News Round-Up
26 April 2025
by Toby Young
The Supreme Court may have ruled that trans 'women' are legally men, but someone really needs to tell Britain's libraries, which have been transformed into trans indoctrination hubs, says Lucy Marsh.
Net Zero policies "harm human lives" and undermine "health, wealth and opportunity", Donald Trump's trade envoy Tommy Joyce has told Keir Starmer in an attack on Labour’s radical energy policy.
Keir Starmer has refused to stop a plot by Ministers including Sir Chris Bryant and Dame Angela Eagle to thwart last week’s Supreme Court ruling that trans women are not legally women.
Peers in the House of Lords will attempt to block the 'banter ban' in Labour’s workers' rights bill when it returns to Parliament later this month to safeguard freedom of speech and the British way of life.
Reform is on track to smash Starmer's 'Red Wall', according to a poll today, with support for Nigel Farage's party surging across the North and Midlands from 18% at the General Election to 30%, ahead of Labour on 27%.
Only five people have been convicted of piloting small boats across the Channel this year despite Labour's pledge to crack down on smugglers and more than 119 dinghies containing a record 6,642 migrants making the journey.
Keir Starmer's cynical class war on private schools and hereditary peers to appease the hard Labour Left harms us all, says Dominic Lawson, not least as 25% of private school households earn below average income.
The ban on Lucy Connolly being permitted temporary release from jail to see her young daughter and sick husband is unprecedented, says David Shipley. Even murderers get that. The instruction must have come from higher up.
Backlash against Keir Starmer's plan to show the Netflix drama Adolescence in schools has grown after more than 1,500 teachers and parents signed a letter saying the series is not suitable as an educational resource.
Keir Starmer is preparing to rush through changes that water-down electric vehicle targets as soon as next week as carmakers brace for Donald Trump's tariffs – but carmakers warn the changes don't go far enough.
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