Massive drone attack on Israel from Iran is foiled – with British help
“Britain scrambled jets after the Iranian regime sent a swarm of drones towards Israel in an unprecedented attack. Israel was on “high alert” overnight into Sunday after Iran fired more than 300 drones, ballistic and cruise missiles. The Israeli army intercepted nearly all of them, according to President Biden of the US. A seven-year-old girl was injured in the attack and an army base suffered light damage. Many Israelis spent the night in shelters, listening to the sound of sirens and distant explosions as the Iron Dome missile defence system operated. “The Iranian attack was foiled,” said Israeli military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, who calculated that 99 per cent of the drones and missiles were shot down.” – Sunday Times
- Israel remains on alert – BBC
- Sunak condemns Iran’s ‘reckless’ drone attack and says UK stands with Israel – Sunday Telegraph
- The storm is gathering, and Europe is still dithering on defending itself – Matthew Syed, Sunday Times
- The world stands on the brink of all-out war – Richard Kemp, Sunday Telegraph
- Why Cameron’s US campaign didn’t quite go to plan – Sunday Times
- Alienation and anger over Gaza on the streets of Tower Hamlets – Sunday Times
- American weakness has left us on the brink of a global conflagration – Jake Wallis Simons, Sunday Telegraph
- The Foreign Secretary must champion Israel as he has Ukraine – Leader, Sunday Telegraph
Badenoch attacks gender ‘cowardice’ of NHS, politics and police
“The battle over gender ideology is only just beginning, Kemi Badenoch has warned as she calls for “more bravery and less cancel culture” in the wake of a landmark review of child gender services. In her first public intervention since the publication of Dr Hilary Cass’s report, the business secretary calls for a review into public bodies and their policies on transgender issues. She also launches an extraordinary broadside against politicians of every stripe, the police, the media, the NHS and universities. She says the “cowardice of those in positions of influence” was “worse than the ravings of the militants”. – Sunday Times
- Gagging of the brave has let gender ideologues seize control – Kemi Badenoch, Sunday Times
- The spell of transgender ideology has finally been broken – Graham Linehan, Sunday Telegraph
- Women’s rights campaigners hit out over Scottish Government’s ‘inaction’ – Mail on Sunday
- Schools in England and Wales using ‘gender toolkit’ risk being sued by parents – The Observer
- Doctor exploits NHS loophole to prescribe hormones for children – Sunday Times
- Shock as former head of discredited NHS clinic claims kids as young as four choosing their gender was ‘step forward’ – The Sun on Sunday
- Truth will out – Leader, Sunday Times
- The Tories should get tough and protect children from transgender agenda with full force of the law – Leader, The Sun on Sunday
- Children were catastrophically failed by the medical profession – Leader, The Observer
- Our party protects children from being allowed to make hasty decisions that could be step along irreversible path – Gillian Keegan, The Sun on Sunday
Rayner’s former aide “tells police that she lied”
“Angela Rayner was last night facing mounting pressure over her ‘two homes’ row after one of her former aides told police that she had not told the truth about her real ‘home’. Matt Finnegan, Ms Rayner’s former chief adviser, has given a statement to Greater Manchester Police in which he states that her actual home was with her then husband – not at the former council house where she was registered on the electoral roll. The testimony is the latest evidence to shatter the insistence by Labour’s deputy leader that she has not broken any rules.” – Mail on Sunday
- Time for Rayner and Starmer to start answering questions – Robert Colvile, Sunday Times
- Are Rayner’s troubles a sign of what’s to come for Labour? – Laura Kuenssberg, BBC
- The mystery over her name change on the electoral roll – Mail on Sunday
- Left-wingers poised to launch bid for deputy leader role if Rayner has to resign over her property dealings – Sunday Express
- Burnham warned not to do anything to jeopardise police investigation – Mail on Sunday
- Rayner to continue campaigning despite police inquiry – The Observer
- This is an issue that’s not going away – Leader, Mail on Sunday
- When Tories are accused of wrongdoing, they must publicly prove their innocence. But not so for Keir’s deputy, who operates under Rayner’s Law – Dan Hodges, Mail on Sunday
- The straight-talking Angela Rayner we respected has gone. The public can no longer ever have same trust in her – Jane Atkinson, The Sun on Sunday
Sunak criticises ‘complete overreach’ of ‘illegitimate’ ECHR ruling
“Rishi Sunak has hit out at the “complete overreach” of an “illegitimate” ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that imposes a duty on governments to achieve net zero. The intervention from Downing Street comes ahead of a final round of votes on the Rwanda Bill, which could pass by the end of this week, allowing the Government to press ahead with plans for deportation flights. However, there are fears among Tory MPs that the long-awaited flights could yet be thwarted by judges in Strasbourg.” – Sunday Telegraph
- The human rights cult has replaced common sense compassion – Janet Daley, Sunday Telegraph
>Today: ToryDiary: Our survey. By more than two to one, the panel leans against Conservative prospects being improved by a move against Sunak.
Tories “too dependent” on small number of super-rich donors
“Senior Tories fear super-rich donors have a stranglehold over Downing Street as they claim the Prime Minister is “in hock” to a small group of wealthy individuals. The Conservative party is now more reliant on a small group of donors than it has been since records began more than two decades ago, according to an analysis of records held by the Electoral Commission. The Sunday Telegraph examined the top 10 donors in each given year as a proportion of the total amount of donations received by the two major parties. Last year, three-quarters of donations to the Tories came from just 10 people, an increase from 40 per cent in 2022 and the highest since 2001.” – Sunday Telegraph
- Top Labour figures met financial services firms after £150,000 donation – The Observer
Truss 1) Her memoirs recount establishment opposition to the Mini Budget
“I knew the economic establishment would resent being challenged, but I had not appreciated just how ruthless they would be in pushing back by all means at their disposal. As uniquely influential figures, their signals to the market took on immense significance. It was once said that all the governor of the Bank of England had to do was raise an eyebrow to bring errant financial institutions back into line. While that form of informal regulation is widely believed to have been consigned to history, the ‘governor’s eyebrow’ retains the power to shape opinion and move markets. In our case, it was not just the raising of an eyebrow but a sustained whispering campaign by the economic establishment, encouraged and fuelled by my political opponents in the Conservative Party who refused to accept my mandate to lead. The signal was given that my agenda was a dangerous heresy that could not be allowed to succeed.” – Liz Truss, Mail on Sunday
Truss 2) Independent standing against her in South West Norfolk
“James Bagge looks like a Tory. The retired army officer, barrister and former high sheriff of Norfolk sounds like a Tory. He cheerfully confirms that he is a Tory and he drives a deeply Tory car, a beaten-up silver Volvo A70 with 160,000 miles on the clock and a quietly farting golden retriever recumbent on the back seat. His great-great-grandfather was a Tory MP. But at the next general election Bagge, 71, wants to destroy the Conservative Party. He is standing as an independent candidate in rural South West Norfolk, the seat where blink-and-you-missed-her ex-prime ministerial disaster zone Liz Truss commanded a majority of 26,195 votes in 2019.” – Sunday Times
- Senior Tories fear Johnson and Truss will sabotage Sunak’s election campaign – The Observer
- Tory rebels urge Rishi Sunak to ditch controversial smoking ban plan and other ‘fundamentally un-Conservative’ policies – Mail on Sunday
- PM “could call election in the summer”- The Sun on Sunday
Other political news
- Tim Loughton becomes 64th Tory to stand down – Sunday Express
- Khan legally committed himself to exploring pay-per-mile – Sunday Telegraph
- Spending on disability benefits for people claiming to have ADHD shoots up 41,000 per cent within a decade – Mail on Sunday
- Hundreds of vulnerable children sent to illegal and unregulated care homes in England – The Observer
- Enfield Southgate MP Bambos Charalambous readmitted to Labour Party – BBC
- Legal loophole which lets thugs who attack buildings with sledgehammers and red paint walk free to be closed – The Sun on Sunday
- Ex-ministers press Sunak on ‘persecution’ of carers who broke earnings rules – The Observer
Lawson: Climate hysteria should be resisted
“Mortal fear of climate change has grown and intensified among children and young adults, to the extent of damaging their mental health. It has also been reflected in the increasing number of young people declaring that they won’t have any children themselves, because of a (delusional) terror that any offspring would be born onto a planet that would entirely combust during their lifetimes. Paradoxically, this Armageddon-based reluctance to procreate is widespread in countries like this one, but not at all in sub-Saharan Africa, where rising temperatures would be much more of a threat to human survival. As the data scientist Hannah Ritchie, author of Not the End of the World, observes: “For the poorest countries, being richer and more resilient is key.” For example, by the UN climate chief’s country, Grenada, developing its own hydrocarbon resources — and leaving sermons about the apocalypse at the church door, where they belong.” – Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times
News in brief
- The West must stand behind Israel after Iran’s attack – Stephen Daisley, The Spectator
- How a cult captured the NHS Society fails when it treats children like adults – Kathleen Stock, Unherd
- Woke waste weekly audit – Charlotte Gill, Substack
- A tale of two Tories. The by-election that made Churchill weep – Lord Lexden, The House magazine
- Bernanke’s verdict on the Bank of England is withering – Dr Gerard Lyons, CapX
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