- “Asylum seeker declared a child… despite having receding hairline” – An asylum seeker whom the Home Office determined to be at least 23 years old, with a receding hairline and thick facial hair, has been declared a child by judges, according to the Mail.
- “Sri Lankan sex offender allowed to stay in Britain because he is gay” – A convicted Sri Lankan sex offender has been allowed to remain in Britain because he is gay and would be at risk of persecution if he was returned to his home country, reports the Telegraph.
- “Home Office refuses to reveal number of deportations halted by ECHR” – Border Security Minister Angela Eagle says it would be a “disproportionate cost” to provide data on the number of deportations of foreign criminals or illegal migrants that have been stopped as a result of ECHR claims, according to the Telegraph.
- “‘Multiple’ buses explode in ‘suspected terror attack’ in Israel” – Israel has narrowly avoided mass carnage after three empty buses exploded into fireballs, reports the Mail.
- “The murder of the Bibas family: a crime that shames humanity” – In the Free Mind, Laura Dodsworth lays bare the unspeakable horror of Hamas’s murder of Shiri Bibas and her sons.
- “Nandy demands urgent talks with BBC over Hamas ‘propaganda’” – The Culture Secretary says she will raise concerns with BBC bosses about a documentary on Gaza that was narrated by the son of a Hamas official, according to BBC News.
- “At long last, we have the BBC’s smoking gun moment” – A documentary purporting to show the horrors of the Gaza Strip may leave viewers misinformed about Israel’s intentions, writes Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
- “What sort of idiot thinks the BBC is biased towards Israel?” – Pro-Palestine vandals clearly have not watched one second of the BBC’s coverage, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “‘It’s not racist to ask who is committing rapes says broadcaster Alex Phillips” – On the latest Planet Normal podcast, Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson discuss broadcaster and journalist Alex Phillips’s new documentary on serious sexual crime in the UK.
- “Angela Rayner under scrutiny over how long she worked as a home help” – Angela Rayner has become the latest Cabinet minister to face questions over their employment history after conflicting accounts emerged around how long she worked as a carer, according to the Mail.
- “Miliband’s Net Zero promises are false, Tony Blair’s think tank warns” – Ed Miliband has been warned that investing in green technology is unlikely to reverse the long-term decline of British industry, reports the Express.
- “Mercedes to cut costs as electric car sales plunge” – Mercedes-Benz has announced a cost-cutting drive as profits plunged by nearly a third amid a slowdown in its electric car business, says Fortune.
- ‘Blunt’ electric car targets put thousands of jobs at risk, warn unions” – Union chiefs have warned that thousands of jobs are at risk if the Government refuses to water down “blunt” electric car targets, reports the Telegraph.
- “Britain faces Trump tariffs if it does not ease free speech restrictions, says Nigel Farage” – JD Vance says letting in “millions” of unvetted immigrants is the biggest threat to Europe and relations with the White House, according to the Telegraph.
- “JD Vance was right that ‘there is no room for firewalls’ and if the CDU is not careful, it may well prove his point with its own destruction” – JD Vance was right: the CDU’s obsession with the firewall will either doom them to irrelevance or force them into a humiliating surrender to the Left, says Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Ukraine could get instant Nato membership if Russia breaks peace deal” – Ukraine could be granted instant Nato membership if Russia violates the terms of the peace deal being negotiated by Donald Trump, reports the Telegraph.
- “Musk echos Trump and says Zelensky is ‘despised’” – Elon Musk claims that Volodymyr Zelensky is “despised” by the Ukrainian people and is “feeding off the dead bodies” of his countrymen, according to the Telegraph.
- “Britain has the worst government at the most dangerous possible time” – Zelensky is not a dictator, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph. But Britain can only offer Ukraine fake outrage and pledges it cannot afford.
- “White House reveals Trump’s personal problem with Zelensky” – President Trump is said to be “very frustrated” with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, as relations between the two leaders appear to have reached a new low, according to the Mail.
- “Putin is watching Trump attack Zelensky with glee” – The Kremlin will be delighted by Trump’s sulphurous attacks on Zelensky – and the US President’s seeming willingness to throw Ukraine under the bus, says Lisa Haseldine in the Spectator.
- “The cruellest thing about Trump vs Zelensky? Trump’s right” – The Spectator’s Freddy Gray argues that, while Trump’s rhetoric on Ukraine is offensive, his assessment – that the West has failed, Zelensky isn’t blameless and only Trump can end the war – may not be entirely wrong.
- “‘I would welcome back Russia and Putin to the Olympics if Trump restores peace’” – Lord Coe has opened the door for Putin and Russia to end their sporting isolation if Trump succeeds in his plan to stop the war in Ukraine, reports the Telegraph.
- “A game-changer for liberty: President Trump’s latest Executive Order unleashes the DOGE revolution!” – In WUWT?, Charles Rotter hails Trump’s latest Executive Order as a full-throttle assault on the administrative state.
- “Luis Rubiales guilty of sexual assault” – Former Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales has been found guilty of sexual assault for kissing a player without her consent after the Women’s World Cup final in 2023, reports Sky News. But its a bit of a stretch.
- “Luis Rubiales and Spain’s war on machismo” – It seems a pity that the Spanish Government can’t bring itself to fight corruption with the same enthusiasm that it shows in the struggle against machismo, writes Jim Lawley in the Spectator.
- “Social workers too busy for assisted dying panels, Leadbeater told” – Social work chiefs say the sector is “at capacity” and will need more funding to meet the needs of the assisted dying Bill, according to the Telegraph.
- “The real truth about breast cancer screenings that you must know” – Women are being lied to about the benefits of breast screening, and not being told at all about the real risks, warns Dr Susan Bewley in the Mail.
- “Covid vaccine injury study published on preprint server because the mainstream medical journals refused to publish it” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch highlights the Yale Listen study, which found significant immune and neurological differences in 42 post-vaccine injury patients.
- “The end of college vaccine mandates” – For Brownstone Institute, Lucia Sinatra covers President Trump’s Executive Order halting federal funding to all schools that impose COVID-19 vaccine mandates on students.
- “NY vaccine clinics called ambulances to be ‘on standby’” – Six weeks into the mRNA rollout, FOIA’d data from New York reveals a shocking surge in emergency calls from vaccine clinics and frantic requests for ambulances “on standby”, writes Dr Pierre Kory on his Substack.
- “JD Vance admits perhaps up to 111 million Americans had painful reactions to Covid shots” – On Substack, Bill Rice Jr. highlights JD Vance’s shocking admission that over 111 million Americans may have suffered painful Covid jab side effects.
- “Censorious Cureus” – Zenodo nuked Miki Gibo’s updated paper after its Cureus retraction, citing a Reuters fact check – another case of lazy editorial censorship, says Anandamide on Substack.
- “Why progressive activists feel superior” – In the Spectator, Patrick West highlights the Guardian’s belated admission that progressives dismiss conservatives as immoral while masking their own intolerance as compassion.
- “The Doge department documents its recent hisory.”
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