News Round-Up

• “Tories face election wipeout with Labour set to gain a 416 majority” – A new Mail on Sunday poll predicts a potential Labour majority of 416 seats, signalling potential catastrophe for the Tory Party.
• “‘Mark my words: Reform will be the next opposition, then government awaits’” – Something remarkable may happen on election day. We are on the verge of shifting the tectonic plates of politics, writes Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
• “We need a revolt against the uniparty” – The BBC election debate exposed the dire state of mainstream party politics, says Tim Black in Spiked.
• “Nigel Farage’s Tory manifesto” – As Nigel Farage ends his first week as leader of Reform, it’s worth noting his message: Toryism without the Tories, writes Fraser Nelson in the Spectator.
• “Farage’s army is on the march” – In Great Yarmouth, a rebel force is stirring, says Tom McTague in UnHerd.
• “Tice fury as Reform candidate pulls out of race and backs Tories” – Reform chair Richard Tice has accused the Tories of “dirty tricks” after one of his party’s candidates withdrew from the race and endorsed the Conservatives, reports the Independent.
• “Conservative MPs defy party bosses to take cash from Laurence Fox’s funder” – Four Tory MPs have defied party bosses and accepted a donation of £5,000 from the donor behind Laurence Fox’s Reclaim party, says the Telegraph.
• “Labour official reveals party’s goal is to restore freedom of movement” – A senior Labour figure has said the party will bring back freedom of movement in bombshell comments seen by the Mail on Sunday.
• “‘We’ve come to take you home’: Noa Argamani’s 245 days of captivity are finally over” – The plight of an Israeli woman who spent 245 days held hostage by Hamas ended on Saturday with the words “It’s the IDF. We’ve come to take you home,” reports the Telegraph.
• “‘Huge relief’ to see rescue of four hostages by Israel, Rishi Sunak says” – Israeli forces have rescued four captives in the Gaza Strip in the largest such recovery since Hamas’s assault triggered the conflict, says Perspective.
• “Book festivals accused of discrimination after dropping sponsor ‘linked with Israel’” – Literary festivals have been accused of “discrimination” over the decision to drop a major sponsor in a row over Gaza, reports the Telegraph.
• “Anti-Israel fanatics are leading Britain’s cultural industry to ruins” – Unless we begin to stand up to business and culture destroyers – however small fry they seem – we will have nothing left to defend, warns Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “BBC defends interviewing retired general who called October 7th attacks ‘month of victory’” – Samir Ragheb has been interviewed by BBC News Arabic nine times since the war in Gaza began, despite sharing antisemitic material and pro-Palestinian posts online, reports the Telegraph.
• “The BBC is an Orwellian, Kafkaesque nightmare” – Dishonesty and obfuscation are now part and parcel of the Beeb’s editorial policy, says Julie Burchill in Spiked.
• “‘It was incredibly satisfying’ to watch Fauci grilled over lockdowns” – GB News star Bev Turner says watching Dr. Anthony Fauci’s intense questioning from Republican lawmakers over his Covid measures was an “incredibly satisfying” experience.
• “The Rand Paul interview: part one” – On Substack, Alex Berenson sits down with Sen. Rand Paul to discuss what Dr. Fauci knew about the likelihood that SARS-CoV-2 had leaked from a Chinese lab, and when he knew it.
• “Covid severity not affected by viral load upon first infection: study” – According to a recent JAMA Network Open study, the viral load or quantity of SARS-CoV-2 in the nasal cavity does not predict disease severity, says the Epoch Times.
• “The week in numbers (to June 7th)” – Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson take a numerical look back over the week’s healthcare-related stories.
• “Sunak’s mask slips” – In the New Conservative, Frank Haviland has a bone to pick with Rishi Sunak.
• “Brief encounter with an immigration zealot” – In TCW, Niall McCrae details a recent encounter with an open borders fanatic while on the campaign trail in Sussex.
• “Don’t flirt, Cambridge tells students as it bans sexual relationships with professors” – The University of Cambridge has told students to stop flirting with staff under a new policy banning sexual relationships with professors, according to the Mail.
• “Labour’s Net Zero plans ‘risk blackouts and public unrest’” – The Energy Secretary says Labour’s Net Zero plans risk leading to blackouts and public unrest, reports the Telegraph.
• “Half-ton electric bike poses latest threat to London pedestrians” – Thousands of half-ton electric cargo bikes that look like “small articulated trucks” are set to arrive in London despite concerns over public safety, says the Telegraph.
• “Why being anti-car is a luxury belief” – The anti-car movement is idiotic – a luxury belief shared by deluded metropolitans, writes Rory Sutherland in the Spectator.
• “Science of heat waves reveals blaming CO₂ is a scam!” – To blame heat waves on rising CO₂, alarmists must use statistical attribution tricks, says Jim Steele in WUWT.
• “Net Zero by 2050 is simply not happening” – We haven’t even reached Peak Wood, let alone Peak Oil or Peak Coal, writes David Blackmon in the Telegraph.
• “Drill, baby, drill: Trump raises $12 million in Silicon Valley, by promising cheap energy to power the AI revolution” – Big Tech is openly rebelling against Biden’s roadmap for energy destitution, says Eric Worrall in WUWT.
• “Why the Dutch are euthanising physically healthy young adults – and could the U.K. be next?” – The Netherlands was the first country to legalise assisted dying, but critics are starting to worry about the consequences, writes Abigail Buchanan in the Telegraph.
• “White men have least chance of getting on BBC trainee scheme” – Non-white applicants to the BBC’s flagship journalism training scheme were almost two and a half times more likely to get in than their white counterparts, reports the Telegraph.
• “U.K. gender critical charity permanently banned by Instagram” – Sex Matters, a high-profile charity that speaks out against gender ideology, has had its Instagram page permanently deleted in what appears to be a platform-wide clamp-down on critics of transgenderism, according to Reduxx.
• “Gender-critical Newcastle fan launches legal action against police ‘political’ trans activism” – A Newcastle fan, banned from matches for her gender critical views, has launched a High Court bid to stop Northumbria Police from endorsing trans ideology, reports the Telegraph.
• “Exeter University staff ‘feel coerced’ to sign Stonewall anti-transphobia pledge” – Staff at a top university say they feel coerced to subscribe to a Stonewall agenda by signing a pledge to oppose transphobia and demonstrate “allyship” by sharing their pronouns, says the Telegraph.
• “Chasing rainbows” – Dissident civil servants have been risking their careers to fight a losing battle against burgeoning Whitehall wokery, writes Steve Edginton in the Critic.
• “Why Scotland’s ‘witches’ fought back” – In UnHerd, Julie Bindel reviews a new book that reflects on the past five years of fighting gender ideology.
• “Canadian Cancer Society issues apologetic note for failing to refer to female anatomy as a ‘front hole’” – The Canadian Cancer Society has affixed an apologetic note to a page on cervical cancer addressed to trans-identified females, assuring them that men can have cervixes as well, reports Reduxx.
• “Can a Government dating app solve Japan’s birth crisis?” – The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has announced that it will soon be in the online matchmaking business, says Philip Patrick in the Spectator.
• “Swiping right in real life: young singles seek offline dating” – Young people are turning to in-person events to meet partners, spurred by waning interest in dating apps and a rise in speed dating, according to Axios.
• “Some news and an invitation” – On X, Tim Montgomerie contemplates voting for Farage and ponders the creation of an advisory list to direct voters towards competent, Right-wing MPs standing in their constituencies, whether Reform or Conservative.

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