News Round-Up

• “Starmer in bust-up with Speaker after he’s ordered to answer Kemi” – Sir Keir Starmer has clashed with the Commons Speaker after being reminded to answer questions from Kemi Badenoch, reports the Mail.
• “The Green Party isn’t a joke. It’s dangerous” – Voters are taking Polanski seriously despite policies that would damage our economy, social fabric and national security, warns Danny Cohen in the Telegraph.
• “The hateful posts of yet another Green Party candidate” – In the Spectator, Andrew Gilligan reports on yet another Green Party candidate responsible for crazy online posts.
• “Family tax bills rise £4,000 under Reeves” – According to the IMF, family tax bills have risen by £4,000 under Rachel Reeves, who is increasing taxes at the fastest pace in Europe, says the Telegraph.
• “Rachel Reeves finally addresses the day she cried at PMQs” – The Chancellor has finally spoken about the day she cried at PMQs – insisting she is “not gonna apologise” because everyone gets “overcome with emotion” sometimes, reports the Mail.
• “Rachel Reeves may regret goading President Trump” – It is a high-risk strategy for a country as vulnerable as ours to pick a fight with the President, warns Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
• “Starmer says he ‘won’t yield’ on Iran war” – Sir Keir Starmer insists he “won’t yield” to Trump amid threats to downgrade the UK’s trade deal as punishment for shunning the Iran war, according to the Mail.
• “Starmer and Macron to cut Trump out of Hormuz patrols” – Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron have moved to exclude Donald Trump from plans to patrol the Strait of Hormuz, reports the Telegraph.
• “Britain has lost the will to defend itself” – The truth is that politicians are not prioritising national security because voters do not care, says James Kirkup in the Telegraph.
• “The price of preferring benefits to bullets” – Britain has paid a heavy price for prioritising benefits spending over defence, writes Julian Mann in the Conservative Woman.
• “Iranians have a vulgar nickname for Starmer” – Iranians have given Sir Keir Starmer a vulgar nickname based on the sound of his first name in Persian, reveals the Telegraph.
• “No, Sadiq, London’s decline isn’t ‘disinformation’” – No amount of censorship can disguise the mayor’s chronic mismanagement of the capital, says Laurie Wastell in Spiked.
• “Police ‘too busy to arrest paedophiles’” – Paedophiles who view indecent images of children are not being arrested because some forces are too busy, reports the Telegraph.
• “‘Tell us more about church gang-rape suspects,’ protesters urge police” – Protesters have demanded more information from police about suspects in a church gang-rape case, says the Telegraph.
• “Our gay asylum policy makes no sense” – The problem with granting asylum on the basis of sexuality, or religion or politics is that it’s inherently impossible to disprove, writes David Shipley in the Spectator.
• “How one migrant shows us everything wrong with our immigration system” – A single migrant case has highlighted deep flaws in Britain’s immigration system, says Guy Dampier in the Telegraph.
• “Britain’s asylum racket is news to no one” – Britain’s asylum system has long been exploited by bent lawyers, judges and NGOs, writes Gawain Towler in Spiked.
• “Police told to treat stop and search suspects ‘with dignity’” – New guidance, condemned as “more woke nonsense”, could make it harder to carry out stop and search, reports the Telegraph.
• “GP who kept working after asking Muslim woman to remove veil fired” – A GP has been struck off after asking a Muslim woman to remove her niqab during a medical appointment, says the Mail.
• “Behold the murderous incompetence of the British state” – Axel Rudakubana’s massacre of girls in Southport was aided by the staggering ineptitude of state agencies, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Film student Finbar Sullivan, 21, was ‘surrounded and kicked on the floor before he was stabbed to death’” – A court has heard how film student Finbar Sullivan was surrounded and kicked by seven men before being stabbed to death on Primrose Hill, reports the Mail.
• “London synagogue targeted in attempted firebomb attack” – A man and woman have been arrested after a synagogue was hit with suspected petrol bombs in an antisemitic attack, says the BBC.
• “For Labour, the sex toy is mightier than the sword” – If Britain has little to offer the world except dildos and self-flagellation, it’s because both parties have screwed the forces for too long, writes William Atkinson in the Telegraph.
• “GB News accuses Labour MP of spreading populism ‘conspiracy theory’” – The chairman of GB News has accused a senior Labour MP of spreading a conspiracy theory by claiming the channel acts as a mouthpiece for populism, reports the Telegraph.
• “SNP on track to hold on to power in Scotland” – The SNP is projected to win 67 seats at the Holyrood elections in May, giving John Swinney a mandate to push for a second independence referendum, says the Telegraph.
• “The dangerous lesson from Australia’s social media ban” – Australia’s social media ban for under-16s raises serious concerns about government overreach, warns Joanna Williams in the Spectator.
• “‘My wife was left disabled by the Covid vaccine. She deserved more compensation” – A man whose wife was left disabled by the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine has criticised the Government’s flat £120,000 compensation payment, says the Telegraph.
• “Why didn’t the green lobby stand up for the Chagos islands?” – In the Spectator, Matt Ridley slams the green lobby for its lack of opposition to the Chagos Islands deal.
• “The climate deniers are in charge now” – A Guardian report from the Heartland Conference claims “climate deniers” are now ascendant in Washington – though in WUWT?, Eric Worrall suggests the real story is an alarmist movement losing its grip.
• “America’s nuclear comeback is finally here” – American companies have begun advancing nuclear technologies that previous federal programmes failed to deliver, reports Jason Isaac in the Hill.
• “How do we turn the sun off?” – On Not a Lot of People Know That, Paul Homewood returns to the issue of too much solar power.
• “The renewable energy myth is breaking Australia’s economy” – Australia’s shift to renewable energy has driven soaring electricity costs that are eroding manufacturing and economic competitiveness, warns Vijay Jayaraj in Climate Change Dispatch.
• “EU president uses Iran war to double down on plan to ‘decarbonise’ continent” – EU President Ursula von der Leyen has used the Iran war to reinforce the bloc’s plans to decarbonise the continent, reports the Daily Caller.
• “Tory councils ordered to enforce single-sex spaces” – Kemi Badenoch has instructed Tory councils to protect single-sex spaces on the anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act, says the Telegraph.
• “Christopher Eccleston is right about young white men” – To borrow the hideous jargon of hyper-liberalism, it can plausibly be argued today that anti-white and anti-male prejudice have both become ‘systemic’, writes Patrick West in the Spectator.
• “How dating became an extreme sport for men” – Dating has become increasingly difficult for many men due to high standards and mistrust, says Nicole Mowbray in the Telegraph.
• “V&A changed catalogues at request of Chinese publisher” – Prompted by censorship laws in China, the V&A’s printer asked the museum to remove a map featuring images of Lenin, reports the Times.
• “Starmer to haul tech bosses into No 10 over children’s safety online” – Sir Keir Starmer will summon social media executives to Downing Street today to push them to go further on protecting children from ‘harm’, says the Telegraph.
• “Shoplifting surges by 133% in five years” – Shoplifting has risen by 133% in five years, according to the Telegraph.
• “So the police turn up in riot gear to a peaceful protest in Epsom, following the rape of a young woman outside a church. They never did this for the Clapham looting” – Chris Rose quote tweets a clip of the police preparing for an anti-immigration march in Epsom in stark contrast to the policing of mobs of shoplifters in Clapham.

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