News Round-Up

“Not even pub banter is safe from Labour” – Life is hard enough for struggling landlords without having to police the jokes punters tell each other, says William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
“If Labour’s ‘banter ban’ wins, Vance will be right about free speech” – The Mail‘s Stephen Glover joins in sounding the alarm about Starmer’s banter ban.
“Trans activists deface statue of suffragette Millicent Fawcett as thousands protest in ’emergency demonstration’ against Supreme Court gender ruling in London” – The Mail reports on Saturday’s central London protest in which thousands came together for what was billed as an ’emergency demonstration’ in Parliament Square at which the statue of the leading suffragette was defaced.
“Labour’s breathtaking mendacity after trans ruling” – In the Mail, Sarah Vine says Labour MPs are gaslighting us when they should be apologising to all those women who dared to speak out.
“The march of the trans mob is over” – The much-maligned and ever-bolshy women of ‘TERF Island’ have seen the fruits of their labour come to bloom, says Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
“Trans doctors can hide biological sex despite Supreme Court ruling” – Transgender doctors will be able to hide their biological sex from the public despite the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling, thanks to the General Medical Council pressing ahead with its new policy of making it voluntary for medics to record any data on their gender or sex, the Telegraph reports.
“We’re bloody-minded, not bigots: the women who changed gender law” – Hadley Freeman in the Times profiles the women who met on Mumsnet to talk about shopping and instead grew determined to prove that sex is biological.
“Lib Dem-run council ‘spent £13,000 making toilet block gender neutral’” – Kingston Council spent £13,400 making one toilet block gender neutral, the Mail reveals.
“‘Keep your new Harry Potter’ – Bridgerton star attacks Rowling in trans row” – Bridgerton actress Nicola Coughlan has attacked J.K. Rowling over her views on the Supreme Court’s transgender ruling as she raised £100,000 for a trans charity, reports the Telegraph.
“The Blairite court behind the trans verdict shouldn’t exist” – It is true that a woman can’t have a penis, but it is just as true that Britain, where Parliament is supreme, can’t (and shouldn’t) have a Supreme Court, says Peter Hitchens in the Mail.
“The tide has not turned against woke. The backlash is the mirror of what it dislikes” – In the Telegraph, Dan Hannan warns that wokery has not gone away, and worse, the Right is now creating a terrible version of its own.
“US ‘open to recognising Crimea as Russian in Ukraine deal’” – Steve Witkoff, the US special envoy, has told European allies that the Trump administration is open to freezing the current battle lines, reports the Telegraph.
“Putin’s Easter truce is a ruse which changes nothing” – Putin’s Easter truce is a transparent attempt to appease Trump and trigger further demands on Zelensky, says Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
“Why Putin is keeping Trump waiting for a Ukraine deal” – So far, Putin is selling the sizzle, not the sausage – and the great value of the sizzle is that you can always and easily make more, says Mark Galeotti in the Spectator.
“Russia snatches men from gyms in Putin’s new conscription drive” – The Kremlin is conducting raids across Russia in an “overtly aggressive” bid to enlist more recruits for the war in Ukraine, reports the Telegraph.
“Israel Foreign Minister: ‘It’s in UK’s interest that radical Islamists are defeated in Middle East’” – In the Telegraph, Allister Heath interviews Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar.
“Douglas Murray: So-called Israel-Hamas and Ukraine war ‘experts’ spew false info on Joe Rogan’s podcast — There has to be a standard” – In the New York Post, Douglas Murray warns about popular guests on podcasts who, despite having no expertise and refusing debate, promote highly contentious and outright false ideas.
“Jewish groups condemn ‘hateful’ pro-Palestine march during Passover” – Jewish groups have condemned a “hateful” pro-Palestine march that took place during Passover, saying the timing of the protest against the Israel-Hamas war in Southend was “despicable”, reports the Telegraph.
“The biggest threat to Trump is Trump” – Lionel Shriver was ecstatic about Trump’s first two months and his anti-woke blitzkrieg; the tanking economy, not so much – and the real risk, she writes in the Spectator, is that it will put the unreformed loony Left back in charge in 2029 to undo it all.
“Why conservatives can’t seem to crack Canada” – The polls indicate Pierre Poilievre is set to lead his party to a fourth successive defeat. Why is it so hard for conservatives to win in Canada, asks Stephen Maher in the Times.
“Equality law is bankrupting Britain” – Birmingham is the tip of an iceberg of trash created by Britain’s market-destroying equal pay laws, says Fred de Fossard in the Critic.
“The new cabal of militant union barons threatening to bring havoc to Britain” – In the Telegraph, Ed Cumming warns that Marxist and hard-Left activists representing public sector workers could instigate a Summer of Discontent that overshadows even winter 1979.
“Trump transforms Covid support website into lab leak ‘truth page’” – Donald Trump has turned the White House’s Covid support website into an explainer about the Wuhan lab leak, lambasting the Biden administration for the Wuhan cover-up, reports the Telegraph.
“Anthony Fauci Gets Demolished By White House in New Covid Update” – The Trump White House has taken its revenge on Anthony Fauci with a new Covid update that pins much of the blame on the former NIAID chief, says Ian Miller.
“Vaccine injury scheme only spends quarter of budget on victims” – Of the £36.6 million set aside for patients who have been harmed by jabs, just a quarter or £9 million goes to victims while the US firm processing the claims receives £27 million, the Telegraph reports.
“Vaccines, Autism and Brownstone” – Jeffrey Tucker writes that the Brownstone Institute is keeping an open mind on the causes of autism and will go where the evidence leads.
“New UCSF study shows vaccinated six times more likely to be hospitalised than unvaxxed.” – In a survey of nearly 30,000 people by UCSF, the Covid-vaccinated had a six times greater risk of hospitalisation post-vaccine than the unvaccinated had post-infection, reports Steve Kirsch.
“Labour councils use petrol-guzzling tools despite Net Zero pledges” – Councils that claim to be tackling global warming by creating clean air zones are also using “high-polluting petrol-powered” tools in public parks, the Telegraph reports.
“Farage as likely to be next PM as Starmer, public believes” – Nigel Farage is as likely to be Britain’s new Prime Minister after the next election as Keir Starmer, voters believe according to a new poll, but only one in 20 think it will be Kemi Badenoch, reports the Telegraph.
“Nigel Farage speaks Left’s language with calls for more nationalisation” – The Reform leader is courting the unions and backing protectionism. The Times‘s Harry Yorke asks him how much he means it — and whether he can persuade the King on Net Zero.
“BBC fails to mention mass killings in educational communism video” – The BBC has been accused of giving children a “dishonest” view of communism in a Bitesize video that offers an overview of communist ideology and history but omits to mention the mass murder and starvation, says the Telegraph.
“Truth on Trial” – Laura Dodsworth writes on the danger of groupthink, the failure of leadership and the price we pay for pretending not to know what everyone knows.
“Graffiti sprayed on church in Good Friday ‘hate crime’ attack” – Obscene graffiti sprayed on a Lancashire church on Good Friday is being treated as a hate crime, reports the Telegraph.
“Yes, men need saving” – In the Spectator, Gus Carter says the feminised modern world is pathologising and failing men.
“Why the new football regulator could be a massive own goal” – A new football regulator — with powers to monitor finances, vet prospective owners and impose financial penalties — could soon be a reality. And clubs hate it, says the Times.
“One struggle, one fight, Palestine, trans rights!” – On X, Chris Rose suggests that even Hamas terrorists would rather die than be associated with the idiots at the London trans march.

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