News Round-Up

• “Johnson joins election campaign by backing Tory MP who called for Sunak to quit” – Boris Johnson has joined the election campaign trail – by publicly backing an MP who has called for Rishi Sunak to quit, according to the Northern Echo.
• “‘Voting Tory is the only way to stop Starmergeddon’” – If Labour wins big, the Commons will be crammed with Palestinian-flag waving Corbynistas – and it won’t just be the rich getting soaked, it’ll be everyone, warns Boris Johnson in the Mail.
• “Labour’s dangerous pledge to ban conversion therapy” – An incoming Labour Government will enact legislation that could prevent gender-questioning children getting the help they need, warns Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
• “Labour’s Race Equality Act will only divide Britain further” – Labour’s proposed Race Equality Act ignores the complexity of racial outcome discrepancies and will ultimately prove counterproductive and divisive, argues Tony Sewell in the Telegraph.
• “The illiberal implications of Labour’s manifesto” – The most significant impact of Starmer’s Government could be to unleash the full force of progressive illiberalism in British society, writes Eric Kaufmann in the Spectator.
• “Britain still doesn’t have a clue about the scale of the disaster heading its way” – Starmer’s plans will entrench the worst aspects of the Blair and Brown eras, and hand power to lawyers and quangos, warns Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “‘Migration to blame for Tories’ electoral woes – I warned Sunak to tackle it’” – Suella Braverman says she believes the Right would not be divided if the Government had taken action on migration sooner, according to the Telegraph. 
• “This is doomsday for the Conservative Party” – The PM has unwittingly created the best possible circumstances for his party to be eclipsed by Reform, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “You are not prepared for how brutal the 16-way race to succeed Rishi Sunak will be” – If you thought the previous Tory leadership contests were brutal, you ain’t seen nothing yet, says Tom Newton Dunn in the Standard.
• “Farage will only lead Tories off the end of the pier” – Aping the populist Reform party is a one-way ticket to annihilation, symbolised in the decay and despair of seaside Clacton, writes Matthew Parris in the Times.
• “How Reform overtook the Tories” – Reform is the perfect receptacle for a giant Right-wing protest vote, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
• “Why Reform will struggle to win any seats – despite beating the Tories in the polls” – Nigel Farage claims Reform is “the opposition now”, but making that a parliamentary reality will be hard, write Ollie Corfe and Ben Butcher in the Telegraph.
• “‘I vowed I’d never vote Tory again. But…’” – How to vote tactically in the North Lancashire constituency of Morecambe and Lunesdale is giving Julian Mann a headache in TCW.
• “If the Right is to have a future, it must recognise that our civilisation is precious and fragile” – Conservatism had its last serious rethink 50 years ago with Mrs. Thatcher. It desperately needs one again now, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “Hamas admits it doesn’t know how many hostages are still alive” – A senior Hamas official has told CNN that “no one has any idea” how many Israeli hostages are alive.
• “Noa Argamani says she and other hostages were kept as slaves” – According to the mother of one of the youngest female captives, women still held hostage in Gaza are being kept as slaves, reports the Mail.
• “Almost one million people claim mental health benefits since lockdown” – Almost a million people have started claiming Universal Credit for mental health problems since the end of lockdown after applications surged by more than 100,000 in just three months, says the Telegraph.
• “Britain’s benefits bill to jump by £20 billion as long-term sickness soars” – Surging sickness benefit claims will drive an increase in Britain’s welfare bill of more than £20 billion a year by 2030, new analysis shows, as the country grapples with a worklessness crisis, according to the Telegraph.
• “Lockdown is the inspiration behind Labour’s ‘plan’ for growth” – The world of busybodies, certificates and passes is set to make a return as we head for state control of the economy, writes David Frost in the Telegraph.
• “The Cochrane editors’ comments” – Attempts to underplay the editors’ mismanagement of the Cochrane Mask Review continue with a very thin smokescreen, says Dr. Tom Jefferson on the TTE Substack.
• “Pathologists are unaware of the pathogen killing the vaccinated – a consequence of medical journal censorship” – On Substack, Dr. Pierre Kory reveals the deadly consequence of “inconvenient science.”
• “Letter to the Prime Minister” – On the TTE Substack, Dr. Tom Jefferson has penned a letter to Rishi Sunak regarding the conspicuous absence of the ‘C word’ in this election.
• “The trouble with calling everyone ‘far-Right’” – The various parties described as ‘far-Right’ across the continent include parties that are no such thing as well as parties that need keeping an eye on, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
• “Cologne prosecutors charge Twitter user for the crime of assembling a list of Covid-era insults that politicians and celebrities directed against the unvaccinated” – Calling for people to be jabbed against their will? Totally legal in Germany. Pointing out that others have called for this? Potentially a violation of the criminal code, according to Eugyppius on Substack.
• “Why the EU is cracking down on Hungary’s migrant policy” – In the Spectator, Andrew Tettenborn discusses the latest high-profile tussle between Budapest and Brussels.
• “The EU is punishing Hungary for rebelling against mass migration” – The EU’s action against Hungary serves as a warning to voters about Labour’s plans to develop a common immigration policy with the Bloc. Thank God for Brexit, says Alan Sked in the Telegraph.
• “Macron’s centrist alliance faces wipeout in snap elections” – President Macron’s centrist alliance could be facing a wipeout in snap parliamentary elections after France’s Left-wing parties struck a unity pact, reports the FT.
• “Meloni and Macron clash over abortion at G7 summit” – Italy has been accused of scrapping a reference to “safe and legal abortion” from the text of the G7 summit’s final declaration, according to CTV News.
• “Putin ‘ready for a ceasefire tomorrow’ if Ukraine pulls back troops” – Putin says he will call a ceasefire and immediately enter peace talks if Ukraine pulls back its troops from four regions occupied by Russian forces and gives up plans to join NATO, reports the Mail.
• “The world is using more oil, coal and gas than ever before and will use more. Net Zero is dead” – China, India and the Global South will drive crude oil consumption no matter what, says David Blackmon in the Telegraph.
• “Sharks and lions are LGBTQ+, according to museum partially funded by taxpayers” – According to a “queer” museum project, sharks and lions are LGBTQ+, reports the Telegraph. 
• “No, we haven’t reached ‘peak woke’, it’s going mainstream” – Cancel culture may seem to be waning but it is only likely to increase its power as millennials and Gen Z rise through Britain’s elite institutions, warns Eric Kaufmann in the Times.
• “Why bosses are suddenly rethinking Britain’s boozy pub socials” – The work-sanctioned trip to the local is under threat, says Daniel Woolfson in the Telegraph.
• “Stanford’s censorship operation finally shut down by the University, but only after the chutzpah became unbearable” – On Substack, Dr. Meryl Nass celebrates the Stanford Internet Observatory, responsible for COVID-19 and 2020 election censorship, closing its shutters.
• “Elon Musk accused of pursuing women at his company for sex” – Elon Musk reportedly pursued women at his company for sex, including a former intern more than 20 years his junior with whom he had a relationship, reports the Straits Times.
• “Donald Trump calls Joe Biden a ‘brain-dead zombie’ in birthday row” – Donald Trump’s campaign has branded Joe Biden a “brain-dead zombie” after footage showed him appearing to wander off during a photo call with leaders at the G7 summit, according to the Telegraph.
• “Young voters are leaning Republican as Dems try to sell themselves as the ‘cool’ thing” – New polling shows young voters in the U.S. are shrugging off their habit of voting Left and actually thinking of voting Republican in November, says Douglas Murray the NY Post.
• “‘What is a woman, Keir?’” – The ‘What Is A Woman?’ campaign takes a closer look at Keir Starmer’s ‘evolving’ stance on women’s rights.

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