- “Trump turns against Putin” – Trump began to rage over Russian attacks and being strung along by Moscow after an ‘historic’ meeting with Zelensky at the Pope’s funeral, the Telegraph reports.
- “Has Trump really turned on Putin?” – A rare rebuke from the US President has rattled Moscow, but it remains to be seen if it’s a true change of heart or just political theatre, says Roland Oliphant in the Telegraph.
- “US opens door to backing Starmer’s coalition of the willing” – The US has privately offered to provide security guarantees for Sir Keir Starmer’s ‘coalition of the willing’, according to the Telegraph.
- “Executive orders, tariffs and lawsuits: How the ‘deep state’ is outmanoeuvring Trump” – In the Telegraph, Sam Ashworth-Hayes and Connor Stringer warn that as Trump’s second term nears the 100 day mark, his radical agenda appears this week to have been blunted on multiple fronts.
- “Starmer to rent homes for Channel migrants” – The Home Office has launched a drive for landlords to house asylum seekers following a surge in Channel migrant crossings, reports the Telegraph.
- “Taxpayers foot spiralling bill to house failed asylum seekers” – Over 1,000 migrants have been receiving benefits despite failed claims for over a decade, according to Home office figures, the Telegraph reports.
- “Why are MPs turning a blind eye to ‘two-tier’ policing?” – Alex Klaushofer in the Spectator is unimpressed with the House of Commons’ Home Affairs Committee as it insists that two-tier policing is a myth.
- “Did Covid lockdowns and school closures swing young people sharply Right?” – Two new polls offer powerful evidence the answer is yes, says Alex Berenson on Substack.
- “Electric ‘superhighway’ delayed in blow to Miliband’s Net Zero plans” – A £2 billion electricity ‘superhighway’ linking England and Scotland is facing delays due to a global shortage of high-voltage cables and converters in a blow to Ed Miliband’s clean power plans, the Telegraph reports.
- “Why isn’t it racist to ban white men?” – A female theatre director has proposed a year-long ban on plays by writers who are white and male – such as Shakespeare. The Telegraph‘s Michael Deacon wonders why this isn’t regarded as racist.
- “How Trump could reverse America’s baby bust” – In the Spectator, Kristina Murkett argues that government interventions to raise the birth rate keep failing because they do not compensate for the opportunity cost of having children.
- “‘We’ll burn Jews like Hitler did’, says BBC contributor in Gaza” – Samer Elzaenen, a journalist who appears prominently on the BBC’s Arabic channel to report from Gaza, called for Jews to be burned “as Hitler did”, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Hamas claim that 70% of Gaza dead are women and children ‘demonstrably false’” – A think tank has found inconsistencies between hospital records and statistics from Gaza’s Ministry of Health that call the terrorist group’s claims into question, says the Telegraph.
- “Kneecap referred to counter-terror police for saying ‘kill your MP’” – Kneecap, the Irish Republican rap group, has been referred to counter-terror police for a second time after being accused of telling fans “kill your local MP”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Have no doubt: If Mark Carney is elected, he will drive Canada into the ground” – The country was already on the path to decline under Trudeau; Carney will only get it there faster, argues Yuan Yi Zhu in the Telegraph.
- “GB News outcasts take fight for the Right on to YouTube” – Britain’s alt-Right is aping the MAGA movement as it turns its back on traditional media, says the Telegraph.
- “Capital gains tax receipts fall 10% as wealthy exit UK” – The amount of capital gains tax paid to the Treasury over the past year dropped by more than £1 billion as fears grow of an exodus of wealth from Britain, reports the Times.
- “Keir Starmer is a PM who can’t apologise or tell the truth” – The local elections are a chance to show a leader who believes he’s above it all the anger he has wrought, says Kemi Badenoch in the Telegraph.
- “DVLA bans pro-Brexit number plates” – The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has banned several pro-Brexit number plates along with references to the Holocaust, drugs and homosexuality ahead of the launch of new ‘75’ registrations later this year, reports the Telegraph.
- “Cash-strapped council recruiting anti-racism officer on £60,000 a year” – A council that turned off its street lights to save money has been criticised after revealing that it is recruiting an anti-racism officer on a salary of up to £60,000 a year, reports the Telegraph.
- “Graham Linehan charged with harassment and criminal damage” – Graham Linehan, the Bafta-winning Father Ted comedy writer, is set to appear in court next month after being charged with harassment and criminal damage, reports the Telegraph. “This is part of a long history of the police acting as a goon squad for trans rights activists,” wrote Linehan on X.
- “Keeping schtum” – In the Critic, Josephine Bartosch has noticed that some politicians – such as the Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women, Jess Phillips, and Conservative MP Penny Mordaunt – have remained conspicuously quiet after the Supreme Court trans ruling.
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