News Round-Up

• “Blair predicts £50 billion Labour tax raid” – According to a report from the Tony Blair Institute, Keir Starmer will have no choice but to slap the public with a tax hike of £53 billion, says Guido Fawkes.
• “‘Living under Labour will cost me millions – it’s unbelievably depressing’” – Wealthy taxpayers are quitting the country “by the plane-load” amid fears Labour is plotting to turn the screws on the rich, reports the Telegraph.
• “Angela Rayner drops ‘Levelling Up’ from her Whitehall department” – Angela Rayner has ditched ‘Levelling Up’ from her Whitehall department as she vowed to drop “gimmicks and slogans”, says the Mail.
• “‘Smearing’ Reform U.K. won’t win back voters for Tories, says Braverman” – Suella Braverman has warned that “smearing” Reform U.K. and its voters is not an effective strategy for the Conservatives to win back support, reports the BBC.
• “‘Tory leadership rival Robert Jenrick is on Left of party’” – Suella Braverman has accused Robert Jenrick of being a “centrist Rishi supporter” who is “from the Left of the party”, according to the Times.
• “Rwanda dismisses idea of returning any of £290 million for U.K. migrant scheme” – Rwanda’s Government has dismissed suggestions it could hand back any of the £290 million committed to the now-junked migrant deportation deal with Britain, reports the Mail.
• “Most failed asylum seekers set for deportation are released instead, report finds” – A new report reveals that drug use by migrants at one of the U.K.’s main detention centres is so widespread that detainees openly smoke cannabis, says the BBC.
• “People want immigration controls, Blair tells Starmer” – Tony Blair has warned Keir Starmer that “people want controls” on immigration, according to the Express.
• “Cheerio, Chipping Norton set. Here comes the Kentish Town crew” – In the Times, Kentish Town local Esther Walker explores Keir Starmer’s NW5 background.
• “What now for the Conservative Party?” – There are so few Tories left in Parliament that it hardly seems worth appointing one as leader, writes Dr. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
• “The fake news about Reform’s ‘fake’ candidates” – Supposedly sensible centrists have fallen for another batsh*t conspiracy theory, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “People condemning Russia but not Israel are hypocrites, says Humza Yousaf” – Former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf has compared Putin’s invasion of Ukraine with Benjamin Netanyahu’s war against Hamas, reports the Telegraph.
• “Lucy Letby: serial killer or a miscarriage of justice?” – The Telegraph examines the scientific concerns in the arguments used to convict Lucy Letby.
• “Lucy Letby: killer or coincidence? Why some experts question the evidence” – There was no forensic evidence to prove her guilt and no one saw Lucy Letby – who continues to maintain her innocence – causing harm, writes Felicity Lawrence in the Guardian.
• “Lucy Letby – child killer or scapegoat of the system?” – Is the NHS placed on such a pedestal that the justice system would prefer to find a human guilty over the nation’s sacred cow? asks the Naked Emperor on Substack.
• “France faces ‘financial crisis’ after shocking election, minister says” – The victory of the hard-Left NFP has forced France’s elite to consider how their fortunes would fare given the prospect of a dramatic tax-and-spend economic policy, reports the Mail. 
• “White House admits Parkinson’s specialist evaluated Biden” – The White House has admitted that a Parkinson’s expert, who’s visited the executive mansion eight times in as many months, has evaluated President Biden, according to the NY Post.
• “The tactics Biden’s gatekeepers use to hide his ailing health” – Biden’s inner circle of staff have been working for at least a year to conceal the aging President’s cognitive decline, reports the Mail.
• “Concerns as Hunter Biden acting as ‘gatekeeper’ to U.S. President” – Hunter Biden is acting as his father’s “gatekeeper” as calls for the U.S. President to step aside ahead of the November election continue to mount, says Slate.
• “Why Joe Biden is railing against the ‘elites’” – Biden’s strategy is to paint those calling for him to quit as out of touch and white, writes Rozina Sabur in the Telegraph.
• “Why the oil giants are beating a hasty green retreat” – Big Oil has, on both sides of the Atlantic, decided to focus on new oil and gas projects, cutting costs and dividends, says Ben Wright in the Telegraph.
• “NYT admits the seas only rise in some areas, and islands aren’t disappearing. And the ‘science’ was looking at aerial photos over time. Duh” – On Substack, Dr. Meryl Nass flags a recent NY Times article that appears to contradict the mainstream climate narrative.
• “The BBC’s ‘diverse’ Battle of Hastings drama is a farcical distortion of our history” – These days it would be outrageous for white actors to play non-white historical figures. But of course it’s fine the other way round, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Suella Braverman slams flying of Progress Pride flag across Whitehall” – Suella Braverman has criticised “far, far too many Tory politicians” who supported flying the Pride flag in Whitehall to showcase “how liberal and progressive we are”, reports the Mail.
• “After some Germans reject Pride Month by displaying the national colours instead of the rainbow flag, domestic intelligence release a PSA declaring their action anti-constitutional and anti-democratic” – It’s quite curious how our leaders, under the guise of promoting sexual freedom, seem to justify suppressing ordinary people for simply speaking their minds, says Eugyppius on Substack.
• “Bartleby’s daughters” – We have, inadvertently, created the conditions in which love, commitment and family have either lost their appeal, or are slipping out of reach, writes Dr. David McGrogan on his Substack.
• “There’s a reason Eton is cracking down on smartphones” – In the Spectator, Kristina Burkett responds to Eton’s announcement that new pupils will no longer be allowed to bring smartphones to school, but will receive school-issued Nokias instead.
• “How decriminalisation made Vancouver the fentanyl capital of the world” – Overly liberal drug laws have sparked a catastrophe in Vancouver, write Sarah Green and Simon Townsley in the Telegraph.
• “‘Novak Djokovic was right’ about Wimbledon boos, claims BBC presenter” – BBC presenter Sara Thornton has come out in support of Novak Djokovic’s claims he was booed by Wimbledon’s Centre Court crowd, claiming “absolute jerks” used chants for Holger Rune as a “disguise” to target the Serb, reports the Mail.
• “Pride is now anti-gay” – Pride month is finally over, and many people, including gay people, will be breathing a sigh of relief, says Andrew Doyle in a video for Spiked.

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