News Round-Up

• “Police arrest 11 as violence breaks out between Britain First march and counter-demonstrators” – Eleven people have been arrested after violent clashes erupted during a Britain First “remigration” march in Manchester, reports the Mail.
• “Jeff Banks says part of London is ‘a different country and language’” – Designer Jeff Banks has returned to Whitechapel and declared parts of it feel like a completely different country, reports the Mail.
• “Reform predicts Tory wipeout in London” – Reform UK has boldly predicted the Conservatives will be wiped out across London in the upcoming local elections, says the Telegraph.
• “I had a swastika put on my door for having Right-wing views” – In the Telegraph, Reform candidate Matthew Goodwin reveals to Natasha Leake that a swastika was put on his door, along with other acts of intimidation, because of his politics.
• “Britain’s benefits capitals mapped” – New figures show that in some areas of the UK up to 14% of working-age adults are claiming out-of-work benefits, reports the Mail.
• “Sir Keir Starmer ‘drawing up plans to sack rival Wes Streeting for plotting to take his job’” – Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of drawing up plans to sack Wes Streeting for allegedly plotting to take his job, according to the Mail.
• “Email proves King was warned about his brother Andrew’s ‘secret deals’” – King Charles has known since at least 2019 that Prince Andrew was allegedly abusing royal connections for dodgy business deals, reveals the Mail.
• “Andrew wailed ‘you can’t do this to me, I’m the Queen’s son’ as he was marched out of Royal Lodge” – Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor ranted “I’m the Queen’s second son, you can’t do this to me” as he was kicked out of Royal Lodge over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, reports the Mail.
• “Ambassador’s warning to Government over ‘crass and offensive’ envoy Andrew” – British diplomats have long viewed Prince Andrew as crass and damaging to the country’s reputation abroad, says the Mail.
• “Pizza, grape soda and cream cheese babies: an inquiry into yet more Epstein internet nonsense” – On Substack, Eugyppius explores some of the wilder corners of the Epstein online lore.
• “Starmer could have prevented ban on Israeli football fans” – Sir Keir Starmer has been slammed for not acting quickly enough to stop the controversial ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters at Villa Park, reports the Telegraph.
• “Decision to ban Jewish football fans from Aston Villa match ‘influenced by local politicians’, MPs conclude” – A parliamentary committee has concluded that Birmingham councillors wielded outsized influence over last year’s ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, says the Mail.
• “How the door-to-door pro-Palestinian zealots striking fear into Jewish households reacted when we knocked on their door” – Pro-Palestinian campaigners going door-to-door have left Jewish families in Brighton feeling intimidated, reports Paul Bracchi in the Mail.
• “Britain faces paying billions if Trump collapses Chagos deal” – The UK could be on the hook for billions in compensation if Donald Trump torpedoes the Chagos Islands agreement, reveals GB News.
• “Four men in a boat are up against idiocy in the Chagos Islands” – The farce unfolding with the former MP Adam Holloway and his allies exposes the muddle – and moral vanity – behind Sir Keir Starmer’s decolonising zeal, says Rod Liddle in the Sunday Times.
• “Boris Johnson says UK must put British troops on the ground in Ukraine now to ‘flip a switch’ in Putin’s head” – Boris Johnson insists the UK should send troops into Ukraine right away to change Vladimir Putin’s calculus, according to the Mail.
• “Nato chiefs warn Britain will be second-rate military power without spending boost – as John Healey snubs Boris call to send troops to Ukraine now” – Nato leaders have warned that Britain risks sliding into second-rate military status unless defence spending rises sharply, reports the Mail.
• “Cats with stats: safety in the East” – Cities in Eastern Europe have maintained far lower crime rates than many Western counterparts, observes El Gato Mato on Substack.
• “The French civil servant who forced more than 200 women to wet themselves” – A French civil servant coerced more than 200 women into wetting themselves in a shocking abuse of power case, reports the Telegraph.
• “Syria asks Germany not to deport its citizens back home, warning it would make country ‘unsafe’” – Syria has asked Germany to hold off on deporting Syrian nationals for now, warning that sending thousands back could seriously destabilise the country, says RMX News.
• “Friedrich Merz’s push to end online anonymity has a troubling subtext” – German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has pushed to strip away online anonymity, raising serious free-speech concerns, warns Christina Maas in Reclaim The Net.
• “There’s no such thing as moderate Islam” – Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has declared there is simply no such thing as moderate Islam, writes David Pellowe in Church And State.
• “The collapse of Communist Cuba” – As US sanctions tighten, Cuba has plunged deeper into crisis with acute shortages of food, fuel and electricity, reports the Mail.
• “New protests erupt across Iran’s universities” – Fresh anti-regime demonstrations have broken out at universities across Iran, with protesters demanding the Ayatollah’s death and the Shah’s return, according to NPR.
• “Armed man is killed by Secret Service after entering Mar-a-Lago” – Secret Service agents have fatally shot an armed intruder carrying a shotgun and fuel can at Mar-a-Lago, says the Mail.
• “The US spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents” – Massive investment in classroom tech in the US has backfired, leaving Gen Z measurably less cognitively capable than their parents, reports Fortune.
• “mRNA injections, cancer and Prometheus” – mRNA technology has potentially unleashed a Pandora’s box of cancer risks among the young, warns John Leake on the Focal Points Substack.
• “What is MHRA up to? Part 4” – Serious questions have arisen over the MHRA’s handling of myocarditis data following Comirnaty vaccination, write Dr Tom Jefferson and Prof Carl Heneghan on the Trust the Evidence Substack.
• “The solar ‘land grab’ in Miliband’s own backyard” – Locals in Ed Miliband’s Doncaster North seat have grown furious over large-scale solar developments and are threatening to turn to Reform, writes Jonathan Leake in the Telegraph.
• “Electricity productivity data shows we are falling down the energy cliff” – Britain’s electricity productivity has collapsed by half since generation peaked in 2005 thanks to intermittent renewables, says David Turver on his Eigen Values Substack.
• “Judge orders Tesla to pay $243 million over fatal Autopilot crash” – Tesla has been ordered to pay $243 million after a judge rejected the company’s argument that the driver was solely to blame in a fatal Autopilot crash, reports the Independent.
• “China has produced so many solar panels that it drove prices down now it wants to close factories to save its industry” – China has flooded the world with cheap solar panels, crashed prices and is now shutting factories to rescue its own industry, reports Chasewaterdogs.
• “Is Greta Thunberg the Antichrist?” – Some commentators are asking whether Greta Thunberg fits an anti-technology apocalyptic archetype, says Steven Tucker in Crisis Magazine.
• “Is class a bigger obstacle to social mobility than race?” – Fresh data suggests that class background now overshadows race as the main barrier to social mobility in Britain, according to the Times.
• “J’accuse” – Schools have allowed serious safeguarding failures and trans-indoctrination to take root, warns Paul Sutton on Substack.
• “Why the BBC is so obsessed with drag queens” – The BBC has made drag queens a near-constant presence across its schedule, notes Andy Jones in the Spectator.
• “Classic ‘ageist’ nursery rhymes should be replaced because they portray older people as ‘incompetent, unlikeable and irresponsible’” – Woke researchers have called for classic nursery rhymes to be rewritten because they supposedly portray older people in a negative light, reports the Mail.
• “African game where players steal treasures from British museums” – A new video game lets players plan heists to “re-loot” African artefacts held in British museums, says the Mail.
• “Friedrich Engels museum planned for North London” – A museum honouring Karl Marx’s co-author Friedrich Engels has been proposed for his old home in North London, reports the Telegraph.
• “Has Britain failed the Bus Stop test?” – On Andrew Gold’s heretics. podcast, David Goodhart explains why he thinks Britain’s multicultural society is in serious trouble.

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