- “Why Nigel should listen to Rupert” – There’s not much point in a party to the Right of the Conservatives that simply observes Tory failures without offering radical solutions, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “How to reform Reform” – In the Spectator, Rod Liddle argues that Reform UK remains a protest party with no clear ideology.
- “Farage must step aside and let Rupert Lowe lead Reform” – Reform UK needs to democratise and prioritise bringing in talent with an eye on the next General Election, says Ben Habib in the Telegraph.
- “Seven in 10 Reform voters don’t recognise Rupert Lowe” – If a splinter party was to form, the Greater Yarmouth MP’s chances of coveting Reform voters may be rather slim, writes Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “Conservatives shouldn’t dance on Reform’s grave” – Nigel Farage’s party is vital to keep the Tories honest. Without it, it would likely return to centrist mush, warns David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer is shifting dramatically to the Right – and we have Trump to thank” – Abolishing NHS England is the latest in a string of radical moves away from the PM’s comfort zone, notes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s bloated civil service: the public sector departments most in need of culling” – Keir Starmer is drawing up plans to slash back the size of the state, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer scraps plan to get 80,000 people off benefits” – Labour has shelved plans to make an extra 80,000 benefit claimants look for work as ministers struggle to keep a lid on Britain’s ballooning welfare bill, says the Telegraph.
- “Starmer’s tribes are at war” – In the Spectator, Katy Balls reports on the chaos unfolding in the Labour Party over Starmer’s proposed welfare cuts.
- “More retired baby boomers pay income tax than Gen Z” – More retired baby boomers are paying income tax than Gen Z workers in a dramatic reversal of the pre-lockdown trend, reports the Telegraph.
- “Poland set to ‘soon overtake Britain in military strength and income’” – Research professor Dr Azeem Ibrahim has warned that Britain is on course to becoming a “second tier” European nation due to economic decline and a weak military, says the Mail.
- “Mission accomplished Agent Reeves, you’ve destroyed the Labour Party” – Rachel Reeves has managed to inflict such deep damage on the Labour Party that it will likely be headed for electoral wipe-out when voters have their say, writes Brian Monteith in the Telegraph.
- “It should have been the Tories scrapping NHS England” – Brexit shares a lot of blame for the Tories losing all focus on the public finances, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “State-funded BMWs epitomise Britain’s dysfunctional welfare state” – A well-intentioned scheme for the genuinely needy has grown to gargantuan proportions, reveals Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “Wes Streeting’s flasher ex-aide refuses to quit as Labour councillor” – Ministers are considering changing the law to force politicians convicted of sex crimes from office after a former aide to Wes Streeting admitted flashing a 13 year-old girl, reports the Mail.
- “UN judge studying at Oxford kept young woman as a slave” – A United Nations judge studying for a PhD in law at the University of Oxford has been convicted of keeping a slave, says AP News.
- “The plaintiff and the $9,000,000 lie” – On his blog, Mark Steyn delivers a scathing postmortem of Michael Mann’s defamation case, exposing his fraudulent Nobel claim, $9,000,000 lie and legal comeuppance.
- “Losing Kursk is a big blow to Zelensky” – Russian troops have been steadily clawing back the 500 square miles of Russian territory seized by Ukraine last August, writes Svitlana Morenets in the Spectator.
- “The Kursk offensive may prove to have been Ukraine’s most costly mistake” – The defeat at Kursk is a tragic allegory for the dire situation that Ukraine now faces, says Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
- “What Putin wants in exchange for ceasefire – and will Trump accept?” – US negotiators are pushing for a swift deal, but Moscow is demanding that Ukraine be barred from joining NATO and that its occupied territories receive international recognition, writes Memphis Barker in the Telegraph.
- “Save Syria’s Christians” – In the Spectator, Benedict Kiely warns that Syria’s Christians face Islamist persecution while the West and the church look away.
- “Why does the beheading of Christians not make headlines?” – In the Spectator, Colin Freeman questions why the brutal beheading of 70 Christians by Islamic State militants in Congo isn’t making global headlines.
- “Debunking the myths about the ECHR” – There is a pretence that only Right-wing extremists and constitutional pedants find the ECHR a problem, says Peter Lilley in the Spectator.
- “Anger as school founded by Nazi refugee cancels talk by Jewish writer” – An elite school founded by a refugee from Nazi Germany has sparked anger for cancelling a speaking invitation to a Jewish commentator, reports the Mail.
- “Trump threatens 200% tariff on the EU targeting champagne and alcohol” – President Trump is threatening a 200% retaliatory tariff on champagne and wine out of Europe in the latest salvo of his trade war, says the Mail.
- “Trump’s new tariff war is radically rational” – There’s no guarantee that the President’s economic plans will work, but there’s method in his madness, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Ignore the Trump slump – the market will recover” – Investors must take volatility in their stride if they are to reap long-term gains, says Tom Stevenson in the Telegraph.
- “Greenland’s new PM insists ‘we don’t want to be Americans’” – Greenland’s new Prime Minister has rejected Donald Trump’s offer to take control of the island, according to the Mail.
- “‘Trump scared the news networks Into banning my book’” – In the Hollywood Reporter, Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff thinks he knows why the same networks that gave his first volume on Trump wall-to-wall coverage have greeted his new one – All or Nothing – with deafening silence.
- “Manslaughter probe at Lucy Letby hospital” – Police are investigating a number of suspects at the hospital where Lucy Letby worked for gross negligence manslaughter, reports the Mail.
- “The ‘physician associate’ will see you now…” – Employing physician associates is a cheap and easy way to tackle the NHS staffing crisis, but it comes at a cost, says Lucy Dunn in the Spectator.
- “Did Covid begin in America?” – On his Substack, Bill Rice Jr. spotlights citizen journalist Laura Mueller’s explosive new research, suggesting Covid may have started in the US.
- “BMJ rebuked over coverage of US Covid report that revealed we were right about nearly everything” – On Substack, Dr Raphael Lataster slams the BMJ for downplaying a bombshell US Government report that vindicated Covid sceptics on lockdowns, mandates, vaccine efficacy and the lab leak.
- “They knew it was a lab leak all along” – German intelligence knew with up to 95% certainty that Covid leaked from a Chinese lab, but Merkel buried the report, writes Alex Berenson on his Substack.
- “The trans row engulfing the Met Police” – A female officer is taking the Met Police to court after it sent staff to “a celebration of the transgender community”, reports Sanchez Manning in the Telegraph.
- “Dwarf actors’ fury at Snow White remake that uses CGI characters” – Dwarf actors have blasted Disney’s Snow White remake over the use of CGI characters, claiming it’s “discriminating” and could damage their careers, reports the Mail.
- “Disney’s Snow White gets pared-back premiere amid Gaza controversy” – Disney has drastically scaled back its Snow White premiere after a series of PR disasters, says the Mail.
- “Joni Mitchell ‘being cancelled’ by Gen Z over blackface past” – Joni Mitchell, 81, is facing TikTok “cancellation” after Gen Z fans, drawn in by a viral cover of ‘California’, discovered the singer’s long history of performing in blackface under her alter ego, Art Nouveau, reports Maanya Sachdeva in the Mail.
- “‘Dog whistles’ are not real” – Anyone who assumes that their opponents are speaking in code is just squabbling with phantoms, says Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
- “Soho pubs urged to host ‘quiet nights’ to help residents sleep” – A Labour-run council has been accused of trying to “kill” London’s nightlife after it suggested pubs and bars should host “quiet nights” and “non-alcohol-led activities”, reports the Mail.
- “What do we know so far about the UK’s anti-Musk campaigners?” – On Substack, Charlotte Gill exposes the UK’s anti-Musk campaign as a collaboration between German activists and the anti-Brexit group Led by Donkeys, with Novara Media and Politics Joe conveniently capturing their antics.
- “The Devil is also strong” – Political hedonism is here to stay, says Dr David McGrogan on his Substack.
- “I’m warming to Meghan Markle – only joking” – Why on earth did Meghan feel compelled to put herself – and us – through this horror? wonders James Delingpole in the Spectator.
- “Keep woke foreign ideologies out. Defend Europe” – Check out the banners at last night’s match between Rangers and Fenerbahce.
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