News Round-Up

• “Labour on course for worst ever election results in Scotland and Wales” – Labour is on course for its worst ever results in the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Senedd with Thursday’s election likely to place both in nationalist hands, reports the Mail.
• “Unions turn on Starmer ahead of election rout” – Union bosses have turned on Sir Keir Starmer ahead of an expected local election bloodbath, citing his failure to deliver the change he promised, according to the Telegraph.
• “Sorry Andy, but there’s no such thing as a ‘safe Labour seat’” – In the Conservative Woman, Sean Walsh argues that Andy Burnham’s assumption of Labour invincibility in its northern heartlands is about to be rudely shattered.
• “Polanski ‘traumatised’ by police restraining Golders Green suspect” – Zack Polanski claims the reason he reposted criticism of the Met Police subduing a man who’d stabbed two Jews in Golders Green last week is because he was “traumatised” by the footage, according to the Mail, falsely adding that the stabber was handcuffed at the time.
• “Zack Polanski admits he was not spokesman for British Red Cross” – The Green Party leader has admitted he was not a spokesman for the British Red Cross after a Times investigation. 
• ]“Zack Polanski faces questions over houseboat and council tax” – Zack Polanski faces fresh questions over his council tax arrangements, says the Times.
• “Polanski, the Lib Dem turncoat, hopes for yet another reinvention” – From B-movies to the X Factor to the Green Party leadership, Zack Polanski has always landed on his feet – but his latest reinvention as the leader of a Left-wing antisemitic cult may be one too many, says Neil Johnston in the Telegraph.
• “Greens block letter praising Golders Green police officers” – Green mayoral candidate Zoe Garbett has refused to back a proposed message thanking the Met for its response to the Golders Green attack, reports the Telegraph.
• “Antizionism is a totalitarian conspiracy theory rotting the West from within” – In the Telegraph, Allister Heath dissects the ‘antizionist’ cancer that’s destroying the rest.
• “Metropolitan Police seeks £35 million to keep Jewish community safe” – Scotland Yard has warned ministers that the Jewish community in North London will be put at risk unless it is given £35 million a year to pay for more police officers, says the Times.
• “Barrister in Palestine Action trial faces contempt of court case” – A leading barrister is facing contempt of court proceedings after he was accused of defying a judge’s orders during the first trial of six Palestine Action activists who broke into an Elbit Systems factory, reports the Times.
• “Rising abuse against politicians could destroy society” – Lord Blunkett says society is at risk of being “destroyed” because of the levels of abuse politicians are facing every day, according to the Times. He neglects to mention that most of this abuse originates with the Left.
• “Let the Left riot over my asylum crackdown” – In the Telegraph, Tony Diver finds Nigel Farage in bullish mood on the campaign trail as he targets Labour’s Welsh strongholds. 
• “Nearly 1.5 million migrants on benefits” – New research by the Centre for Migration Control reveals that 1,497,774 individual migrants claimed Universal Credit between January 2025 and December 2025.
• “Civil servants ‘abusing flexi time’ to claim 50 days off a year” – Civil servants are exploiting overtime rules to effectively claim up to 50 days off a year – on top of their already generous holiday entitlement, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Having a big family is now the preserve of the rich” – As Britain’s birth rate tumbles, having several children is quietly becoming the new status symbol – a luxury most families simply cannot afford, says Eir Nolsøe in the Telegraph.
• “GCSE pupils taught it is their civic duty not to offend anyone” – Outrage has erupted after a GCSE citizenship revision guide states that Britons have a responsibility to “use freedom of speech but not to offend”, reports GB News.
• “Oxford Union plunged into fresh chaos as new President is kicked out” – The Oxford Union has been plunged into fresh chaos after its President-Elect was found guilty of electoral malpractice and kciked out, says the Mail.
• “Merz tells high-school students that the Americans lack an ‘exit strategy’ in Iran, Trump slaps him with tariffs and troop withdrawals” – Friedrich Merz has scored another own goal, criticising American strategy in Iran and prompting Trump to threaten tariffs on European cars and withdraw at least 5,000 US troops from Germany, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
• “NY Times sued for ‘discriminating against white male editor’” – A federal civil rights agency has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the New York Times, claiming that the news organisation passed over a white male employee for a promotion in favour of a lesser qualified woman to meet its diversity goals, according to the Business Journal.
• “NIH virologist Vincent Munster caught smuggling deadly pathogens into US, FBI investigating” – On the Disinformation Chronicle Substack, Paul D. Thacker reacts to news that an NIH virologist is under FBI investigation for smuggling dangerous pathogens into the US.
• “BMA drops opposition to Cass review into child gender treatment” – The British Medical Association says it no longer opposes the recommendations of the Cass Review into gender medicine, but doctors should still be able to prescribe puberty blockers, according to the Times.
• “Richard Dawkins ‘convinced’ AI is conscious” – Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins says chatbots should be considered conscious after spending two days interacting with the Claude AI engine, reports the Telegraph.
• “Norway reopens North Sea gas fields to power millions of homes” – Norway has confirmed plans to revive three gas fields containing enough supply to heat millions of homes, increasing exports to the UK at a time when its own oil and gas output is plummeting by about 15% a year, says the Telegraph.
• “Potholier than thou” – Is Labour really including climate metrics in its pothole rankings? asks Jit in Cliscep.
• “New study: declining trends in 1980–2023 tropical cyclone frequency, accumulated energy” – A new peer-reviewed study has found that tropical cyclone frequency and accumulated energy have both been declining since 1980 – not quite the narrative you’ll find on the BBC, says Kenneth Richard on No Tricks Zone.
• “‘Republican’ green energy fantasies and casualties” – In CFACT, Craig Rucker argues that Republicans who court an “all-of-the-above” energy strategy must drop their green virtue-signalling and get on board with the Trump administration.
• “California’s climate overreach” – In Master Resource, Edward Ring reveals that California’s SB 982 would let the state’s Attorney General sue oil companies for “climate-attributable damages” without even needing to prove fault – a legal standard that should alarm anyone who values due process.
• “The miserable reality of a plant-based society” – Rural life as it has existed for centuries would be destroyed if eating meat were banned – and the people pushing these ideas have clearly never been anywhere near a farm, writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph. 
• “Intellectual conservatism needs fighters to survive” – On TomKlingenstein.com, Ted Richards argues that conservatives who play nicely while the Left attacks without restraint are engaged in a form of unilateral intellectual disarmament.
• “Linguistic gymnastics” – In the New Conservative, Dr Roger Watson claims that the mainstream media’s manipulation of language – perfected during Covid – has become its primary tool for keeping the public in the dark.
• “Why this Jesus-loving, gun-owning singer really is the new Taylor Swift” – Ella Langley, a politics-averse “redneck at heart”, is storming the charts and breaking records even Taylor Swift has never managed to achieve, reports Poppie Platt in the Telegraph.
• “The revolution in British politics is happening in real time” – On X, Liz Webster posts a clip of Andrew Neil delivering a monologue on Times Radio about the collapse of Britain’s two-party system, warning listeners they may not like what comes next.

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