News Round-Up

• “Iran’s Supreme Leader is dead, Trump announces: President shown a picture of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s body after he was killed in airstrike on compound” – Donald Trump has announced the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after a US-Israeli airstrike as he vows to wipe out the country’s missile industry, reports the Mail.
• “Tucker Carlson torches Trump’s ‘disgusting and evil’ attack on Iran as MAGA base fractures” – Tucker Carlson has slammed Trump’s Iran strikes as “disgusting and evil” as the MAGA base fractures over the regime-change push, reports the Mail.
• “Farage and Badenoch back Trump after Labour MPs say Iran strikes ‘unlawful’” – Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch have thrown their support behind Trump’s strikes on Iran, pushing back against Labour MPs calling them unlawful, reports the Telegraph.
• “The world’s most evil regime is on the brink – and Britain has nothing to do with it” – A brutal regime has teetered on the edge of collapse and Britain sits on the sidelines with zero involvement, notes Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
• “Trump: I want ‘friendly takeover’ of Cuba’” – Donald Trump has proposed a “friendly takeover” of Cuba as he ramps up pressure on the oil-starved communist leaders, tightening the economic siege, notes the Telegraph.
• “My 72-hour ocean odyssey to meet the Chagos Islanders” – The Telegraph‘s Robert Mendick has the inside track on the daring Chagos Islander camp after undertaking a dramatic 72-hour ocean journey to reach the islands.
• “Starmer will be sent packing by a White House sick of his arrogance” – Keir Starmer has risked getting sent packing by a White House fed up with his attitude, meaning his Chagos deal now looks set to flop hard, says Nile Gardiner in the Telegraph.
• “Reeves reprimanded for ‘misleading public on mansion tax’” – Rachel Reeves has been reprimanded for misleading the public on the mansion tax as it emerges the funds will not go to local services as claimed but straight to the Treasury, reports the Telegraph.
• “Bank for ultra-rich warns Reeves over entrepreneur exodus” – A private bank for the ultra-wealthy has warned Rachel Reeves that entrepreneurs view Labour as anti-business and many are planning to flee the UK, according to the Telegraph.
• “Pay interns ‘at least’ the minimum wage, Labour tells bosses” – Labour has pledged to end unpaid internships in a further blow to young people looking to break into the workforce, says the Telegraph.
• “Labour minister at centre of journalist smear scandal resigns” – Josh Simons has resigned as a Cabinet Office minister amid the journalist smear scandal, saying he’s become too much of a distraction, reveals the Mail.
• “Joe Docherty: new Labour peer quit college role over ‘inappropriate conduct’” – One of Sir Keir Starmer’s new peers, Joe Docherty, has been suspended by Labour after it emerged that he resigned from a sixth-form college group after conducting sexual liaisons during working hours, reports the Times.
• “Shabana Mahmood vows to press on with asylum system crackdown despite Labour losing Left-wing voters to the Greens” – Shabana Mahmood has pledged to keep pushing tough asylum reforms, saying Labour must adopt Danish-style changes to win back trust despite bleeding voters to the open-borders Greens, reports the Mail.
• “Anger as election monitors looking for ‘family voting’ fraud are ordered to show ‘sensitivity’” – Election monitors in Friday’s Gorton and Denton by-election were told to show “sensitivity” when looking for illegal ‘family voting’ it has emerged amid claims of fraud and calls for police to investigate, notes the Mail.
• “Foreign-born voters stole by-election, Farage blasts: Amid rising alarm over suspected poll fraud, Reform leader says allowing non-British citizens into ballot booth threatens democracy” – Nigel Farage has sensationally claimed that Reform UK was robbed of victory by foreign-born voters in last week’s Manchester by-election amid mounting allegations that voter fraud and sectarianism contributed to the Green Party’s shock win, says the Mail.
• “Greens ‘stirred up hatred against Hindus in Gorton and Denton’” – The Green Party has been accused of stirring up hatred against Hindus during the Gorton and Denton by-election, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Antisemitism used as weapon to silence criticism of Israel, claims deputy Green leader” – Antisemitism has been weaponised to silence criticism of Israel according to Green Party Deputy Leader Mothin Ali, says the Telegraph.
• “Turbo Cancer Makes Cover of Time Magazine” – Time magazine has put soaring aggressive cancers in young adults on its cover, but there’s no mention of links with pandemic spike protein and genetic vaccines, says Peter A. McCullough in the Focal Points Substack.
• “Professor who stopped puberty blockers trial withdraws in bias row after calling J.K. Rowling ‘a treasure of our time’” – A professor who, as Chief Medical and Scientific Officer at the MHRA, halted the controversial puberty blockers trial has been withdrawn from any further involvement after accusations of bias, reports the Mail.
• “Sex crimes on railway network hit record high as Labour accused of ‘losing the plot on public transport’” – Sex crimes on the UK railway network have soared to a record high with over 2,600 cases last year, reports the Mail.
• “Poet ‘cancelled’ by taxpayer-funded magazine over gender-critical views” – Poet Abigail Ottley was “cancelled” by a taxpayer-funded arts magazine because it discovered that she held “problematic” gender-critical views, legal papers claim, according to the Telegraph.
• “Deborah Turness has revealed the extraordinary delusion at the heart of the BBC.” – Former head of BBC News Deborah Turness has unwittingly confirmed that when a news organisation is overwhelmingly composed of Left-leaning people, it’s no surprise the output is Left-leaning too, says Robin Aitken in the Telegraph.
• “Why liberals are refusing to watch this brilliant new fantasy series” – Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire has released a compelling adaptation of the novel The Pendragon Cycle – but politics may doom it to irrelevance, says Ed Power in the Telegraph.
• “The strange chutzpah of Nadiya Hussain” – Moaning Bake Off-winner turned TV chef Nadiya Hussain is what you get when you mix identity politics with popular culture: a rather sickening concoction, says Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
• “No, Earth.com, climate change isn’t causing dangerous fungus outbreaks” – Alarmist claims that climate change fuels outbreaks of deadly fungi have been debunked: the evidence simply doesn’t hold up, says Anthony Watts in ClimateRealism.
• “Bloomberg Net Zero Obituary: “Even at the peak of its popularity, Net Zero looked far-fetched”” – Bloomberg was until recently Net Zero’s chief champion, yet now it was always obvious that Net Zero ambitions were not grounded in reality, notes Eric Worrall in WUWT.
• “EPA’s CO₂ reversal is welcome opening for developing world” – With the EPA backing away from its regulation of greenhouse gases, developing countries should waste no time in severing whatever restrictions Western climate overseers have placed on their use of fossil fuels, argues Vijay Jayaraj in WUWT.
• “We didn’t just get expensive electricity. We built a system that makes it inevitable.” – We haven’t merely ended up with expensive electricity — we’ve engineered a system that locks in high costs forever, says William Murray in WUWT.
• “Persian and Jew celebrating together in London” – In jubilant scenes, both Jews and Persians celebrated together in London on the news of the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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