- “American conservatives turn on Winston Churchill” – The Telegraph reports that Trump may be a fan of Churchill, but isolationism is fuelling revisionism about Britain’s wartime leader among hard-Right US influencers.
- “America’s most valuable company is about to be crippled by Trump” – In the Telegraph, Matthew Lynn claims that Trump’s poorly planned, poorly designed, poorly executed policies could do serious damage to Apple.
- “China and America agree: Apple is too big to fail” – The problem with building iPhones in America isn’t that they’d be priced at $3,500 each – it’s that they wouldn’t be built at all, reports the Free Press.
- “Nvidia to build first US factories after boss dines with Trump” – Nvidia owner Jensen Huang’s pledge to invest in America comes as Trump’s tariffs cause global uncertainty, according to the Telegraph.
- “Trump has been proven right about pretty much everything” – In an article in the Telegraph, Liz Truss claims that Net Zero, trade with China, Covid lockdowns, and mass migration have all have been disastrous.
- “The Deportation of Dissent” – The Bedrock Principle reports on the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ move to screen the social media posts of “aliens applying for lawful permanent resident status” and deport them if they don’t like them.
- “Trump says he’s prepping for ‘war’ with China as he angers Xi Jinping” – The Mail reports on Trump’s latest – and most alarming – justification for his tariff hikes.
- “Trump’s Triple Win at the Supreme Court” – The Wall Street Journal reports that a majority on the Supreme Court handed Trump a partial victory on Monday by allowing his administration to deport Venezuelans believed to be members of the Tren de Aragua gang.
- “Hungary bans public events for the gay community” – Hungary has banned public events held to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, a decision that Viktor Orban’s critics call another step toward authoritarianism, according to the Mail.
- “Mario Vargas Llosa was that rare thing, a freedom-loving literary genius of the right” – In the Telegraph, Daniel Hannan praises Mario Vargas Llosa’s attitude towards authoritarianism.
- “German tanks always flop. The Leopard 2 is no different” – The much-vaunted German Leopard 2 tank – 18 of which were sent to Ukraine in 2023 – is proving a flop on the battlefield, according to the Spectator.
- “Politicians who fail to protect rape gang victims could be prosecuted” – Rochdale whistleblower Maggie Oliver tells the Telegraph that action needs to be taken to secure justice for the victims of rape gangs
- “Prosecutors ‘let fake news spread’ by blocking Southport killer facts” – The Times reports that police were put in a “very difficult position” in the aftermath of the Southport murders due to “inconsistent advice” from the Crown Prosecution Service about what they could and couldn’t say about Axel Rudakubana.
- “Courts without juries ‘could bring swifter justice’” – Five former lord chancellors and two former lord chief justices have backed a call for some cases to be fast-tracked – and juries dispensed with – to slash a crippling backlog, writes the Times.
- “The Irish establishment cannot fathom Conor McGregor’s popularity” – The more politicians try to foist their progressive views on the public, the more disillusioned the public become, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards in the Telegraph.
- “Albanian lesbian pair can stay in UK as home country is ‘homophobic’” – A judge has ruled that two Albanian lesbians can stay in the UK on human rights grounds despite the Home Office pointing out it is not against the law to be gay in Albania, reports the Mail.
- “Museums need a new approach to restitution” – Instead of blindly following activist demands when it comes to restoring artefacts, it is time for a new approach from museums, says the Spectator.
- “Sunak’s former aide among 15 charged with election betting offences” – The Telegraph reports that Craig Williams, a former Tory MP, has been charged after an investigation into bets on the timing of last year’s general election.
- “‘They run the prisons’: How Islamist gangs are taking over Britain’s jails” – According to the Telegraph, groups of Muslim inmates use violence and intimidation to “overrun” high-security prisons, leaving authorities powerless to stop them.
- “Why there are no male teachers” – With Netflix’s drama Adolescence raising questions about masculinity, it’s clear that Britain needs more men at the front of the class, writes the Telegraph. But men don’t want to become teachers.
- “Pubs call last orders at 9pm after Reeves tax raid” – The Telegraph reports that the National Insurance increase has pushed pub landlords to cut back opening hours.
- “Unions threaten to spread bin strikes across country” – The Telegraph says that Unite is considering a series of walkouts by bin men in the event of further pay disputes like the one in Birmingham. Summer of discontent?
- “Free Speech in retreat” – Ofcom’s assumption of new, draconian powers under the Online Safety Act means the UK is turning its back on free speech, according to HART’s Substack.
- “You got a licence for that?” – Everyday activities are now regulated, banned or criminalised by the state, according to Josie Appleton in Spiked.
- “The UK’s free-speech crisis is about to get so much worse” – The Crime and Policing Bill could unleash terrifying new censorship powers, writes Andrew Tettenborn in Spiked.
- “Stop Brexit Man’s court victory is a win for free speech” – In the Spectator, Patrick West says that free speech is a principle that should always be regarded as precious, irrespective of current, transient circumstances.
- “The disgraceful denial of two-tier policing” – The criminal-justice system has become corrupted by multiculturalism but MPs are still in denial about this, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Murray, Rogan and the limits of ‘edgelordism’” – In Spiked, Brendan O’Neill explores why both the contrarian Right and conformist Left have fallen for the lies of Israelophobia.
- “Build more prisons: The public must be protected from career criminals” – The link between a lack of jail places and crime is now undeniable, according to the Lawrence Newport in the Telegraph.
- “Black actor to play Severus Snape in Harry Potter remake” – Paapa Essiedu’s casting as a character with “marble white” skin in the Harry Potter TV series has led to a backlash among some fans, the Telegraph says.
- “Blue Origin’s all-female space flight was a step backwards for feminism” – Blue Origin’s space rocket flight must surely go down as the most self-indulgent and pointless trip into space of all time, says Jawad Iqbal in the Spectator.
- “‘Bombshell’ report: Officials covered up sick athletes at Wuhan Military Games” – In his Substack, Bill Rice analyses evidence that officials refused to investigate possible early cases of Covid at a potential “super-spreader” event in October 2019.
- “Three studies show definitively that the influenza vaccines don’t work” – Why won’t the press admit the influenza vaccines don’t work? asks Steve Kirsch in his newsletter.
- “Ed Miliband’s Net Zero obsession left British Steel on brink of extinction” – Jawad Iqbal in the Times says the collapse of British Steel is because ministers were more concerned with burnishing their environmental credentials than acting in the national interest.
- “Chinese investors aren’t to blame for the death of British Steel. Net Zero is” – The nationalisation of British Steel will force the Government to finally face up to the real costs of green utopianism, according to the Telegraph.
- “In the absence of a Government with a spine, the unions are making all the running” – Andrew Griffith in the Telegraph says that until the mad dash to Net Zero is ditched, we are left with nothing but sticking plaster politics.
- “Incoming German government from hell enthusiastically promises to artificially inflate energy prices, regrets that the social welfare state must absorb ever more of our income” – On his Substack, Eugyprius writes about the replacement of old water meters with new digital ones in an effort by the authorities to more closely monitor water usage.
- “Royal Mail buyer’s company earning millions from wasted wind power” – The Telegraph reports that Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky’s energy company is among the beneficiaries of switch-offs to relieve the congested grid.
- “Why does Ireland want hairdressers to lecture you about climate change?” – In the Spectator, Ian O’Doherty bemoans the latest climate change project from the Irish Government – a relentless drive to spend other people’s money on initiatives they never asked for.
- “Plans for giant gas-filled caverns to avoid Net Zero energy shortages” – Morecambe Bay is set to host a new storage scheme for Britain’s vulnerable energy system, reports the Telegraph.
- “Racing could be next victim of Net Zero battery obsession” – Newmarket’s 3,000-horse population and human residents “should prepare for emergency evacuation” if a controversial development gets the go-ahead, writes the Telegraph.
- “Report into Southport riots finds social media fuelled unrest” – On Good Morning Britain, Tom Slater argues with a senior Met police officer who thinks Britain should set up a dedicated police force to monitor social media and prosecute thought criminals.
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