- “Trump set to back Starmer’s Chagos deal” – Donald Trump has suggested he will approve Keir Starmer’s deal to hand the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius, reports the Telegraph.
- “Vance clashes with Prime Minister over Britain’s ‘infringements on free speech’” – In the National Review, David Zimmermann reports on J.D. Vance schooling Keir Starmer on free speech at the White House.
- “US praises Starmer’s defence spending hike ahead of crunch Trump talks” – US officials have praised the UK’s commitment to increase spending on defence to 2.5% of GDP, and the PM’s offer of troops for any Ukraine peace deal, says the Mail.
- “Trump says Ukraine deal ‘soon or not at all’ after Starmer talks” – Trump has suggested that a Ukraine peace deal will come “fairly soon or not at all” as he hailed “special” Keir Starmer during an extraordinary White House visit, reports the Mail.
- “Macron has ‘no mandate’ to send European troops to Ukraine, says Meloni” – Giorgia Meloni has clashed with Emmanuel Macron over an Anglo-French plan to deploy European troops to Ukraine as part of a post-war deal, reveals the Telegraph.
- “France set to lift ban on police stopping migrant boats at sea” – The French Government is set to lift a ban on stopping migrant boats at sea for the first time in an effort to reduce illegal Channel crossings, according to the Telegraph.
- “In two-tier Britain, tweeting is now a worse crime than beating up a voter” – Disgraced MP Mike Amesbury will spend just 10 weeks behind bars, while childminder Lucy Connolly was jailed for 31 months over a tweet, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “The reformation of the Labour Party” – Labour seems to have realised there is no future in hand-wringing, virtue-signalling liberal-leftism, writes Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
- “More than half a million sick benefit claimants have never worked” – More than half a million people claiming benefits for health reasons have never had a job, reports the Mail.
- “The problem of Britain’s idle generation” – If we want to prevent an idle generation from becoming a forgotten one, ministers will have to act – and fast, warns Michael Simmons in the Spectator.
- “BBC admits serious flaws over Gaza documentary” – The BBC has admitted to serious and unacceptable flaws in the making of its Gaza documentary, saying public trust in its journalism has been damaged, reports LBC.
- “The British state is even more broken than it looks” – The British state appears increasingly unable to work out the costs of its policies, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph. And until that’s addressed, there’s little hope of improvement.
- “Peter Hitchens and Sarah Vine go toe-to-toe in our new podcast” – The lurch towards far-Right politics is because communities are feeling “angry and unheard”, says Peter Hitchens on his new Daily Mail podcast.
- “Who’d dare join the SAS now?” – In the Spectator, Mary Wakefield wonders who’d still join the SAS when soldiers are now hounded for following orders.
- “Buckingham University’s shameful treatment of Professor Tooley” – The disgraceful treatment of James Tooley, the Vice Chancellor of Buckingham University, shows that even the soundest universities are vulnerable to woke capture, writes Simon Heffer in the Spectator.
- “The terrifying moment hammer-wielding bike-jackers attack cyclist” – The Mail has video of the terrifying moment a Regent’s Park cyclist had his £4,200 road bike robbed by hammer-wielding thugs during a morning ride.
- “BMW’s Oxford retreat signals deep trouble for UK carmaking” – In the Spectator, Martin Vander Weyer warns that BMW’s retreat from Oxford isn’t just a bump in the road – it’s a flashing red light for the entire UK car industry
- “Andrew Tate flees to Florida but DeSantis says ‘you’re not welcome’” – Britain is considering submitting an extradition request to the US for the Tate brothers, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Why Trump is backing free speech absolutist Tate” – The self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate, fresh from house arrest in Romania, appears to be reaping the rewards of his Trump connection, writes Eleanor Steafel in the Telegraph.
- “What Europe gets wrong about the far-Right” – In the Spectator, Douglas Murray skewers the Left’s habit of branding any Right-wing party as the next Third Reich – while ignoring why voters keep voting for them.
- “Israel offered Mahmoud Abbas 94% of West Bank in 2008, former PM Ehud Olmert reveals” – In a new documentary, former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert reveals a 2008 peace offer that would have granted 94% of the West Bank to a Palestinian state, according to the Jerusalem Post.
- “Palestinians blew their best chance for peace” – In the Spectator, Stephen Daisley argues that by rejecting Ehud Olmert’s 2008 peace offer, Mahmoud Abbas condemned his people to decades of suffering.
- “Megyn Kelly reveals she’s battling devastating Covid vaccine injury” – Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly has sensationally claimed that she was injured by the Pfizer Covid vaccine, reports the Mail.
- “Federal workers fired to improve efficiency – media outraged; federal workers fired for not complying with an unethical vaccine mandate – media silent” – The media’s outrage over federal layoffs for efficiency is loud, but its silence when workers were fired for resisting an unproven vaccine mandate is deafening, says Prof Vinay Prasad on his Substack.
- “The world… re-Imagined” – On Substack, Bill Rice Jr. envisions a ‘Great Awakening’ where citizens begin to realise the devastating truths about Covid vaccines.
- “Nurses win battle to name trans colleague who was in their changing room” – NHS nurses have won a legal battle to name a biologically male trans colleague who used their female changing room, reports the Telegraph.
- “Oscar committee members abstaining from voting due to woke nominees” – Oscar voters believe the awards may be on their way out, as DEI rules lead to woke, niche movies being nominated over big box office successes, according to the Mail.
- “‘I did not have sexual relations with those children, on that island’” – A satirical video has surfaced of Bill Clinton reacting to news that Pam Bondi is releasing the Epstein client list.
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