- “Stop taking freebies, Labour MPs tell Starmer” – PM accused of ‘hypocrisy’ and warned that taking gifts gives the impression “he’s more interested in himself” than the country, reports the Telegraph.
- “We’ll stop taking free clothes, say Starmer and Rayner” – Sir Kier Starmer and Angela Rayner u-turn and say they won‘t accept free clothes from now on, says the Telegraph. Although Starmer hasn‘t said he won’t accept free Arsenal tickets.
- “Inside Westminster’s freebie merry-go-round: who gets what and why” – Sir Keir Starmer and his team have received thousands of pounds worth of donations and gifts, including Chelsea Flower Show tickets for the Chancellor, says the Times.
- “I took cash for clothes too, admits Rachel Reeves” – The Chancellor admits she too took free clothes, according to the Telegraph.
- “Jess Phillips: I’m ‘apoplectic’ domestic abusers were freed without tags” – The Safeguarding Minister is shocked – shocked, I tell you – that hundreds of prisoners have been released in the past few weeks without tracking devices, reports the Telegraph.
- “David Lammy’s office took £10,000 donation from Saudi-supporting PR chief” – Register of Interests reveals Muddassar Ahmed donated £10,000 to David Lammy, says the Telegraph.
- “Why is he so bad at this?” – Keir Starmer has turned out to be as inept as he is authoritarian, says Tom Slater in Spiked Online.
- “Lord Alli demanded crackdown on ‘bullying’ newspapers” – The Prime Minister’s personal shopper called for restrictions on media ownership, according to the Telegraph.
- “Sleaze, quarrels and austerity: Labour is looking a lot like the Tories” – Before his first party conference as Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer appears to be struggling to convince even his own ministers he is capable of real change, reports the Times.
- “Labour’s private school VAT raid causes diplomatic spat with France and Germany” – A French politician claims proposed plans to tax school fees would “not be in line” with Sir Keir Starmer’s drive to renew relations between the two countries, according to the Telegraph.
- “English identity under threat due to immigration, Robert Jenrick warns” – In a hard-hitting article for the Mail, Robert Jenrick says the ties which bind the nation together are beginning to fray.
- “Why LSE is the Sunday Times University of the Year 2025” – Ranked No.1 by the Sunday Times, the London School of Economics champions free speech, with graduates that go on to change the world.
- “Wales considers 25% income tax cut to tackle ‘brain drain’ crisis” – The Labour-run Welsh Government is considering reducing the top rate of income tax to 25% in an effort to stem the exodus of anyone earning over £100,000, according to the Telegraph.
- “Was Sadiq Khan’s ULEZ expansion really more about making money than ensuring cleaner air?” – New figures show the London Mayor has pulled in hundreds of millions of pounds from fines and fees connected with his ULEZ scheme, says Patrick O’Flynn on Substack.
- “Meddling Eurocrats are dragging the bloc back to the Dark Ages” – The EU’s ‘regulate first, ask questions later’ approach to AI is turning Europe into a tech backwater, says Andrew Griffith in the Telegraph.
- “I took my spoilt kids to Barbados but they preferred Bognor Regis” – Having dragged my children to various luxury resorts, I’ve often wondered whether they’d be happier at Butlins, says Ed Grenby in the Telegraph.
- “California accused of trying to keep children’s gender identity a secret from parents” – The state of California is being sued over new law that city council says is “an intrusion into private family matters”, reports Cameron Henderson in the Telgraph.
- “The climate scaremongers: BBC blame child marriage in Bangladesh on climate change” – The BBC is blaming statutory rape in Bangladesh on climate chance in a completely rational article.
- “Britain is spending beyond its means” – Public sector net debt as a percentage of the economy has exceeded 100%, level not seen since the early 1960s, reports the Spectator.
- “What Britain will lose when Starmer guts the House of Lords” – An aerospace engineer, an undercover trucker and the man who put wheelchairs into taxis – all are voting hereditaries, which Labour is determined to get rid of for class war reasons, according to the Telegraph.
- “UCL demographer’s work debunking ‘Blue Zone’ regions of exceptional lifespans wins Ig Nobel prize” – A study by Dr. Saul Justin Newman has won the first-ever Ig Nobel award in Demography at this year’s 34th Ig Nobel Prizes for debunking ‘blue zone’ gobbledegook.
- “Does the evidence support working from home?” – “I am sure that the Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds picked up many useful skills in his previous job in local government, says a sceptical Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Preacher wins payout after arrest for damaging her own Qur’an” – Christian evangelist Hatun Tash was arrested for criminal damage after her copy of the Qur’an was stolen by a Muslim at Speakers’ Corner, according to Christian Concern.
- “CERN to expel hundreds of Russian scientists” – A group of Russian researchers will lose their access to CERN, which operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world, reports Semafor.
- “Cost of driving electric car up to twice the price of petrol or diesel” – Motorists without space at home to charge their cars are facing prohibitively high costs at public facilities, says the Times.
- “Antifa Batman? DC Comics introduces a poor, brutal, and left-wing Dark Knightr” – There’s a new Batman in Gotham, and he would probably vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, according to the Washington Examiner.
- ““Help! My child is becoming right wing!”: Leading Berlin newspaper provides “tips for democratic parents” who are forced to deal with “undemocratic children”” – Germany has the stupidest political discourse on earth, says Eugyppius on his Substack.
- “Reform’s Cheshire Cat troublemaker basks in Taylor Swift-like atmosphere” – Nigel Farage takes centre stage at Reform’s party conference and drives the attendees wild, reports Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
- “Farage may just have found the secret recipe for beating the Tories” – All parties are losing members – apart from Reform, according to the Telegraph.
- “Running an electric car is twice as expensive as a petrol one” – A return trip from London to Penzance costs £148 for electric vehicles compared to £77 for petrol cars, says the Telegraph.
- “Israel and Ukraine are defending us too: why don’t Western moralisers recognise this?” – Jerusalem’s audacious strikes against terrorism should be celebrated, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph. Instead, the strikes have been disparaged in Whitehall
- “David Lammy has cost Britain a crucial ally against Putin” – The Foreign Secretary’s blunders prove he isn’t cut out for serious diplomacy, according to the Telegraph.
- “Hezbollah second-in-command killed by Israeli air strike in Beirut” – Ibrahim Aqil died when IDF fighter jets struck a building in the south of the Lebanese capital, reports the Telegraph.
- “Greenpeace activists who scaled Rishi Sunak’s home walk free” – The judge has thrown out the case, saying the evidence against the four protesters was ‘so tenuous’ that no court would convict them
- “The use and abuse of science” – On the Right and the Left, theology and ideology trump empirical reality, writes Andrew Sullivan. That has to end.
- “It’s emerged that the Labour Party‘s biggest donor is a hedge fund with investments in fossil fuels, private healthcare and arms manufacturers” – Patrick Christys tries to get to grip with Labour’s intergalactic hypocrisy.
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