News Round-Up

• “Ukraine has the green light to fire long-range U.S. missiles into Russia” – President Biden has given Ukraine permission to fire long-range U.S. missiles into Russia, reports the Mail.
• “At least 20 dead in fiercest Russian air assault on Ukraine since August” – The weekend’s missile and drone attacks by Russia targeted Ukraine’s power facilities across multiple cities, including Kyiv, and prompted Poland to mobilise its air force, says the Times.
• “Focus on crime not tweets, Sir Keir Starmer tells police” – The Prime Minister has said the police should “concentrate on what matters most to their communities” following the controversy over Essex Police’s investigation of journalist Allison Pearson, according to the Times.
• “Badenoch says police visit to journalist’s home was ‘absolutely wrong’” – The Conservative Party leader says the police should not be wasting their time investigating journalists’ tweets, reports the Mail.
• “Police get hate laws wrong 90% of the time, says Shadow Home Secretary” – Chris Philp says the police should only record NCHIs where there’s a “real risk of imminent criminality”, says the Telegraph.
• “Essex Police chief questions looking at 700 non crime hate incidents” – Roger Hirst, Essex’s Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner, admits his police force looked at 700 NCHIs last year, according to the Mail.
• “Feminist writer visited by police after ‘transgender man’ reported her” – Julie Bindel says she was told by two Metropolitan Police officers that a “transgender man” from Holland had reported one of her social media posts as a possible hate crime, reports the Mail.
• “The tyranny of the cry-bully” – Julie Burchill in Spiked says the woke have weaponised their emotional incontinence.
• “FA braced for further protests as hundreds march on Wembley for teenager banned in transgender row” – A group of people staged a demo outside England’s game against Ireland at Wembley yesterday to protest about the FA’s six-game suspension of a teenager for asking a male player with a beard in a ladies team whether he was a man, reports the Telegraph.
• “Lefties are leaving Twitter, so where will the poor lambs bleat now?” – With the likes of the Guardian quitting X, Right-wingers will be free to enjoy themselves without being policed by woke commissars, says William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
• “Net zero is ‘sinister’, said Trump’s energy secretary pick Chris Wright” – Trump’s pick for Energy Secretary is a stone cold climate contrarian, according to the Telegraph. Glory be.
• “Britain has an astonishing 470 DELEGATES at climate change summit” – Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of hypocrisy after the sheer scale of the U.K. delegation sent to the COP29 conference in Azerbaijan was revealed, says the Mail.
• “Why does green piety so often come with a huge dose of hypocrisy?” – Is it time to start questioning the Government’s strict adherence to green and renewable policies at all costs? asks Peter Hitchens in the Mail.
• “Just Shop Oil! Now eco-zealots start selling items online” – The environmental group is selling three new products on its online store in a bid to earn more cash to support its relentless campaign against the use of fossil fuels, says the Mail.
• “‘I bought an electric car worth £70k that’s now useless and unfixable’” – Early adopters of Fisker EVs face an ongoing nightmare now that the company has declared bankruptcy, according to the Telegraph.
• “Miliband’s 2030 Net Zero target ‘not feasible’, says top windfarm executive” – Adam Ezzamel, who heads offshore wind development at RWE, one of the UK’s leading renewable operators, says Miliband’s plan to decarbonise the national electricity grid by 2030 is pie in the sky, reports the Telegraph.
• “Miliband’s energy policy isn’t just incoherent, it’s a danger to security” – Britain will not prosper if costs rise and our dependence on foreign states for energy increases, says Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
• “Trump victory doesn’t mean Net Zero is worthless, insists Starmer” – Sir Keir says the U.K. will push ahead with Miliband’s decarbonisation targets despite the U.S. being poised to abandon Net Zero, according to the Telegraph.
• “Bacon needs a health warning like cigarettes, says Dale Vince” – The eco-energy boss believes attaching health warnings to bacon would boost health and cut climate emissions, reports the Times.
• “Pensioners ‘will die’ after Labour’s winter fuel cuts amid cold snap” – Baroness Altmann says the decision to make the winter fuel payment a means-tested payment is “extremely cruel, poorly conceived and actually dangerous”, says the Mail.
• “Record numbers of asylum seekers claim they’re gay to stay in Britain” – The number of asylum seekers claiming to be gay almost trebled last year from 762 in 2022 to 2133 in 2023, according to the Mail.
• “Starmer open to paying countries that stop migrants coming to Britain” – The Home Office in negotiations with Vietnam, Kurdistan and Turkey to pay them to beef up border security, reports the Telegraph.
• “Revealed: Fake asylum seekers are conning their way into Britain” – The Mail has discovered a network of thousands sharing huge swathes of training material to convince Home Office case officers they’re from Eritrea – because refugees from Eritrea have a 99% success rate when applying for asylum.
• “Paedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in U.K. under ECHR rules” – Deporting a convicted paedophile who sexually assaulted his stepdaughter would be a breach of his right to a family life, as per the Immigration Tribunal, according to the Telegraph.
• “Farage claims lack of Manchester Airport charges is ‘two tier justice’” – The Reform U.K. leader has compared the absence of charges following the attack on police officers at Manchester Airport to the “immediacy” of action against those who rioted after the Southport stabbings, reports the Mail.
• “Trump’s $1 trillion ‘shock and awe’ blueprint to deport 20 million” – Within hours of his inauguration, Trump has promised to launch what he calls “the biggest mass deportation in American history”, according to the Mail.
• “Starmer’s Chagos deal risks taking hundreds of millions from MoD budget” – Ministers have refused to reveal how much Britain will pay to ensure the Diego Garcia military base, also used by the U.S., can remain in the Chagos Islands, says the Telegraph.
• “I want our country to stay solvent – if that makes me a headbanger, so be it” – “I’m often accused of getting too right wing,” says Matthew Syed in the Sunday Times, adding: “It’s not me who’s changed. It’s the spendthrift socialists in power.”
• “The brutal truth? Rachel Reeves backs bankers over farmers” – The Chancellor should take care – were a strike to cause food shortages, it would be politically lethal, says Kamal Ahmed in the Telegraph.
• “Food shortage plans drawn up as farmers threaten to strike” – Ministers are drawing up contingency plans to deal with food shortages if farmers go on strike, reports the Telegraph.
• “Why showdown with farmers risks defining Starmer’s Government” – Polls suggest the public backs the farmers in their fight against inheritance tax, with campaigners hoping a rally this week will add further pressure, says the Telegraph.
• “Angela Rayner set to vote against assisted dying bill” – Labour’s Deputy Leader is the most senior Cabinet minister to oppose the assisted dying bill, according to the Telegraph.
• “Will the assisted dying bill pass the Commons?” – Officially, the House of Commons will have a free vote when the assisted dying bill comes before it later this month. But, says Katy Balls in the Spectator, Labour will probably engage in some soft whipping to get it passed.
• “Twice-censored landmark COVID-19 vaccine autopsy study fully peer-reviewed and published” – The largest COVID-19 vaccine autopsy study to-date, providing robust evidence that COVID-19 vaccines can cause death, has been officially republished, says Nicolas Hulscher, one of its authors, on Substack.
• “NHS alert over ‘shocking’ rise in strokes in middle age” – Cases among those in their 50s have increased by 55% – faster than any other age group, says the Telegraph.
• “How private schools could become an option for the many not the few” – The Tories should resurrect the policy of school vouchers, putting the chance of a private education into the hands of millions, says Michael Mosbacher in the Telegraph.
• “Don’t blame periods for women gaining fewer firsts at Oxbridge” – You need outrageous amounts of intellectual arrogance to give first-class answers in Oxbridge finals, and women, famously, have less of it, according to Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “Trans monkeys and IRS cheques for dead people: the bizarre government spending Musk could cut” – Elon Must has until July 4th 2026 to slash state expenditure and transform efficiency through a new department, reports the Telegraph. And there’s plenty of waste to cut.
• “Meet the Rees-Moggs: ‘I quite enjoy winding people up’” – Why is Jacob Rees-Mogg letting the reality TV cameras into his family home? The Sunday Times’s Nick Rufford spent some time with the family to find out.
• “Archbishop of York urged to step down amid Church abuse scandal” – Stephen Cottrell, the Archbishop of York, stands accused of “ignoring” 11 abuse cases, some involving leading bishops, and has been urged to resign, reports the Times.
• “Geology is racist and ‘linked to white supremacy’ claims U.K. professor” – A professor at a leading British university has branded the subject of geology “racist”, claiming it has been heavily influenced by colonisation, says the Mail.
• “Mother-of-two sues council over gender neutral toilets” – Sarah Holman says she was hounded out of a job she loved at Bracknell Forest Council after she complained to HR about not wanting to bump into biological men in the toilets, according to the Mail.
• “Trans men and lesbians get IVF priority ahead of straight couples” – Under controversial new proposals, women who think they’re men and who have difficulty conceiving will be prioritised for IVF treatment, as will lesbians and single women, reports the Mail.
• “Miss Universe fans stunned after biological woman wins beauty pageant” – Victoria Kjaer Theilvig, a 21 year-old Dane, has won Miss Universe, in spite of a full complement of trans, fat and married contestants, reports the Mail.
• “What’s referred to as ‘the Science’ has become more dogmatic than the Catholic church was in the 17th Century” – Talking to Bari Weiss, Peter Thiel says defenders of scientific orthodoxy have become so dogmatic they’re impeding scientific progress.

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