News Round-Up

• “Anger, denials and apathy over Tory ‘plots’ to oust Rishi Sunak” – In the Times, Steven Swinford identifies the moment of maximum danger for the PM as immediately after the May local elections.
• “Kemi Badenoch dismisses speculation about ousting Rishi Sunak” – The Business Secretary says that the “small minority” of Tory MPs talking about replacing the PM should “stop it”, according to the BBC.
• “Mordaunt could lose seat – so stick with Sunak, say PM’s allies” – Penny Mordaunt is at risk of losing her seat at the next election, according to current polling – an argument allies of Rishi Sunak are using to warn against a leadership change, reports the Telegraph.
• “Penny Mordaunt is a red herring only ‘Howard’s Way’ could save the Tories” – The prospectus Michael Howard put before the country in 2005 would sweep the board two decades later. But this generation of Tory MPs will never offer us that, says Patrick O’Flynn on Substack.
• “March towards the guns, Ben Wallace tells Tory MPs” – The former Defence Secretary says it is “too late” to replace Rishi Sunak and it is time for Conservative MPs to “march towards the sound of the guns” and “get on with it”, reports the Telegraph. Into the valley of death rode the 348…
• “Netanyahu says Israel won’t accept Gaza peace deal” – The Israeli PM says the country won’t accept a Gaza peace deal that leaves Israel “weak” and “unable to defend itself” against hostile neighbours, according to the Mail.
• “The future of the lab leak theory” – Now that a lab leak seems all but certain, what can be learnt from a deeper enquiry? A lot, says Dr. Jonathan Latham in Independent Science News.
• “Migration surge drives London population to new record” – London’s population has surged to a new record high after a sharp rise in migration and a reversal of the Covid-era ‘race for space’, reports the Telegraph.
• “Home Office ‘wastes millions’ converting Dambusters base into asylum camp” – The Home Office has been accused of wasting tens of millions of pounds on converting the Dambusters’ former base into an asylum camp without a single migrant being housed on it, says the Telegraph.
• “‘Multiculturalism’ is damaging our society. There is only one way to stop it” – It was foolish to think we could integrate so many people from different cultures in so little time. We must reduce immigration – and fast, warns Ben Habib in the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s private school tax raid ‘could cost taxpayer £1.6 billion a year’” – A new report suggests Labour’s private school tax raid could cost the taxpayer £1.6 billion a year if it forces a quarter of pupils into the state sector, reports the Telegraph.
• “Humza’s Hate Crime Act is an authoritarian mess” – The Mail’s Stephen Daisley reacts to the chilling new law which aims to police what Scots say in their own homes.
• “German domestic intelligence services target political dissidents considered guilty of ‘delegitimising’ the state in yet another ominous development reminiscent of the DDR” – We were always told that, in the West, unlike in totalitarian countries, you can criticise your government and your politicians all you like. In Germany, that’s no longer the case, says Eugyppius on Substack.
• “Cambridge university halts donations from fossil fuel groups” – The University of Cambridge will halt funding from fossil fuel companies – totalling £19.7 million from BP and Shell between 2016 and 2023 in research funding – following a campaign from its students and academics, according to the FT.
• “97% of scientists agree climate change is manmade… or do they?” – On Substack, Mr. Ed takes a wrecking ball to the 97% climate change myth.
• “BBC ‘should stop straying from Agatha Christie’s storylines’” – Award-winning author and Agatha Christie expert Andrew Wilson says the BBC has committed a number of offences against her original work, according to the Mail.
• “Is enjoying the countryside racist?” – Taxpayer money is no longer merely being used to enable wokery, but to incentivise it, says Tom Jones in CapX.
• “Cambridge University doesn’t need DEI” – Affirmative action is an affront to meritocracy, writes Prof. David Abulafia in UnHerd.
• “Will Keir Starmer legalise euthanasia?” – On the latest episode of The Current Thing podcast, Nick Dixon sits down with Rev. Dr. Jamie Franklin to discuss Starmer’s push for euthanasia, Sunak’s spiritually bereft woolly liberalism and the benefits of aristocracy over meritocracy.
• “France could introduce ‘hair discrimination’ law in the workplace” – The French Parliament will debate a proposed law tackling racist “hair discrimination” in the workplace, according to the Telegraph.
• “Are Hamas misunderstood?” – Performing at London’s Comedy Unleashed, Andrew Doyle unravels the true meaning behind such terms as ‘jihad’, ‘intifada’ and ‘from the river to the sea’.

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