News Round-Up

• “Furious Tory MPs ‘working on plot to call off General Election’ by replacing Sunak” – Conservative MPs are said to be working on a plot to call off the General Election by replacing Rishi Sunak as Tory leader, according to GB News.
• “There are just 1,000 hours to save Britain” – Rishi Sunak must expose Labour’s socialist agenda and give conservatives clear new reasons to back him, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “Rishi Sunak’s summer election call is suicide for the Tories” – Calling an early election is an admission of defeat, says the Spectator in a leading article.
• “Voters must now face up to the reality of a Labour Government” – A vote for Labour would be a catastrophe for Britain and for Brexit, warns David Frost in the Telegraph.
• “Turn down that bloody music” – Whatever you think of Rishi Sunak’s Government, the calling of a general election is an historic occasion – one that shouldn’t be ruined by narcissistic prats, says Sebastian Milbank in the Critic.
• “Rishi insisted on braving the rain for election speech” – For a man taking the biggest gamble of his career, Rishi Sunak did not look lucky, remarks Jason Groves in the Mail.
• “Soaked Sunak joins the list of most cringeworthy political photo-ops” – The Mail has gone through the last 50 years of British politics to bring you some of the most embarrassing political moments.
• “Labour takes down election campaign video after awkward mistake” – Labour has been forced to take down a video launching its general election campaign after it was spoiled by a spelling mistake, reports the Telegraph.
• “Rewarding fascism” – The recognition of the State of Palestine is virtue-signalling at its most dangerous and dumb, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “The butcher is dead. What comes next for Iran?” – The unexpected death of the Iranian President may be the vent that allows a volcano of rage to explode, writes Reuel Marc Gerecht in the Free Press.
• “Muslim mushrooms” – In the New Conservative, Dr. Roger Watson discusses the challenges anyone faces when talking about the Gaza conflict with Muslims.
• “Overreporting COVID-19 as an underlying cause of death inflated mortality numbers during pandemic” – A new study suggests COVID-19 was reported more frequently than it should have been as an underlying cause of death, inflating Covid mortality and attributing deaths from other causes to the virus, reports the Epoch Times.
• “New Jersey gym owner who defied Covid shutdown cleared of all charges after years-long legal battle” – A New Jersey gym owner who defied the state’s Covid restrictions was cleared of more than 80 charges relating to a series of pandemic-era confrontations with police, says the NY Post.
• “T-cells, cancer and immunity” – On his YouTube channel, Dr. John Campbell sits down with Professors Angus Dalgleish and Robert Clancy to discuss T-cells, cancer and immunity.
• “Horizon, maternity, infected blood – what other scandals await corrupt Britain?” – The major scandals, which seem to come along with numbing frequency – from Grenfell to the Horizon horror show to the infected blood calamity – all spring fundamentally from the belief that ordinary people don’t count, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “Foreign Office HQ is where British interests go to die” – Standing in silence in the UN for the death of the President of Iran has to be one of the Foreign Office’s lowest points, laments Ben Wallace in the Telegraph. But he has some other candidates for that honour.
• “Killing the good Samaritans” – In the face of monstrous violence, we are losing control of our public spaces, warns Sebastian Milbank in the Critic.
• “A cap on migrants is our only chance” – Migration Watch, the independent organisation that monitors migrant flow in and out of the U.K., has set out the dire consequences of unchecked mass migration into this country, writes Alp Mehmet in TCW.
• “Dutch lawyer faces prosecution for social media post slamming mass migration” – According to Modernity, a Dutch conservative female lawyer is facing charges of “racism” and “inciting hatred” for signal-boosting a viral video depicting a white boy being assaulted and thrown onto a railway track by a group of migrants.
• “Supermarkets urge against panic buying over Government guidance” – Supermarkets are urging against panic buying after the Government launched a ‘preppers’ website, warning families to gather an “emergency kit” for use in a crisis, reports the Mail.
• “More than half the world cannot speak freely, report finds” – A new report on freedom of expression reveals that half the world’s population cannot freely speak their mind, says the Guardian.
• “The real carbon footprint of electric cars: part one” – The real carbon footprint of electric cars is far greater than we’ve been told – even greater than the carbon footprint of wet cars, writes James Edward Kamis in Climate Change Dispatch.
• “Ireland’s Social Democrats call to ban ‘best before’ dates on food” – Ireland’s Social Democrats party are arguing for ‘Best before’ dates on food products to be banned to help tackle climate change, according to Gript.
• “New paper finds tropical storm frequency linked largely to oceanic cycles” – Alarmists like to claim that an unusually active tropical cyclone season is due to man-made global warming, but it has more to do with natural oceanic cycles, says Pierre Gosselin in Climate Change Dispatch.
• “‘Pro-paedophile’ activist group celebrates as Germany decriminalises child porn possession” – According to Reduxx, Germany has passed a bill that downgrades the offence for possession of child sexual abuse materials to a misdemeanor.
• “Scottish Green Party backs transgender candidate ‘Sophie sparkles’ in upcoming elections” – The Scottish Green Party is backing a trans-identifying male candidate with a disturbing social media history in the upcoming parliamentary elections, reports Reduxx.
• “No man’s land” – In the New Conservative, Frank Haviland offers his unique perspective on the appointment of Britain’s first female deputy head of the military.
• “In defence of the right to addictions” – Paternalists should stop masquerading as defenders of liberty, says Charles Amos in the Critic.
• “Tatler’s Princess of Wales portrait is intolerably bad” – Tatler’s new cover image – an ‘exclusive’ painting of the Princess of Wales by British-Zambian artist Hannah Uzor – shows no flicker of resemblance to its subject, writes Alastair Sooke in the Telegraph. He’s not kidding.
• “The Cold War may be over, but NatCons and FreeCons still need each other” – The 20th Century conservative movement was always an alloy of historically separate parts. But the conditions that united it – opposition to socialism – have not disappeared, says Daniel Hannan in Conservative Home.
• “Trump would be no dark age of neo-Jacksonian Euro-phobia” – A renewed Trump administration will be perfectly amenable to working out a new and mutually satisfactory relationship with Europe, writes Conrad Black in Brussels Signal.
• “A ‘cisgender’ shadow ban on X is anti-free speech” – If Elon Musk really wants to be a free speech hero, he can’t keep making exceptions for things that hurt his feelings, says Brad Polumbo in UnHerd.
• “They hate our country” – A meme on X nails why you’ll end up with the same shit sandwich whoever you vote for in the next General Election.

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