up artists like extremists, urged officials” – Home Office staff are pressing the Government to treat the online manosphere as extremist and clamp down on it, the Times reports.
• “Britain is inexorably lurching towards total bankruptcy. I know who is really to blame” – The ever-increasing weight of officialdom is dragging our country into a pit that even the boldest growth plan can’t escape, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “Liz Kendall’s benefits crusade could make or break Labour’s fortunes” – Could Liz Kendall turn out to be the most significant figure of Keir Starmer’s Government, and a Chancellor in the making, asks Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “How ‘Soviet’ Norway became a grim warning to Keir Starmer” – Hundreds of wealthy Norwegian entrepreneurs are fleeing the ‘egalitarian’ country’s hostile tax regime, says Ed Cumming in the Telegraph.
• “Labour eases checks on illegal migrants” – Labour is watering down border laws designed to block illegal migrants from obtaining citizenship and to force them to submit to scientific age checks as a move branded “total capitulation”, the Telegraph reports.
• “Migrants and a once-liberal paradise where the PM now admits: ‘We’ve lost control’… Sweden is engulfed by a crime wave of rape, gang bombings, assassination – and even a reported lynching” – In the Mail, Sue Reid reports on Sweden’s descent into multicultural anarchy.
• “The end of the Conservative party now looks inevitable” – The Conservatives have not plunged in the polls to the low 20s because voters are consciously ‘punishing’ them or ‘sending them a message’ but because they have simply moved on, deciding to cast their votes for other parties, argues James Frayne in the Telegraph.
• “A military and civilian aviation veteran explains Wednesday night’s crash” – On Alex Berenson’s Unreported Truths Substack, a pilot says the helicopter responsible for the Washington DC air crash was being flown completely incompetently and asks whether the (female) pilot may have been a diversity hire.
• “Captain Rebecca Lobach identified as third Black Hawk pilot who died” – The US Army has identified the second pilot of the helicopter involved in the DC crash to be Rebecca Lobach, a White House aide during the Biden administration who is described as “in the top 20% of cadets nationwide”.
• “Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s magnificent fight back against the demented Democrats” – TCW‘s Kathy Gyngell was impressed with RFK’s performance in his Senate confirmation hearing.
• “Year after lockdown and school closures saw tragic spike in attempted child suicides, shocking figures reveal” – The year after lockdown and school closures saw a spike in children trying to kill or harm themselves, disturbing figures have revealed, reports the Mail.
• “Czech Republic data: vaccinated women are 66% less likely to give birth compared to unvaccinated women” – Steve Kirsch’s latest report on the Czech vaccine data finds a massive gulf in the fertility rate of vaccinated and unvaccinated young women.
• “Fresh doubts are raised over conviction of ‘killer’ nurse Lucy Letby – as unearthed papers show she was off duty for third of cases” – Newly released documents showing Letby wasn’t on duty in a third of cases raise serious questions about the claim she was the common link and suggest the jury was misled over key evidence, says the Mail. Plus: an expert cited by the prosecution is preparing to go public to say his research was misrepresented in court.
• “The coal-burning country killing the case for Net Zero” – Miliband’s green energy ambitions are only helping to stoke Beijing’s chimneys, says the Telegraph‘s Jonathan Leake.
• “Eric Kaufmann on ‘The Third Awokening’” – on Substack, Yascha Mounk and Eric Kaufmann discuss the rise of woke, ‘asymmetrical multiculturalism’ and the global fertility crisis.
• “When trust is gone” – Are there any sources of information we can still believe, asks Gary Sidley on Substack.
• “TV watchdog faces legal battle over ‘glaring BBC Brexit bias’” – News-Watch has won permission to seek a judicial review of what it claims is Ofcom’s refusal to investigate pro-EU bias in the BBC’s output, the Telegraph reports.
• “Do not call fat people obese, ‘sensitivity’ guide tells NHS workers” – NHS staff have been told to avoid words such as “obese”, “diabetic”, “alcoholic” and “smoker” in advice Toby calls “a fat lot of help”, the Telegraph reports.
• “Germany’s crumbling far-Right firewall could turbocharge the AfD” – The CDU’s Friedrich Merz has at last declared that the Left will not have a veto on Germany’s migration policy – but the risk is it will boost the AfD, says Leon Mangasarian in the Spectator.
• “Taxpayers fund ethnic pole-dance troupe that wants to ‘decolonise’ industry” – A pole-dancing troupe that aims to boost the number of ethnic minority, trans and non-binary “polers” and “decolonise” the industry has benefited from close to £100,000 in taxpayer funding, the Telegraph reports.
• “Sadiq Khan appears to have dropped ‘he/him’ pronouns from social media profile” – Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, appears to have removed his “he/him” personal pronouns from his profile on X, amid suggestions the “tide is turning” on such woke trends, according to the Telegraph.
• “Salwan Momika had a right to blaspheme” – The murdered book burner deserved protection, says Andrew Doyle in UnHerd.
• “Man arrested after ‘burning Koran’ in central Manchester just days after Swedish anti-Islam activist shot dead” – GB News reports that a man has been arrested after appearing to burn a Koran in central Manchester this afternoon, with police saying: “We recognise the right people have for freedom of expression, but when this crosses into intimidation to cause harm or distress we will always look to take action.”
• “Muslim charity says ‘controlling husbands are just caring’” – Regulators have been urged to suspend the charitable status of an Islamic organisation accused of issuing “misogynistic” advice that husbands must be obeyed in all circumstances, the Telegraph reports.

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