News Round-Up

• “There are no two ways about it – voting Reform lets Labour in” – Kemi Badenoch in the Telegraph urges former Conservative voters to stick with the Tories and not risk a Labour landslide by voting Reform.
• “What does happen if Rishi Sunak loses his seat on July 4th?” – Rishi Sunak could become the first serving Prime Minister to not only lose a General Election but lose their own seat as well, says David Wilcock in the Mail.
• “Has Nigel Farage stumbled at the last hurdle? Our writers give their verdicts” – As we head to the polls, one question dominates: has Farage spoilt his chance to transform British politics, or is he still on course? The Telegraph’s Patrick O’Flynn and Henry Hill give their verdicts.
• “Rishi Sunak and the folly of managerialism” – Politicians who believe in nothing end up achieving nothing, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “Tory candidate’s office daubed with antisemitic graffiti” – The campaign office of a Conservative election candidate has been defaced with antisemitic graffiti, reports the Buxton Advertiser.
• “Progressive except for Palestine” – “My decades of activism – including vocal support for a Palestinian state – apparently don’t matter to my academic colleagues, who have cut me off for being a Zionist,” says Philip Berger in Tablet.
• “National Rally revels after Macron humiliation” – President Macron has called on his increasingly divided centrist camp to back leftist candidates in parliamentary elections to prevent the “extreme Right” from securing power in France, according to the Times.
• “Macron’s anti-Brexit pitbull loses seat in first round of French election” – Clément Beaune, Emmanuel Macron’s anti-Brexit pitbull who repeatedly attacked Britain for leaving the EU, has lost his Paris seat in the first round of France’s snap election, reports the Telegraph. It would take a heart of stone… etc., etc.
• “How National Rally captured the centre” – The detoxification of Le Pen’s party is complete, says Francois Valentin in UnHerd.
• “Le Pen’s party would be a disaster for France, says Farage” – Nigel Farage warns that Le Pen’s National Rally would be “even worse for the economy than the current lot”, according to the Telegraph.
• “The crumbling of the French establishment” – The surge in support for National Rally reflects the abject failure of Macron’s technocratic centrism, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “What happens when L’Empereur has no clothes?” – Charles Moore in the Telegraph says Macron’s error in calling a snap election is on a par with David Cameron’s decision to hold the Brexit referendum.
• “Technocracy is failing everywhere – Keir Starmer should be terrified” – Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph says the implosions of Macron and Biden contain a lesson for Labour. Wet, Third Way centrism has no future.
• “Save Ukraine from American meddling” – The U.S. will not save Ukraine from Russia. The opposite is true. Ukraine actually needs to be saved from the U.S., says Jeffrey Sachs in the Hill.
• “Kamala Harris worried Democrats will replace Joe Biden with white candidate” – Kamala Harris’s team fears Democrats might choose a white candidate over her to succeed Joe Biden, calling it potentially “offensive” to black voters if she’s sidelined, according to the Telegraph. Desperate stuff.
• “Mainstream media 7News Australia airs groundbreaking segment highlighting Covid vaccine reactions” – For the first time ever, Australia’s highest rating mainstream media, 7News, has dared to air a segment highlighting COVID-19 vaccine side effects, a topic largely censored over the past three years, says Aussie17 on Substack.
• “Asexual Pride? Wokesters have lost the plot” – London’s Pride now celebrates trans, kink and asexuality, all while denigrating lesbians, writes Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
• “The double standards of slavery” – Those who claim the U.K. owes the descendants of slaves reparations for its involvement in the slave trade, rarely acknowledge African complicity in the trafficking, says Peter Harris in the New Conservative.
• “Thou shalt not criticise – bishops plan speech code to silence rebels” – In TCW, Julian Mann examines the House of Bishops’ proposal to implement a speech code aimed at enforcing unity within the divided Church of England.
• “Glastonbury has exposed the fake virtue of the elites” – Few events highlight the hypocrisy of the woke as much as ‘Glasto’, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Judi Dench and Siân Phillips become first women to join Garrick Club” – Dame Judi Dench and Dame Siân Phillips have become the first women to join the Garrick Club, reports the Times.
• “Twins separated at birth have identical IQs, study finds” – The Mail reports on a remarkable new study involving identical Chinese twins separated at birth, suggesting that nature is more important than nurture in determining IQ.
• “‘We need to return to foundational, ethical, medical principles’” – On GB News’s The Neil Oliver Show, Dr. Clare Craig discusses the new initiative ‘Hope Accord’, advocating investigations into COVID-19 therapies.

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