News Round-Up

• “How Sir Keir Starmer ended up in communist spy files during Cold War” – Keir Starmer appears in communist spy files after joining a Czechoslovakian work camp at the height of the Cold War, reveals the Mail.
• “Keir Starmer is terrifyingly close to turning Britain into a one-party state” – Labour appears set on seizing this golden opportunity to rig the political system in its favour, writes Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s constitutional reforms are misconceived and pointless” – Keir Starmer has proposed a dizzying combination of potentially damaging measures, says Eliot Wilson in CapX.
• “‘Utterly broken’ Tories will soon descend into warfare, says Farage” – In the Telegraph, Nigel Farage tells Camilla Turner that splits in the Tory party “will get worse” as some members become “more vociferous” about their opposing views.
• “‘We will balance in favour of Farage and Reform as long as broadcaster bias continues’” – While Ofcom and the BBC continue to discriminate against Reform, TCW promises to give full coverage to their key announcements and press conferences.
• “If the Right can’t unite, Starmer will change Britain beyond recognition” – In the Telegraph, Robert Jenrick shares the frustration of many Conservative voters but warns that a vote for Reform is a vote for a Labour supermajority.
• “David Cameron is driving voters into Farage’s arms” – Lord Cameron reminds many Reform-leaning voters of everything they dislike about the Tories, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Labour landslide could leave Tories with just 72 seats, MRP poll finds” – According to a detailed analysis by Survation, the Conservatives face an unprecedented battering with Keir Starmer’s party set for a majority of 262, reports the Times.
• “An analysis of party policies on key issues of importance to Christians” – The Christian Institute’s Election Briefing 2024 analyses party policies on key issues affecting people with Christian beliefs.
• “Israel is not a colonial state. If anything, it’s the reverse” – It was only when the Israelis arrived that the desert – and freedom – bloomed, says Naomi Greenaway in the Telegraph.
• “The toxic legacy of lockdown is destroying our political system” – Until politicians come clean about the devastating costs of lockdown, we will be stuck in this cycle of failure, writes Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
• “Millwall ‘devastated’ as goalkeeper Matija Sarkic dies aged 26” – Grimsby-born Millwall goalkeeper Matija Sarkic has sadly and unexpectedly died at the age of 26, according to Grimsby Live.
• “Vaccine-injured pharmacist breaks down into tears testifying before Ohio State Senate” – Yoha, a once healthy pharmacist, suffered a severe neurological disease that left him paralysed after being coerced into taking the Covid jab. His testimony before the Ohio State Senate was a harrowing account of personal loss and violated freedoms, writes the Vigilant Fox on Substack.
• “Are you ‘far-Right’? Take our quiz!” – ‘Far-Right’ is the favourite buzzword of Left-wing news outlets and pundits. But what exactly do they mean by it? wonders Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “How Gen Z is driving the populist pushback” – The youth of Europe have more reason than most to rebel against the woke orthodoxies of their elders, says Lauren Smith in Spiked.
• “It’s OK to be angry about socialism” – It is perverse that socialism, this chronic failure of an ideology, endures, writes Johnny Leavesley in the Critic.
• “Childish, selfish protesters are destroying all the West holds dear” – How much more desecration of private and public space in the name of dangerous causes will we have to take? asks Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “Spring fever” – Marianna Spring needs to get off the internet, says Ben Sixsmith in the Critic.
• “France is on the brink of all-out civil conflict” – Spiralling political tensions in France could soon turn to violence on the streets, warns Anne-Elisabeth Moutet in the Telegraph.
• “Protests against hard-Right turn violent in France” – French police clashed with protesters in Rennes and Paris as tens of thousands of people took to the streets in marches against the hard-Right, reports the Telegraph.
• “France is heading for a financial crisis that could bring down the eurozone” – Paris will quickly face its own ‘Liz Truss moment’ if the Right seize power, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Milei’s big swing” – Argentina’s barnstorming new President is shocking the country’s economic system back into life, writes Jon Hartley in City Journal.
• “Fossil fuels remain the future. VW to invest €60 billion in combustion engines” – Volkswagen has announced plans to invest €60 billion in the development of new combustion engines as confidence in EVs plummets in Germany and elsewhere, reports P. Gosselin in WUWT?
• “Surveys show vast bulk of Antarctica is stable or growing” – New research dismisses any predictions of imminent Antarctic ice melt and subsequent sea level rise, says H. Sterling Burnett in Heartland Daily News.
• “No, ScienceNews, your ‘Ocean’s record-breaking hot streak’ claims are false” – A recent ScienceNews article claims that ocean temperatures are out of control in a year-long record-breaking hot streak. This is false, writes Anthony Watts in WUWT?
• “‘Transgender’ is falling out of fashion with activists” – The hallowed word “transgender” may be showing early signs of turning musty and stale, says John Murawski in UnHerd.
• “Large school bans skirts” – One of the largest secondary schools in Cornwall has banned skirts because girls wear them too short and it’s become too much of a nag to enforce, according to Cornwall Live.
• “Bear Grylls to step down as Chief Scout” – In the Mail, Richard Eden reacts to news that Bear Grylls, who was the youngest ever Chief Scout when appointed in 2009, is to step down.
• “Congress to probe media rating firm NewsGuard for possible taxpayer-funded censorship” – The House Oversight Committee is probing whether Newsguard, a for-profit firm that purports to rate which news outlets are trustworthy, is using federal funds to try to put conservative news outlets out of business, according to the Daily Wire.
• “‘God Save The King’” – Guido Fawkes has unearthed a revealing reminder that Keir Starmer didn’t always have the monarchy’s “best wishes” in mind, despite proclaiming “God Save The King” at Trooping the Colour.

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