- “Man from Rotherham arrested over Ann Widdecombe ‘murder’” – Police have revealed that a 28 year-old man from Rotherham has been arrested in connection with the murder of former minister Ann Widdecombe, reports the Mail.
- “Widdecombe suspect drove to Devon ‘with wooden stick’ on day she died” – The man suspected of murdering Ann Widdecombe is believed to have driven nearly 300 miles to her Dartmoor home carrying a foot-long wooden stick on the day of the killing, says the Telegraph.
- “Fans arrested after wild World Cup celebrations in Central London” – Seven people have been arrested after football fans flooded Central London following England’s World Cup quarter-final win, according to the Metro.
- “People smugglers cram record 128 illegal migrants onto single dinghy in English Channel” – People smugglers have crammed a record 128 illegal migrants onto a single dinghy crossing the English Channel, says GB News.
- “Villages where asylum seekers could be housed at ex-military barracks” – Residents of Linton-on-Ouse in Yorkshire and Barnham in Suffolk face having hundreds of migrants moved into disused military accommodation, reports the Mail.
- “Revealed, Henry Nowak’s final plea to his killer moments before dying” – Newly released court documents reveal that, as he lay dying after being stabbed, Henry Nowak pleaded with his killer, saying: “I’m not a racist”, according to the Mail.
- “The ‘anti-racist’ rot at the heart of Britain’s police” – From the killing of Henry Nowak to the Heaton Park terror attack, racial ideology is distorting how police respond to crimes, writes Owen Shapell in Spiked.
- “‘Predator’ caught ‘red-handed’ trying to rape woman walked free for a year” – “Predator” Ramzi Barkat, who tried to rape a woman near Buckingham Palace, has finally been jailed after a judge blasted police for a year-long “catalogue of incompetencies”, reports the Mirror.
- “Takeaway workers plied girls with drink and drugs before one child was raped” – Two Indian takeaway staff drove vulnerable girls in care to a remote location after plying them with drink and drugs before one of them raped a teenager, according to Wales Online.
- “Major policing reforms delayed by Burnham takeover” – A major overhaul of hate crime and public order legislation spearheaded by Lord Macdonald of River Glaven has been delayed until the autumn because of Labour’s change of leadership, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s house of cards on tax will come tumbling down” – Britain has been warned by the OBR that our ever-rising national debt is unsustainable, but Andy Burnham and his new team aren’t listening, writes Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
- “Burnham ‘plans £38 billion tax raid’” – Andy Burnham is to launch a £38 billion tax raid on the rich to fund a spending spree in office, according to analysis by Reform UK, reports the Telegraph.
- “Andy Burnham to receive list of alleged sex pest and bully MPs” – Andy Burnham is set to be handed a dossier of claims against politicians accused of sexual harassment and bullying as he assembles his top team for government, says the Times.
- “Why the public has no interest in Farage’s £5 million scandal” – The public don’t care about the £5 million donatoin received by Nigel Farage, writes Michael Mosbacher in the Telegraph.
- “Six in ten voters say Nigel Farage acted incorrectly over gifts” – A YouGov poll for the Times reveals widespread public disapproval over undeclared gifts as the Reform leader’s approval ratings plunge.
- “Plot to destroy the press: the real story of Harry’s hacking trial” – In the Sunday Times, those involved in Prince Harry’s humiliating defeat against the Mail speak out, with one calling the case “the biggest media scam in history”.
- “BBC4 set for axe in bid to fill broadcaster’s £500 million funding hole” – The BBC is scrambling to make savings after discovering a £500 million hole in its budget, with BBC4 among the casualties of a sweeping round of cuts, says the Mail.
- “Murrell at centre of fresh £1.5 million missing cash scandal” – Peter Murrell controlled a Scottish independence campaign group that is under police investigation for an alleged £1.5 million discrepancy in its finances, reports the Telegraph.
- “Only one in seven suspects in 2026 murders of women is an Irishman” – Only one of the people publicly identified as having been charged or sought in connection with the eight cases involving the violent deaths of women in Ireland so far this year has been Irish, says Gript.
- “Lindsey Graham dead at 71” – Firebrand US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has died of a heart attack at the age of 71 after a “brief and sudden illness”, according to Fox News. The FBI is investigating whether his death is suspicious.
- “Mick Jagger swipes at Bruce Springsteen over anti-Trump rants at gigs” – Mick Jagger has taken aim at Bruce Springsteen’s increasingly political concerts warning that fans don’t want to be lectured from the stage, says the Mail.
- “I’m being targeted by Iran’s security services” – British-born lawyer Elica Le Bon, who has built a vast online following with her commentary on Gaza and Iran since October 7th, claims she is now in the crosshairs of Iranian security services, reports the Telegraph.
- “Christians are disappearing for worshipping a God other than Xi” – Xi Jinping’s ruthless campaign against underground churches is designed to eliminate any rival source of loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party, says Allegra Mendelson in the Telegraph.
- “People’s Vaccine Inquiry: Witness Statement 3” – On Substack, HART publishes the third witness statement submitted to the People’s Vaccine Inquiry, this one on behalf of Mr Nick Hunt of the Perseus Group.
- “Social media ban an ‘existential threat’ for education providers” – App developers working to improve young people’s lives warn they face being swept up in the Government’s ban on children using TikTok and Instagram, says the Times.
- “Kemi Badenoch vows to challenge foreign court ruling” – Kemi Badenoch has vowed to challenge a ruling by the International Court of Justice which could leave Britain facing £4 trillion in damages for greenhouse gas emissions going back to the Industrial Revolution, reports the Mail.
- “The Sunday Showdown: watch pro-Gaza eco warrior Dale Vince clash with Camilla Tominey” – Eco-warrior Dale Vince walked out after a heated clash with Camilla Tominey in a combative new episode of the Daily T podcast.
- “Greens struggle to cope with surge in complaints against members” – The Green Party has admitted it cannot cope with the sheer volume of claims being made against its members for wrongdoing, according to the Telegraph.
- “Grid expansion chaos” – On his Substack, David Turver argues that soaring costs and significant delays in Britain’s grid expansion programme demonstrate the urgent need for independent scrutiny.
- “Germany: Left-wing group says it is behind railway sabotage” – A group calling itself the “Angry Birds Commando” has claimed responsibility for placing incendiary devices on a railway line between Cologne and Düsseldorf, blaming industrial technology for environmental destruction, according to DW.
- “Claim: the Iran war is worsening the climate crisis” – In Watts Up With That?, Eric Worrall pushes back on the latest claim that the Iran war is making the climate crisis worse, dismissing it as yet another example of blaming climate change for every problem under the sun.
- “Even when the cap doesn’t fit” – In Climate Scepticism, John Ridgway explores why climate sceptics find themselves unable to escape the so-called ‘new denial’ label regardless of the arguments they make.
- “Church of England defends £100 million reparation fund” – The Church of England’s pledge to give away £100 million to compensate for its historical links to transatlantic slavery is facing renewed scrutiny, reports the Telegraph.
- “Illiberal Amnesty thinks a woman’s place is at back of the queue” – Amnesty’s transformation into an organisation hostile to women has been extraordinary to witness, says Alex Massie in the Sunday Times.
- “The real winner of Gary Stevenson’s documentary? The New Economy Organisers Network” – In her Substack, Charlotte Gill argues that the New Economy Organisers Network emerges as the true beneficiary of Gary Stevenson’s recent wealth tax documentary.
- “Bond should stay white and male, says casting chief” – Debbie McWilliams, the casting director behind 14 Bond films, insists that James Bond must remain white and male, according to the Washington Times.
- “We can be Heroes” – Watch a compilation of England’s goals in the World Cup so far, with David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’ on the soundtrack.
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Well, here is a different view, from a man who is telling the simple truth. Ethnicity has nothing to do with the place your mother happened to be when you popped out into the world. It is where your ancestors were… 500 years ago… or 1000 years ago.
Spain: Ex-PM Rajoy Under Fire for Saying France Soccer Team has ‘No Frenchmen’
“Church of England defends £100 million reparation fund”…but only for AFRICAN slavery.
They never mention WHITE SLAVERY. And even the reigning Pope centuries ago, when his Vatican entourage pointed out all the little blond Slavic Christian children standing on a platform to be sold at a slave market in Rome, marvelled that they looked like “angels”, but just continued on his way, never offering to buy their freedom with some of the Vatican Treasure Hoard.
It was Saint Adalbert of Prague who used his own family fortune to buy the freedom of as many Christian Slaves as he could. They were all WHITE SLAVES.
“Revealed, Henry Nowak’s final plea to his killer moments before dying”
That Daily Mail article left out some very important evidence, which was included in the following Breitbart article by Kurt Zindulka:
‘I’m Not Racist’: Last Words of Murdered Teen Nowak Revealed
“Another resident who witnessed some of the incident told the court that he had heard “some shouting, it sounded like a foreign language” that started to get “more and more extreme”.”
“After about two or three minutes, I went to the window as it was getting worse and the tone was getting scary,” the witness said. “I felt scared. The tone gave me a pit in my stomach. It was really, really aggressive like a carnal, animalistic tone.”
He then claimed to have heard someone shout: “This white guy racially attacked us… You’re not getting away, big man.” Then he said that he either heard “I’m going to slash you” or “I am going to smash you.”
The witness said he had seen “four to six” men wearing puffer jackets on the street at the time, while other witnesses had only reported seeing Digwa and three of his relatives, suggesting that more people may have been involved in… Read more »
“Even when the cap doesn’t fit”
I’ve recently been called a climate modelling denier for pointing out that one good thing that Trump could cut is NASA GISS ModelE, the climate code that contributes heavily to UNIPCC reports. It’s spaghetti code which includes Fortran 77 code for which there have been tools to upgrade to DoD extensions available for decades yet the maintainers have been too lazy. Global variables. Enough goto’s to show they hate Djikstra. If the results were important you’d think that they would spend the money to have maintainable code built by software professionals.
It also includes a model in which arbitrarily scaled uniform noise is added to the temperature field. This is unphysical as, to misquote Einstein, God does not play die.
Having been called a denier over those two points I must admit that I am sceptical that spending supercomputer time with the associated carbon emissions on code based on crude long range weather forecasting code is a better idea than using a parsimonious model that will run on a laptop and give the same magnitude of error.
“Eric Worrall pushes back on the latest claim that the Iran war is making the climate crisis worse, dismissing it as yet another example of blaming climate change for every problem under the sun.”
..and the real cause is the sun that it’s under!
Her advisors may have told Badenock that saying she would challenge international policies could make her look strong actually discloses the opposite. Our Parliament is Sovereign here if it wants to be. The right way is to cancel any law or protocol which purports to over rule it and set the policies to suit us.
She cannot say that because most of her party does not believe in it. They are globalists who have supported domestic and international quangos from the beginning.
“Social media ban an ‘existential threat’ for education providers” – App developers working to improve young people’s lives warn they face being swept up in the Government’s ban on children using TikTok and Instagram, says the Times.
Usual Government crap. Make a Bold, Sweeping Crackdown announcement, based on the assumption that ministers can just wave a magic wand and the Right Things Will Happen. Think nothing through. Ignore anyone’s opinion. Draft and redraft. Ignore opinions again. ££££millions later, end up with a piece of crap “law” which everyone hates. Stop talking about it, move on.
Widdecombe suspect drove to Devon ‘with wooden stick’ on day she died
I see the psy-op is well underway:
“He rarely comes out of the house, his dad used to do everything for him and I don’t know what he did for a living,”
“I think once his dad died he went a bit loopy.”
“.. may have had learning difficulties..”
Got that everyone? Loner, loopy, learning difficulties.
But not so daft that he didn’t know who Ann was, how to find her, drive 300 miles and attack her, it is said. Then he drove home and hoped to evade capture.
Seems fully cognisant. Fully culpable.
I doubt if Ann was attacked and killed because of her hair style but because of her views. Doesn’t that make it political.
Yes, in broad daylight! And how did he know exactly where she lived, and wait in his car in the lane until exactly the time when she was not texting to attack her?
“Heather Herbert”, who looks like a man pretending to be a woman (probably real first name “Herbert”) posted some horrible comments about Ann’s death, and it makes me wonder whether the killer was a “Trans” activist or something, egged on by others to kill a famous opponent, like Charlie Kirk’s killer.
Scots university staff member probed after wishing Ann Widdecombe suffered ‘painful death’
Yes, they are already priming the “mental illness” narrative just so people dont think it was an indoctrinated far left commie that did it!
Stop the press!
After insisting that terrorism or politics is not behind her murder…….
Counter Terrorist Police take over the investigation!!!
It’s entirely possible, of course that the alleged perpetrator is, indeed, a lunatic… after all there are many out there who would qualify for such a diagnosis, who aren’t locked up as they should be, thanks to ‘care in the community’.
Which makes it even more important that people like Lammy don’t refer to their opponents as worse than Nazis, lest they get the idea to do something about it.
On the other hand, perhaps he’s just a Left wing nut job? God knows, there are plenty of those too…
Yes, and the “wooden stick” looked more like a stout wooden cudgel with a large lumpy knob on the end sticking out of his trouser pocket in the photo of him getting into his red car to drive to Devon. Like a short shillelagh.
Maybe he practiced on his dad, and the police might look again at how his father died. Was it caused by a “fall”, as was first thought about Ann’s injuries, and did the son tell them so at the time, making everyone believe him?
Fans arrested after wild World Cup celebrations in Central London
This is just Metro, possibly the wokest/most left wing major media source being anti-English and trying to smear people.
Tens of thousands of people had enjoyed a good night out watching the match and there were 7 arrests. I’m sure this number of people, or often a lot more, will be arrested for being drunk and disorderly in every town/city after a Saturday night out.
If only every Saturday night in Central London was so calm and peaceful there were only 7 arrests.
In light of the rape gangs scandal, it is interesting that the article identifies the two convicted rapists as Indian but not Muslim.
The majority of people in/from India are Hindu. However there’s a sizeable Muslim population in India, maybe 200million out of a population of about 1.2billion.
Read their names and come back again.
“Newport Crown Court on Friday Wasee Shikel and Azad Ahmed drove from Cardiff to the Neath Port Talbot county area in 2021 and met two teenage girls.”
The names are Islamic.
“Kemi Badenoch vows to challenge foreign court ruling”
It’s probably better simply to deny the court’s jurisdiction and ignore it.
“BBC4 set for axe in bid to fill broadcaster’s £500 million funding hole”
That must have been an awkward meeting… seriously, how do you just ‘discover’ that you’re half a billion quid short on your spending plans?
Are you sure this isn’t policy based evidence? Perhaps the new broom wanted to make cuts but needed a reason.
Perhaps they could not bother sending hundreds of employees to Glastonbury next time?… they seem to go totally over the top every year… clearly a favourite junket for the bbc…
“People smugglers cram record 128 illegal migrants onto single dinghy in English Channel” in an effort to help the government reduce the number of boats crossing the Channel!
They’re going to need bigger boats!