- “Early prison releases risk public safety, police warn” – Senior figures in the police and MI5 have warned Sir Keir Starmer that his plans to release prisoners early poses a huge risk to public safety, reports LBC.
- “Release suspects’ ethnicities early, Met chief says” – Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley says that it is right to release the ethnicity of suspects – even if the information might “embolden racists”, according to the Mail.
- “Not enough police for London after population boom, Met chief warns” – The Met Police Commissioner says that Sotland Yard does not have enough officers to meet the rising demand from crime after a population boom in the past 15 years, reports the Telegraph.
- “Immigration is the reason our police seem more incompetent than ever” – Mark Rowley’s comments about underfunding only tells half the story of policing dysfunction, says Henry Hill in the Telegraph.
- “Resident doctors lose public support for strikes after bumper pay rises” – A new poll finds that nearly half of UK adults oppose junior doctors’ walkout plans after they received above-inflation salary increases, reports the Sun.
- “Don’t pay the junior doctor Danegeld” – Who would have guessed that caving into union militancy and paying a whacking above-inflation pay rise, with no strings attached, would lead to even bigger pay demands? says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Reeves’s NI raid risks tax doom loop, says Moody’s” – Moody’s says that the Chancellor’s £25 billion raid on employers last October had already “dented business confidence”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s capacity to borrow dwindles as Starmer’s costly U-turns mount” – In the Telegraph, Tim Wallace warns that Keir Starmer’s policy U-turns are pushing Rachel Reeves into a fiscal corner.
- “Billionaire tech founder quits Britain for Monaco” – Billionaire tech founder Guillaume Pousaz has abandoned Britain for Monaco in the wake of Rachel Reeves’s tax crackdown, reports City A.M.
- “Koran-burner Hamit Coskun has exposed the cowardice of Starmer” – From the Prime Minister down, we are led by elites who abandon their principles when it comes to Islam, says Tom Slater in the Telegraph.
- “Badenoch needs to be brutally honest with voters” – In the Spectator, Stephen Pollard argues that Kemi Badenoch’s only hope of reviving the Conservative Party lies in brutal honesty with voters – about past failures, hard fiscal choices and the limits of the state.
- “Dominic Cummings predicts timing of Kemi Badenoch’s downfall” – According to Dominic Cummings, Kemi Badenoch will be gone as Tory leader within a year – and plots to oust her are already under way, reports Sky News.
- “Farage isn’t the first leader to promise tax breaks for couples. They all failed” – The Reform leader has raised hopes of a fairer pro-family system, but history isn’t on his side, writes Charlotte Gifford in the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage is on course to be PM. This is what the establishment will do to destroy him” – The Reform leader is used to being maligned, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph, but what he is about to face will be on a different scale.
- “The Foreign Office is now a national embarrassment” – Many of Britain’s high-ranking diplomats in strategically important countries do not even learn the language fluently, writes Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
- “Who scares wins” – In the New Conservative, Roger Watson argues that a pampered, latte-sipping elite has no business judging the brutal necessities carried out by the SAS in defence of the nation.
- “What’s the point of fining Thames Water?” – What Thames Water really needs is new management, permission to build reservoirs, relief from Net Zero targets, a hands-off regulator and a debt overhaul so it can invest again, says Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
- “Has King Charles gone doolally on his Canada trip?” – The King’s land acknowledgement will have pleased the Canadian blob, writes Jonathan Miller in the Spectator, but it only reinforces the impression that he’s drunk the woke Kool-Aid.
- “Greek coastguards charged over 2023 migrant shipwreck” – A naval court in Greece has charged 17 coastguards over the deadliest migrant boat disaster in the Mediterranean Sea for a decade, reports the BBC.
- “Europe’s far-Left terror threat” – In the Spectator, Gavin Mortimer warns that a wave of sophisticated, ideologically driven sabotage by Europe’s far-Left extremists is escalating into a serious terror threat.
- “Elon Musk attacks Donald Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax cuts” – Elon Musk says that Trump’s “big, beautiful Bill” will undermine Doge’s cost savings, according to NBC News.
- “What Alasdair MacIntyre got right – and wrong” – In the Spectator, Theo Hobson pays tribute to Alasdair MacIntyre, one of the most influential thinkers of the past 50 years, who died last week.
- “New trans guidance following Supreme Court ruling in ‘limbo’” – Official guidance on how businesses should implement the Supreme Court gender ruling may not be released until the chair of the equality watchdog has left the role, reports the Mail.
- “Two transgender netball players banned after opponent flattened” – Two trans netball players have been banned from competing shortly after a rival team threatened to boycott matches they played in and video surfaced of one of them knocking an opponent to the ground, says the Mail.
- “Woke barrister Jolyon will find J.K. Rowling a far tougher opponent than the fox he beat to death” – In the Telegraph, Suzanne Moore slams Jolyon Maugham KC as a preening poseur whose delusions of grandeur are no match for J.K. Rowling’s fearless defence of women’s rights – this time, the fox bites back.
- “DEI is a con: five hallmarks of a hustle” – Corporations and universities are distancing themselves from social virtue-signalling, says Paul Mueller in the Daily Economy, but behind new branding, the grift is alive and well.
- “Comedy audiences are rejecting the gender nonsense” – Richard Herring is the latest comedian to find out that audiences will no longer indulge biology denial, writes Graham Linehan in Spiked.
- “Andrew Tate charged with rape in UK” – Prosecutors have confirmed the full list of 21 charges Andrew and Tristan Tate will face when they are returned to the UK, including rape, actual bodily harm and human trafficking, according to the BBC.
- “‘Who even needs men, right?’” – A video on X brilliantly satirises the influencer universe.
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