News Round-Up

• “Spain to send warship to Cyprus before Starmer” – Spain will deploy a warship to Cyprus more than a week before Britain’s HMS Dragon arrives, according to Guido.
• “Donald Trump calls Starmer a ‘loser’” – Donald Trump has been telling friends in private that Sir Keir Starmer is basically a loser with zero future, says GB News.
• “Trump’s frozen him out… but Starmer insists he is in control” – Keir Starmer has been branded delusional after insisting he has a grip on the Middle East crisis, reports the Mail.
• “The PM must publish the Iran legal advice” – How can it be unlawful to stop a country developing a nuclear missile that it has threatened to use? asks the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “The secret meetings where Starmer flip-flopped on Iran” – Sir Keir Starmer has apparently changed his mind more than once bout letting the Americans use UK bases to hit Iran, according to Tony Diver in the Telegraph.
• “How Keir Starmer alienated Britain’s allies over Iran” – Sir Keir Starmer’s handling of the Iran crisis has left Britain’s key allies fuming and questioning whose side he’s really on, says Tim Shipman in the Spectator.
• “You’ve failed us on Iran, Middle East allies tell UK” – Britain’s allies in the Gulf and Cyprus have accused Sir Keir of failing to do enough to protect the region and UK citizens from Iranian missile strikes, reveals the Times.
• “As the liberal order dies, Starmer’s Britain is doubling down on its stupidity” – The PM is unable to respond to the implosion of the global status quo other than by incanting Leftist platitudes, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “Ed Miliband must go” – The Spectator bluntly declares that Ed Miliband needs to step down after a string of policy cock-ups.
• “Foreign criminals will be thrown out of taxpayer-funded hotels” – The Government has unveiled plans to kick foreign criminals out of hotels funded by taxpayers and tighten the rules for asylum claims, according to STV News. 
• “Don’t be fooled by the fall in net immigration” – Highly-skilled Britons are fleeing the country and being replaced by men in dinghies, warns Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Labour MP resigns whip after husband’s China spy allegations arrest” – Labour MP Joani Reid has lost the Labour whip after police arrested her husband as part of a suspected Chinese spying operation, reports Sky News.
• “Did I ever really stand a chance in the by-election?” – In the Spectator, Matt Goodwin reflects on his Reform UK by-election campaign and questions whether victory was ever realistically on the cards.
• “I’m not a ‘monster’ – I’m proud to lead the only party that puts Britons first” – In the Telegraph, Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe fires back at critics, insisting he’s no monster and is proud to head the one party truly putting ordinary Brits first.
• “Streaming giants to help collect licence fee under BBC proposals” – The BBC is floating the idea of getting Netflix, Disney+ and others to help chase down licence-fee dodgers, reveals the Times. But why should you have to pay the BBC if you want to watch Neflix?
• “Mauritius to sue Britain” – Mauritius has threatened legal action against Britain over delays on the Chagos Islands handover, reports the GB News.
• “Carney U-turns on support for Trump’s Iran strikes” – Mark Carney has pulled a U-turn and now insists Trump’s strikes on Iran go against international law, says the Telegraph.
• “Trump demands final sign-off on Iran’s next supreme leader as he rejects Khamenei’s son with brutal verdict” – Donald Trump has demanded veto power over Iran’s next supreme leader and dismissed Khamenei’s son as a “lightweight”, reports the Mail.
• “CIA is backing Kurdish ground offensive in Iran as Trump reaches out to offer air support” – The CIA has got behind Kurdish forces gearing up for a ground push in Iran, with Trump offering air backup, says the Mail.
• “The US submarine which torpedoed the Iranian frigate will soon be flying the Jolly Roger” – In the Telegraph, Tom Sharpe breaks down the significance of Wednesday’s sinking of an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean by a US Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine.
• “Trump fires ‘ICE Barbie’ Kristi Noem as Homeland Security Secretary” – President Trump has fired his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, after mounting criticism over her leadership of the department, according to AP.
• “Greece to exhume 150 COVID-19 graves after bodies fail to decompose” – Greek officials have decided to exhume around 150 COVID-19 graves in Kavala because the bodies haven’t decomposed after five years, says the Greek Reporter.
• “New car sales hit high as electric vehicle share shrinks” – New car registrations soared to a 20-year high in February, but electric vehicle sales have shrunk, reports Business Matters.
• “Stop the war, cos global warming!” – Some climate loons have decided wars should stop because of global warming, writes Paul Homewood in Not a Lot of People Know That.
• “The radical Left’s green scam is running out of fuel” – Radical climate groups have gone to court yet again to fight the repeal of an unscientific endangerment finding, reports Sydney Rodman in Watts Up With That?
• “Media’s climate alarm over air conditioning ignores its life-saving benefits” – Alarmist media stories about air conditioning fuelling climate change have conveniently ignored how cooling tech saves thousands of lives from heat every year, says Linnea Lueken in Climate Change Dispatch.
• “New study: a century warming of 1.1°C is ‘commonplace’ and ‘not unusual’” – New analysis shows that warming of around 1.1°C over a century has happened many times before during our current interglacial period and is nothing new, writes Keneth Richard on NoTricksZone.
• “How not to do a grid reliability study” – The Union of Concerned Scientists has once again produced a rather questionable study on grid reliability, say the Energy Bad Boys on Substack.
• “Waste from ‘clean energy’ piles up across the US” – Waste from wind turbines and other clean energy tech has been building up dramatically across America, reports CFACT.
• “The Restoring the West Manifesto” – On the her new Substack, Ayaan Hirsi Ali lays out a powerful case for fighting to restore the core values that once made the West thrive.
• “Cities of the dead” – On Substack, Paul Sutton paints a stark picture of Britain sliding into oblivion.
• “The moment that woke began to crumble” – On Substack, Andrew Doyle pinpoints the turning point when the grip of woke ideology began to loosen.
• “We’ll send theVictory to Iran!” – The Crewkerne Gazette’s latest AI gem on X sees Sir Keir and David Lammy sail Nelson’s flagship Victory into battle with Iran.

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