News Round-Up

• “The peer, the pollster and the rumblings of a plan to oust Rishi Sunak” – The Times reports on the plotters trying to oust the Prime Minister before the election.
• “Who could replace Rishi Sunak? These are the agents of change” – The same paper weighs up the runners and riders in the race to succeed the PM.
• “Liz Truss backs Nigel Farage to return to the Conservatives” – The ex-PM wants the former UKIP leader to return to the Conservative fold, according to the Mail.
• “Reform would raise 40p income tax threshold to £70,000” – A tax-cutting manifesto unveiled by Reform leader Richard Tice piles pressure on the Chancellor to go further with tax cuts in his spring Budget, reports the Telegraph.
• “Parliament has taken the knee to the Islamists who rule by fear” – This week’s parliamentary shambles was merely a symptom of a wider malaise: too many in the West feel the need to apologise for our values, argues Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “Not in our name” – On the website of the British Friends of Israel, Allison Pearson writes about a troubling week in which MPs were bullied by Islamists to vote for a ceasefire in Gaza.
• “Are Islamists in Charge of Britain?” – In the Free Press, Konstantin Kisin reflects on the depressing implications of what happened in Parliament on Wednesday evening.
• “The trouble with defining genocide” – In the Spectator, Douglas Murray wonders why seemingly quite sensible people like the historian William Dalrymple have lost their minds over Gaza, describing Israel’s war on Hamas as ‘genocide’ when it’s plainly no such thing.
• “Apprentice star Dr. Asif Munaf is suspended from the medical register” – The Apprentice star Dr Asif Munaf has been suspended by the General Medical Council over a string of antisemetic remarks just one week after the BBC dropped him, reports the Mail.
• “A sinister agenda down on the farm” – In TCW – Defending Freedom, Sally Beck says English farmers are in the cross hairs of shadowy bureaucrats pursuing a Net Zero agenda.
• “Guy Adams joins farmers’ fight against Mark Drakeford” – A game of ‘cat and mouse’ played out on the highways and byways of North Wales this week. The cats drove rather big tractors, reports the Mail’s Guy Adams.
• “Net Zero’s days are numbered” – Rupert Darwall in the Spectator predicts that the Net Zero target will be abandoned “sooner rather than later”.
• “Vegan food fans left disappointed as burger chain is forced to close” – The British fast-food chain, The Vurger Co, which used ingredients such as tempeh, soya and Beyond Meat to make its creations, has permanently closed its doors, says the Mail.
• “Record fines for 20mph speeding despite PM’s pledge to scrap zones” – The Times has found no reduction in tickets being handed out to motorists for breaching 20mph speeding limits, with the Met issuing one ticket for every four cars in London.
• “Mercedes-Benz chief vows to build petrol cars ‘well into’ 2030s” – The German car giant has watered down its targets for electric vehicle sales as demand slumps, reports the Telegraph.
• “Left-wing anarchist made plan to kill 50 politicians” – Student Jacob Graham, who said he wanted “to stand up for the working classes” and is a member of the Green Party, is convicted of preparing to murder 50 politicians, reports the Telegraph. Not just the Far Right, then.
• “We need to talk about eco-terrorism” – The anarchist terrorist who wanted to kill 50 politicians was also a fervent environmentalist says Fraser Myers in Spiked. Should we be worried about eco-terrorism?
• “Huge spike in cases of deadliest cancer” – Cancer experts have warned of a “frightening” explosion of pancreatic cancer rates among younger women with incidence, reports the Mail.
• “Fertility rate plunges to an all-time low” – The Office for National Statistics says the fertility rate – the average number of children a women has – in England and Wales slumped to 1.49 in 2022, says the Mail.
• “Vice to shut down website and sack hundreds of staff as free news model collapses” – More misery for Vice, the once mighty new media company brought low by the hubris of its owner, reports the Telegraph.
• “Why gaudy Vice was rejected by clean-living Generation Z” – Drugs, sex, and war zones: how the publisher’s provocative coverage led to its demise, according to the Telegraph.
• “Expect Google’s Gemini 2.0 to be even worse” – According to Daniel Kalder in UnHerd, the revamp of Gemini, supposedly less politically correct than the current one, will be even more woke.
• “Google’s push to lecture us on diversity goes beyond AI” – It’s not just its new AI that reveals Google’s woke agenda, says Douglas Murray in the New York Post.
• “Byline Times, Vorderman and Maitlis face threat of legal action from Dan Wootton” – Ex-GB News presenter Dan Wootton, having been told by two different police forces that they’re dropping their investigation of him, is now preparing to sue Byline Times, Carol Vorderman and Emily Maitlis for reporting the fact that he was under investigation, thereby ending his career.
• “Daily Mail publisher says it needs to buy the Telegraph to tackle Google’s power” – DMG Media says news publishers must consolidate to compete with Google and Meta, according to the Telegraph.
• “King formally removes CBE from ex-Post Office boss Paula Vennells” – The chief executive who ran the Post Office while it wrongly prosecuted sub-postmasters has forfeited her CBE after “bringing the honours system into disrepute”, says the Telegraph.
• “Former Tory MP Bob Stewart has racial abuse conviction quashed” – The MP for Beckenham was convicted of a racially aggravated public order offence last November for telling a protestor outside the Bahraini embassy to “go back to Bahrain”. But justice has prevailed and the conviction has been overturned by Southwark Crown Court, reports the Telegraph.
• “Police watchdog orders ‘lesbian nana’ officer to apologise” – A West Yorkshire Police officer has been accused of using “inappropriate” language while arresting a 16 year-old autistic girl who compared her to her “lesbian nana” and has been ordered to send the girl a letter of apology, says the Mail.
• “Killer who carried out sadistic murder claimed she he was a cat” – Scarlet Blake, the gender-confused man convicted of murdering a complete stranger and whom the mainstream media insist on calling ‘she’, at one point identified as a cat, reports the Mail.
• “The woke colonisation of London” – Does Trafalgar Square really need a tribute to transgender sex workers, asks Gareth Roberts in Spiked.
• “How the luxury beliefs of an educated elite erode society” – Whether attacking marriage, calling out white privilege or seeking to defund the police, the elite espouse ideas that confer status on them at little cost. But it’s the least privileged who suffer the effects, says Rob Henderson in the Times.
• “The Speaker of the House says the real threat to MPs come from ‘white fundamentalists’ and ‘far Right extremists” – Leo Kearse is unimpressed by Lindsay Hoyle’s cognitive dissonance.

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