- “Who could replace Rishi Sunak? These are the agents of change” – Potential Conservative Party leadership candidates are on manoeuvres — but have to win their own seats first, according to the Times.
- “Five Tory big beasts facing ‘Portillo moments’” – An anti-Tory campaign group predicts a string of leading names could lose seats if people vote tactically to oust them, reports the Telegraph.
- “Tom Tugendhat expected to run for Tory leader after election” – If the Conservatives lose the election, the Security Minister is expected to put his name forward, claims the Telegraph.
- “Boris Johnson set to go on holiday rather than campaign for Tories” – The former PM was expected to counter the threat of Reform U.K. in the election, but Rishi Sunak’s allies fear he would be a distraction, reports the Times.
- “Reform to benefit from Churchill’s letter to his old teacher” – A letter from Churchill thanking his maths master for getting him into Sandhurst could fetch £8,000 for Nigel Farage’s party, according to the Times.
- “Nigel Farage has emerged victorious in the battle of the manifestos” – Reform offers tax hope, not pain – unlike the Tories and Labour, says Brian Monteith in the Telegraph.
- “BBC gives Nigel Farage a spot on an extra Question Time leaders’ special” – The BBC has acceded to Farage’s demand to be in the leaders’ debate on Question Time, but only by organising a special ‘extra’ one for the also rans, claims the Telegraph.
- “Only Nigel Farage is telling the truth about the NHS” – Embracing private healthcare is the sort of radical reform to the NHS we need, according to Karol Sikora in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer’s idiotic worship of the NHS has exposed him for what he really is” – The Labour leader may claim to understand why regular folk would opt to go private if they had the means, but clearly he hasn’t a clue, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “What Farage can learn from Canada’s Reform” – In UnHerd, Michael Cuenco warns that the path back to power for the Canadian Right took 13 years after their defeat in 1993.
- “Nigel Farage insists Kyiv will have to seek a peace deal with Russia” – Ukraine will eventually have to seek a peace deal with Russia, Nigel Farage said yesterday, creating a clear divide between his party and the Tories over the conflict, according to the Mail.
- “Starmer: Working people don’t have savings” – Senior Tories claim Starmer’s remarks, seemingly giving himself a loophole to raise taxes, show Labour is preparing to “wallop” savers and homeowners, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s secret tax rise plans revealed” – The Mail reveals that proposals put forward by a group of party MPs, known as Tribune, and whose members include Sir Keir Starmer, called for six tax raids to raise £60 billion.
- “What 25 years of Labour rule has done to Wales” – From the economy to the NHS, the party predicted to rule the U.K. doesn’t have the best track record in Wales, says Ollie Corfe in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer’s Labour: the political wing of the Blob” – The Labour leader has outsourced his entire programme of government to unelected officials, says Tim Black in Spiked.
- “Lazy civil servants are driving Britain to the brink” – Britain has a choice: we continue along the path of decline, or we pick ourselves up, dust ourselves down, and get to work, says Richard Tice in the Telegraph.
- “Sir Jim Ratcliffe backs Labour and says Britons have ‘had enough’ of the Tories” – The billionaire Man Utd owner has switched horses, reports the Telegraph.
- “Billionaire donor John Caudwell switches to Labour in ‘despair’ at Tories” – The founder of Phones4U has criticised the failures of Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak and says he is impressed by Starmer, according to the Times.
- “Mass postal voting is endangering our democracy” – Postal voting has proved to be wide open to fraud, says Philip Johnston in the Telegraph. Why, then, does Labour now want to introduce votes for 16-year-olds?
- “White House denies Biden keeps ‘freezing’ at public events” – Biden’s administration claims the President’s opponents are manipulating video clips as they try to weaponise his age, reports the Times.
- “We called it: Karine Jean-Pierre blames AI ‘deepfakes’ for Joe Biden’s real infirmity” – As predicted by Matt Taibbi in Racket News last week, AI has been blamed for the footage of Biden acting like a zombie at recent ceremonial occasions.
- “The great Brussels stitch-up” – In UnHerd, Thomas Fazi describes how Ursula von der Leyen was crowned as the new Empress of Europe at an “informal” dinner in Brussels.
- “How French extravagance made Macron the new Liz Truss” – Years of debt-fuelled spending have left France’s bond markets on a hair trigger, claims the Telegraph.
- “Benjamin Netanyahu dissolves war cabinet amid row with army” – Netanyahu’s future decisions on the Gaza conflict will likely be made with advisers following the resignation of the opposition leader Benny Gantz, according to the Telegraph.
- “Pro-Palestine activists ransack Kent military technology factory” – A pro-Palestinian protest group has targeted two companies over their alleged links to Israel as police arrest several suspects in London and Kent, reports the Telegraph.
- “Green aviation targets driving cooking oil fraud at ‘mass scale’” – Suppliers are shipping virgin palm oil to unwary refiners and airlines in an effort to comply with Net Zero targets, campaigners tell the Telegraph.
- “propaganda playbook for climate activists” – On his Substack, El Gato Malo delves into the propaganda playback climate hysterics are fond of using.
- “Long covid derangement syndrome” – Roger Watson writes about what he calls “long Covid derangement syndrome” in TCW – Defending Freedom.
- “Science Follows Politics: How German politicians invented lockdown-justifying Covid infection thresholds and got their allegedly independent scientific experts to defend these false metrics for years” – On his Substack, Eugyppius documents the manipulation and deceit behind the German authorities’ response to the pandemic.
- “Censoring the science: bombshell study on excess deaths faces retraction” – Last week, the integrity of a peer-reviewed study on excess deaths came under attack on several fronts, reports Sonia Elijah on Substack.
- “We need Covid fine amnesty, says ex-Justice Secretary” – Sir Robert Buckland, who oversaw the courts during the pandemic, wants a clean slate for the more than 29,000 people fined for breaching lockdown rules, according to the Telegraph.
- “Top medical journals promoting ethics ignore Nature Medicine’s unethical ghostwritten Covid origins paper” – In the Disinformation Chronicles, Paul D. Thacker writes about a scandal of omission at Nature Medicine.
- “‘White, male and heteronormative’: The cancelled philosophers you shouldn’t quote in 2024” – In 2017, students at a London university demanded their curriculum be decolonised. Now, they’ve made a list of who they deem acceptable reports the Telegraph.
- “How trans fanatics tore Pride apart” – Some women no longer feel safe at what is meant to be a celebration of all things LGBT – and the tensions could undermine the whole movement, says Sanchez Maning in the Telegraph.
- “Stephen Lawrence detectives will not face prosecution” – A decision not to prosecute the four retired officers in the Stephen Lawrence case was upheld by the CPS after being challenged, according to the BBC.
- “The quiet return of eugenics” – In the Spectator, Louise Perry writes about the gradual re-emergence of eugenics, although only for the super-rich who want to have designer babies.
- “Police investigate activist who said trans GP enjoys examining women” – Feminist campaigner Maya Forstater has been investigated by the police for over a year for criticising a trans GP on X, reports the Times.
- “The “right” amount of concern about racism” – How much should we be concerned about things that are racist, relative to all the other things we should be concerned about? asks Noah Carl in Aporia.
- “This Morning viewers back Cat Deeley after ‘seizure’ joke” – Cat Deeley faced criticism from an epilepsy charity after quipping that she was “having a seizure” while dancing to Meghan Trainor’s song ‘All About That Bass’, reports the Mail.
- “Utterly Superb” – Mehdi Hasan, the author of a book called Win Every Argument, made the grave mistake of trying to take on Douglas Murray and Natasha Hausdorff in a Monk debate about the Israel-Hamas conflict, reports Lee Harris on X.
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