News Round-Up

• “Labour MP shares post saying Kemi Badenoch is ‘blackface of white supremacy’” – Labour MP Dawn Butler shared a social media post accusing Kemi Badenoch of representing “white supremacy in blackface”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Rise of Kemi Badenoch – from childhood in Nigeria to leader of the Conservative Party” – Kemi Badenoch is the first black woman to lead a major political party and the first major party leader to identify as a “first generation immigrant”, says the Telegraph.
• “This is a seismic moment. Kemi must reunite the Right – or we are doomed” – The challenge will be winning over voters attracted by an angrier style while still looking like a Prime Minister in waiting, suggests Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “Kemi Badenoch’s New Toryism” – The newly installed party leader is fighting to save a lost Britain, argues Tom McTague in UnHerd.
• “Finally, a leader who’s willing to fight the culture war” – Kemi Badenoch is the anti-Kamala, just the breath of fresh air the Western world needed, says Spiked‘s Brendan O’Neill.
• “J.K. Rowling praises Badenoch’s ‘brains and bravery’ on women’s rights” – J.K. Rowling has praised Kemi Badenoch’s “brains and bravery” in standing up for women’s rights after Mrs Badenoch was unveiled as the new Conservative leader, reports the Telegraph.
• “Why would I, or anyone else, ever trust the Tories again? Their brand is broken” – The sense of betrayal felt by millions of 2019 voters will not be undone by a new leader, argues Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
• “James Cleverly says he won’t serve on Tory front bench under new leader… with Jeremy Hunt and ex-deputy PM Oliver Dowden also stepping aside” – Shadow Home Secretary James Cleverly has joined other ex-Ministers in ruling out serving in Kemi’s team, reports the Mail.
• “The new Conservatives: who might get the top jobs as new leader Kemi Badenoch begins her project of reviving beaten party” – Kemi has just 120 Conservative MPs from which to form a shadow team to hold Labour to account, and a number of former Ministers have pre-emptively said no, says the Mail.
• “Reform U.K.’s by-election upset threatens Labour and Tories” – The residents of Bilston North, a ward in the West Midlands, have just elected their first Reform U.K. councillor, with the party coming from nowhere to win 35% of the vote after Labour crashed from 63% to 25%, reports Peter Franklin in UnHerd.
• “Revealed: Rachel Reeves’s £74k rental income – after she hammered landlords in her Budget” – The Chancellor receives £6,000 a month in rental income on top of her six-figure salary despite hitting landlords in her Budget, the Telegraph reveals.
• “How Labour lied to Britain’s farmers” – Labour watered down tax relief for farmers despite the party promising not to do so before the election, the Telegraph reports.
• “Rachel Reeves was going after dukes. She may kill farming instead” – In the Times, Jeremy Clarkson says he rarely writes angry, but Rachel Reeves has forced him to make an exception.
• “This inheritance tax outrage exposes the shameless hypocrisy of the Left” – Leftists claim to deplore the “unearned wealth” of inheritance, but the assortment of benefit scroungers, illegal immigrants and loony councillors they love to hand taxpayer money over to haven’t earned it either, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “How Reeves’s Budget has sown the seeds for Labour’s destruction” – Sir Keir Starmer’s decision to plunder the private sector to expand the public realm is a huge risk – to him and the country, argue Sam Ashworth-Hayes and Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
• “Migrants still being housed in hotels despite Labour manifesto promise” – The Government is continuing to house asylum seekers in hotels despite Labour’s manifesto pledge not to, reports the Telegraph.
• “Britain’s staggering productivity crisis explains so many of our woes” – How is it possible that the public sector is no more productive today than it was in 1996, before the internet took off, wonders Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
• “How wokeness could cost the Democrats the election” – Identitarian activists are the Achilles’ heel of the Democratic machine, says Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
• “The stunning gender gap between Trump and Harris laid bare by poll” – If 2016 was the education election, when voters divided depending on whether or not they had been to college, then 2024 is shaping up to be a battle of the sexes, says the Mail.
• “Why I’m voting for Donald J. Trump” – Alex Berenson swallows his pride, holds his nose, and admits he is going to cast his vote for Trump.
• “J.D. Vance Slams The Surveillance State, Government Backdoors” – During an appearance on the Tim Dillon podcast, J.D. Vance said it was “crazy” that, thanks to America’s addiction to spying on its own citizens, the country is “creating a backdoor in our own technology networks that our enemies are now using”, reports Reclaim the Net.
• “Revealed: What caused that ‘MAGA hat’ fight on BA flight” – Former model Antonia Harman was attacked on a BA flight for being a Trump supporter – yet she was the one removed, reports the Mail.
• “Watch: Pro-Palestine activists steal busts of Israel’s first President from Manchester University” – Pro-Palestinian protesters seized sculptures of Israel’s first President as part of a spate of anti-Israel vandalism attacks on buildings around the U.K. to mark the 107th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, the Telegraph reports.
• “Teacher suspended after saying mastermind of October 7th attack was a martyr” – A teacher at a specialist school has been suspended after describing the mastermind of the October 7th attacks as a martyr and posting online that “killing Zionists is an act of worship”, the Telegraph reports.
• “BBC newsroom is ‘out of control’, says former Director of Television in report on antisemitic bias” – The BBC newsroom is “out of control” in its anti-Israel bias, its former Director of Television Danny Cohen has said, the Telegraph reports.
• “Putin is creating the conditions for Russian victory in Ukraine” – Whoever wins the U.S. Presidential election, they will inherit a war in Ukraine that requires their urgent attention to prevent a Russian victory that would transform the geopolitical landscape, writes Mykola Bielieskov for the Atlantic Council.
• “Research shows decline in out-of-home activities since pandemic” – Compared with just before the COVID-19 pandemic, people are spending nearly an hour less a day doing activities outside the home, behaviour that researchers say is a lasting consequence of the pandemic, reports Phys.org.
• “Idaho Health Board First in U.S. to Defy CDC and FDA by Removing Covid Vaccines From Clinics” – Idaho’s Southwest District Health became the first in the U.S. to no longer offer COVID-19 vaccines after its board voted four-three last week to pull the shots from the 30 locations where it provides healthcare services, reports the Defender.
• “National Trust pushes through vegan overhaul of cafes despite membership backlash” – The National Trust has voted through a vegan overhaul of its 300 cafes, committing to make 50% of the produce at them plant-based, despite a backlash among its members over the adoption of “progressive causes”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Year 2024 Global Northern Hemisphere Hurricane Season is Clearly Below ‘Normal’ Despite all the Alarmist Hype focused on the North Atlantic” – For all the hype, the North Atlantic hurricane season was far from being a record high, and the broader Northern Hemisphere hurricane season was well below average, says Larry Hamlin in WUWT.
• “University reported to watchdog after vice-Chancellor ‘pushed out for holding Right-wing views’” – The higher education watchdog has been urged by the Free Speech Union to investigate a “political” campaign to oust Buckingham University’s Vice-Chancellor for being too “Right-wing”, reports the Telegraph.
• “We need to talk about Southport” – The state wants to protect us from reality, says Ben Cobley in UnHerd.
• “Southport: why the public must not be silenced” – The information vacuum allowed wild speculation and conspiracy theories to flourish, says Luke Gittos in Spiked.
• “Cambridge doesn’t need a ‘behaviour code’ – academic life is much too boring” – Why do reasonably intelligent and civilised adults have to be exposed to these kinds of demeaning and infantile admonitions, asks Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
• “Schools face being marked down for taking in too many middle-class children” – Schools face being marked down for taking on too many middle-class pupils and not taking their “fair share” from disadvantaged backgrounds under plans being considered by Ofsted, the Mail reports.
• “Protesters secretly fit slave trader plaque in church” – Protesters in Falmouth surreptitiously mounted a brass plaque beneath a memorial in a church rebuking a 17th-century parishioner for his role in the slave trade, reports the Telegraph.
• “Russell Brand faces being charged with historic sex offences” – Scotland Yard has asked the Crown Prosecution Service to consider bringing charges against Russell Brand, reports the Mail.
• “Zombie Traffic Light: The German Government teeters once again on the brink of collapse, but in truth it is already dead” – The terminally unpopular “traffic light” coalition Government of Germany needs to be put out of its misery, says Eugyppius. But it won’t be.

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