News Round-Up

• “Anti-LTN party backed by Florence Pugh’s father wins three seats in Oxford” – Grassroots, anti-LTN political group capitalises on backlash against road chaos in Oxford’s council election, according to the Telegraph.
• “Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after failing to bring correct ID” – The former Prime Minister was turned away from his local polling station because he didn’t have any ID – a rule he introduced – but was eventually allowed to vote, reports the Telegraph.
• “Changing leader will not save the Conservatives: the two-party system can’t be bucked” – The Tory obsession with replacing Rishi Sunak blinds them to the fact that voters are simply fed up, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “Rebel Tory MPs ‘give up and go to the pub’ as plot to oust Sunak fails” – Despite results that left the Conservatives on track to lose 500 council seats, rebels admitted there’s no hope of replacing Sunak before the election, says the Mail.
• “‘He owns this now’: Tory rebels lay down their arms” – The Prime Minister has kept his head above water, with fractious colleagues backing off for now, reports the Times.
• “Voter apathy will unleash a Labour government far more dangerous than many realise” – Starmer’s cautious approach appears to be paying off, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph. But make no mistake: he is a socialist in centrist’s clothing.
• “Muslim vote collapse is a major warning sign for Starmer” – Labour enjoys solid night of local election results, but ongoing Gaza issue threatens to drag the party down in polls, says the Telegraph.
• “Why won’t widower get payout after wife’s AstraZeneca Covid jab death?” – BBC presenter Lisa Shaw died from complications caused by the AZ Covid vaccine, according to the Mail. But her husband isn’t entitled to any compensation.
• “Florida bans of lab-grown meat: ‘global elite’s dystopian bug food’” – Several U.S. states, including Florida, are moving to ban lab-grown meat, reports the Mail.
• “Inside the bizarre world of the ‘phalgina’” – So-called ‘phalginas’, a term made of the words phallus and vagina, are offered by multiple clinics in the US for ‘non-binary’, says the Mail.
• “Second Boeing whistleblower dies in two months” – Joshua Dean, who warned of manufacturing defects in Boeing’s 737 Max, developed pneumonia following a ‘fast-moving’ infection, making him the second Boeing whistleblower to die in two months, reports the Telegraph.
• “Global temperatures and reduced cloud cover” – We can debate the reasons for less cloud cover, but generally speaking less cloud/more sunshine leads to higher temperatures, says Paul Homewood in Watts Up With That?
• “Laurence Fox under police investigation over ‘upskirting’ photo” – An intimate photograph of broadcaster Narinder Kaur, taken by a paparazzi, was posted by Laurence Fox on his social media account, prompting a police investigation, according to the Telegraph.
• “How the feud between J.K. Rowling and her Harry Potter stars turned ugly” – The relationship started out well between the author and the young actors cast in the films, reports the Telegraph. So why and how did it grow sour?
• “Pro-Palestinian students target parents at Cambridge open days” – As Gaza protests continue on American and British university campuses, Jewish students have accused Cambridge university administrators of lacking ‘moral courage’, says the Times.
• “The police have officially started investigating ‘non-crime’” – Andrew Doyle looks at the phenomenon of non-crime hate incidents and marvels at this Orwellian concept that has been embraced by police forces across the United Kingdom.

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