- “Coward and liar who cried racism as victim lay dying in his own blood” – Vickrum Digwa, who stabbed Henry Nowak six times with a ceremonial blade before falsely accusing him of racism as the teenager bled to death, is exposed as a murderer who admitted “I’m a fool” in a rare moment of candour, reports the Mail.
- “Telegraph unmasks people-smuggling ‘King of the Jungle’” – An undercover investigation exposes a gang leader whose people-smuggling network stretches from the Middle East to Britain, writes the Telegraph.
- “AI facial recognition will be used to spot migrants posing as kids” – Harlow-based software firm Akhter Computers has been awarded a Home Office contract to develop AI facial recognition technology capable of identifying adult migrants who falsely claim to be children, reports the Mail.
- “Home Office chiefs are spending £1.2 million a year to hire boats for Channel” – The Home Office is paying £1.259 million to rent crewed rigid hull inflatable boats for a year, with the option to extend the contract for a further 24 months, says the Mail.
- “Rural villages may be ‘the new target for yachts smuggling people’” – Home Office intelligence estimates warn that up to 9,000 locations could be exploited to smuggle people and goods into the country, with rural coastal villages increasingly in smugglers’ sights, notes the Mail.
- “Revealed: the antisemite who confronted Helen Mirren in the street” – Corbynista Tom Carroll, from north London, has a history of posting abusive antisemitic material online and is now identified as the man who accosted Dame Helen Mirren in the street, claims the Mail.
- “Burnham spent £35k on Pride in 2025, sparking new Makerfield questions” – Andy Burnham handed £33,000 of Manchester taxpayers’ money to the city’s Superbia initiative – a programme that prioritises projects by the “wider trans communities” – as fresh scrutiny bears down on his Makerfield candidacy, according to the Mail.
- “Burnham has made five policy U-turns since launching campaign” – Rivals have dubbed Andy Burnham “Andy backtrack Burnham” after he flip-flopped on trans rights, immigration, Labour’s fiscal rules, Brexit and tax since launching his Makerfield campaign, writes the Mail.
- “Andy Burnham is U-turning on everything – except his biggest mistake of all” – Andy Burnham’s reversals on key policies are mounting even as he doubles down on his most consequential error, reports Express.co.uk.
- “Sorry, comrade Burnham. Inequality is a good thing” – Punishing success is deadly for any community that aspires to be more prosperous, says a Telegraph editorial.
- “Judge referred Farage to Lord Hermer over Manchester airport trial” – A judge referred Nigel Farage’s comments about the Manchester airport assault trial to Lord Hermer for potential prosecution, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Sir Tony Blair has lost all sense of shame” – The problems the former Prime Minister now bemoans are in great part his own creation, writes the Telegraph.
- “Can Nicola Sturgeon really not admit she got so many things wrong?” – Another man Nicola Sturgeon thought she knew well has turned out to have been beyond the pale, notes the Mail.
- “Briton exiled for disagreeing with the government, it’s ludicrous” – The Government has effectively sent British citizen Graham Phillips into exile for holding views it disapproves of, claims the Mail.
- “How Britain sank into the worst jobs crisis in two centuries” – Britain is facing the biggest worklessness crisis in almost two centuries as a generation of young people braces for a jobs bloodbath, reports the Telegraph.
- “Teens might not get full minimum wage before 2030 amid jobs fears” – Treasury minister Torsten Bell has admitted there is no “timeline” on Labour’s manifesto pledge to equalise minimum wage rates for all adults, says the Mail.
- “Thousands of new build London homes lie empty” – Property agents say there are 22,000 new homes in the capital without a buyer as demand for London flats collapses, according to This Is Money.
- “Labour tells unemployed young people to join military” – With the nation gripped by the worst youth worklessness crisis since records began, Labour’s answer is to direct unemployed young people towards the armed forces, writes the Telegraph.
- “George Orwell becomes the latest casualty of the woke takeover of English A-levels” – Orwell’s memoir has been dropped from OCR’s English A-level syllabus and replaced with a feminist biography of his wife, reports the Telegraph.
- “Surprise, surprise: 20mph zones are a money-making scam” – Speed offences in 20mph zones have become a mammoth cash cow generating hundreds of millions of pounds, says the Telegraph.
- “Sturgeon: I’m the victim of my husband’s fraud” – Nicola Sturgeon has portrayed herself as a victim of her husband’s crimes, even as Conservatives say her explanations for her own innocence remain unconvincing, writes the Telegraph.
- “Tourist gang-raped and drugged by five migrants in abandoned building for 72 hours” – A tourist was lured away from a restaurant, driven to an abandoned property, and subjected to a 72-hour ordeal at the hands of five migrants, reports the Express.
- “Netanyahu orders Israel to take control of 70% of Gaza” – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has directed Israel’s military to seize 70% of Palestinian territory in an escalation that significantly expands the scope of the Gaza offensive, says the Mail.
- “Russian drone hits apartment block in NATO-member Romania” – A Russian drone has struck a residential apartment block in Romania, raising fears that the conflict in Ukraine is spilling over into NATO territory, notes the Mail.
- “A beginner’s guide to the woke Right” – A new analysis argues that a strain of ideological conformity is taking root on the Right, and warns that it represents a detour from the values and clarity that have historically defined conservative politics, according to New Discourses.
- “Jilly Cooper’s right: we’ve all had enough of weepy, weak men” – Sophia Money-Coutts defends the late Jilly Cooper’s refusal to let her “macho men” cry in her novels, arguing that readers have grown tired of weepy, weak male characters, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Who funds the Free Speech Union? And why have they taken out an injunction to prevent publication of their donors?” – Tought questions at the FSU’s event in Belfast on Wednesday. Bit I think we answered them well.
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“Coward and liar who cried racism as victim lay dying in his own blood”
Well done to the Daily Mail for calling the Sikh Scum what he really is: “a coward and liar” !
And here he is with a sword threatening others in a car, in video footage sent to Patriot Lawrence Fox and featured on Kiwi Patriot Dan Wootton’s show at 20:14 minutes into the video:
🚨MANCHESTER AIRPORT ATTACKERS GET OFF AFTER ISLAMIST JUSTICE IN TWO TIER UK + HENRY NOWAK PROTESTS – YouTube
“Home Office chiefs are spending £1.2 million a year to hire boats for Channel”
So the Home Office, led by Pakistani Muslim Shabby Mahmood, is spending £1.2 million a year of British Taxpayers’ money to hire these Floating Chauffeured Limousines to import millions of her fellow Muslims.
Some public comments:
—” The primary driver behind the rise in channel crossing costs – from £400m in 2016 to £4bn in 2026 – was the failure to retain the right to return migrants to their country of departure during Brexit negotiations. Attention to detail is boring but important! “
—” Well said, and while Labour are utterly useless the Globalist Tories are equally to blame to blame for this madness. The Tories spent £8 million a day on housing asylum seekers in taxpayer-funded accommodation as of mid 2024, opened more than 400 asylum hotels and spent almost £200 billion on foreign aid since 2010, while at the same time significantly cutting funding in our Armed Forces, including gradually reducing the size of the UK’s army from over 200,000 soldiers in 2011 to just 72,500 soldiers in 2024, and cutting funding in the Royal Navy by 43%. “
“Who funds the Free Speech Union? And why have they taken out an injunction to prevent publication of their donors?”
Lord Toby’s response to this snide question by Nolan was perfect!
Don’t blame FSU as we know what vindictive little creeps the authoritarian leftists are.
“Telegraph unmasks people-smuggling ‘King of the Jungle’”
Perhaps we should consider the IDF tactic of killing the top guy, then his replacement, and HIS replacement, ad infinitum.
“AI facial recognition will be used to spot migrants posing as kids”
How about dental science? Teeth are a pretty accurate definer of someone’s age
That requires people to assess them. And, as we know: “people are inherently racist”, apparently.
Of course, getting AI to do the assessment will, inevitably make that racism too, along with facial recognition.
They do but it is said to be inaccurate and unethical. Whether this true or is ideological moaning by the usual suspects I just don’t know.
“Teens might not get full minimum wage before 2030 amid jobs fears”
Torsten Bell is a bluffer and a bullshitter. He bears no responsibility for his stupid ideas. How can I tell.? In the real world, you have an objective, you have measurables by which to know if you’ve delivered, you have a timescale, and you have a budget and resources in order to get you from start to finish. All Mr Bell has, and to be fair this afflicts the Labour Government in general, is a series of hopeful statements and idealistic targets. They know they want to reach some utopia, but the journey and inevitable compromises are hidden from them, because they fail to look for them. There is no ‘joined up thinking’ because there is no thinking. Its all just rainbows and unicorns, and hoping things magically happen. Well, ‘hope’ is not a plan. Until they realise this, then we will continue going round in circles, spending vast sums without justification, and going down the plughole.
“Burnham has made five policy U-turns since launching campaign”
Don’t worry though. If he is elected, and especially if he becomes Labour Leader, he will make a U-turn on all of his previous U-turns.
‘Indecision is the key to flexibility’, or so I was told along time ago.
I prefer to think that not really believing in anything does give some latitude to agree wholeheartedly with the opinions of every person you speak with.
From the ”A beginner’s guide to the woke Right” above;
”The fact is, Woke Right is a radical right-wing splinter movement operating within conservatism. Their objective is to take as much of the conservative movement with them into right-wing radicalism as they can, no matter how much it breaks or how much opportunity it brings to the Left. That’s divisive by definition, but it’s almost invisible until it gets pointed out. To cover their tails, they blame the division on the people who spot what’s going on and say something. That means they give conservatives two bad choices: go with us into radicalism without complaining or be blamed for dividing the movement.
Every time we shame an ally, we erode the free speech we claim to defend. Every time we demand tribal loyalty, we ditch the individual liberty we’re fighting for. Every time we participate in these abuses, we contribute to them.”
I see this behaviour and the prevalence of the woke Right all over the online sphere, especially on Twitter and this site, too. It’s best to read the article to really get into the weeds of it but one good example currently is the whole Restore vs Reform… Read more »
I know some Restore supporters and they certainly do not engage in vile abuse of anyone, online or otherwise. I think it’s often the most extreme representatives of a given group that get noticed. In the real world, most people are a lot more moderate.
I think race is a perfectly legitimate subject for debate especially with reference to immigration policy, and you could argue that a country’s human capital is in the end what defines it, so if you get that right, everything else falls into place.
“Thousands of new build London homes lie empty”
Not just London, or new builds; there are five houses within a stone’s throw of me that have been on the market for almost a year, without a tickle…
Meanwhile, a builder friend tells me materials costs have increased by 40% in the same timeframe.
Not sure what to make of this. We’re told that there is great need/demand. Anecdotally I know young people in their 20s who would like to leave home but are being discouraged partly by high prices. All I can think of is that for now, whoever is trying to sell these homes and failing is hoping that the market will pick up – but surely at some point the calculation changes and they need to start cutting prices.
Managed to uptick this one, so you are not blacklisted 😉
Unlike Reddit there are no moderator bots operating here – that I know of!
It’s just the layout, on iPhone at least, makes upticking difficult…
People have been assured by politicians and estate agents that house prices only go up. Journos revel in that story until it becomes untenable.
Those with negative equity may find it difficult to accept a lower price. In the better days the owners might have let the home under AST but this government, like the previous one, has so messed up landlord-tenant relations that only professionals with multiple properties or mugs become landlords.
The shaky state of the economy and general instability puts off people from taking big risks. I feared it will get worse.
Indeed, though you think that a set of new builds owned by a developer would not be in negative equity.
The main reason that buildings don’t sell is that they are overpriced compared to other similar buildings.
Absolutely, the prices they’re seeking for these particular houses are ridiculously high, as they also are in other places, of course.
It must surely be heading for a correction, I think? But, then, I thought that ten years ago and was wrong!
Yep, the market is very slow. My house has been on the market for nearly a year with only two viewings, we’ve dropped the asking price over 10% but it’s made no difference.
Houses I see on Rightmove tend to sit there for ages or are STC and reappear a few months later, this sometimes happening multiple times.
Even when they do sell it takes forever. The first two houses I bought (2004 and 2015), no chain, took 6~8 weeks to go through. I was speaking to a friend the other day, just sold their house, no chain, took 9 months.
Ironically, perhaps, all at a time when they’ve knocked the bottom out of the rental market. Lots of homes, and people who need them, if only there was a way to connect the two…
Russian drone hits apartment block in NATO-member Romania
A sign of things to come?
‘In recent days, the regime’s talking heads on every propaganda channel have been solemnly persuading one another, and their commander‑in‑chief, that striking these facilities is absolutely necessary to “save the Orthodox Fatherland.” Among them are a few genuinely serious military experts, such as Dmitry Trenin, a former GRU analyst and until recently the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center.’
‘According to a document released by the Russian Ministry of Defense, the largest number of facilities producing UAVs for the Ukrainian Armed Forces are located in Italy (five enterprises). Three locations each have been announced in Germany , the United Kingdom , the Czech Republic , and Turkey . The Ministry of Defense has identified two facilities each in Poland , the Netherlands , and Israel (not a member of NATO or the European Union). So far, isolated targets have been identified in Latvia , Lithuania , Denmark , and Spain.’
‘UK (3 addresses): Mildenhall, 2 West Row Road (Fire Point)London, King Edward Street, 17 (Horizon Tech)Leicester, Meridian North Block 5 (Horizon Tech)’
https://mskvremya.ru/article/2026/2346-minoborony-spisok-predpriyatiy-zapad-proizvodstvo-bpla-ukrainy
I don’t see anywhere in Romania on your list of drone manufacturers, so not sure what the connection with an apartment block in Galati might be?
Galati is nestled in the part of Romania that is bordered by Moldova and Russian occupied Ukraine… any drone attack would have had to transit their air space to reach its intended target, it would be instructive to know what it was?
No it is not a sign of things to come, it is simply a list of manufacturers of drones.
I am sure that manufacturers if other munitions are also on lists.
It is called military intelligence and does not signify an intention to attack anybody.
Not everything is as it seems.
Indeed…
‘…the motive is tied to Russia’s anxiety over Moldova, whose pro-Western government is forging close ties with Bucharest. Moscow…is using border friction as a tool of intimidation.
The Kremlin risks incursions…“especially now when Russia is locked in a rather tense relationship with the Moldovan government, which is ever closer to Bucharest.”
For NATO, the incident highlights a key challenge: responding to hybrid threats’
Oh good grief, here we go again! More ludicrous obsession with anti-Russian propaganda, once again goes against the spirit of a news-based web site with the word “sceptic” as a part of its title. How can any self-respecting sceptic so regularly and immediately swallow globalist/statist propaganda without question? It’s frankly juvenile.
We can’t conclude anything about this drone until it has been fully – and openly – investigated. At the very least it might be a navigation error by Russia’s launchers. After all
its only a couple of weeks since drones entered Finland and Baltic states apparently due to such an error. But, of course, western globalist media never mentions this ‘incursion into Nato territory’ now do they? Why? Because these were non-Nato Ukrainian drones that were flying over Nato countries’ airspace (with their full blessing) and not Russian. So was that ‘a sign of things to come’? If not why not?
Then, of course, there were, anecdotally, up to 19 ‘Russian’ drones that entered Polish air-space last September, Oh the European faux pearl-clutching and howls of outrage followed and went on and on for days – until – it turned out that these were indeed Russian drones, but they… Read more »
‘Dmitri Medvedev, a former president of Russia who is now a senior Kremlin security adviser, has suggested a more ominous scenario, hinting on Friday at the possibility of deliberate Russian action in retaliation for the West’s support for Ukraine.
Mr. Medvedev, who often delights in stirring panic in an effort to curb support for Ukraine, said in a message on social media that “citizens of EU countries” were paying the price after their leaders “unilaterally entered a war with Russia.”
“So be vigilant and don’t be surprised by anything,” he warned. “The peaceful sleep is over.”