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A left-wing MP for York has demanded that the local Labour council u-turn and begin taking down flags from lamp posts, or risk the “break down” of society. Rachel Maskell, who was elected as a Labour MP before being suspended following the recent welfare cuts rebellion, issued the call after York became a focal point of the nationwide patriotic protest movement. Ms Maskell said York Council should act to remove the flags, despite the local authority being one of the few Labour councils promising not to take down the vast bulk. She told YorkMix: “Over recent days, I have been...

Tommy Robinson speaks to Jesse Kelly about the viral video of a Scottish girl being prosecuted for brandishing a knife to defend herself in a park, and the tension boiling over in response to mass immigration to the U.K. "On the 13th of September, we’re expecting a million people to descend from every corner of Britain onto our capital to send a message to the world that we are remaining silent no longer," he said. "The country’s bubbling, it’s brewing for revolution. It’s happening. The cat’s out of the bag. They can’t put it back in." "They used to have...

Britain has the highest population of illegal migrants in Europe, according to the latest available estimates - as it lags behind European neighbours in its efforts to tackle the problem. Nigel Farage yesterday vowed to deport as many as 600,000 people if he wins power after detaining them in 'large-scale raids' - an echo of the crackdown by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Donald Trump. Meanwhile, on the Continent, countries like Sweden, Denmark and Germany are cracking down on migration by making it far harder to claim asylum, with notable results. The latest statistics on the number of...

Flying the St George's cross has been a topic of hot debate this week with many left wondering what the law says on flying flags from your home. What many people don't know is that there are certain criteria which must be met to fly a flag from your house without consent, according to the government website. Now the rules have been clarified as many residents across North Staffordshire have been erecting flags over the last few days. On the 'Flying flags: a plain English guide' page, the government makes it clear flags are "a very British way of expressing...

40 sec. video of a young girl defending herself against migrant. "Little girls scream at a migrant recording them before brandishing an AXE and a KNIFE to warn him off What is happening to our country?" Basil_TGMD on X (40 sec. video)

Two groups peacefully gathered in Bristol city centre earlier to voice opposing views on immigration. About 100 anti-immigration protesters turned up to a planned demonstration outside the Mercure Bristol Brigstow Hotel, which is housing asylum seekers, and near Bristol Bridge on Saturday afternoon. A group of about 300 to 400 counter-protesters had arrived beforehand in support of the asylum seekers, surrounding the hotel. Police kept the two groups apart for about 90 minutes until the anti-immigration protesters walked away. Officers had been given enhanced powers which allow them to ask people to remove face coverings. They have put in place...

Protesters are set to march from The Bell Hotel in Epping to the council's offices as councillors are set to discuss the controversial hotel. There has been a series of demonstrations outside the Bell Hotel in Epping since an asylum seeker was charged with sexual assault this month. Epping Forest District Council will meet for a pre-planned meeting in which they are set to discuss a motion calling for the immediate and permanent closure of the Bell Hotel and Phoenix Hotel, which was subjected to an alleged arson incident. Both hotels have housed asylum seekers and been involved in incidents...

Bernadette Spofforth lay in jail on a blue gym mattress in a daze, finding it difficult to move, even breathe. “I just closed down. But the other half of my brain went into Jack Reacher mode,” she said, referring to the fictional action hero. “Every single detail was in this very vivid, bright, sharp focus.” She remembers noticing that you can’t drown yourself in the toilet, because there’s no standing water in it and the flush button is too far to reach if your head were in the bowl. She’d end up being detained for 36 hours in July 2024....

Jade Damarell, who lived in Caerphilly, died after crashing onto a farm following a skydive earlier this year An experienced skydiver deliberately fell to her death from 15,500ft the day after her relationship ended, an inquest heard. Marketing manager Jade Damarell, died after crashing onto farmland in the village of Shotton Colliery, Co Durham, on April 27. Ms Damarell, who was born in Hong Kong and lived in Caerphilly, was an experienced skydiver who had accomplished more than 500 jumps. There was "no reason to suspect" her equipment was not working on the day she died, the inquest was told....

Retired British Army Colonel Richard Kemp has said the primary risk the UK faces is from an alliance “of the hard left and Islamist extremists” and that he fears civil war because politicians are too myopic to take action. Colonel Richard Kemp, a high-profile Infantry officer who fought counter insurgency on home ground in Northern Ireland in the 1980s, served in the Gulf war and Bosnia, commanded an Afghanistan operation, and who had political-facing senior roles in Westminster including the powerful Joint Intelligence Committee and the Cabinet Office crisis centre COBRA, has expressed concern about unrest and even civil war...

The UK's Defence Secretary has said that Britain is willing to “put boots on the ground” to help enforce a ceasefire in Ukraine, in the event that one is agreed. Defence Secretary John Healey has commented the peace summit today in Alaska "could be the first step" towards peace in the Ukraine conflict. The minister also stated the government was prepared to "step up economic sanctions and pressure on Putin if he shows today in Alaska he really isn't serious". The Defence Secretary has affirmed the UK will continue to stand by Ukraine during these peace talks and has said:...

History is nothing but the pattern of silken slippers descending a staircase to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.-VoltaireAs a father raising daughters, I often reflect on the lessons that it is important to impart to girls about men. To pre-pubescent girls being raised in 2025, men are basically mystifying creatures - generally encountered fleetingly, if ever, as ‘so-and-so’s Dad’; a vaguely grumpy and unsympathetic presence who turns up to bring an end to play time with friends or to give them a lift from A to B. Male primary school teachers are becoming vanishingly rare -...

Britain’s Labour government is in trouble: Its program of massive third-world immigration from places like Pakistan and Somalia is wildly, overwhelmingly unpopular. But that’s not the real problem. The real problem is that despite the best efforts of Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his leftist captive media, Britons themselves have discovered just how unpopular it is. You might think that’s absurd — if mass immigration is unpopular, how can everyone not know it? Everyone doesn’t know it because the government has been policing speech about immigration. Any criticism of open borders, lax enforcement or — worst of all — immigrant...

Pakistani child rapist gang kidnapped and r*ped 8 girls aged 11 and 15. The gang gave the girls heroin and crack and made them addicted. The girls were forced into prostitution and sold for £600. One of the girls who was severely tortured committed suicide. This happened in Oxford UK.

Keir Starmer was accused of 'gaslighting the British public' after he made 'grossly exaggerated' claims over the Government's new migrant deal yesterday. Labour announced it had detained the first small boat migrants under its 'one in, one out' returns treaty with France. But despite the narrow scope of the pilot scheme and the likelihood of long-running legal challenges, the Prime Minister took to social media to claim: 'If you break the law to enter this country, you will face being sent back.' Writing on X, he added: 'No gimmicks, just results.' Home Secretary Yvette Cooper also appeared to overstate the...

Fans will be given a chance to pay their respects to heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne when his cortege travels through his home city of Birmingham. The Black Sabbath singer's body will be brought back for a procession that will travel along Broad Street in the city centre from 13:00 BST on Wednesday. The news was revealed by BBC WM presenter Ed James who said a hearse will make its way to the Black Sabbath Bridge and bench where thousands of fans have left messages and floral tributes. The Lord Mayor of Birmingham Zafar Iqbal said: "We're going to pay...

Four decades ago I was sitting having a cup of tea in Bramerton Street in Chelsea, just off the King's Road. It was the home of Alan Jay Lerner, author of Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady, Gigi, Camelot, and much else. Alan was not as wealthy as he'd been two decades earlier, because he'd carelessly acquired seven ex-wives and was in the umpteenth year of a long-running dispute with the IRS. But I couldn't understand why, as a man awash in Oscars and Tonys and whatnot, he chose to live not in New York but in London, when...

An RAF signals intelligence aircraft has been deployed over the Black Sea to monitor the movements of the Russian military across the region. The operation, conducted under the watchful eye of NATO and Russian air defence units, comes as the war in Ukraine shows no signs of abating in the near future. The plane being used is an RC-135W Rivet Joint, a modified Boeing aircraft, considered to be one of the most technologically sophisticated in the world. Equipped with an array of sensors, its sensors ‘soak up’ electronic emissions from communications, radar and other systems to build a picture of...

A brief scuffle broke out at London's Royal Opera House after a performer unfurled a Palestinian flag during a show. The incident took place during a performance of Il Trovatore on Saturday. During the final night of the 11-night run of the show, a performer held up the flag on stage. In video footage, shared online, someone backstage could be seen attempting to take it off the performer. The performer grabs it back following a brief scuffle. A spokesperson for the Royal Ballet and Opera said: "The display of the flag was an unauthorised action by the artist. "It was...

800 pages, thousands of entries, and almost a million words. The Domesday Book, England's earliest surviving public record. Amidst a grave crisis, William the Conqueror embarked on an extraordinary bureaucratic endeavor: the Domesday Book. Dr Stephen Baxter uncovers the immense scale of the 1086 survey, detailing who owned what across England down to the last pig. But why did William do it and what did it mean for the kingdom that he had just conquered? The Intriguing Mystery Of William The Conqueror's Domesday Book | 51:49 Chronicle - Medieval History Documentaries | 811K subscribers | 9,669 views | July 19,...