News Round-Up

• “Reform wants the Tories destroyed” – Reform are looking for their pound of flesh from a Conservative Party they believe has gone awry and reneged on principle, writes Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
• “Sunak’s early election could be the most disastrous political decision in a generation” – Nigel Farage has caught the public mood, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Telegraph.
• “The Tories are teetering on the edge of the abyss” – The Conservative Party is running out of options. “Winning from the centre” must never be tried again, writes David Frost in the Telegraph.
• “Wales is quietly humiliating Starmer’s Labour” – The last thing Keir Starmer needs is to draw attention to his party’s dreadful record in Wales since devolution, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph. So let’s do that.
• “Britain is an anachronism as the world goes Right” – The rest of the world is going Right. Only this country, thanks to the historic incompetency of the Conservative Party, will be giving the Left another go, writes Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
• “Jewish chaplain who received torrent of death threats flees Britain” – A Jewish university chaplain who was forced into hiding over death threats has slammed the institution for not protecting him and his family, reports the Mail. 
• “Syrian father ‘murders his 18 year-old daughter in Holland’” – The Mail reports that a Syrian refugee, who fled to the Netherlands, has confessed to murdering his 18 year-old daughter in an honour killing.
• “Lockdown was meant to save lives – but instead it’s put the future of mankind at risk” – Covid has led to a generation of men with sluggish sperm – we need to take proper steps to revitalise our virility, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Anthony Fauci has made a mockery of science” – America’s Covid doctor discounted all the evidence against social distancing and lockdowns, writes Cory Franklin in Spiked.
• “Argentina’s President Javier Milei loves being the skunk at the garden party” – In the Free Press, Bari Weiss sits down with the world’s first libertarian head of state.
• “Van carrying e-scooter batteries bursts into flames” – A van, understood to be carrying e-scooter batteries, has burst into flames on a busy London road, reports the Telegraph.
• “Greenpeace’s campaign against Golden Rice is a crime against humanity” – Golden Rice is a wonder food. Banning it will condemn countless children to blindness and death, says Zion Lights in Spiked.
• “Further analysis of data from Berkeley Earth clearly indicates that climate change in the period 1860 to 2020 is driven by the Sun” – Retired scientist Stephen Andrews, analysing Berkeley Earth’s global temperature data on Substack, attributes the temperature rise from 1860 to 2020 to the Earth’s orientation to the Sun.
• “Backlash over Greens’ policy promoting ‘natural’ childbirth” – The Green Party has come under fire for claiming childbirth should be treated as a “non-medical event” and calling life-saving caesareans “risky” in its maternity policies, reports the Mail.
• “Trans rights activists help SNP set up a new NHS child gender service” – Trans activists are working with the Scottish National Party to open a new gender clinic for children, reports GB News.
• “How one of Britain’s most prestigious boarding schools hid troubled trans-identified teen’s self-medication from his parents” – Starky interviews a father about his battle to protect his struggling son from activist clinicians, negligent school staff and online groomers.
• “The ‘whiteness and racism’ of classical music” – In the New Conservative, Frank Haviland tears into the Royal College of Music, which is now offering a course on the “whiteness and racism” of classical music.
• “Elon Musk hails ‘epic achievement’ as Starship returns to Earth” – SpaceX has successfully launched its massive Starship rocket, in what was a critical test of Elon Musk’s hopes of colonising Mars, according to the Independent.
• “It‘s too late’ – Matt Goodwin tells Michelle Dewberry that the Conservative Party is finished.

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