News Round-Up

• “How scientists misled the world about Covid’s origins” – The suppression of the lab-leak theory is the mother of all Covid scandals, writes Matt Ridley in Spiked.
• “Lockdown: a reckoning” – Five years on, we must not let the elites off the hook for the unhinged experiment they inflicted on us, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “Why Labour Science minister must come clean over Wuhan lab leak claim” – In the Mail, Ian Birrell demands Lord Vallance come clean about his role in helping bury the truth about Covid’s origins.
• “Experts reveal the truth about Covid jabs and cancer” – How seriously should we take claims that some of the Covid jabs cause cancer? The Mail looks at the evidence.
• “Whitehall ‘to cut £2.2 billion off admin costs’ as Reeves struggles for cash” – The civil service will be told to slash more than £2 billion a year by the end of the decade as Rachel Reeves desperately tries to balance the books, reports the Mail.
• “Rachel Reeves the least trusted politician in Britain on the economy” – According to a new poll, Rachel Reeves is the least trusted politician when it comes to the economy, reports the Mail.
• “‘Let her raise taxes, then sack her’: why Reeves’s number may be up” – The Chancellor has painted herself into a corner as “the mother of all rebellions” looms, writes Szu Ping Chan in the Telegraph.
• “Rachel Reeves’s growth-sapping taxes can only get worse” – The Chancellor’s tax hikes have already done enormous economic damage, says Liam Halligan in the Telegraph. And if she raises taxes again, the damage will only get worse.
• “Think Britain is going down the drain? We are the envy of the world” – As the UK loses record numbers of millionaires, many in Europe still see boundless opportunities here, says Michael Mosbacher in the Telegraph.
• “Farage ‘goes to war’ with teachers union over Reform claims” – Reform UK’s Nigel Farage has vowed to “go to war with the teachers’ unions” after the country’s biggest education union slammed the party as “far-Right and racist”, reports the Mail.
• “A new MP for Runcorn? Bring on Reform, say disillusioned voters” – In the Guardian, Lizzie Dearden heads to Runcorn ahead of the by-election triggered by Labour’s Mike Amesbury quitting – and finds locals calling for change.
• “Putin will weaponise the ECHR against British troops in Ukraine, Starmer warned” – Sir Keir Starmer has been warned that British troops sent to Ukraine as part of a planned peacekeeping force could face “vexatious” human rights prosecutions, according to the Parliament Politics.
• “Illegal migrant avoids deportation because he lost his phone and ID” – An illegal Iraqi migrant has avoided deportation from the UK after claiming he had lost his phone and identity documents, reports the Mail.
• “Inside the county bearing the brunt of Britain’s asylum seeker crisis” – Kent’s unfortunate geographical position means the county is forced to bear the brunt of the migrant crisis, writes Piriyanga Thirunimalan in the Mail.
• “Families’ anger over plans to build mosque car park on ‘village green’” – Alarmed local residents have raised concerns over their village green being replaced by a mosque car park, reports the Mail.
• “‘I condemned the October 7th massacre. It cost me my job’” – A sewage worker has been sacked by Severn Trent Water for condemning the October 7th massacre, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Model sues Gymshark after ‘Zionist’ posts allegedly led to her being axed” – A social media star is suing Gymshark for £775,500, claiming the brand ditched her after her pro-Israel stance sparked an online backlash, according to the Times.
• “Heathrow ‘had enough power to avoid shutdown’” – The head of National Grid says that Heathrow Airport had enough power to keep running, despite an “unprecedented blaze” tearing through a nearby substation, reports LBC.
• “Ed Miliband just doesn’t fit into Labour’s new story” – Labour has a Miliband problem, says Jason Cowley in the Sunday Times.
• “MPs’ energy vote raises questions over ‘slave labour’ solar panels” – Ed Miliband is expected to block a bid to stop the Government buying Chinese solar panels feared to have been made with slave labour, reports the Mail.
• “Grandmother told to wait seven hours for ambulance – then it took twice as long” – An 81 year-old grandmother waited over 14 hours for an ambulance after suffering a fall in a bathtub, says the Mail.
• “The West has blinded itself to the suffering of Middle Eastern Christians” – There are no shortage of protests for Palestinians, but only silence for religious minorities facing persecution, says Benny Morris in the Telegraph.
• “NHS nurse punished for calling transgender paedophile ‘Mr’” – A senior nurse is suing an NHS Trust after being investigated and disciplined for not referring to a male paedophile by his preferred female pronouns, reports the Sun.
• “Ocado waters down ethnic minority targets as bosses go cold on DEI” – Ocado has scaled back its ethnic diversity targets for senior roles amid a broader corporate retreat from diversity initiatives, says the Telegraph.
• “Even Oxford University has bowed to the cult of gender ideology” – For 800 years, Oxford University has conferred degrees in Latin – but in a sign of how far the lunacy has gone, it is now set to change the wording to make it more ‘inclusive’, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “Cambridge librarian made race claim after time off request was denied” – A University of Cambridge librarian has sued for race discrimination after not being allowed to take an entire term off to go to India, reports the Telegraph.
• “Disney faces being sued over Snow White snub of ‘little people’” – The ‘little people’ (dwarves) originally cast in Snow White are planning a class action lawsuit against Disney for replacing them with “cartoons”, says the Mail. 
• “‘Everything woke turns to shit’” – On X, il Donaldo Trumpo has posted an alternative Snow White intro.

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