News Round-Up

• “The man who changed British politics returns to the fray” – Nigel Farage has declared himself up for another scrap – and Sunak is the big loser, say Henry Bodkin and Robert Mendick in the Telegraph.
• “This is Nigel Farage’s finest hour: it will make the man” – Nigel Farage knows the Tories must not be allowed to continue in their current form and he is the only person who can force them to change, writes Matthew Goodwin in the Telegraph.
• “Nigel Farage’s election U-turn could be deadly for the Tories” – If Sunak thought he was out-manoeuvring Farage by calling an early election, it looks as if he failed, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Nigel Farage is a threat to Labour, too” – Keir Starmer risks underestimating the strength of feeling among many voters towards immigration, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “Reform will dent Tory vote – but writing was already on the wall” – As Farage announces his return, Reform’s consistent polling lends credibility to YouGov’s estimates of disastrous losses for the Conservatives, says John Curtice in the Times.
• “Farage’s return could be the lift Reform needs to top Tories in polls” – Farage’s decision to stand as an MP could help Reform overtake the Tories in polls, writes Daniel Martin in the Telegraph.
• “Rishi Sunak’s comeback plan just got a whole lot harder” – Labour is on course for a victory that will eclipse Tony Blair’s landslide in 1997, writes Steven Swinford in the Times.
• “‘Zero tolerance’ policing and tackling ‘woke madness’: Reform’s pledges at a glance” – From immigration to policing, Reform wants to make “tough decisions” about the future of the country, says Dominic Penna in the Telegraph.
• “Labour refuses to back Tory pledge to protect single-sex spaces” – Labour has refused to back the Conservatives’ election pledge to protect single-sex spaces by changing the Equality Act, reports the Telegraph.
• “Badenoch accuses BBC presenter of asking ‘trivial’ questions” – Kemi Badenoch has accused a BBC presenter of asking “trivial” and “unserious” questions during her first broadcast round of the General Election campaign, according to the Redditch Advertiser.
• “The problem with Kemi Badenoch’s transgender reforms” – In the Spectator, Iain Macwhirter has some questions regarding Kemi Badenoch’s Equality Act reforms.
• “Rishi could have protected women from trans madness. He chose not to” – The Conservatives had years to clarify the Equality Act and did nothing. They can’t pose as the party of common sense on gender now, says Kathleen Stock in the Telegraph.
• “Keir Starmer: an ungrateful beneficiary of Brexit” – Labour has profited from the U.K.’s departure from the EU, writes Richard Tuck in UnHerd. Starmer should be more grateful.
• “BBC pundit accused of antisemitism over ‘kids killers’ Gaza tweets” – A BBC cricket pundit has been accused of fanning antisemitism on social media after sharing antisemitic posts, including an image of Rishi Sunak sporting a Hitler moustache, reports the Times.
• “‘Is it fair? No. Is it morally right? Yes.’: parents on private school fee VAT plans” – In an unintentionally hilarious piece, Guardian readers belly ache about Labour’s plans to charge VAT on school fees.
• “WHO International Health Regulations” – In a frantic last minute rush, modified IHR were illegally approved by the World Health Assembly, says Dr. Robert W. Malone on his Substack.
• “Five questions for Fauci’s upcoming testimony” – In the Weekly lab leaker, Jim Haslam discusses Dr. Fauci’s testimony before a Congressional committee and poses five questions that should be put to him.
• “Pfizer/BioNTech C4591001 Trial – Audit Report” – The OpenVAET Substack team presents a reanalysis of the data and anomalies that have surfaced from the examination of the data from the Pfizer/BioNTech C4591001 trial.
• “The great taboo: Covid vaccination failings echo Infected Blood Scandal” – Parallels between the contaminated blood scandal and the Covid mass vaccination programme are too obvious to ignore, says Molly Kingsley on the UsForThem Substack.
• “Gain-of-function may explain bird flu jump to cows and humans” – Certain types of flu viruses that typically spread among birds are now causing infections in cows and humans, write Drs. Yuhong Dong and Xiaoxu Sean Lin in the Epoch Times.
• “The real winners” – Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson discuss GlaxoSmithKline’s legal woes.
• “Who is correct about content moderation in public heath?” – On Substack, Vinay Prasad covers the recent public spat between Elon Musk and AI researcher Yann LeCun.
• “There’s a very good reason Dominic Cummings didn’t last long in Whitehall” – The Civil Service preference for ‘generalists’ has led to a dearth of the technical skills needed to run the country, says Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
• “David Martin Jones, political theorist who argued that Islamic State, Hizbollah and Hamas are ‘death cults’ – obituary” – The Telegraph pays tribute to David Martin Jones, who has died aged 73, describing him as a maverick, conservative author and lecturer on political theory, militant Islamic movements, geopolitics and ‘culture wars’.
• “It feels like the social order is crumbling in Germany” – What Germany needs right now isn’t moral outrage but level-headed pragmatism, says Katja Hoyer in the Spectator.
• “Slovenia: the consequences of the double standards in Brussels” – In the European Conservative, Álvaro Peñas highlights the EU’s conspicuous silence as Slovenia’s leftist Government shuts down conservative media.
• “Global depopulation” – The depopulation crisis may be worse than people think, says the Naked Emperor on Substack.
• “J.K. Rowling accuses Labour of ‘complacency and indifference’ towards women” – J.K. Rowling has accused Alastair Campbell of revealing that Labour is “indifferent” towards women after he accused the Tories of attempting to “weaponise trans rights”, according to the Express.
• “A monumental failure” – Not only are woke warriors deciding which statues stay intact, they are now dictating which statues can be put up, says Peter Harris in the New Conservative.
• “BBC under fire over D-Day mapping blunder on Antiques Roadshow” – The Antiques Roadshow has come under fire for confusing Weymouth, where more than 100,000 men gathered ahead of the D-Day Normandy invasion, with Poole, according to the Telegraph.
• “‘Israel… which is still an Islam country, right?’” – On X, Lady Maga questions whether Queers for Palestine really understand what they’re supporting. Spoiler alert: No, they don’t.

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