- “Britain to unleash army of hackers on Putin” – New Cyber and Electromagnetic Command will oversee £1 billion spend to take on hostile states, including Russia, reports the Telegraph.
- “Revealed: how much the highest earners pay towards Britain’s benefits bill” – A third of a worker’s taxes is spent servicing the nation’s welfare bill, says the Telegraph.
- “Electric cars halve in value after just two years” – Heavy discounting and the growing range of cheaper models are being blamed for extraordinary depreciation, according to the Telegraph. Tl;dr don‘t buy an electric car.
- “Teacher set up petition telling pupils to remove head teacher for racism” – Joshua Adusei, a black teacher at the Harris Academy Tottenham (an outsanding school) has told the head of he will “get him out” if he did not resign, reports the Telegraph.
- “Asylum seeker can stay in Britain after having affair” – Immigration tribunal rules that an Iraqi migrant would be at risk of an “honour killing” if he was returned home, says the Telegraph.
- “NHS trust ‘trying to hide cost of trans doctor tribunal’” – A “cynical culture of secrecy” has taken over Fife trust, says Scottish Tory, according to the Telegraph.
- “Kate Nash takes swipe at JK Rowling in new pro-trans single” – An NPC micro-celeb has take a swipe at JKR, claiming the word “girl” is “exclusionary, regressive, misogynist”, says the Telegraph. Yawn.
- “Lineker tells Starmer to halt arms sales to Israel” – The ex-BBC presenter has signed an open letter calling for the British Government to stop selling arms to Israel in his first political intervention since leaving Match of the Day, reports the Telegraph.
- “Netanyahu says second Sinwar ‘eliminated’ – but I fear more fanatics” – The elimination of Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar and up to a dozen of his aides in a precision Israeli air strike has been met with predictable outrage among terrorist sympathisers, says the Mail.
- “China backs Starmer’s Chagos deal” – Beijing has welcomed the Chagos deal in a way not entirely welcomed by our Prime Minister, according to the Telegraph.
- “Why did LBC tick off Robert Jenrick?” – Why did LBC pour scorn on Robert Jenrick, the Shadow Justice Secretary, asks Charlotte Gill on her Substack.
- “Is DOGE Dead?” – The world’s richest man has gone back to “spending 24/7” at his old jobs, but left behind devotees who are accumulating power and influence, reports the Free Press.
- “Pfizer hid data so it would not have to report good results on its mRNA Covid jab and help Donald Trump before the 2020 election” – Alex Berenson on his Substack reports on the latest Covid vaccine outragers.
- “Israel to stop training female combat soldiers over ‘lack of fitness’” – The IDF has ended a pilot scheme after finding the six-month programme was not enough to train up female soldiers, says the Telegraph.
- “BBC ‘damages countryside’ to film Chris Packham’s Springwatch” – Residents of Chris Packham’s village say ditches have been blocked, tracks widened for vehicles and a meadow covered in steel plate just as wildflowers come into bloom – all in the name of saving the planet, according to the Telegraph.
- “Starmer’s legal chief in Nazi jibe at anti-ECHR Tories and Reform” – Starmer’s Attorney General has warned that any Tories rejecting the European Convention on Human Rights are Nazis, which, understandably, has resulted in some pushback from those Tories who want to exit the ECHR, reports the Times.
- “Robert Jenrick confronts Tube fare dodgers” – The Shadow justice Secretary says “lawbreaking is out of control”, accusing Sadiq Khan of “driving London into the ground” as he confronts fare dodgers on the London Underground.
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