News Round-Up
- “Asylum seeker ‘sexually assaulted woman’ while living at migrant hotel, court hears” – An Ethiopian asylum seeker living in a Manchester migrant hotel has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman, reports the Telegraph.
- “200 asylum hotel residents charged with crimes this year” – At least 200 people living in asylum seeker hotels have been charged with criminal offences this year, without police disclosing their immigration status, reveals the Telegraph.
- “First small boat migrants are detained for removal to France” – The first small boat migrants have been detained for removal to France under the new ‘one in, one out’ scheme, reports the Mail.
- “The lies of the land” – The centre cannot hold, the disinformation no longer works – and people are angry, warns Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
- “Motherland: how Farage is winning over women” – It may now be Sir Keir Starmer with the woman problem while Farage is leading a march of the mums, says Tim Shipman in the Spectator.
- “Nigel Farage halves Keir Starmer’s lead in best prime minister poll” – Only 35% of Britons believe the Labour leader is a better choice than the Reform UK leader, reports then Express.
- “Reform’s Olympic champion mayor goes to war with his staff” – An Olympic boxer elected as one of Reform UK’s first mayors is embroiled in a war with his officials, reveals the Telegraph.
- “‘Sack peer who smeared me in Manchester Airport police row’” – Reform UK’s deputy leader, Richard Tice, has “serious concerns” about Baroness Shaista Gohir’s role in advising ministers on the definition of Islamophobia, reports the Telegraph.
- “London’s crimewave is becoming a shameless business opportunity” – Awareness campaigns plastered across the capital city are despairing, patronising and passive aggressive, says Tom Slater in the Telegraph.
- “Reeves ‘vastly underestimated’ scale of private school parents’ VAT rebellion” – Rachel Reeves “massively underestimated” the scale of parents paying private school fees upfront to avoid VAT, reports the Telegraph.
- “Reeves has driven Britain to the brink. Full-blown crisis will soon be upon us” – Taxes can be ratcheted up only to a certain extent before revenues crash, warns Annabel Denham in the Telegraph – we have reached that point.
- “Brexit has been a success. Labour are slowly killing it” – During the long years of EU membership, our political establishment forgot how to run the country, writes David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “The shameful Chagos fiasco” – On his Substack, Nigel Biggar blasts the UK’s plan to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius as empty virtue-signalling that abandons the Chagossians while pretending to help them.
- “Israel could cut UK security ties if Starmer recognises Palestine” – Israel is considering withdrawing defence and security co-operation with the UK if Sir Keir Starmer goes ahead with recognising Palestine, in a move that could undermine national security, reports the Times.
- “Labour wrong to give 16 year-olds the vote, says former Supreme Court judge” – Lord Sumption has labeled the enfranchisement of 1.5 million young people a “crude attempt” to win elections, says the Telegraph.
- “Teacher sacked after Lucy Connolly post says he has lost everything” – A teacher who was fired after a Facebook post in which he criticised Lucy Connolly’s jail sentence says he has lost everything following a “witch hunt”, according to the Mail.
- “Freedom takes work” – We have to protect free speech from overbearing bosses, warns Andrew Tettenborn in the Critic.
- “Defending free speech in Canada and the UK” – On the Inside Policy Talks podcast, Toby and Peter Copeland explore how free speech in Canada and the UK is under siege from rising censorship and ideological conformity.
- “‘I snitched on a fellow pupil – and he got expelled’” – Kemi Badenoch has revealed how she once snitched on a fellow pupil for cheating in an exam – and got him being expelled, reports the Mail.
- “Kemi Badenoch reveals Josef Fritzl case made her lose her faith in God” – Kemi Badenoch says she was “never that religious” while growing up but “believed in God”. However, the Josef Fritzl case made her lose her faith, according to the Mail.
- “Don’t mock Kemi for her views on Christianity” – To be prepared to talk openly about faith, even if about its loss, shows the retreat of the secular stranglehold on public life, says Bijan Omrani in the Telegraph.
- “‘God exists whether you have doubts or not’: five religious leaders on Kemi Badenoch’s crisis of faith” – In the Telegraph, five clergymen respond to the Tory leader’s claim that God cannot exist in a world full of evil.
- “‘My victory over Mohammed Hijab’” – “Mohammed Hijab imagined he could use the court system to intimidate me and this magazine,” says Douglas Murray in the Spectator. “He resolutely and comprehensively failed.”
- “Influencers target Orthodox Jews in water pistol stunt” – ‘Prankster’ social media influencers have been terrorising Orthodox Jews in Manchester, spraying them with a water pistol in a spate of attacks, according to LBC.
- “Emergency alert drill will be ‘biggest public safety exercise in UK history’” – Millions of phones across Britain will blare a 10-second siren next month in what a Cabinet minister is calling one of the biggest public safety tests in UK history, reports the Express.
- “The unions could be Ed Miliband’s downfall” – The Energy Secretary’s zeal for Net Zero is coming at a great cost, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Reform threatens to pull solar subsidies over ‘desecration of countryside’” – Richard Tice has warned green investors that their money will be at risk under a Farage government, reports the Telegraph.
- “No, Florida Today, climate change isn’t boosting fire ants in Florida” – The notion that fire ant expansion is a direct result of climate change is a fake news narrative unsupported by the hard facts, says Anthony Watts in Climate Realism.
- “When climate zealotry invades the operating room” – In WUWT?, Charles Rotter warns that measuring heart surgeries by their carbon footprint risks sacrificing patient care to climate zealotry.
- “More subsidies announced for carbon capture” – On Not A Lot Of People Know That, Paul Homewood slams the latest UK carbon capture subsidies, warning that the 2,800 jobs created will add no real value but instead drain funds from the wider economy.
- “Climate Fact Check for July 2025” – WUWT? provides a summary of the top false claims made about climate change in the media in July 2025.
- “When the climate zealotry runs hot” – The I&I Editorial Board delivers a smackdown to climate alarmism’s extreme rhetoric.
- “Lucy Letby ‘very likely’ innocent, Peter Hitchens declares on podcast” – Lucy Letby’s case must be immediately “reopened in the courts”, Peter Hitchens argues, following the release of a “powerful” ITV documentary that raised serious questions about the evidence used to convict the neonatal nurse, according to the Mail.
- “Australia proves we don’t have to suffer under the NHS” – A mix of public and private healthcare providers would be a tonic for Britain, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “The ‘science’ behind why RFK Jr axed mRNA vaccine funding” – The US Health Secretary has dismayed scientists and doctors by cutting $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine research, reports the Telegraph.
- “Right-wing music festival cancelled after Irish artists sign open letter opposing it” – A Right-wing music festival has been cancelled after Kneecap, Christy Moore, Chris O’Dowd and some 600 other prominent Irish artists signed an open letter calling for its cancellation, says the Irish Examiner. So much for Kneecap’s free speech crusade.
- “AfD mayoral candidate Joachim Paul denied his right to run for office because he likes Tolkien and criticises migrants” – On Substack, Eugyppius reports that AfD mayoral candidate Joachim Paul has been barred from running in Ludwigshafen over “anti-constitutional” views – including liking Tolkien, praising German epics and criticising mass migration.
- “Netanyahu commits to full occupation of Gaza” – President Trump does not oppose Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to occupy the entire Gaza Strip, reports Axios.
- “Israel intends to take control of Gaza but ‘doesn’t want to keep it’” – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel plans to take military control of the whole Gaza Strip, according to the Mail.
- “Superman actor, 59, joins ICE after Kristi Noem scraps age limit” – Dean Cain, known for his role as Clark Kent in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, has joined Immigration and Customs Enforcement to support Donald Trump’s mass deportation drive, reports Newsweek.
- “Ban trans women from single-sex spaces, equality watchdog to say” – EHRC guidance to be submitted to ministers this month will tell schools, hospitals, leisure centres and cinemas to limit trans access, says the Times.
- “Premier League splits with Stonewall as it ditches rainbow laces and armbands” – The Premier League has cut ties with Stonewall, scrapped rainbow armbands and its Rainbow Laces campaign and will launch its own LGBTQ+ inclusion drive, reports Telegraph.
- “You can be anything in Britain but a white Christian male” – In a successful multi-faith democracy, religious freedom should be enjoyed equally by all, says Rakib Ehsan in the Telegraph.
- “Misinformation scholarship exposed as liberal activist grift” – On Substack, Paul D. Thacker exposes “disinformation experts” like Joan Donovan as partisan activists posing as scholars.
- “Novels were always for girls” – In UnHerd, Mary Harrington doubts men will be returning to literary fiction any time soon.
- “‘We must forget the rules’” – On X, David Starkey says the “rules-based order” is weaponised against the West and cheers Trump and Vance for breaking the rules — now Britain’s turn.
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Thursday Morning Riseley
“Labour wrong to give 16-year-olds the vote, says former supreme court judge”
Ironically, there was a LAB minister doing the rounds yesterday telling us how they were banning ‘rogue’ unregulated providers of cosmetic surgery, such as butt-lifts, Botox and fillers, which will, in future, be denied to those under eighteen.
Old enough to vote, too young to get a lip filler… I notice too that they said nothing about life altering sex change surgery and use of puberty blockers.
“‘I snitched on a fellow pupil – and he got expelled’”
Further evidence of the ‘Britishness’ of the Tory leader… 😒
Pupil was cheating in an exam… you OK with that?
Funny that the Nigerian Birth Tourist never said anything about her fellow Nigerians doing that:
More than 700 Nigerian nurses under investigation for taking part in ‘industrial-scale’ qualifications fraud could be working in the NHS | Daily Mail Online
Frankly, I could hardly care less, but… “Please sir, Jeremy’s cheating” would have got you filled in later, at most schools where the sneak is both despised and generally ostracised.
You do, though, raise an interesting general point about where one draws the line on acting against people breaking the rules. Something even the police and courts apparently struggle with these days.
It is morally right to expose cheating and all other criminal acts, especially if it is affecting you directly, as in the case of students cheating on exams, which is grossly unfair to their fellow students who have worked hard to pass the exams on their own merit, without cheating. It is not “snitching”, which is often just making false accusations out of envy and spite.
But public boasting about exposing a fellow student cheating on an exam DECADES LATER seems mere attention-seeking. Everything she says seems just a calculated public relations exercise to mitigate her unpopularity in the eyes of the public, instead of doing the decent thing and stepping down. Nobody wants a Nigerian woman pretending to represent the Indigenous British People of these small islands… nobody except the Globalists… and the World Economic Forum.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/07/world-news/russia-launched-catalog-of-ukrainian-children-up-for-adoption-this-is-digital-child-trafficking/ ‘Russia has created an online catalog for the “sale” of Ukrainian children. Since 2014, children from the occupied territories — Luhansk, Donetsk, and Crimea — have been systematically taken to Moscow and other regions of Russia on the orders of Russian families. It seems that the demand for children has decreased, so the occupiers are looking for new ways to “improve” this terrible system. The @Save Ukraine team and I have found evidence that they have switched to methods that can only be called child trafficking. On a hastily created website, you can literally “choose” a child based on a photo with their faces exposed. They describe children as a commodity: “obedient,” “calm,” etc. Just imagine — you can filter children not only by gender, but also by eye and hair color! The way they describe our Ukrainian children is no different from a slave catalog. This is real child trafficking in the 21st century, which the world must stop immediately. Most of the children in this “catalog” were born before the occupation of Luhansk region and had Ukrainian citizenship. Some of them had their parents killed by the occupying authorities, while others simply had Russian documents made to… Read more »
“God exists whether you have doubts or not’: five religious leaders on Kemi Badenoch’s crisis of faith”
In relation to the above headline I found this peice which, though not particularly religious myself, it’s sort of comforting to here
Have a read and see what you make of it
‘I died for 8 minutes and what I saw convinced me that death is just an illusion’ – Irish Mirror Online https://share.google/yyS3fWY07l0ciInt1
I don’t put any more significance to her recollection of it than I do to people who recount their dreams.
Dreams are completely real, showing us our experiences when we visit the spirit world while asleep.
But it is in this physical world where we are allowed to exercise our own Free Will. In the spirit world, we are often robbed of Free Will, mind-controlled, enslaved by evil beings, and their evil human minions.
Dinger, there are thousands of such stories, many of which are bogus, just charlatans copying the stories of others to get attention. Some are not. But you don’t need to rely on others’ stories, real or not, and you don’t need to have a “Near-Death Experience”, because the basic message is true. Our human physical forms, indeed the physical forms of all life on earth, are powered by our tiny souls of light, which temporarily enter physical forms in order to experience life here as a kind of “Soul Test”, returning to visit the spirit world whenever we are asleep, then finally returning to the spirit world when our physical forms die. Then back into a new physical form many years later. Yes, reincarnation exists, and Christians should get used to the truth of it: that Almighty God in His mercy never gave humans only one chance, one lifetime, but many chances, many lifetimes, to choose between Good and Evil. Never mind what others say: look into your own dreams, especially when you are hovering between waking and sleeping, and see what you can see. If you reach out toward Evil, you will find it. If you reach out toward… Read more »
Thats a very thoughtful explanation and I certainly won’t be challenging it but maybe some sort of life after death is fact and has always been and religion was created to fit around this truth not to explain it?
There is no “maybe”, Dinger. Our souls are immortal, and life after this physical, earthly death is a fact. Everyone finds that out for themselves, sooner or later, and so will you. It is a long road.
Two things I hope you will find, as I have done:
1) Emanating from God is a Joy such as humanity have never known.
2) Nothing on Earth, or in the spirit world, compares to Heaven’s Glory, and Heaven is where we belong. It is real. I have had the merest fleeting glimpse of it, not seen by the eyes, but felt in the depths of the soul. A mere nanosecond, changing everything. I will say no more.
May God bless you, brother, and guide you in your search for truth.
Very well said, again; ”@Keir_Starmer You speak of young people facing challenges your generation could never have imagined. You’re right – but you’ve completely misunderstood what those challenges are, and worse, you’re helping to create them. Young Brits can’t afford homes because we’re importing over a million people a year into a country that can’t build 200,000. The maths is broken – and they’re the ones paying for it. They live with their parents well into their 30s, priced out, or forced to compete with illegal migrants for taxpayer-funded housing. That’s not a housing crisis. That’s betrayal. British youth – especially working-class youth – used to have a route into trades, retail, logistics, construction. Now those jobs are flooded with cheap migrant labour. Why hire a local apprentice when you can pay a newly arrived 25-year-old cash in hand? The truth is, mass migration acts as a wage suppression machine. It strips dignity from labour and replaces training with exploitation. You talk about “opportunity” while creating an economy that treats native-born youth as expendable. Our schools are no longer about teaching Britain’s children who they are or where they come from – they’ve become centres for ideological grooming and cultural… Read more »
Well written ripost.
I would also point out that income per head has shrivelled in Britain over the past 25 years. Given the likely 3-4 million illegals here the per head income will be even lower. People can see that citizens elsewhere have bencome better off: all US states are now better off than us whereas the poorest did not used to be, US income per head has risen about 30 per cent compared with ours, many countries where we patronisingly send foreign aid are growing fast and some have gone from poverty in the 1950s to a better per capita standard than us: South Korea, Singapoer and others.
My parents generation did not think it was notmal to buy your own house and many couples had to start life with their parents. When my parents were married in 1942 they were lucky to live in a rented house owned by a City of London police officer who had married my father’s sister. They shared it with my father’s brother for some time.
I remember when only those with public sector jobs or senior private sector ones could get a mortgage. Everyone else had to rent and try to save.
Yes, a well-written ripost by JIM CHIMIRIE.
Here is his final sentence:
“Walk through parts of Leicester, Bradford, Birmingham, or London and you’ll see it – parallel societies, imported values, and in many cases, open hostility toward the native population.”
Thanks Mogs. A brilliant article.
Both Lewis Brackpool and Charlotte Gill do excellent investigative work. This is Lewis’s latest scoop, before MSM get their sights on it and pilfer his work again ( inc video ); ”The Home Office confirmed that 14 organisations were formally involved in ‘Asylum accommodation’ policy development via the National Asylum Stakeholder Forum (NASF) and Strategic Engagement Groups (SEG), both of which are co-chaired by Home Office officials and NGO representatives. These groups meet quarterly and directly advise the government on asylum policy, including accommodation strategy. The list of NGOs and charities provided by the Home Office, along with their role and years of involvement: – British Red Cross – Refugee Council – Migrant Help – UNHCR – Micro Rainbow – NACCOM – Refugee Action – Asylum Matters – Scottish Refugee Council – ASAP (Asylum Support Appeals Project) – Freedom from Torture – Rainbow Migration – Helen Bamber Foundation – ILPA (Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association) This is a formal confirmation by the Home Office that these organisations were not merely observers or external commentators, they were directly and continuously involved in advising and influencing asylum accommodation policy across four years. In the public interest, and in the interest of transparency, I… Read more »
Brilliant work.
Yes, brilliant work by LEWIS BRACKPOOL.
“First small boat migrants are detained for removal to France”
Comment from the public:
“Hooray…We’re sending 150 back…..to get replaced with another 150…..even Baldrick couldn’t come up with a plan this ridiculous.”
Presumably to warn us about the government, the greatest threat to the country I have witnessed in all my 73 years…
I’ve got that crap turned off anyway.
Mine’s turned off.
Another waste of time and money.
May I add this news of Two Tier Injustice today:
Supermodel wife of recruitment boss who threatened to gang rape Virgin Atlantic stewardess defends husband: ‘Behind every story there’s pain’ | Daily Mail Online
— Pakistani Muslim Millionaire on a Virgin Atlantic flight, already drunk on champagne, was asked to stop leaning over the flight attendants counter to plunge his bare hand into the ice bucket for more ice, contaminating it for all passengers. For the next 8 hours, he proceeded to disrupt the flight 100 times, shouting obscenities and racially abusing the stewardess and staff, vowing to blow up the cabin crew’s hotel to kill them all, and to have the stewardess dragged by her hair out of her hotel room and gang-raped, then set on fire and burnt alive. His second wife defended him.
A British Judge sentenced him to 15 months in prison.
— In contrast, Lucy Connolly expressed her anger in a tweet over the Cowardly Southport Stabber who tried to kill 11 children and 2 adults, leaving 3 dead and 10 grievously wounded.
A British Judge sentenced her to 31 months in prison.
“Don’t mock Kemi for her views on Christianity”
Why not? God doesn’t come into the WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM.
And Olukemi Olufunto’s Nigerian Royal Caste of Adegoke were part of the horrific royal beheadings of the slaves of the Oba, ritual human sacrifices, as clearly shown in the less-publicised Benin Bronzes and other art forms.
God doesn’t come into that.
Only Satan.