News Round-Up

• “Three Green candidates withdraw in racist comments row” – Three candidates for the Greens are no longer standing at the election amid suggestions they made “inappropriate comments” (i.e., antisemitic comments), reports the Telegraph.
• “The staggering ignorance of the ‘pro-Palestine’ protesters” – Young, idealistic activists seem blissfully unaware that they are marching alongside Islamists, says Potkin Azarmehr in Spiked.
• “Please remember, terrorism is evil” – Worrying numbers of people romanticise the brutality of those perceived as “oppressed”, writes Marcus Walker in the Critic.
• “Science under pressure: Restoring public confidence” – The Free Speech Union hosts Tracey Brown, Director of Sense about Science, and our own Toby Young, General Secretary of the FSU, to debate how to restore public trust in science.
• “Open letter to Tracey Brown, Director of Sense About Science” – On the HART Substack, Co-Chair Dr. Clare Craig has written an open letter to the head of Sense About Science, challenging some of her remarks at the FSU event.
• “A rethink on education” – In the New Conservative, Duke Mastell discusses the crucial role education plays in shaping a nation’s character and the current state of education in Britain.
• “The root cause of crime” – To say criminals are “justice-impacted individuals” is an implicit lie based on a false philosophy, says Theodore Dalrymple in Taki’s Magazine.
• “Taiwan separatists will be ‘crushed to pieces’, warns China” – At a recent defence summit, China warned Taiwan separatists that they will be “crushed to pieces”, according to the Telegraph.
• “Tories to amend Equality Act to make ‘biological sex’ protected characteristic” – The Conservatives have vowed to change the Equality Act to ensure “biological sex” is a protected characteristic, reports Sky News.
• “Gary Lineker and the problem with celebrity boycotts” – Self-regarding social justice campaigners are primarily concerned with themselves and less interested in the facts, says Patrick West in the Spectator.
• “Reinstate David Campanale: election candidate deselected for holding Christian views” – A Lib Dem election candidate has been deselected for holding Christian views. You are invited to sign a petition asking Ann Glaze, Chair of London Liberal Democrats, to reinstate David Campanale as the Lib Dem candidate in Sutton and Cheam.
• “Idaho bar declarers June ‘Heterosexual Awesomeness Month’” – An Idaho bar has opted to counter LGBTQ Pride Month by celebrating ‘Heterosexual Awesomeness Month’ during the month of June, saying that without heterosexuals “none of us would be here”, reports the Mail.
• “More than half of all new American jobs in the last five years are in just two states” – Of all the jobs added in the last five years, since before the pandemic, Texas and Florida are carrying the load. California and New York are at the bottom of the heap. Almost like governing conservatively means that you get better outcomes, says Commodore Vanderbilt in Not the Bee.
• “If Trump goes to jail there will be a racial civil war” – HBO Real Time host Bill Maher predicts that if Donald Trump is sent to prison it will start a race war in America, according to Modernity.
• “Poll: Trump and Biden are tied in Virginia and it’s not even supposed to be a swing state” – Roanoke College has released a new poll from the Commonwealth of Virginia showing Donald Trump tied with President Biden. Biden won Virginia by double digits last time around, says Harris Rigby in Not the Bee.
• “Rupert Murdoch, 93, marries fifth wife biologist Elena Zhukova, 67” – Rupert Murdoch has got married for the fifth time after tying the knot with Elena Zhukova in a secretive ceremony at his Californian estate, reports the Mail. 
• “The Left are eating their own” – Free Palestine protestors clashed with members of the LGBTQ+ community at the Philly Pride Parade yesterday. Where are Queers For Palestine when you need them?

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