News Round-Up

• “Rishi Sunak backs J.K. Rowling’s right to free speech” – Prime Minister Rishi Sunak backed J.K. Rowling after she dared police to arrest her under Scotland’s controversial new hate crime laws, reports the Mail.
• “Police Scotland receives more than 3,000 complaints under new hate crime laws” – More than 3,000 complaints have been made to Police Scotland under the SNP’s new hate crime laws, following warnings that the force would be overwhelmed, according to the Telegraph.
• “Sturgeon ‘blocked changes’ to Scotland’s hate crime laws” – Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of blocking changes to the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act that would have protected feminists’ freedom of speech on trans issues, reports the Telegraph.
• “Yousaf’s ‘hate crime’ laws have turned Scotland into a nation of snitches – Stalin would be proud” – It’s only a matter of time before the SNP’s sinister new act will be used against Police Scotland and Edinburgh’s own government, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “Polish Government proposes prison for LGBT defamation” – The Polish Government, in an apparent attempt to out-SNP the SNP, has published a draft bill which would make offensive comments about LGBT people punishable by up to three years in prison, according to Brussels Signal.
• “Tory faction plots ‘Truss-style’ leader if party loses General Election” – The Popular Conservatism group has launched a plan to install a ‘Liz Truss-style’ candidate as the next Tory leader, after a presumed General Election loss, reports the Times.
• “Tory grassroots group launches campaign to oust ‘wet’ MPs” – Conservative Post, a website linked to Lord Cruddas, has launched a campaign to oust ‘wet’ MPs and move the party to the Right, according to the Telegraph.
• “Downing Street blames weather for surge in migrant Channel crossings” – Downing Street has blamed the improving weather for the surge in small boats crossing the Channel this year – despite claiming a previous fall in crossings was not linked to the weather, says the Telegraph.
• “Nobody has a plan to stop the boats, but it’s Sunak who will pay the price” – Deporting a few migrants to Rwanda will not end the pull factors encouraging the Channel crossings, writes Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
• “Muslims have won power battle between prison gangs, says hero of London Bridge attack” – The convicted murderer turned hero of the 2019 London Bridge terror attack claims Muslim gangs are altering prison power dynamics through violence and religious conversions, according to the New English Review.
• “Police still recording petty rows as hate crimes” – Police are continuing to record petty misbehaviour as ‘non-crime hate incidents’, despite a change to the statutory code of practice regarding the recording and retention of NCHIs, reports the Telegraph.
• “Trying to tell the truth about Covid” – On X, Dr. Claire Craig presents a video touching on the spiritual side of what has happened since 2020.
• “Two weeks to flatten became eight months to change the election” – U.S. voting rules were relaxed during the pandemic, justified under the guise of science but driven by the desire for a different electoral outcome, says the Brownstone Institute in a leading article.
• “France creates ‘national mobile force’ as radicalised students threaten schools” – France’s Education Minister has announced the deployment of a “national mobile force” to try to keep schools safe from radicalised students, reports Brussels Signal.
• “German intelligence chief defends efforts to police the ‘thought and speech patterns’ of citizens, outlines the novel offence of ‘systematic delegitimisation of state conduct’” – The German Interior Ministry continues to defend its controversial and widely criticised plans to restrict the speech, travel and economic activity of political dissidents, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
• “Excluding election-winning populists merely acts as rocket fuel for their poll ratings – this is what Portugal’s Luis Montenegro is about to learn” – Don’t be surprised if Chega becomes Portugal’s leading centre-Right party in the near future, remarks Henry Olsen in Brussels Signal.
• “Nobody is buying into the Net Zero madness” – There’s no consensus that climate policy needs to hurt the living standards of ordinary Britons, writes John Redwood in the Telegraph.
• “Team GB vows to stick with traditional Union flag on 2024 Olympic kit after merchandise backlash” – Team GB athletes will wear the traditional Union Jack at the Olympics this summer, following a backlash over the team’s pink and purple redesign, reports LBC.
• “German football fans barred from personalising kits over ‘Nazi symbolism’” – German football fans have been blocked from buying kits for the national team customised with the number 44 because of a resemblance to the infamous SS ‘lightning bolts’ symbol, says the BBC.
• “Sharron Davies claims ‘hundreds of males are stealing from females in sport’” – Olympic medallist Sharron Davies claims “hundreds of males are stealing from females in sport” after a trans cyclist won a bronze medal in a U.S. race, according to the Mail.
• “Rates of suicide attempts doubled after gender-reassignment surgery: study” – According to a peer-reviewed study in the Journal of Urology, attempted suicide rates among people who identified as transgender more than doubled after receiving a vaginoplasty, reports the Epoch Times.
• “How the American Psychological Association is harming society” – The American Psychological Association’s new plan, focused on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, threatens the credibility and objectivity of the profession, warns Prof. Jon Mills in the New English Review.
• “Oregon recriminalises hard drugs after huge increase in overdose deaths” – Oregon has U-turned on a short-lived liberal policy that decriminalised the possession of hard drugs, reports Fox News.
• “British universities in 2024” – A video circulating on X depicts an Orwellian maths class, where one plus one equals ‘multiculturalism’.

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