- “The North Korean missile that exposed defenceless Ukraine” – Russia ihase fine-tuned projectiles from Pyongyang to make them accurate to an area of tens of metres, reports the Telegraph.
- “Trump is repeating all the mistakes of appeasement, except it’s worse this time” – The US president is openly on Putin’s side, refusing to condemn the invasion and instead shifting all the blame onto Ukraine, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Kyiv mayor says Ukraine has to concede territory to achieve peace” – Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has warned President Zelensky that he’ll have to “give up territory” to Russia to achieve peace in Ukraine, according to the Mail.
- “Spare me the hand-wringing over Ukraine” – The great unbreakable rule is supposed to be that no country can change another nation’s borders or government by force, but since when has the United States recognised this rule? asks Peter Hitchens in the Mail.
- “Mark Carney is about to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory” – Canadians have been able to watch the Liberal leader up close during the election campaign. Many don’t like what they see, says Michael Taube in the Telegraph.
- “The jaded English town where Nigel Farage could hammer Labour” – Westminster is champing at the bit to see if Reform UK wins a crucial by-election against Labour next week, but the locals are indifferent, reports Politico.
- “Reform set to win two mayoral elections” – Reform UK is on course to win the mayoralties of Greater Lincolnshire and Hull and East Yorkshire, according to the Telegraph.
- “Kemi Badenoch says there’ll be no Tory-Reform deal” – The Tory leader continues to face questions about a potential pact with Nigel Farage’s outfit, who are consistently outperforming the Conservatives in the polls, reports the Mail. But the lady’s not for turning.
- “Stop running Robert, you’ll kill the Tories” – Robert Jenrick’s actions have the hallmarks of a tilt at power but his party is one leadership challenge from oblivion, writes Fraser Nelson in the Times. He should get back in his box.
- “That sound you can hear from DC? It’s Reeves shooting herself in the foot” – The Chancellor risks making a costly mistake if she prioritises trade with the EU over a US trade deal, says Eir Nolsøe in the Telegraph.
- “Yvette Cooper considers ‘one in one out’ EU youth mobility scheme” – The Home Secretary is considering several options which would allow British and European young people to work and study across the Continent, reports the Times.
- “Germany ‘optimistic’ over deal to allow young EU migrants to UK” – The Youth mobility scheme could signal a “good direction” for both countries amid trade reset, according to the Telegraph.
- “Teenage boys allowed on girls’ hospital wards under NHS gender rules” – Trusts in every region of England are letting children choose facilities based on their ‘self-defined’ gender identity in spite of the Supreme Court judgment, reports the Telegraph.
- “JK Rowling blasts India Willoughby for Wayne Couzens tweet” – The Harry Potter author has condemned India Willoughby’s attack on the Supreme Court’s judgment in which she said it would be welcomed by Wayne Couzens, the convicted rapist and murder, according to the Mail.
- “SNP lands taxpayers with ‘staggering’ rise in lawyer costs amid court defeats” – The Scottish Government has disclosed its extravagant spending on in-house lawyers during its fight against For Women Scotland and other feminist campaigners, which amounted to nearly £17m in 2023-24, says the Telegraph.
- “Financial censorship in Canada?” – In the Critic, Josephine Bartosch writes about the debanking of Meghan Murphy, a candidate for the People’s Party of Canada in the forthcoming federal election.
- “Good Law Project launches legal challenge to Supreme Court trans ruling and says it will lose” – Jolyon Maugham has not been able to contain himself since the Supreme Court ruled that biological sex trumps ‘gender identity’ in the Equality Act and has launched a crowdfunder to raise money to challenge it, even though he concedes the challenge will probably fail, says Guido Fawkes.
- “The glorious failures of Jolyon Maugham” – The fox-killing, case-losing KC continues to beclown himself with his embrace of trans idiocy, according to Simon Evans in Spiked.
- “America’s electric car crash is over. Europe has finally noticed” – Trump’s reversal of the Biden-era EV mandates is putting huge pressure on the UK and the EU to follow suit, reports the Telegraph.
- “Wood-burning stoves will be allowed in new homes” – Wood-burning stoves will be allowed in new-build homes across England, the Government has confirmed, says the Mail. So much for concerns over their impact on air pollution and carbon emission.
- “Rachel Reeves: We’ll rip out ‘insane’ environment rules that block growth” – The chancellor has told the IMF that “well-meaning” regulations have gone too far and are hindering the construction of windfarms, houses and railways, according to the Times.
- “‘Bring on the fight’, Miliband tells net zero critics” – The Energy Secretary has hit back after a US delegation has claimed that staunch climate policies “harm lives”, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Greens aren’t cuddly environmentalists. They are Corbynistas on steroids” – Disillusioned Tories should beware of voting for a party with so many deranged policies and extremists in their midst, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Labour donor applauds Kneecap after taxpayer-funded band praised Hamas” – Dale Vince, the green energy tycoon, offers message of support to the controversial, Hamas-supporting band, according to the Telegraph.
- “Ireland’s anti-Semitism laces ignorance with self-righteousness” – The vitriol of Belfast’s Bafta-winning band Kneecap is typical of Ireland’s virulent Jew hatred, writes George Chesterton in the Telegraph.
- “Topless trans protesters claim climate change hits them hardest” – Three women are arrested as trans activists blockade a US air force base in Suffolk, says the Telegraph.
- “Tory peer backs total nicotine ban” – The generational smoking ban is (slowly) making its way through parliament, as part of Labour’s plan to ban nicotine purchases for anyone born after 1 January 2009 – and some Tories in the Lords, such as Lord Bethel, are supporting it, according to Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “Workless youths won’t get out of bed for less than £40k, Lords told” – Workless youths who are “on the internet 24 hours a day” won’t get out of bed for a salary of less than £40,000, a Lords committee was told by an expert witness, reports the Telegraph.
- “Young people are right not to get out of bed for less than £40k” – For today’s 16-to-24 year-olds, work just doesn’t pay. In fact, sleeping in looks increasingly tempting, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Laurence Fox denies sharing upskirting photo of TV star Narinder Kaur” – The actor and activist appeared at Westminster magistrates’ court on two charges under the Sexual Offences Act 2003, according to the Times.
- “Ex-wife of top free speech academic ‘stole £12,000 from firm”” – Cynthia Tooley, 42, who is going through a “toxic” divorce from James Tooley, 65, the Vice-Chancellor of Buckingham, is accused of stealing £21,000 from a cosmetic firm she worked for set up by Ian Clayton-Smith, 70, whom she dated, reports the Mail.
- “The welcome fall of Klaus Schwab” – Hubris has a way of catching up to people – and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy, writes Samuel Gregg in the Spectator.
- “The hypocrisy of Virgin Atlantic’s flights to Saudi Arabia” – This Virgin-Saudi deal takes the baklava. You will search in vain for any of that woke Western waffle in their bumf for this enterprise, says Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
- “Telegraph ownership saga prompts High Court threat to Lisa Nandy” – The Free Speech Union has written to the Culture Secretary over her mishandling of an attempted takeover of the Telegraph Media Group by Abu Dhabi, according to Chris Williams in the Telegraph.
- “I don’t think I’m the only member of this House who thinks that future will be pretty bleak if it doesn’t include the Telegraph” – Watch my speech in the House of Lords yesterday in which I criticised Lisa Nandy for failing to put pressure on RedBirdIMI to sell the Telegraph.
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