News Round-Up

• “This D-Day cock-up is final proof that Rishi Sunak is an embarrassment to Britain” – Just when you thought the Conservatives’ election campaign couldn’t get any worse, the PM chose to snub veterans by leaving the D-Day commemoration event in Normandy early. Is this his idea of National Service? asks Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “Senior Tory adviser quits over Sunak’s show of ‘disrespect’ for D-Day” – Ian Acheson, a leading adviser to Michael Gove, has quit the Tory party over Sunak’s “cynical” decision to leave D-Day commemorations early, according to Guido Fawkes.
• “Sunak’s D-Day snub has exposed his staggering aloofness” – The PM must be the only man in Britain who doesn’t understand the significance of the D-Day anniversary, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “The West’s choice in 2024: will it be more like 1944 or Nineteen Eighty-Four?” – The PM’s Normandy error is a symptom of something much bigger in the current condition of the allies, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “The weather forecast for D-Day” – On Substack, Paul Sutton reflects on his grandfather, the meteorologist Sir Oliver Graham Sutton, whose forecast identified a brief weather window, crucial for the D-Day invasion.
• “Pugnacious Farage lands blows that leave rivals reeling in BBC election debate” – Nigel Farage, unleashed into a live debate for the first time this election, was polished, pugnacious and popular, writes Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
• “The BBC audience could hardly bring itself to cheer on Nigel Farage” – Nigel Farage knows that it’s the watching TV audience, not the one in the BBC studio, that really counts, says Robert Taylor in the Telegraph.
• “Nigel Farage won the debate” – According to More In Common, which polled viewers of last night’s television debate, Nigel Farage won.
• “Rees-Mogg calls on Sunak to do election deal with Farage” – Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has urged Rishi Sunak to strike a deal with Nigel Farage before the General Election, reports the Telegraph.
• “Conservatives fail to field candidate in Rotherham” – The Tories have announced that they will not field a candidate in Rotherham in a boost to Reform’s chances of winning the seat, says the Telegraph. Although it looks like a cock-up rather than a gesture of good will.
• “The Tory ‘nepo baby’ candidates handed plum seats” – Rishi Sunak’s top aides, Cabinet ministers’ special advisers and MPs’ bag carriers are among the political “nepo babies” to be handed safe seats by the Tories, reports the Telegraph.
• “Selected for greatness” – If Will Tanner, the PM’s Deputy Chief of Staff, fails to win his ‘safe’ Suffolk seat, he could always apply for a job at Facebook, says Parliament Square in the Critic.
• “Political violence is no laughing matter” – For the first time, all candidates in the General Election are being offered security, write Theo Zenou and Sam Bidwell in CapX.
• “Israel fury at being added to list of offenders who harm children” – Israel is furious after the UN has added the country to the global list of offenders who harm children, reports the Mail.
• “Literary festivals have caved to the anti-Israel cranks” – A handful of petulant activists and C-list celebs have dealt a hammer blow to Britain’s cultural life, says Jake Wallis Simons in Spiked.
• “‘Mob’ of Pro-Palestine protesters lock university students inside debate chamber” – Pro-Palestinian protestors formed a human chain outside the Durham Union, preventing a debate on the Israel-Hamas conflict going ahead, reports the Telegraph.
• “Open letter to Professor Cooke, interim co-chair at U.K.’s MHRA” – Should the need for a product recall of the AstraZeneca SARS-CoV-2 sterile injectables be investigated by the Defective Medicines Report Centre? asks PharmaFlow’s Hedley Rees.
• “The dam has broken” – The MSM is finally starting to report on Covid vaccines and excess deaths, says Suzanne Burdick in TCW.
• “Alternative media giants sue the censorship industrial complex” – Webseed and Brighteon Media have filed a lawsuit accusing several U.S. Government agencies and Big Tech companies of orchestrating a vast censorship campaign to suppress dissenting viewpoints, particularly about COVID-19, according to Reclaim The Net.
• “Three quarters of people would use private healthcare if relative was stuck on NHS waiting list” – The Telegraph reports that three-quarters of people would choose private healthcare for a relative awaiting surgery, contrary to Keir Starmer’s stance in his recent TV debate with Rishi Sunak.
• “Free speech concern after Ipso rule against open court reporting” – Press watchdog Ipso has been labelled “disgraceful”, while fears have been raised over free speech following its decision to sanction a news website for its reporting on a rape trial, reports GB News.
• “A victory for press freedom in Northern Ireland” – A High Court judge has overturned a new law in Northern Ireland preventing people suspected of sexual offences being named in the press, says Freddie Attenborough in the Critic.
• “Trans athletes dehumanised by term ‘biological male’, says Olympics” – A 33-page ‘Portrayal Guidelines’ document, published ahead of the Paris Games by the International Olympic Committee, urges journalists not to use phrases like “born male” or “biologically male” to describe transgender athletes, says the Telegraph.
• “‘Conservatism’s future must be counter-revolutionary’” – At the NatCon Conference in Brussels, N.S. Lyons gives his answer to the question: What is to be done?
• “New York scraps congestion charge plan at 11th hour” – In a surprising U-turn, Governor of New York Kathy Hochul has cancelled plans to impose a contentious $15 (£11) congestion fee, saying it would be an “obstacle” to the city’s economy, reports the Evening Standard.
• “London doesn’t need an African Goddess, Sadiq Khan. Why not British abolitionists?” – If the statue of a slaver is to be replaced, perhaps it should not be with the deity of an African nation that participated in the slave trade, writes Michael Mosbacher in the Telegraph.
• “‘I should keep my big mouth shut’: Stephen Fry apologises for cricket remarks” – Stephen Fry has apologised for his remarks about the “beetroot-coloured gentlemen” of Marylebone Cricket Club, reports the Times.
• “Hatred of the working class behind attack on white rural Americans” – Batya Ungar-Sargon’s Second Class is the antidote to Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman’s White Rural Rage, says Pete Anderson on the Public Substack.
• “Man in Mexico dies with first human case of H5N2 bird flu” – A 59 year-old man in Mexico has died with a type of bird flu – H5N2 – never recorded in people before now, reports the BBC.
• “‘We need a global bird flu lockdown NOW’” – On X, comedian Damien Slash suggests an immediate global lockdown following the news of a man in Mexico dying from a new strain of bird flu.

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