News Round-Up

• “Today I am launching Restore Britain as a national political party” – Former Reform MP Rupert Lowe has launched Restore Britain as a national political party and is urging supporters to sign up now.
• “Elon Musk snubs Nigel Farage as Tesla boss endorses former Reform UK MP’s new political party Restore Britain” – Elon Musk has endorsed Rupert Lowe’s new Restore Britain party as tensions swirl on the Right, reports the Mail.
• “Starmer: Britain must move closer to EU single market” – Keir Starmer has argued Britain should align more closely with the EU single market this year as his Europe reset accelerates, notes the Telegraph.
• “Reeves’s Brexit betrayal on customs union ‘will cost Britain £40 billion a year’” – Labour’s push for closer EU ties has been slammed as economically damaging as critics warn a customs union shift would carry a heavy price, reports the Telegraph.
• “Starmer surrenders to EU Net Zero rules” – Starmer has yielded to EU Net Zero ‘dynamic alignment’ rules as his Government courts Brussels, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Labour rebels line up Healey to challenge Starmer” – Labour MPs have been positioning John Healey as a potential unity challenger as discontent grows inside the party, says the Telegraph.
• “Weak Starmer has been forced into an unthinkable betrayal” – Just two weeks before he came to power, Keir Starmer warned that any revival of the Brexit debate would only bring “turmoil” and “uncertainty” into politics. Yet with his authority collapsing he is now doing just that, says the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s Islamophobia definition to be delayed over risk to Muslim vote” – Labour has delayed unveiling its Islamophobia definition amid by-election calculations and internal sensitivities, reports the Telegraph.
• “Election delays are wrong, says watchdog” – The Electoral Commission chief has condemned extended election postponements as unjustified and corrosive, says the Telegraph.
• “Poll: Reform Takes Seven-Point Lead in Wales Ahead of Senedd Elections” – Reform has opened a seven-point lead in Wales as the Senedd contest nears and Labour falters, reveals Guido Fawkes.
• “Kemi Badenoch calls Keir Starmer a ‘lame duck PM’ — and worse” – Kemi Badenoch has branded Starmer a “lame duck” as Tory attacks sharpen after No 10 upheaval, reports the Times.
• “Labour activists paid for smear campaign against journalists” – Labour Together, the group that helped make Keir Starmer leader, hired lobbyists who falsely suggested reporters were linked to Russia, says the Times.
• “Starmer and Reeves campaigned for paedophile Labour councillor caught in sting operation” – Labour’s leadership has been tied to a councillor later exposed as a paedophile in a sting as questions mount over vetting and judgement, reports the Mail.
• “Parents risk being left in the dark about children changing gender at school under Labour’s new rules, former Ofsted chief warns” – Amanda Spielman has warned that Labour’s new trans guidance could let pupils ‘socially transition’ while keeping parents uninformed, according to the Mail.
• “Labour’s school trans guidance is a dangerous middle ground” – Labour’s school trans guidance appeases activists while leaving loopholes that will drive conflict, says Victoria Smith in UnHerd.
• “Will we ever kick trans activists out of the classroom?” – The Government has promised single-sex spaces in schools but has left loopholes that campaigners will exploit, says Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
• “Labour’s sinister plan to embed trans ideology in schools” – Labour has published schools guidance that enables transition by stealth, says Tony Rucinski in TCW.
• “Why Bridget Phillipson is the worst Education Secretary in memory – from dangerous trans guidance to her assault on academies and private schools” – It just keeps getting worse, says Julie Bindel in the Mail.
• “Britain’s youth unemployment tops Europe for first time” – Britain has posted higher youth unemployment than the EU bloc for the first time since records began amid a slow-motion economic crisis, reports the Telegraph.
• “Why the young and rich are leaving Britain” – Wealthy Britons have been accelerating their exit as tax and lifestyle pressures bite and opportunities beckon abroad, notes the Times.
• “Labour launches ‘devastating’ new attack on pubs” – Labour is endangering pubs with planning changes that campaigners say will aid developers and hollow out communities, reports the Telegraph.
• “Farage’s right-hand man publishing book on how to launder money” – George Cottrell, a key lieutenant of Nigel Farage and an aristocratic banker who in 2016 was convicted of money laundering, is publishing a book outlining common methods for laundering money, according to the Telegraph.
• “Bank of England lets ‘genderfluid’ men wear eyeshadow and high heels” – The Bank of England has updated staff dress guidance to permit makeup and heels for men, reports the Telegraph.
• “Russia killed Alexei Navalny with frog poison, Britain reveals” – Alexei Navalny was killed with a toxin developed from an Ecuadorian frog on the orders of Vladimir Putin, proving that Russia possesses illegal chemical weapons, the Government has revealed, according to the Telegraph.
• “Marco Rubio says mass migration is ‘a crisis destabilising the West’” – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said mass migration is “a crisis destabilising the West” as he told Europe’s leaders America does not want allies that are “shackled by shame”, reports the Mail.
• “Marco Rubio calms the floor but his message to Europe is as hardline as ever” – Rubio has struck a warmer tone at Munich while keeping an America First edge that leaves Europe on notice, notes the Times.
• “Churches burned, fields destroyed and families slaughtered… the Nigerian Christians brutalised by jihadists – and the horrors I saw on the frontlines” – Christian communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt have endured escalating attacks as militants exploit weak security, writes David Patrikarakos in the Mail.
• “Palestine Action shouldn’t have been unbanned” – The High Court has ruled a ban unlawful but the case for banning Palestine Action remains overwhelming given the alleged scale of sabotage, says Alexander Horne in the Spectator.
• “Imam is guilty of raping women and girls as young as 12 after convincing them he had magical powers when they met at mosque” – An east London imam has been convicted of multiple rapes after abusing his religious authority to manipulate victims, reports the Mail.
• “Thousands of criminals escaping jail terms despite having more than 70 previous convictions” – Thousands of criminals are walking free from Crown Court with suspended sentences – even when they have more than 70 previous convictions, the Mail on Sunday reveals.
• “Anti-migrant protesters demonstrate outside RNLI HQ saying lifeboat charity should stop acting as ‘taxi service’ for asylum seekers” – Protesters have targeted RNLI headquarters, accusing lifeboats of enabling illegal Channel crossings as border anger intensifies, says the Mail.
• “Britain is in no position to go ‘beyond Net Zero’” – Kathryn Porter in UnHerd urges Britain to resist going ‘beyond Net Zero’ ambitions as energy costs soar and the country’s global emissions share shrinks.
• “Miliband’s devastating Net Zero fanaticism is driving Britain over the edge” – No country has ever attempted to rip out its economic infrastructure and replace it with something more primitive, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
• “China shows Ed Miliband’s Net Zero plan is destructive zealotry” – British industry is being crucified in the Energy Secretary’s deluded green power ambitions, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s obsession with green energy imperils national prosperity” – There is zero logic to Ed Miliband’s 2030 Net Zero goal when the planet’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases have no intention of following suit, says the Times in a leading article.
• “‘A striking decline’: Have Brits stopped caring about Net Zero?” – Public urgency on Net Zero has fallen sharply and support for climate policies has weakened as other pressures dominate, notes Liam Gilliver in Euronews.
• “Kings College London: UK Climate Action Support Plummeting” – Survey data show climate-policy urgency has plunged – yet most still back a 2050 Net Zero target, writes Eric Worrall in WUWT.
• “New York Times Gives Wind Turbines a Free Pass to Slaughter Birds” – Why don’t environmentally aware press outlets care that wind farms slaughter wildlife, asks Vijay Jayaraj in WUWT.
• “Holocene Glacier Records” – In WUWT, Andy May says that long-run glacier evidence undercuts claims of uniquely modern warming.
• “The Super Bowl Without EVs Tells You Everything” – Advertisers at the Super Bowl were spotted cooling on electric-vehicle hype as mass-market enthusiasm fades and realism returns, says Larry Behrens in WUWT.
• “The Church of England’s woke crusade is driving away the faithful” – The church’s endless self-flagellation over imagined historical sins is fuelling division, not healing it, says Bijan Omrani in Spiked.
• “007 has to be a white man, says Bond girl” – Maryam d’Abo has insisted James Bond should remain a white man amid culture-war casting debates, reports the Telegraph.
• “White Culture and its Discontents” – Progressives argue that white culture doesn’t exist, but they also blame it for many of the world’s evils, complains Bo Winegard in Aporia Magazine.
• “The hypocrisy of the Epstein panic Conspiracy theorists ignore a bleaker truth” – Online sleuths have fixated on lurid Epstein file lore while ignoring the darker, more mundane reality of elite corruption, says Kathleen Stock in UnHerd.
• “The Canadian mounted police said that those who believe in ‘traditional gender roles and traditional values’ might be extremists” – More nonsense from the Canadian police in the wake of the trans school shooting.

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