News Round-Up

• “Sir Ed Davey criticised for election ‘buffoonery’ by former sub-postmaster” – A former subpostmaster who lost his livelihood in the Horizon scandal has accused Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey of “buffoonery” for his stunt-laden election campaign, reports the Irish News.
• “Key seats where Labour could get a ‘super-majority’” – The rise of Reform threatens to turn an already healthy majority for Labour into annihilation for the Tories, says the Mail.
• “Suella Braverman launches new TikTok account for the General Election” – Social media users have taken to X to share their opinions on Suella Braverman’s new TikTok account, reports the Mail.
• “Tories accuse BBC of ‘lefty Blairite bias’ over Laura Kuenssberg panel” – The BBC has been accused of “lefty Blairite bias” as it was criticised for selecting a panel of Rishi Sunak critics to join its flagship Sunday politics show, says the Telegraph.
• “Beware Farage’s £40 billion raid on banks – there is no such thing as a free lunch” – Does the Reform leader’s policy offer an attractive option for a cash-strapped country? asks Roger Bootle in the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s century” – In City Journal, Theodore Dalrymple recaps the rise and ultimate demise of the British Labour Party over the course of the past century.
• “David Cameron is a disgrace to Britain” – “Smug, complacent and snobby, he [David Cameron] has convinced me I was right to offer Britain a stronger alternative to a hopeless Tory opposition,” says Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
• “NHS waiting lists – don’t mention lockdown!” – The lively election “debate” over NHS waiting lists provides an excellent illustration of the way in which false narratives can be created and then acted out by devious politicians colluding on both sides of the political divide, writes the Thinking Coalition on Substack.
• “COVID-19 advocacy bias in the BMJ: meta-research evaluation” – A new study on medRxiv investigates whether the BMJ showed bias during the Covid pandemic by favouring publications from advocates of aggressive Covid measures.
• “Tory identity crisis” – The Conservative Party’s failure to address British populists’ concerns offers a warning to centre-Right parties elsewhere – including Republicans in the United States, writes Fred Bauer in City Journal.
• “A different conservatism” – Just how ‘far-Right’ are these insurgent national conservative parties? Not very, says Dr. Campbell Campbell-Jack in TCW.
• “Hundred Scottish churches up for sale as U.K. turns away from Christianity” – The Church of Scotland is selling 100 historic buildings to free up funds after a drastic decline in the number of worshippers and ministers, reports the Telegraph.
• “Is France’s Left-wing coalition more dangerous than Le Pen?” – The radical Left-wing ‘New Popular Front’ is a more potent threat to French political and financial stability than Le Pen, warns John Keiger in the Spectator.
• “Marine Le Pen calls opponents ‘Islamo-Leftists’ and an ‘abomination’ for France” – Marine Le Pen has accused France’s new Left-wing bloc of being “Islamo-Leftists” who want to strip the French of their freedoms, reports the Telegraph.
• “Net Zero or feeding ourselves? We can’t do both” – If you have to go through life producing no carbon dioxide, it means you will be cold, lonely, poor, unhappy and covered in weeping sores, writes Jeremy Clarkson in the Sunday Times.
• “Climate change has decimated societies around the world” – Anyone arguing CO₂ is driving all the extreme weather events are either very ignorant of weather dynamics, or dishonest grifters trying to manipulate your support for their political agenda, says Jim Steele in WUWT?
• “Coal trains vs high speed rail – here’s how big oil can sleep at night” – Two wild train projects bookend the energy scene perfectly, writes Terry Etam in the BOE Report.
• “I’m not opposed to assisted dying, says Sunak” – Rishi Sunak says he is not opposed to assisted dying in principle ahead of an expected vote on the issue in the next parliament, according to the Guardian.
• “Uefa bans ‘L’amour toujours’ song at Euro 2024” – UEFA has banned a popular song from the European Football Championships in Germany due to its association with xenophobic sentiments, says Brussels Signal.
• “Scottish political staffer who threatened violence against women critical of gender ideology convicted of sexually assaulting six people” – A former SNP Equalities Officer who threatened to “beat the f**ck out of some TERFs and transphobes” has been convicted of sexually assaulting six young adults, reports Reduxx.
• “The truth about woke” – ‘Wokeism’ is an insidious, illiberal ideology that has nothing to do with protecting the marginalised, says Helen Pluckrose in Spiked.
• “The March of Dimes syndrome” – The better things get, the more desperately activists struggle to stay in business, observes John Tierney in City Journal.
• “Global majority: what the new buzzword says about our world” – Turbocharged by the war in Gaza, the new term ‘global majority’ rethinks the ‘ethnic minority’ designation and puts ‘white British’ in its geopolitical place. Is it more than just jargon? asks Will Lloyd in the Sunday Times.
• “Scottish hillwalkers told not to call women hikers ‘sweetheart’ or ‘darling’” – New guidance for male mountaineers in Scotland advises not to call women hillwalkers ‘darling’ or ‘sweetheart’, nor to lecture them on how to read a map, reports the Telegraph.
• “The indispensability of men” – In the Free Press, Douglas Murray pays tribute to Camille Paglia’s brilliant, unapologetic defense of masculinity.
• “AI will change everything – so why is the election ignoring it?” – There is a looming revolution coming with Artificial Intelligence. So why hasn’t a single politician mentioned it? asks Sean Thomas in the Spectator.
• “The U.S. town being sued for racism… for paying black residents” – Evanston – an affluent suburb of Chicago – is being sued for exhibiting exactly the sort of prejudice it decries, says Evaristo Alves in the Bongtimes.
• “‘On day one…’” – Speaking at ‘The People’s Convention’ in Detroit, President Trump spells out what he intends to do on day one of his re-election, including cutting federal funding for any school promoting critical race theory or transgender ideology to children.

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