News Round-Up

• “How much did Starmer really know about Mandelson?” – It stretches credulity to believe the Prime Minister had no inkling of what might be unearthed in the Epstein files, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “Gordon Brown’s mistake on Mandelson has blown up in Starmer’s face” – In the Telegraph, Gordon Rayner questions Gordon Brown’s judgment in bringing Mandelson back into government in 2008.
• “Sarah Ferguson took ‘the two girls’ to visit Epstein five days after prison release” – Details from the Epstein files suggest that Sarah Ferguson visited Jeffrey Epstein just five days after his release from prison for child sex crimes and took Beatrice and Eugenie with her, reports LBC.
• “Kemi Badenoch says Keir Starmer has been ‘played’ by China as PM says he was right to suck up to Beijing’s communist regime” – Kemi Badenoch has launched a blistering attack in the Commons, accusing the Prime Minister of naïveté over Beijing, according to the Mail.
• “Why won’t the Green Party use the word ‘Jews’?” – In the Spectator, Brendan O’Neill calls out the Greens for erasing Jews from their Holocaust Memorial Day message.
• “Labour paying hospitals £3 million a month to delete patients from waiting lists” – Ministers have been ridiculed for paying hospitals £3 million a month to delete patients from waiting lists – making it look like the NHS is treating more people than it is, says the Mail.
• “Landlord pulls pints of ‘Rachel Thieves’ after Labour’s tax raids” – A landlord is pouring pints of “Rachel Thieves” in protest at Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s tax raids on pubs, reports the Telegraph.
• “There are no nice areas left for Londoners to live in” – In the Telegraph, Sean Thomas captures the gloomy mood hanging over London.
• “Britain is becoming a surveillance state, but no one seems to care” – Creeping facial recognition and mass data collection threaten our civil liberties, warns Alex Klaushofer in the Spectator.
• “Graham Linehan to address US Congress over ‘threats to free speech’” – Graham Linehan is set to appear before the US Congress this week, where he will accuse Sir Keir Starmer of diminishing free speech in Britain, says GB News.
• “What to do if you get debanked, and why it might have happened to you” – Half a million customers were debanked last year, often without clear reason, leaving them locked out of their accounts. In the Telegraph, Rachel Wait explains why banks act this way – and what to do if it happens to you.
• “We must halt Labour’s damaging and nonsensical attack on our schools” – In the Telegraph, David Cameron warns that Labour’s Schools Bill threatens decades of progress in education.
• “Sixty-four Crown courtrooms unused each day despite record 80,000 backlog” – In another blow to David Lammy’s plans to tackle soaring caseloads by jettisoning juries, data shows Britain is failing to use the capacity it already has, reports the Mail.
• “Ten recent cases that raise troubling questions about the Crown Prosecution Service” – The CPS is facing questions from Jewish community leaders and politicians over how it deals with antisemitism cases, says the Jewish Chronicle.
• “‘Serious questions for PSNI top brass’ if force insists on keeping non-crime hate incidents” – In the Belfast News Letter, Adam Kula reports on Toby’s warning to the Police Service of Northern Ireland that continuing to record non-crime hate incidents, when so many actual crimes go unsolved, will bring the Service into disrepute.
• “Besotted prison officer, 27, who told gangster inmate lover ‘I’m literally praying to have your babies’ is jailed” – An “infatuated” prison officer who embarked on a secret sexual relationship with a convicted gangster has been jailed for two-and-half years after a judge branded the case one of the worst of its kind, reveals the Mail.
• “Tulip Siddiq sentenced to four more years in jail in Bangladesh” – Ex-anti-corruption minister and Labour MP Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced to four more years in jail by a Bangladeshi court after being found guilty in two further corruption cases, according to the BBC.
• “African nations could demand Diego Garcia inspections under Chagos deal” – African nations will be able to demand inspections of the Diego Garcia military base under Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands deal, reports the Conservative Post.
• “Up to a 1,000 migrants feared dead after going missing during huge Mediterranean storm” – Up to 1,000 people have gone missing at sea and are feared dead after a huge storm ripped through the Mediterranean last month, says the Mail.
• “Indian gangs are terrorising Canada” – South Asian communities across Canada are being terrorised by gangs – and city officials in Surrey, BC are calling on the federal Government to declare a national state of emergency, reports Jane Stannus in the Spectator.
• “Forget pickles and ice cream. I published a fake paper on pregnancy cravings for prime numbers” – In Retraction Watch, Prof Pascual D. Diago describes how he slipped a deliberately absurd AI-generated paper past academic gatekeepers with alarming ease.
• “Update on the moving goalposts on masks” – A group of prominent academics have urged the WHO to declare that surgical masks are ineffective, but there’s more to the story than meets the eye, says Valerie Nelson on her Substack.
• “Experts warn of a psychosis explosion in young people” – A new study has noted a concerning surge in young people being diagnosed with psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia, reports the Mail.
• “The sound of sirens: New York City and London, Spring 2020” – On Wood House 76, Dr Jessica Hockett reveals how the sound of sirens during the lockdown may have been responsible for a spike in cardiac arrests in London and New York in the spring of 2020.
• “Bad science, big consequences” – On Substack, Roger Pielke Jr reveals how a hugely influential climate report helped hard-wire exaggerated disaster forecasts into policy thinking.
• “Labour backbenchers revolt over Starmer’s nuclear plans” – Sir Keir Starmer’s plan for a nuclear renaissance faces a rearguard action from Labour MPs and wildlife charities over claims it will be a “catastrophe” for nature, according to the Telegraph.
• “Is Canada really warming?” – In the American Thinker, Tom Harris questions official claims that Canada is heating up at twice the global average.
• “Aussie green radicals in despair at media ignoring their warnings” – The real reason the green agenda is collapsing is that nothing bad has happened, says Eric Worrall in WUWT?
• “The climate agenda is collapsing – will the global poor finally be heard?” – Poor nations are refusing to follow Europe and the UN into economic suicide, writes Paul Driessen in Climate Dispatch.
• “Argentine cherry crops are fine” – A single bad cherry season doesn’t equal climate change, and long-term data show Argentina’s production has grown, says Linnea Lueken in Climate Realism.
• “The women fighting to keep trans activism out of the classroom” – In the Telegraph, Jill Foster covers a growing grassroots backlash from women alarmed by gender ideology reshaping schools.
• “One of the world’s best universities has been captured by trans-obsessed zealots” – In the Telegraph, Thea Sewell recounts how dissent over biological sex led to her ostracism at Cambridge University.
• “The lawsuit that could end the gender panic” – A detransitioner has been awarded $2 million in damages. Could this be a turning point in the struggle against gender identity ideology? wonders Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
• “When will celebrities stop moralising?” – In the Spectator, James Hanson revisits Hollywood’s boring habit of lecturing the public while preaching virtue from the red carpet.
• “David Abulafia: the historian who reshaped our understanding of the sea and civilisation” – David Abulafia helped secure a permanent home for Cambridge’s Reform Jewish community and guided those seeking to join the faith, remembers Daniel El‑Gamry in the Jewish Chronicle.
• “No government has the right to tamper with this right without an express mandate at the ballot box” – At a recent Free Speech Union event, Lord Boateng warned that David Lammy’s plan to curb jury trials would be “irreversible” and urges the nation to protect “the lamp by which freedom lives”.

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