News Round-Up

• “Zelensky says 400,000 Ukrainian troops killed or injured in war” – Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed that more than 400,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or injured during the war with Russia, reports the BBC.
• “Germany, Austria and U.K. freeze Syrian refugee claims” – Security sources have told the Telegraph that the U.K. faces a threat from British jihadists returning from Syria, prompting a suspension of all asylum claims from the country.
• “Fall of Assad could lead to ‘serious spike’ in ISIS threat in Europe” – One of Britain’s former head spies has warned of a “serious spike” in Isis’s threat to Europe after the fall of Assad, reports the Mail.
• “Gaddafi’s 2011 fall in Libya is a warning from history” – In the Mail, Mark Almond explores how the fall of Bashar al-Assad could plunge Syria into the same lawless chaos that followed Gaddafi’s ousting in Libya.
• “Inside Assad’s torture chambers where prisoners were raped and killed” – Prisoners held inside Bashar al-Assad’s notorious Syrian torture chamber prison were forced to suck their own blood off the floor and rape fellow inmates, reports the Mail.
• “Vogue labelled Asma Al Assad ‘rose of the desert’ in gushing profile” – Vogue’s surprising profile of the former First Lady of Syria is likely to resurface in the minds of many following the collapse of the al-Assad family’s iron rule, writes Jessica Green in the Mail.
• “Keir Starmer holds talks with Saudi ruler” – Keir Starmer has held talks with Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman as he puts efforts to boost Britain’s economic growth above human rights, reports the Mail.
• “U.K. ‘teetering on the brink of recession’ after Labour Budget” – Fears of a U.K. economic downturn have grown as a BDO survey revealed business confidence had plummeted to a two-year low, says the Mail.
• “Rachel Reeves to warn EU that free movement demands risk harming growth” – Rachel Reeves is set to warn the EU that making hard-line demands for the post-Brexit reset of relations with the U.K. risks harming the bloc’s economic growth, according to the Telegraph.
• “Flawed migration policies to cost the U.K. government a trillion pounds a year” – Conservative Post exposes the staggering financial consequences of Britain’s current immigration policies.
• “English schools are some of the best in the world. Labour will change that” – School reform worked once. When Bridget Phillipson is done, we’ll be back to where we were, warns Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
• “Three quarters of young people would consider moving abroad” – Bleak growth forecasts and a struggling economy has more 18-to-30 year-olds looking to leave Britain, reports the Telegraph.
• “English house prices have increased twice as fast as income since 2000” – A damning report from the Office of National Statistics reveals that since 2000, house prices in England have risen twice as fast as income, with only the top 10% of earners able to afford a home in London, says the Mail.
• “Even Labour’s own voters think Starmer is a worse PM than Thatcher was” – A poll by More in Common reveals that even Labour voters think Keir Starmer is proving a worse PM than Margaret Thatcher, according to the Mail.
• “Cabinet minister praises Elon Musk despite billionaire’s criticism of Starmer Government” – Pat McFadden, one of Keir Starmer’s most senior ministers, has praised Elon Musk as an “incredible innovator”, despite the billionaire’s repeated criticism of the PM and his Government, reports the Telegraph.
• “The night antisemitism at Oxford spun out of control” – A recent Oxford Union debate has sparked fresh concern over the growing culture of antisemitism at Oxford, write George Chesterton and Natasha Leake in the Telegraph.
• “This film warned of the terrors of antisemitism – who would dare make it now?” – Released in 1944, Mr. Emmanuel was strikingly direct in its presentation of the Nazi campaign of mass murder – today, no-one would touch it, says Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.
• “Sometimes we should just let British heritage go, says major Labour donor” – According to green energy tycoon Dale Vince, British heritage is sometimes “just history on life support” and should be allowed to die, according to the Telegraph.
• “U.K. has most expensive train tickets in Europe, study finds” – A new study by the campaign group Transport & Environment reveals that train fares in the U.K. are the highest in Europe, with Great Western Railway charging 2.2 times more than the EU average for comparable routes, reports LBC.
• “Freelance journalist ‘stalked George Osborne for more than a year’” – A journalist has appeared in court charged with stalking George Osborne, the former Chancellor, and his wife, Thea Rogers, for more than a year, says Sky News.
• “Used EVs are selling faster than petrol and diesel for this reason” – Bargain-hunters are snapping up used electric cars, driven by rock-bottom prices, reports the Mail.
• “The middle-class war breaking out over trendy wood burners” – A middle-class battle is brewing between country folk and city elites over wood burners, after a report branded them Britain’s biggest source of dangerous air pollution, says the Mail. 
• “Homeowners who put ‘wrong’ rubbish in bins could be dragged to court” – Residents who put the ‘wrong’ rubbish in their bins could be taken to court and fined up to £2,500 under a new council purge, reports the Mail.
• “‘Ukrainians are sick of the war. But we’re not allowed to say it’” – As the Ukraine war drags on, there is unrelenting pressure to prove your loyalty. If you don’t, you risk being labelled a traitor yourself, says Dmytro Filimonov in the Free Press.
• “The EU will soon have the largest hoard of biometric data on earth – and travellers could suffer” – Privacy-conscious Britons are threatening to boycott Spain over its new ‘Big Brother’ rules – but they are just the tip of the iceberg, writes Robert Jackman in the Telegraph.
• “Brian Thompson murder latest” – The man detained by police in Pennsylvania in connection with the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been identified as Luigi Mangione, reports the Mail.
• “NY Times editorial page is a fact-challenged disaster” – On his Substack, Paul D. Thacker exposes the New York Times’s opinion section as a narrative-driven disaster, where journalistic standards have been sacrificed in favour of ideological conformity.
• “How Argentina came to love Milei’s golden chainsaw” – Despite the Argentine President’s draconian economic reforms, his support is growing, reports Simeon Tegel in the Telegraph.
• “New study finds concerning evidence of COVID-19 ‘vaccine’ shedding” – On the Courageous Discourse Substack, Nicolas Hulscher reveals that women near COVID-19 vaccinated individuals face a higher risk of menstrual irregularities, raising serious concerns about vaccine shedding.
• “Heroes in the fog of war: canaries Dr. Robert Malone and Dr. Byram Bridle’s stand for scientific integrity and truth” – The Canary in a Covid World Substack salutes Dr. Robert W. Malone and Dr. Byram Bridle for courageously standing against censorship and propaganda to expose the truth behind the COVID-19 narrative.
• “‘My gender-critical views got me barred from university radio – but I’ll keep fighting for free speech’” – In the Telegraph, Connie Shaw reveals how her gender-critical views led to her suspension from a student-run Leeds radio station. Luckily, she’s a member of the Free Speech Union.
• “‘My daughter’s school convinced her she was transgender – and didn’t tell me’” – A Florida mother was forced to pull her daughter out of school after she says teachers convinced her child she was transgender, according to the Telegraph.
• “Driven to woke: how Enterprise Rent-A-Car’s been captured” – On Matt Goodwin’s Substack, James Esses reveals shocking internal documents from Enterprise Rent-A-Car, exposing how the company has been overtaken by woke ideology.
• “JCVI override exposed” – On X, UsForThem’s Molly Kingsley reveals shocking minutes that show how the U.K.’s Chief Medical Officers overruled the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation to push for children’s Covid vaccines.

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