News Round-Up

• “Tories turn to Boris to combat Farage threat” – Boris Johnson is being drafted in by the Tories to play a more active role in the election campaign as the party seeks to counter the threat from Reform, reports the Telegraph.
• “Cameron, not Farage, destroyed the Conservatives” – David Cameron uprooted conservatism for short-term gain on issues from immigration to Brexit, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
• “Blairism at its most zealous” – The Labour manifesto is a recipe for bland bureaucratic managerialism, writes Sam Bidwell in the Critic.
• “Reform candidate who urged people to vote BNP in 2010 quits” – Reform’s candidate running in Kemi Badenoch’s seat has resigned after historic comments emerged in which he urged people to vote for the BNP, reports the BBC.
• “Expression of concern for paper used to link COVID-19 vaccines to deaths” – The journal BMJ Public Health is placing an expression of concern on a paper suggesting a direct causal link between COVID-19 vaccination and mortality, according to Retraction Watch.
• “Don’t dare to suggest Covid vaccines may have contributed to excess deaths” – A new Dutch research study linking the Covid vaccine to excess deaths is under attack, write Profs. Norman Fenton and Martin Neil on the WATN? Substack.
• “The Pentagon’s ‘anti-vax’ psyops campaign against China” – On Substack, Dr. Robert W. Malone weighs in on the Pentagon’s ‘anti-vax’ psyops campaign against China.
• “The ‘acceptable’ face of racism in Britain” – As elites wring their hands over a moribund far-Right, surging middle-class antisemitism gets a free pass, writes Neil Davenport in Spiked.
• “The terrible consequences of the Hay Festival grandstanding” – The defenestration of Hay Festival’s sponsor hasn’t caused a red cent to be divested from fossil fuels or saved a single Palestinian life, says Sam Leith in the Spectator.
• “Inverted red triangles” – A new symbol that roils or rattles, depending on whether you are its witness or target, has recently snaked its way into the West, warns Peter Harris in the New Conservative.
• “Why we need borders – and must quit the ECHR” – If we are to solve the immigration crisis, we must assert the superiority of the Common Law and withdraw from the ECHR, says Sean Walsh in TCW.
• “The demographic doom coming Ireland’s way?” – Taiwan is currently enduring a wave of school closures brought on by their crippling low birth rate. Is that in store for Ireland? wonders Jason Osborne in Gript.
• “For the U.S. to target Putin’s nuclear defences is reckless beyond belief” – The madness of the Ukraine war grows as inadequate political players become more hysterical by the day. Only voters can put an end to this grave crisis, says Rodney Atkinson in TCW.
• “Surge in ‘vanishing’ pubs as 80 locations close per month” – The number of pubs vanishing from communities across England and Wales saw a significant increase in the first few months of 2024, reports the Mirror.
• “Police ‘probably right’ to ram cow with car, says farmer’s union official” – A farmer and union chief claims that the police were “probably right” to ram a runaway calf with their 4×4, according to the Mail.
• “Green money is a threat to democracy” – DeSmog is right to raise the issue of funny money in politics, but they need to move on from the phantom of oil money and focus in on the tsunami of green money, according to the Thinking Coalition on Substack.
• “Britain will pay a high price for Labour’s Net Zero fanaticism” – Keir Starmer’s promise of cheap, green energy is a dangerous fantasy, writes Thomas Osborne in Spiked.
• “Extraordinary, unexpected, unnoticeable – climate scientists panic about 1.5°C breach” – Some places are warmer than usual, some places are colder than usual. Did anyone else notice the end of the world? asks Eric Worrall in WUWT?
• “Germany May sales of electric cars plummet 30.6% compared to year earlier” – The figures for the registration of new electric cars in Germany are looking increasingly awful, remarks P. Gosselin in NoTricksZone.
• “A woman has a vagina and a man has a penis: Tony Blair” – Tony Blair has questioned why politicians are in a “muddle” over transgender issues, according to the Mail. 
• “Keir Starmer’s betrayal of Rosie Duffield” –Starmer has allowed the gender-critical MP Rossie Duffield to be hounded into hiding, says Lauren Smith in Spiked.
• “J. K. Rowling has achieved almost total victory over the trans lobby” – J.K. Rowling’s courage and integrity should be praised, not mocked, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “The media’s great awokening is alienating the masses” – Audiences are fed up with newspapers, Hollywood and Big Tech all singing from the same woke hymn sheet, says Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
• “The deepfake General Election” – We are in the midst of the U.K.’s first deepfake General Election, warns Matthew Feeney in CapX.
• “Modi allies allow prosecution of Booker winner under terrorism law” – Allies of the Indian Prime Minister have given the green light for the Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy to be prosecuted for remarks she made at an event 14 years ago, writes Brittany Allen in the Literary Hub.
• “Secret Dem plot to replace Biden revealed” – It seems no matter how much cold water the Biden campaign or Democratic Party throw on this raging fire of speculation, Americans will not be put off the ‘Great Joe Biden Replacement Theory’, says Charlie Spiering in the Mail.
• “‘Captain Flip Flop’” – Dominic Frisby has put together an entertaining ditty reminding us all of Captain Starmer’s many flippety-floppety flip-flops.

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