News Round-Up

• “Ministers working with Labour backbenchers to temper Mahmood immigration plans” – Labour ministers are working with backbenchers to water down Shabana Mahmood’s immigration plans to fend off a major revolt, reports the Guardian.
• “Michael Gove admits crush on Shabana Mahmood” – Michael Gove has admitted to having a crush on Shabana Mahmood, says the Telegraph.
• “Immigration judges using AI in rulings” – Immigration judges are increasingly using AI tools to help speed up decisions and check rulings amid a massive backlog, says the Telegraph.
• “Fake documents and asylum: we have a problem” – The use of fake documents to claim asylum in Ireland has become a serious and growing problem, warns Fatima Gunning in Gript.
• “Human rights lawyer sounds alarm over ‘integration crisis’” – A human rights lawyer has raised the alarm after figures show five Albanians are jailed in the UK every day, according to GB News.
• “Grooming gang victim ‘smuggled into Parliament by abusers and presented to senior politician for sex’” – A grooming gang victim has alleged she was taken into the Houses of Parliament as a teenager to be presented for sexual services to a senior politician, reports GB News.
• “Civil servants claim thousands in expenses to visit their own office” – Civil servants have been claiming thousands in expenses for trips to their own offices, including overnight stays and meals, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Suspended Labour MP claims No 10 behind smears about his mental health” – Karl Turner has accused No 10 of smearing his mental health after he challenged David Lammy over his planned jury reforms, says the Mail.
• “Labour risks pricing families out of a holiday, warns Butlin’s” – Butlin’s boss has warned that Labour’s new tourist tax could price many families out of UK holidays, reports the Telegraph.
• “Britain used to be a nation of entrepreneurs – now we’re worse than the Germans” – Britain, once a nation of entrepreneurs, is now lagging behind even Germany when it comes to start-ups per capita due to heavy tax pressures on family firms, warns Michael Mosbacher in the Telegraph.
• “A three-way tie… but the Right can triumph” – With the Tories, Reform UK and the Greens all polling at 21%, the Mail argues the Right still has a clear path to victory if it unites.
• “Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage neck and neck: Poll reveals unprecedented three-way tie between the Tories, Reform and Greens… will the Right unite to save us from a coalition of chaos?” – Kemi Badenoch has managed to overhaul Nigel Farage’s poll lead – leaving the Tories, Reform and the Greens all neck-and-neck in first place for the first time, according to the Mail.
• “Gangs using little girls to fleece luxury stores” – Organised gangs are increasingly using young, pre-teen girls to steal expensive handbags and clothes from luxury stores, reports Ian Gallagher in the Mail.
• “Easter Egg hunt sparked fight between yobs and police in Milton Keynes” – An Easter egg hunt organised by retailers in Milton Keynes descended into chaos with yobs clashing with police, says the Mail.
• “Waitrose sacks employee after ‘altercation’ with shoplifter stealing Easter eggs” – A long-serving Waitrose worker has been sacked after confronting a shoplifter trying to steal Easter eggs, according to the Mail.
• “Calls grow for crackdown on Turkish-style shops” – Dozens of barbershops have been fined nearly £3 million for employing illegal workers, reports the Mail.
• “Sir Keir Starmer condemns Wireless Festival in London for booking Kanye West” – Sir Keir has slammed the Wireless Festival for booking Kanye West, as pressure grows to ban the rapper from the UK over his antisemitic and Nazi-related comments, says the Mail.
• “These MPs promoted luxury Dubai flats built by wanted men” – Two Labour MPs and a ‘pro-Gaza’ independent spoke at events for a development project owned by a tycoon who’s been banned from Britain, according to the Times.
• “Strange bedfellows” – The hard Left continues to ally itself with Islamists, repeating dangerous historical mistakes in the belief it will advance their goals, writes John Aziz in Quillette.
• “Seven arrested at Palestine Action rally outside air base” – Seven people have been arrested at a Palestine Action protest outside an RAF base following reports of a downed American fighter jet, reports the BBC.
• “How I fell foul of the BBC thought police” – In TCW, Charlie Spedding describes how he fell foul of the BBC’s thought police for doubting the man-made climate crisis.
• “The partnership of speech” – Real freedom of speech requires not just the right to speak but also the willingness to listen, contends Wilfred M. McClay in City Journal.
• “Student loans don’t add up” – The current student loan system makes little financial sense and is effectively offering 18 year-olds an open credit facility, argues Henry Hill in the Critic.
• “Trump tells Iran to ‘open the f***ing strait, you crazy b**tards, or you’ll be living in Hell’” – Donald Trump has issued an expletive-strewn warning to Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face severe consequences, says London Business News.
• “How Trump is turning Iran into a full military dictatorship” – Donald Trump’s actions may inadvertently be turning Iran into a full military dictatorship dominated by the IRGC, warns Akhtar Makoii in the Telegraph.
• “Inside the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp death cult” – Inside Iran’s IRGC, young recruits are brainwashed in brutal training camps before overseeing prison rapes and mass executions to keep the regime in power, reveals the Mail.
• “Why Peter Thiel thinks the Antichrist is among us and plotting to destroy the world” – PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel believes Greta Thunberg and Bill Gates are part of a movement that could usher in the end of days, writes Ed Cumming in the Telegraph.
• “Europe now treats Christian views as criminal” – The relentless persecution of Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen shows how Europe is increasingly treating traditional Christian beliefs as criminal, says Lorcán Price in Spiked.
• “A global whiteness tax: reparations are coming unless we end institutions like the UN” – Globalist institutions like the UN are pushing ideas that could lead to a “global whiteness tax” through demands for ‘reparations’, warns Jupplandia on Substack.
• “Senior Tory piles pressure on Lucy Letby police” – Sir David Davis is demanding Cheshire Police explain the “cherry-picked” shift data used to link Lucy Letby to the babies’ deaths, reports the Mail.
• “Shocking discovery of secret China-linked biolabs in US” – Authorities have uncovered secret China-linked biolabs in the US storing vials of dangerous pathogens including Covid, HIV and Ebola, raising serious bioterrorism fears, says the Mail.
•  “TTE Fraud & Enforcement Unit (TFEU)” – Covid sparked a boom in dodgy companies and eye-watering fraud – and that £400 million recovered barely scratches the surface, warn Dr Tom Jefferson and Prof Carl Heneghan on their Trust The Evidence Substack.
• “Fat jabs to unleash divorce boom” – The rising popularity of weight-loss jabs is expected to trigger a surge in divorces as partners slim down and seek new relationships, says the Mail.
• “The surprising truth about AI and jobs” – Despite widespread fears, AI may not destroy as many jobs as predicted and could even create some new opportunities, writes Ben Guerin in the Spectator.
• “Voters tell Miliband to ditch his Net Zero obsession” – Voters say Labour should lift its ban on drilling in the North Sea to stop households being hammered by the cost of the Iran crisis, according to the Mail.
• “Coal not cold” – On Substack, David Turver suggests opening new coal mines to keep us warm and the lights on.
• “How rural dwellers cope with heating oil and diesel price rises” – Rural households are finding creative ways to cope with the sharp rises in heating and diesel prices, reveals Sybilla Hart in the Telegraph.
• “Dozens of North Sea oil and gas fields blocked by Net Zero” – More than 50 North Sea oil and gas projects have been rendered unviable by Net Zero policies, windfall taxes and exploration bans, reports the Telegraph.
• “Claim: Climate change may produce ‘fast-food’ phytoplankton” – From MIT and the Krusty Krab, home of the deep-sea fast food sensation the Krabby Patty, comes this latest face-palm-worthy piece of ‘the science’, says Anthony Watts in WUWT?
• “‘Easter eggflation’ is not due to climate changes” – Euro News has done its Easter-candy loving audience a disservice, blaming choccy price hikes on climate change instead of giving a real lesson on the volatility of organic farming, writes Linnea Lueken on Climate Realism.
• “Jesus’s resurrection mystery intensifies” – A new study has presented evidence that appears to support the biblical account of Jesus rising from the dead, reports the Mail.
• “Church organs ‘will fall silent within 50 years’” – Church organs could fall silent within 50 years as around five instruments are dumped in landfill every week and many more stop working, reveals the Telegraph.
• “‘Enslaved by Instagram, saved by church’: meet the new Christians” – A growing number of young people say social media has left them adrift, but they’ve found real belonging and purpose in Christianity, writes Madeleine Davies in the Sunday Times.
• “The schism of the sexes” – A clear gender divide is emerging in British politics, with young men increasingly turning to Reform while young women lean towards the Greens, writes Tom Armstrong in Free Speech Backlash.
• “You’re under arrest for those statements, including ‘We shall fight on the beaches’” – On X, AI imagines the Met Police arresting Winston Churchill for hate speech if he were alive today.

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