News Round-Up

• “Three cops injured and 40 people arrested at pro-Palestine protest in Westminster which saw officer ‘struck by bottle’” – Three police officers were injured and 40 people have been arrested following a pro-Palestinian protest in London, reports LBC.
• “Labour chaos as Keir Starmer says no election ban on Diane Abbott run” – Keir Starmer has denied veteran leftie Diane Abbott had been blocked from standing as an MP amid a major backlash against the Labour leadership, says the Mail.
• “Keir Starmer has fired the starting gun on the next Labour civil war” – The Diane Abbott saga is threatening to deal the Labour leader a serious reputational blow to his authority, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “The tragedy of Diane Abbott” – The moral fall of Diane Abbott tells a broader story about the moral decay of the Left, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
• “Prepare for the dissolution of Britain as a nation state if Starmer wins” – The Labour Party is now a fanatical believer in the supremacy of ‘international law’ over elected U.K. governments, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “Nigel Farage hints he’s open to an election deal with the Tories” – Nigel Farage has hinted that he’s open to a General Election deal with the Tories, as Rishi Sunak faces a wipeout on July 4th, reports the Mail.
• “Farage finally faces up to Islam” – It’s taken Nigel Farage a long time – some might say an inordinate amount of time – but he’s finally gotten around to addressing Britain’s Muslim problem, says Frank Haviland in the New Conservative.
• “Jess Phillips calls on Prime Minister to deselect Liz Truss over interview on ‘hateful platform’” – Jess Phillips is urging Rishi Sunak to deselect Liz Truss as a Conservative candidate over an upcoming interview on Carl Benjamin’s Lotus Eaters platform, reports the Telegraph.
• “Iain Dale to step down from LBC to put himself forward to be selected as a candidate for MP in the General Election” – LBC’s long-serving presenter Iain Dale is to step down from the station to put himself forward to be selected as a candidate for MP in the upcoming General Election.
• “The end of the Conservatives” – Even the Right is praying for the Tories destruction, says Mary Harrington in UnHerd.
• “Evening Standard scraps daily print paper as it blames work from home” – The Evening Standard is to stop printing a daily newspaper, blaming working from home and increased WiFi on the London Underground, according to the BBC.
• “Excess mortality in Cyprus during the COVID-19 epidemic” – New findings raise serious concerns regarding the potential impact of the vaccination campaign on mortality, writes Joel Smalley on Substack.
• “Australia calls for urgent roadmap to finalise ‘binding’ WHO pandemic treaty” – The Australian Health Minister is not taking the news of the stalled international pandemic treaty lying down, says Rebekah Barnett on her Substack.
• “Tedros must face reality” – We are facing a mass denial of reality by the WHO and its leadership, writes Dr. David Bell for the Brownstone Institute.
• “The U.S. is not an honest broker” – On Substack, Dr. Meryl Nash gives three examples of how the U.S. avoids the traps it sets for others.
• “We welcome Chris Cuomo’s changing stance” – Ex-CNN anchor Chris Cuomo’s willingness to stand corrected is a good thing and should be graciously accepted, even by people who dislike him, says John Leake on the Courageous Discourse Substack.
• “Number of households who have never worked hits 12-year high” – Official data shows that the number of households in the U.K. that have never worked has hit a 12-year high, reports the Telegraph.
• “Young people would learn more from National Service than any university” – Labour was wrong to dismiss a new National Service programme out of hand – it could be transformative, says Iain Duncan Smith in the Telegraph.
• “How Britain’s biggest benefits scam was exposed by lone detective” – The U.K.’s biggest ever benefit scam was exposed by a lone detective in a quiet Balkan city after he saw the fraudsters “living like barons”, reports the Mail. 
• “John Swinney under pressure to ditch SNP aversion to North Sea oil” – The SNP’s Westminster leader says the party should scrap Nicola Sturgeon’s opposition to new oil and gas drilling, reports the Telegraph. 
• “Shell ‘planning offshore wind job cull’” – Shell is reportedly preparing to cut staff from its offshore wind business as part of a strategy to move away from the renewable energy sector, says Renews.
• “Over 95% Scottish secondary schools allow children to self-identify gender” – An investigation has found that more than 95% of Scottish secondary schools are telling children they can self-identify, reports the Telegraph. 
• “Three French drag queens are carrying the country’s Olympic torch” – Jean Genet would likely have objected to the normalising of subversion in France, says John Leake on the Courageous Discourse Substack.
• “The EU is coming for ‘hate speech’” – The European Commission is considering including ‘hate speech’ in a list of serious bloc-wide crimes, writes Freddie Attenborough in the Critic.
• “Pre-bunking the trend toward pre-bunking” – On Substack, El Gato Malo takes aim at Ursula von der Leyen’s proposal to “pre-bunk” misinformation before it spreads.
• “BMJ slaps down Scientific American’s Laura Helmuth for unscientific trans activism” – On Substack, Paul D. Thacker discusses a recent BMJ investigation revealing that the Editor-in-Chief of Scientific American promoted transgender care for children despite evidence of serious harm.
• “Jonathan Haidt’s Anxious Generation” – Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt returns to his academic specialty with a hair-raising warning about the digital age, says Matt Taibi on his Racket News Substack.
• “Google’s new AI tool is telling users to put glue on their pizza” – Google’s new AI Overviews is returning bizarre and dangerous suggestions to users, reports the Mail.
• “North Korea sends balloons carrying excrement to the south as a ‘gift’” – North Korea has sent hundreds of balloons carrying trash and excrement across the border to South Korea, calling them “gifts of sincerity”, according to Reuters.
• “Diane Abbott – Fan of Chairman Mao” – The under-fire Labour MP does her best to defend Chairman Mao on This Week and is deservedly ridiculed by Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo.

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