- “Tories pledge to scrap diversity rule after Nowak murder” – Kemi Badenoch is set to announce the scrapping of the public sector equality duty, which she will describe as a “minefield” that has fuelled identity politics across public institutions, reports the Telegraph.
- “Kemi Badenoch pledges to end identity politics in the public sector” – The Conservative leader is committing to abolish the public sector equality duty, which critics have long blamed for embedding identity politics throughout Government institutions, says the Mail.
- “As a white man, I would love to know exactly how I should react to Henry’s murder” – The starkly different public reactions to the deaths of Henry Nowak and George Floyd expose a glaring double standard at the heart of Britain’s approach to race and justice, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “The obnoxious hypocrisy of Starmer’s fury with J.D. Vance” – The same Britons who raged over the death of George Floyd are now furious at J.D. Vance for expressing outrage over the death of Henry Nowak, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Police preparing for summer of disorder in wake of Nowak murder” – Police forces across England and Wales have been placed on standby to respond to potential widespread unrest following the murder of Henry Nowak, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Sikhs ‘attacked every day in Britain since Nowak’s killer was jailed’” – Senior Sikh Federation official Dabinderjit Singh says men, women and children have faced a daily barrage of threats and violence in the wake of Henry Nowak’s killer being jailed, reports the Mail.
- “Britain should listen to America’s mass migration warning” – Starmer’s most prominent response to Henry Nowak’s murder has been anger at J.D. Vance for criticising the very policies that foster such crimes, says Roger Kimball in the Spectator.
- “Force that told police to log anti-Islam hostility reported to watchdog” – South Wales Police has been referred to the Equality and Human Rights Commission after it emerged officers were instructed to record expressions of anti-Muslim hostility, including remarks that could amount to blasphemy, says the Telegraph.
- “Songwriter for Dua Lipa and Britney Spears stabbed to death” – Talay Riley, a singer-songwriter who penned tracks for some of pop music’s biggest names, was found fatally stabbed in the garden of a property in east London, reports the Telegraph.
- “Billions in aid handed to terrorists and criminals” – A secret dossier reveals that billions of pounds in British foreign aid and Covid relief loans were seized by terrorist groups, criminal gangs and hostile states, according to the Telegraph.
- “Hundreds of civil servants ‘working from beach’ abroad” – Around 350 Civil Service staff have been granted permission to work remotely from overseas locations, prompting fresh scrutiny of the Government’s grip on its own workforce, reveals the Telegraph.
- “UK’s debt mountain grows faster than all countries except Botswana” – IMF figures show the UK’s net debt as a share of GDP has tripled from 30.4% to 95.5% since 2001, a rate of increase surpassed only by Botswana among all nations tracked, says the Mail.
- “White House tells PM not to ban social media for children” – The Trump administration has urged Sir Keir Starmer to abandon plans to ban under-16s from social media platforms, putting Washington at odds with Downing Street’s online safety agenda, notes the Telegraph.
- “Hand over Chagos now, Mauritius urges Starmer after Trump threats” – Mauritius is pressing Sir Keir Starmer to ratify the Chagos Islands deal as Donald Trump considers buying the archipelago, reports the Telegraph.
- “Food is too cheap, claims Zack Polanski” – Green Party leader Zack Polanski is calling for tighter supermarket regulation and a £15 minimum wage, arguing that food is currently priced too cheaply, reports the Telegraph.
- “Oxford ‘allowed’ trans protest that cancelled lecture series” – Oxford University is accused of permitting trans activists to disrupt and ultimately cancel a lecture series on gender in the law by a leading equality law expert, says the Times.
- “Don’t be fooled that radical trans activism is over” – Recurrent obstructive protests that forced the cancellation of an Oxford tutor’s lecture series on sex, gender and the law are a stark reminder that radical trans activism is far from finished, says John Maier in the Times.
- “I bet the Oxford trans brigade haven’t read their cancelled professor’s book” – The campaign to no-platform Dr Michael Foran at Oxford for his lectures on gender reveals a movement that has not engaged with the arguments it seeks to silence, notes Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “German Chancellor in latest deranged speech claims that Alternative für Deutschland ‘stands in the tradition’ of the Holocaust” – German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has plumbed new depths with a claim that the AfD “stands in the tradition” of the Holocaust, writes Eugyppius.
- “Tech giants poised for legal fight over children’s social media ban” – Silicon Valley companies are preparing judicial reviews against the UK Government’s planned age restrictions on social media, which a Government source warns will be heavily contested, reveals the Times.
- “Smartphones are ruining childhoods – why let children have them at all?” – With smartphones and social media linked to rising anxiety, declining attention and worsening mental health among the young, the case for keeping them out of children’s hands altogether is growing stronger, according to Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Is AI making our children stupid? The case for hitting pause on EdTech” – The rapid proliferation of AI in education is undermining learning and amounts to a mass experiment on children that urgently demands a pause, according to the UsForThem Broken Custodians Substack.
- “Why have we forgotten about Covid?” – Five years on from the pandemic, the question of why society has so swiftly buried its memories of Covid demands urgent reflection, says Sean Thomas in the Spectator.
- “Dr Clare Craig calls for petition to end folic acid addition to flour” – Pathologist Dr Clare Craig is urging the public to sign a petition opposing the mandatory addition of synthetic folic acid to flour, citing a trial in which nine babies died for every neural tube defect allegedly prevented.
- “New study: solar photovoltaic and wind power fail to meet annual energy demands 62% of the time” – A new study finds that solar photovoltaic and wind power fail to meet annual energy demands 62% of the time, writes Kenneth Richard in the No Tricks Zone.
- “No, New York Times, climate change is not making tennis players ill” – The New York Times is taken to task by ClimateRealism for shoehorning climate change into its coverage of players suffering from heat at Roland Garros.
- “Ancient artefacts prove glaciers come and go naturally – no CO2 required” – Ancient artefacts emerging from melting ice demonstrate that glaciers have retreated and advanced throughout history long before industrial CO2 emissions, notes Kelvin Kemm on Climate Change Dispatch.
- “North Sea can still fuel 20 million cars to 2030, claim experts” – Fresh investment in the North Sea could supply fuel for 20 million cars until the end of the decade, according to a new analysis reported by the Mail.
- “Poultry farmer debunks Sainsbury’s brown egg ban” – A poultry farmer has comprehensively dismantled Sainsbury’s climate-based justification for its ban on brown eggs, revealing the supermarket’s reasoning as scientifically unfounded, reports Paul Homewood on Not a Lot of People Know That.
- “The Church of England has a ‘white privilege’ problem” – DEI doctrine has embedded itself far more deeply in the Church of England’s official directives than most people realise, says Bijan Omrani in the Spectator.
- “The tyranny of Pride is coming to an end” – The annual imposition of Pride Month is finally losing its cultural stranglehold as public tolerance for its excesses wears thin, writes Patrick West in the Spectator.
- “Police investigations into David Sullivan allegations dropped” – Police investigations spanning 18 years into sexual misconduct claims against West Ham co-owner David Sullivan have been dropped without charge, according to the Telegraph.
- “Museum puts trigger warning on Janet and John children’s book” – The Black Country Living Museum has added cautions to classic Janet and John volumes warning visitors about cultural attitudes deemed to be “wrong”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Idris Elba: Don’t make James Bond woke” – Idris Elba has ruled himself out of ever playing James Bond, citing his belief that audiences would not accept a black male in the role of 007, says the Mail.
- “Magnus Jones” – Alka Sehgal Cuthbert of Don’t Divide Us has praised Alain Wolf’s new novel, which follows Dr Magnus Jones as he risks demotion and far worse after resolving to expose his university’s fraudulent admissions practices.
- “Half of recent graduates earn less than the average wage” – New findings show that more than 150,000 graduates a year fail to reach the median full-time salary of £35,000, according to the Mail.
- “I know philosophers who dine out their whole career in exposition of the brilliant Hannah Arendt” – When COVID-19 hit, every single one kept his mouth shut, says Patrick Byrne on X.
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May I add these two to the Round-Up:
Benonwine on X: “Jeff Banks is continuing his campaign to secure a minute’s silence for Henry Nowak before England’s opening World Cup match. He is now calling on the editors of every national newspaper to get behind the proposal and encourage their readers to support it. His argument is simple https://t.co/sy9FD88sbL” / X
If Parliament Could Stop for George Floyd
“In 2020, Parliament paused its work to hold a minute’s silence for George Floyd, an American citizen killed in the US. This post explains why Henry Nowak – an 18‑year‑old British student stabbed to death in Southampton and handcuffed as he lay dying – deserves the same recognition from his own Parliament, and gives you a ready‑to‑use email template to demand a minute’s silence from your MP.
For once, this isn’t a “hot take” or a bit of commentary you can nod along to and scroll past.
It’s something you can actually do.”
“Sikhs ‘attacked every day in Britain since Nowak’s killer was jailed’” – Senior Sikh Federation official Dabinderjit Singh says men, women and children have faced a daily barrage of threats and violence in the wake of Henry Nowak’s killer being jailed”
This is an ABSOLUTE PACK OF LIES !!!
Where are the details of all these FAKE ATTACKS? It’s the precise equivalent of the hundreds of FAKE ATTACKS ON MUSLIMS that were reported to the “Tell Mama” Muslim Helpline in previous years, which Sikhs are now trying to copy, in order to get public sympathy.
Every single one of the “Tell Mama” attacks was investigated by police and PROVEN TO BE FALSE.
Do the British public know that Sikh men, women and children are ALL ALLOWED TO CARRY DISEMBOWELLING DAGGERS? There are small versions for kids, and dainty versions for women, but all are lethal weapons which should be banned.
Predators pretending to be victims.
More shocking information about the behaviour of Hampshire Police
https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/06/hampshire-police-drafted-statement-portraying-stabbed-teen-henry-nowak-as-aggressor-after-his-death/?utm_source=Brussels+Signal+Total+Audience&utm_campaign=c5ac64019e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_02_23_02_03_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-fa71c4c299-28275
I don’t for one minute believe the Sikh proclamation. Everyone I know understands very well that this was a random nutter and the real issue is the police and their dei indoctrination.
i do hope the Sikhs are not going down the Muslim route to power; it will not do them any favours to fractiously split from a white population that currently thinks they are okay.
I wish I could give more than one up-vote.
They’re not ok.
UK’s debt mountain grows faster than all countries except Botswana
Does the IMF produce it’s own estimate of our GDP or does it rely on the inflated calculation which the EU imposed on us in 2010 which includes smuggling, drugs and prostitution?
Poultry farmer debunks Sainsbury’s brown egg ban
Our household gets through half a dozen eggs most days. I usually shop at Aldi and they have recently been through a phase of having white ‘free range’ eggs rather than brown. The white eggs have much more fragile shells which is a pain in the arse when cooking and it looks like their wastage in the shop is far higher too. Next time Aldi present white eggs instead of brown I’ll be looking elsewhere to feed our egg habit – by the sound of it, that won’t be at Sainsbury’s.
I have a vague recollection that eggs always used to be white and they came from China, think?
In any event, environmental benefits, or not, I wish Sainsbury well with turning round the public’s perception that brown eggs are somehow healthier, perhaps as a result of the ‘go to work on an egg’ campaign?
Back in the day Exeter Central station had adjacent posters. The first said “Go to work on an egg.” The second, “Travel by train – it’s less of a strain.”
IMF figures show the UK’s net debt as a share of GDP has tripled from 30.4% to 95.5% since 2001, a rate of increase surpassed only by Botswana among all nations tracked, says the Mail
That is 2.6% per annum all of this century. The amount exceeds the reported rise in GDP. It explains why we all feel worse off. If might mean there has been no GDP increase at all because government spending increases are counted pounds for pound in the output numbers.
Every time Number 10 is redecorated or MPs go on a jolly the amounts are added to GDP as if these costs made us better off.
“Museum puts trigger warning on Janet and John children’s book”
I’m not surprised. Even the title is trans-exclusory. Oh, why did I not protest when they forced me to read that stuff back in 1957?
Not necessarily… it all rather depends which is which, surely?
“Food is too cheap, claims Zack Polanski”
He should get in touch with the Birmingham church leader I met on Sunday, who was saying how the food bank they run has to distribute hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of food to families annually.
When there is a glut of some vegetables, if supermarkets did not buy them and sell them at knock-down prices the excess would be left with the grower and would go to waste. Supermarkets also use loss leaders and sell some things at a loss to make sure people keep coming through their door rather than their competitors’. Sure, supermarket buyers push growers to sell at the lowest possible price and make life hard for the grower – life is hard.
We used to have grower financed marketing boards which bought surplus crops and either manufactured them into long life products or stored them or sold for animal food.
We also used to have anti monopoly laws which made loss leaders illegal because they are predatory against smaller retailers and now, also, against growers who are coerced into subsidising the offers.
Both came to an end when the EU took over our country. Those politicians who didn’t like our decision to leave have left us with a legal and regulatory mess. No doubt their lawyer friends do well out of it.
Spot on.
Except – it is consumers who determine selling price. That price determines buying price at each step in the supply chain so profit can be taken.
The problem for farmers is years of protectionist, regulation within the EU, to keep out foreign (price lowering) competition and to prevent competition within the bloc between Countries.
The point about “harmonisation” within the EU internal market was to prevent manufacturers, farmers from different EU Countries or regions from having lower costs then others – particularly so as not to put-compete the sacred French farmers.
When the EEC was started in 1958, the CAP was set up specifically to stop French farmers being affected by produce from more efficient Dutch and German farmers.
The way to deal with this in the UK, is to get rid of the legacy regulation from the EU, and the environmental, climate change nonsense to lower British farmer’s costs.
I know philosophers who dine out their whole career in exposition of the brilliant Hannah Arendt” – When COVID-19 hit, every single one kept his mouth shut
‘Ordinary men, functioning within ordinary institutions, can perpetrate extraordinary evil not by becoming monsters but by ceasing to think…how does an entire civilisation produce men for whom obedience replaces conscience…the conditions that made Eichmann possible, the bureaucracy, the language rules, the relief of personal judgement, those are not gone. They are never far away.’
We have got a problem…
We do, but it goes beyond Hannah Arendt’s words.
The problem we have is that people that I would consider dangerous and delusional because of their aggressive ideological stance in favour of the crazy woke agenda are completely convinced that Trump, Farage, the AfD etc are the next coming of the Nazis and will draw inspiration from that very same clip and strengthen their resolve to fight them by all means possible.
As the late Scott Adams repeatedly warned, once you equate someone to Hitler, you give yourself the moral justification to do literally anything to stop them. Like trying to assassinate Trump or Charlie Kirk or more recently rigging elections in Los Angeles. As Adams said, If you could go back and kill Hitler before he even got started, you would do it.
These people will take words like Arendt’s and twist them around in their deranged minds. You can see them doing it all the time.
Can you imagine if the Covid authoritarians or politicians like Lammy were up against Hannah Arendt! They wouldn’t have a leg to stand on in a courtroom. Absolutely unique philosopher.
Yes, I read her book Banality of Evil, years ago while trying to make sense of what happened within a cultured nation in the 30s and 40s. In the Clip the says something like “ when ordinary people cease thinking “ – that is what I have become most fearful of. And I see it evidenced particularly in erstwhile decent and intelligent left wing friends.
“Sikhs ‘attacked every day in Britain since Nowak’s killer was jailed’”
Im not sure that I entirely believe this but, if it’s true, it supports my fear that, lacking the capacity to differentiate, when the backlash comes people will not pause to determine whom they are targeting and will go for the simplest common denominator of ‘brown’.
Precisely, because such people are guaranteed to be racists from the Right, and in behaving like this they’ll be giving the establishment exactly what it wants. That’s how ignorant and blinded by their own hostility these idiots are. Have your views, fair enough, but going out of your way to harass or attack innocent people based on their ethnicity/religion is crossing an obvious line and can never be condoned. Mike talks sense, as ever;
”Many online commentators and MSM outlets are spreading misinformation about the Sikhs in order to create division. This also steers attention away from the failings of the police. The weapon used to kill Henry Nowak was not protected by the Sikh religious exemption. UK law allows initiated Sikhs to carry a small ceremonial kirpan as an article of faith. It does not permit larger offensive weapons or give anyone the right to use a knife in self-defence. The blade used has been identified as a 21 cm pesh kabz (Persian/Afghan fighting dagger), not a kirpan.
The jury convicted Vickrum Digwa not only of murder but also of carrying a bladed article in public, confirming that the weapon fell outside the religious exemption. Tommy Robinson has… Read more »
I’ve ceased caring – funny name, funny hat, brown and once again someone white stabbed to death.
Exactly it’s human nature.
How many times do you need to get stung by a Wasp before you cease to judge each one of these flying terrors by the “content of its character”?
I keep away from all dogs because I know little about them, but I have developed some capacity for reading human behaviour. Thugs come in all colours. My thug detection mechanism is not perfect, but it’s a bit more accurate than “white good, brown bad”.
Same names, same prejudices.🤷♀️ And always the same few individuals on here who ever demonstrate anything resembling objectivity.🧐
I am bring 100% objective.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdejnjdg08eo
I am a race realist and am well aware that racial groups are not all equally represented in violent and other crime stats. But that doesn’t mean I need to treat every single non white person as if they were about to attack me.
But if you do you’re much less likely to be killed.
Less probably, much less I doubt. Absolute risk reduction would be negligible. Everything is a tradeoff – living my life on the basis that someone might kill me doesn’t seem like a good deal to me. For sure I avoid neighbourhoods full of thugs (of all colours) – I am fortunate to be able to do that.
When a group demands to be treated as a collective when it suits them, the downside is they are treated as a collective when it doesn’t suit them.
Of course it’s not true! It’s a shameless pack of lies!
There’s a whole website dedicated to listing Fake Hate Crimes, though mostly in the USA:
fakehatecrimes.org
It might list some of the ones mentioned here: Hate Hoaxes ought to be Hate Crimes, by Steve Sailer – The Unz Review
“German Chancellor in latest deranged speech claims that Alternative für Deutschland ‘stands in the tradition’ of the Holocaust”
Why is it, I wonder, that ‘The Left’ remain completely oblivious to just what they might be doing to encourage people towards the right of politics? Their lack of any capacity for self-reflection is astonishing.
When you are wholly convinced in your own self-righteousness, that only you and those like you are good and right, the capacity for self-examination, self-awareness does not exist as it can serve no purpose.