- “Trump considers ‘relinquishing leadership of NATO’” – President Trump is considering dropping US leadership of NATO after insisting that Europe take more responsibility for the continent’s security, reports the Mail.
- “EU announces €800 billion plan to rearm Europe and win over Trump” – Ursula von der Leyen has unveiled plans for an €800 billion boost to EU defence spending to win over Donald Trump, says the Telegraph.
- “France’s National Rally says EU’s €800 billion defence ‘rearm’ plan is a power grab” – EU President Ursula von der Leyen has been accused by Marine Le Pen of attempting to grab more power for Brussels after unveiling a “rearm Europe” plan based on an €800 billion fund for European defence, according to Brussels Signal.
- “Ukraine isn’t Starmer’s Falklands, it’s his Iraq” – Starmer’s grand plan for Ukraine needs Putin’s permission, Trump’s backing and an army we don’t have, says Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
- “Poll shows Labour edging back into lead after PM’s crisis diplomacy” – YouGov research shows Labour edging back into a lead over Reform, up two points since the end of last month, reports the Mail.
- “‘Storm Rachel’ pushes public sector pay bill up by £24 billion” – New analysis reveals that taxpayers will be forced to foot the £24 billion public sector wage bill over the next five years, following Rachel Reeves’s National Insurance raid, says GB News.
- “By backing an exit from the ECHR, Kemi could destroy the Tory party” – The coming Conservative mutiny over the ECHR will make the Brexit wars look like a mere scuffle, warns Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “BBC reported to counter-terror police over Hamas documentary payments” – The BBC has been reported to counter-terrorism police after admitting it paid the family of a Hamas official, according to the Telegraph.
- “Miliband’s postcode pricing strategy will upend Britain’s North-South divide” – Ed Miliband’s proposed energy strategy could create a “postcode lottery” adding hundreds of pounds to household bills, says GB News.
- “Crimes of punishment” – In Takimag, Theodore Dalrymple points out different examples of what he calls “juridico-political idiocies” in England and France.
- “Netanyahu warns Hamas of ‘unimaginable’ consequences amid truce talks” – Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened Hamas with “unimaginable consequences” if it does not return the hostages being held in Gaza, reports the Mail.
- “Zuckerberg axed 20 Meta employees who leaked information to the media” – Mark Zuckerberg has sacked 20 Meta employees after they slipped information to the press following the tech giant’s pivot towards President Trump, says the Mail.
- “How restricting online anonymity threatens democracy” – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez wants to kill online anonymity, but history shows that’s a slippery slope to censorship and totalitarian control, warns Strade Cadillay in the New Conservative.
- “The NHS’s puberty-blockers trial is a danger to children” – The awful effects of puberty-blockers are well known, says Jo Bartosch in Spiked. So why are so many medics determined to bring them back?
- “Council bans Christian prayers being said before meetings” – St Albans City and District Council has voted to remove prayers before meetings to foster better “equality and inclusivity”, reports the Mail.
- “Why aren’t people interested in facts anymore?” – Have we lost the ability to reason, or are we just addicted to emotional narratives and media spin? wonders Rebekah Barnett on her Substack.
- “Ash Sarkar’s class war” – Discussion of Ash Sarkar’s new book has focused on her takedown of Left-wing identity politics, but far more striking is its elitism, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Abrdn to bring back vowels after disastrous rebrand” – Abrdn will reintroduce vowels to its name, becoming ‘Aberdeen’, after a disastrous rebrand at the investment company backfired, reports This is Money.
- “‘It is absolutely imperative that the Royal Society sticks with objective truth’” – On Politics Live, Claire Fox congratulates the Royal Society for not giving in to a McCarthyite witch-hunt against Elon Musk.
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