News Round-Up

• “Police delete ‘hate incident’ from Tory MP’s record after trans Twitter row with Greens” – According to the Telegraph, a Tory deputy chairman has had a ‘non-crime hate incident’ scrubbed from her record by police following a challenge by the Free Speech Union.
• “Israel admits it may not be able to destroy Hamas now U.S. has turned its back” – According to senior officials, Israel’s military campaign in Gaza faces failure after the U.S. “turned its back on Israel”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Kamala Harris is Hamas’s useful idiot” – The Vice President is a major liability for the Biden campaign – and is harming relations with Israel, says Nile Gardiner in the Telegraph.
• “Murdered baby Finley Boden was failed by social services during lockdown” – A damning report has found that a 10 month-old baby, killed by his drug-addled parents, was failed by care agencies who were hampered by Covid lockdown restrictions, reports Sky News.
• “DNA found integrated in cancer cell line” – DNA integration associated with the modified mRNA shots is an issue, says Jessica Rose on Substack, and may be linked to cancer.
• “‘We published an op-ed on the unprecedented rise in cancer among young people and questioned the link to mRNA vaccines’” – On Substack, journalist Mary Beth Preiffer and Dr. Pierre Kory argue that the data strongly implicates the Covid mRNA vaccine as the main cause of a spike in cancer among the young.
• “The little-known bacteria behind the rising rates of cancer in under 40s” – Ultra-processed foods, alcohol and oral sex are among the possible factors for the sharp rise in cancer in younger people, writes David Cox in the Telegraph.
• “Poll woe for Rishi Sunak as Labour “99%” certain to win and MPs quit” – Britain’s foremost polling guru has said there is a “99% chance” of Labour winning the next election, according to the Mail.
• “The right track: has British conservatism lost its way?” – The Danube Institute provides the transcript of Lord Frost’s recent speech in Budapest highlighting the parlous state of British conservatism.
• “Record number of migrants cross Channel in first three months of year” – Some 4,644 migrants have crossed the English Channel to the U.K. so far in 2024, reports the Telegraph.
• “Clapham chemical attacker given Muslim burial despite conversion to Christianity” – Clapham chemical attacker Abdul Ezedi was given a Muslim funeral and burial, despite claiming to have converted to Christianity, says the Standard.
• “Why did a judge fall for Abdul Ezedi’s lie that he was a Christian?” – Why did asylum judge William O’Hanlon ignore Abdul Ezedi’s sex crimes, discount his multiple documented lies about his background and overlook the fact that he had failed the Home Office’s standard Christianity test? asks Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
• “French headmaster resigns after receiving death threats in veil row” – The head teacher of a Parisian school has resigned following death threats after he asked a Muslim pupil to remove her face covering, reports the BBC.
• “Police reassess claims Angela Rayner broke electoral law over ex-council house” – The police are ‘reassessing’ their decision not to investigate allegations made against Angela Rayner over her living arrangements after receiving a complaint, according to Sky News.
• “Landlords to be banned from raising rent under radical SNP crackdown” – Landlords could be banned from raising rents for as long as five years under radical SNP plans, reports the Telegraph. Did no one in the SNP study economics at university?
• “Could police have recorded your name in deeply sinister secret log?” – In Scotland, you could be reported to the police for a hate crime by someone you’ve never met, warns Graham Grant for the Scottish Mail.
• “Police Scotland blacklist of ‘hate incidents’ threatens people’s job prospects” – A secret police catalogue of ‘hate incidents’ could destroy job prospects as the information can be disclosed to potential employers, reports the Mail.
• “The SNP is turning Scotland into a police state” – We should be much more frightened of Humza Yousaf’s Hate Crime Act, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph. It risks undermining the fundamental principle of innocent until proven guilty.
• “On ‘hate’, ‘disinformation’ and the ever-expanding, ever metastasising establishment campaign to restrict free expression in the West” – On Substack, Eugyppius takes aim at Germany’s ludicrous plan to “combat Right-wing extremism”.
• “Europe’s gas use to surge despite Net Zero promises” – Europe plans to build enough new gas power stations to supply 60 million homes despite a target of decarbonising electricity grids by the middle of the 2030s, reports the Telegraph.
• “The EU’s Net Zero retreat is gathering steam” – Across Europe, 72 gigawatts-worth of gas plants are being built, as nations realise you cannot power a national grid on solar and wind alone, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
• “Ofgem is frogmarching Britain into energy rationing oblivion” – Surge pricing stands to deepen the divide between the country’s haves and have nots, warns Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
• “The smart meters scandal is about to explode in our faces” – If ITV is looking for a follow-up to its hit drama about the Post Office drama, it should not look further than the unfolding smart meter fiasco, suggests Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Drivers slam Oxford Council’s plan to charge SUVs more for parking” – Drivers have slammed “bizarre” and “grossly unfair” plans by Green Party councillors to charge SUV and large vehicle owners more to park in Oxford, reports the Mail.
• “‘There is no climate crisis’” – According to biologist Jennifer Marohasy, climate change is a natural phenomenon and CO₂ has nothing to do with it, writes Hannes Sara on Substack. Such claims will get you cancelled though, as she knows from experience.
• “U.S. accuses China of distorting Net Zero costs with cheap imports” – The U.S. Treasury Secretary says China’s increased production of green technologies “hurts American firms and workers, as well as firms and workers around the world”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Joe Biden’s climate plan is a threat to democracy” – Biden’s climate policies increasingly reject the idea of popular consent, says Joel Kotkin in UnHerd.
• “Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland given ‘white supremacy’ trigger warnings” – Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland are among a collection of children’s stories that have been given a trigger warning for ‘white supremacy’ by York St. John University, reports the Mail.
• “The Positive Legacy of Empire” – Decades after independence, ex-colonies are still benefiting from the legacy of colonial rule, writes Lipton Matthews on the Aporia Substack.
• “‘Why Reform U.K. have lost my vote’” – On Substack, Nick Dixon links to his recent appearance on The Lotus Eaters alongside Beau Dade, who had just received news that Reform U.K. had dropped him from their roster of candidates following a hit piece by leftist activists Hope Not Hate.
• “ESG by any other name would smell just as bad” – The fight between pro and anti-ESG forces may just be beginning, says Tilak Doshi in Forbes. But rationality might prevail.
• “NHS workers asked if they are ‘greyromantic’, ‘abrosexual’ or ‘endosex’” – NHS workers have been asked if they identify as ‘greyromantic’, ‘abrosexual’ or ‘endosex’ in an LGBTQIA network survey, according to the Telegraph.
• “Australian Government’s attempt to censor trans post draws heat” – A threatening notice issued by the online safety regulator has brought renewed attention to Australia’s heavy-handed approach to censorship and its extreme gender affirming care laws, writes Rebekah Barnett on Substack.
• “Prosecutors seek two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for Luis Rubiales” – Spanish prosecutors have announced they are seeking a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for the country’s former FA chief Luis Rubiales over the infamous ‘Kissgate’ scandal, according to the Mail.
• “I’d take a tongue for £85k” – On GB News, Simon Evans, Steve Allen and Francis Foster react to the news that the former head of the Spanish FA will have to pay the footballer he kissed £85,000 in compensation.

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