News Round-Up

• “We will stand with people staring down the outrage mob” – A joint op ed in the Australian by the leaders of the four Free Speech Unions urges people to band together to defend the most important human right of all.
• “NewsGuard Threatens Free Speech” – Newsmax reports on NewsGuard’s efforts to censor Prager U.
• “EU offered secret deal to censor Twitter, claims Musk” – Elon Musk has accused the European Union of offering him a “secret deal” to censor Twitter to avoid fines, reports the Telegraph.
• “The totalitarian nightmare we warned about is happening” – Michael Shellenberger rails against the EU for its threat to censor X on his Public Substack.
• “Labour’s nepo babies in Cabinet, from the ‘Red Princess’ to Theresa May’s cousin” – So much for Labour’s claims about having hordes of working class MPs. The Telegraph has identified 11 new Labour parliamentarians, many of them Hons, who have benefited from familial links to party bigwigs.
• “Half of Cabinet accused of house-building ‘hypocrisy’” – Half of Keir Starmer’s Cabinet opposed planning proposals in their own constituencies, according to the Telegraph.
• “What has Britain done? Labour is already showing its sinister true colours” – Starmer has only been in office for one week and the terrible decisions are starting to add up, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “Releasing violent prisoners early is risky, admits Justice Secretary” – Shabana Mahmood, the new Justice Secretary, blames the Tories for Labour’s decision to release 5,000 prisoners, reports the Times.
• “Blow to Miliband’s nuclear ambitions as top mini-nuke lab faces closure” – The closure of a mini-nuke lab has put a spanner in the works for Net Zero fanatic Ed Miliband, says the Telegraph.
• “Tories fear Labour-Lib Dem Parliament pact could leave them ‘irrelevant’” – The Conservative parliamentary party is concerned that Labour and the Lib Dems will conspire to elect a Liberal Democrat Deputy Speaker, leaving Conservatives with little influence, according to the Telegraph.
• “Hubristic Conservatives met their nemesis. Now must come some catharsis” – The Conservative Party may find it harder to re-invent itself than it did when Margaret Thatcher became leader in 1975, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “Starmer’s first credibility test is women’s rights” – The new Prime Minister promised to protect women-only spaces, but his Cabinet appointments suggest otherwise, says Jenni Russell in the Times.
• “Labour’s sinister record on trans rights” – Julie Burchill in the Spectator says Labour’s record on standing up for sex-based women’s rights is poor.
• “Labour moves to ban puberty blockers permanently” – Wes Streeting does his best to prove Julie Burchill wrong by making the last government’s ban on puberty blockers permanent, according to the Telegraph.
• “The Curious Case of the Biden Regency” – Biden is clearly a cut-out for close advisers and relatives who steer the executive branch in his name, says Eugyppius on Substack.
• “Is the Great Reset about to find its teeth?” – Tom Ed on his Substack is unimpressed by Sir Keir Starmer’s first week in office.
• “Biden’s gaffe has ruined months of our hard work, say European officials” – Diplomats fear that in less than a minute the US President changed the narrative of the NATA summit, from what should have been a triumph into a laughing stock, reports the Telegraph.
• “Kremlin reacts with glee to Biden’s gaffe filled press conference” – Moscow has called Joe Biden a “pro-Russian candidate being controlled by the Kremlin” after his major gaffe at the NATO summit in which he addressed the Ukrainian as “President Putin”, reports the Mail.
• “How the White House hid the truth about Biden’s decline from the world” – Smoke and mirrors covered his many gaffes, but now a growing number of Democrats fear the 81-year-old President has made one slip too many, says the Telegraph.
• “Biden’s ‘super friends’ plot to end his candidacy” – The President must step aside or the Dems will get their asses kicked, according to a senior Democrat quoted in the Telegraph.
• “Democratic donors ‘to withhold $90m unless Joe Biden stands down’” – According to a new poll, almost anyone would have a better change against Trump, even Kamala Harris, reports the Times.
• “George Clooney changing tune on Biden just shows how pathetic Dems are” – Douglas Murray reveals in the New York Post that whenever he enters a voting booth he always thinks: “What would George Clooney do?” Er, not really.
• “U.K. hasn’t allowed Ukraine to use Storm Shadow missiles inside Russia, MoD clarifies” – Zelensky rows back on his earlier claim that he’s been given the green light to use Storm Shadow missiles, reports the Telegraph.
• “We are being far too soft on incompetent teachers – and the militant unions that indulge them” – For all the evidence of the damage wrought by lockdown on children, their needs are still deprioritised in favour of spoiled adults, says Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
• “James Cleverly leads race to replace Rishi Sunak, poll suggests” – The former Home Secretary has emerged as the early favourite in the Conservative leadership contest, according to the Times.
• “Public schoolboys are out — but you’ll miss us” – Comprehensive kids are now in charge but where’s the fun for MPs in only being surrounded by other revolutionaries? asks Giles Coren in the Times.
• “It won’t be long before the Muslim Vote poses a real challenge to Labour“ – In the Sceptic podcast, Frank Haviland says the Muslim Vote will soon be a formidable political force.

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