News Round-Up

• “‘I will bring back Boris Johnson’, pledges Robert Jenrick” – Former Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick has revealed his Tory leadership pitch by heaping praise on Nigel Farage and calling for Boris Johnson to return, reports the Mail.
• “Special needs children in Scotland could be hit by Labour’s private school tax raid” – Thousands of children with special needs in Scotland will be hit by Labour’s tax raid on private schools, reveals the Telegraph.
• “To defend our freedom, we must trust the Tories, writes Kemi Badenoch” – The only way to stop us going back to square one with Labour is to vote Conservative on July 4th, says Kemi Badenock in the Mail. 
• “MoD shares ‘myth-busting’ video in apparent swipe at Nigel Farage” – The Ministry of Defence has issued a ‘myth-busting’ defence of NATO after Nigel Farage claimed the West provoked Russia into invading Ukraine, reports the Mail.
• “MSM signalling a change in the Russia-Ukraine narrative?” – Two major incidents in the last week suggest we might be about to see a change in the narrative surrounding the Russian war in Ukraine, says Kit Knightly in OffGuardian.
• “The Frank Report LXXVIII” – In the New Conservative, The Frank Report makes a Farage-esque comeback.
• “Where are the real statesmen?” – Neither populists nor managerialists can rule, says Sam Bidwell in the Critic.
• “Election selection: I” – On Substack, Jack Watson takes a brief look at Labour’s manifesto.
• “Terror in Russia after gunmen open fire at six synagogues” – Two synagogues and an Orthodox church across southern Russia have been attacked by militant gunmen, killing six police officers and slitting the throat of a priest, reports the Mail.
• “Hamas is the enemy of the Palestinian people” – Hamas has never had any interest in national liberation, says James Heartfield in Spiked.
• “NYC teachers group that staged pro-Gaza student walk-outs funded by George Soros’ Tides Foundation” – The group of public school teachers in New York behind anti-Israel walkouts received funding from the George Soros-backed Tides Foundation, reveals the Post Millennial.
• “Biden admin asked Amazon to hide vaccine critical books during the pandemic” – The Biden Administration pressured Amazon to hide books on its platform that were critical of vaccines during the pandemic, says Steve Watson in Modernity.
• “The week in numbers (to June 22nd)” – On the TTE Substack, Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson take a numerical look at the week’s health-related news.
• “Why France’s nationalist revolution could be coming for Britain too” – The radical reshaping of the French political landscape offers a glimpse of an all-too-possible future for our country, writes Daniel Johnson in the Telegraph.
• “Why it’s too late to stop World War 3 – according to one of Britain’s greatest military historians” – Can Iran create nukes? Will China invade Taiwan? As the world tilts towards global conflict, we are asking the wrong questions, says Richard Overy in the Telegraph.
• “Unforgivable ignorance at the heart of Net Zero” – In TCW, Ivor Williams takes aim at Labour’s GB Energy Plan.
• “No, Bloomberg, neither extreme weather nor climate is worsening in swelling cities” – A recent article in Bloomberg on ‘extreme weather’ makes some false claims that are refuted by real-world data, says Anthony Watts in Climate Realism.
• “Huge percentage of EV owners want to go back to normal cars, study finds” – According to a new McKinsey study, nearly half of American electric vehicle owners want to buy an internal combustion engine model the next time they buy a car, reports the Daily Caller.
• “Just Stop Oil and Palestine mob prepare to hit Wimbledon” – This year’s Wimbledon is facing a double threat of disruption from Just Stop Oil campaigners and pro-Palestine activists, says the Express.
• “A generation of young women is being driven mad by woke ideology” – A striking number of those committing these eco-crazed actions seem to be young ladies from middle-class backgrounds, remarks Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “Labour would drop guidance banning schools from teaching gender ideology, suggests Phillipson” – The Shadow Education Secretary has suggested that Labour would ditch guidelines banning children from being taught that there are more than two genders, according to the Telegraph.
• “‘White-centricity’ of folk music investigated in £1.5 million academic study” – Almost £1.5 million in taxpayer funding has been awarded to a research project that aims to “decolonise” folk singing, says Charlotte Gill in the Telegraph.
• “The UKRI studies costing British taxpayers over £9 million” – On Substack, Charlotte Gill lists ten ‘research’ projects relating to ‘decolonisation’ that have cost the taxpayer £9,283,047.
• “Ireland’s Health Minister rejects proposed amendment to prohibit paedophiles, sex offenders from buying children via surrogacy” – The Health Minister of Ireland has rejected a proposed amendment to the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill which would have prohibited convicted sex offenders from purchasing babies from surrogate mothers, reports Reduxx.
• “TikTok bans women’s rights ads for being ‘offensive’” – A clothing brand that stands for women’s rights in sports has had its ads permanently banned from TikTok, with the platform stating that the content “may be offensive”, says Modernity.
• “The soullessness of ‘social mobility’” – Underprivileged young people need culture, not just “skills”, writes Bartek Staniszewski in the Critic.
• “Hectoring posters on public transport are making travel far less civilised” – Political elites will miss no opportunity to nudge and lecture us. What must tourists think? wonders Melanie McDonagh in the Telegraph.
• “Free speech is about protecting ideas and values” – In the Stuff, Damien Grant reflects on our Editor-in-Chief Toby Young’s journey from chaotic writer to free speech advocate.
• “How DEI corrupts America’s universities” – The ideology of “diversity, equity and inclusion” is not what it purports to be, says Christopher F. Rufo in City Journal.
• “’We are the challenger now in much of the United Kingdom’” – Nigel Farage updates on the progress of Reform and accuses the Daily Mail of collaborating with the Kremlin to protect the dying Conservative Party.

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