News Round-Up

• “A Prime Minister’s plans being undone by the OBR… we’ve heard that one before” – Politicians should not be hindered by unelected officials from doing their job, says Kwasi Kwarteng in the Telegraph.
• “Michael Gove to receive peerage in Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours” – Michael Gove will be awarded a peerage in ex-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours list on Friday, according to the National.
• “Asylum seeker avoids deportation because of all his Facebook friends” – An Iranian asylum seeker has won the right to appeal against deportation by arguing his large number of Facebook friends puts him at risk of persecution, reports GB News.
• “‘I work at a migrant hotel. Even when residents are granted asylum they try to come back’” – In the Telegraph, an insider at a migrant hotel describes how newly recognised refugees immediately apply for welfare and housing support.
• “The immigration lawyer fighting to legalise Hamas” – With a series of shocking anti-Israel statements to his name, Fahad Ansari has a new client – Hamas – and is lobbying the Government on their behalf, writes Abigail Buchanan in the Telegraph.
• “Lucy Connolly shouldn’t be in prison” – In Spiked, Ian Acheson argues that Lucy Connolly’s 31-month prison sentence for a racist social media post is disproportionately harsh, especially when compared to the leniency shown to actual rioters.
• “Pseudoscience, a salad garden and a study on pregnant men: how Britain’s quangos spend your money” – In the Telegraph, Charlotte Gill outlines where Labour could begin its ‘bonfire of the quangos’ if it was serious about overhauling the system.
• “‘Tories could work with Reform on councils’” – Kemi Badenoch says that Conservative councillors should be free to enter into coalitions with Reform UK after next month’s local elections, according to the Irish News.
• “Eco warriors are driving themselves to extinction” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark argues that eco-zealotry and climate guilt are contributing to plunging fertility rates in green political strongholds, potentially driving themselves to extinction.
• “Welcome to Woke County where WW2 parades are axed and prayers banned” – In the Mail, Tom Cotterill and Lettice Bromovsky chart Hertfordshire’s transformation into Britain’s “wokest county”, where VE Day parades are cancelled for being ‘elitist’ and Christian prayers are banned.
• “Kim Leadbeater’s for-profit suicide service” – Kim Leadbeater’s ‘assisted dying’ Bill has become a moral horror show, says Kevin Yuill in Spiked.
• “The lunacy of Gillian Mackay’s abortion Bill” – In the Spectator, Rod Liddle savages Gillian Mackay’s “safe access zones” abortion Bill as a ludicrous bit of overreach that criminalises silent protest.
• “Funeral of a friend who had the Covid booster – and developed raging cancer” – In TCW, Prof Angus Dalgleish reflects on the death of a friend from aggressive cancer after receiving the Covid booster.
• “A speculative prediction as to why Marks was afraid to let Secretary Kennedy access the VAERS data” – On Substack, Jessica Rose argues that Peter Marks, former head of the FDA’s vaccine division, blocked RFK Jr.’s team from accessing full VAERS data to prevent him discovering racial and demographic patterns in vaccine side effects.
• “As the AfD tops the polls, Germany’s political establishment is facing an existential crisis” – The leading German parties of Right and Left – the CDU and the SPD – have failed the people they are supposed to serve, says Elisabeth Dampier in the Telegraph.
• “Did Trump really mean to slap tariffs on the world?” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark argues that Trump’s tariff threats may be calculated brinkmanship rather than economic madness.
• “Trump’s tariff pause is terrible for democracy” – If the most powerful leader in the Western world can’t implement a policy, what hope is there for the rest of us? asks Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
• “Trump is right to take on the free-trade fundamentalists” – The old order of globalisation and industrial decline has failed working-class Americans, says Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
• “Billionaire investor Bill Ackman defends Donald Trump’s tariff play” – On Substack, Alex Berenson dissects billionaire investor Bill Ackman’s defence of Donald Trump’s controversial tariff strategy.
• “Why the Liberation Day tariffs were faintly terrifying and why it is probably good that Trump has walked the greater part of them back” – On Substack, Eugyppius argues that while Trump’s presidency has been a necessary corrective to the Left-wing excesses of recent years, his tariff proposals were dangerously misguided.
• “Trump’s tariffs might spell the end of China” – In the Telegraph, Benedict Rogers argues that President Trump’s targeted tariffs on China, if successfully leveraged by the global community, could cripple China’s economy and potentially lead to a domestic uprising.
• “Oxford debate contest forces hundreds of children to declare pronouns” – The biggest British debating competition in the world run by the Oxford Union pressures hundreds of children to declare their gender pronouns every year, reports the Mail.
• “Police force accused of anti-white bias has fair recruitment, says Cooper” – Yvette Cooper has refused to criticise West Yorkshire Police for having a racist recruitment policy, says the Telegraph.
• “Police officers being taught they have white privilege” – Thames Valley Police has introduced “equity training” which covers topics including “white privilege”, “micro-aggressions” and the difference between being “non-racist versus anti-racist”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Welsh Government offers £5,000 more to student teachers from ethnic minorities” – The Welsh Government has been blasted for offering ethnic minority students £5,000 more in grants than their white counterparts to train to become teachers, says the Times.
• “‘I have changed my mind: anti-white racism exists’” – As time passes, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore what looks like a growing pattern of institutional discrimination against white Britons, writes Inaya Folarin Iman in the Telegraph.
• “Transgender fencer leaves women’s team” – A transgender fencer has left the women’s squad at a US college after an opponent’s refusal to face him went viral, according to the NY Post.
• “England was forged by Christianity – but we’re giving it up” – Bijan Omrani’s superb book, God is an Englishman, argues that we take our national faith for granted – and that young people suffer as a result, writes Rowan Williams in the Telegraph.
• Who cares if Kemi Bandenoch has watched Adolescence?” – In the Spectator, Stephen Pollard slams the absurdity of media outrage over Kemi Badenoch’s refusal to watch the Netflix drama Adolescence.
• “‘I don’t need to watch Casualty to know what’s going on in the NHS’” – The hosts of BBC Breakfast are visibly offended that Kemi Badenoch hasn’t watched Adolescence, but the Tory leader is having none of it.

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