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An elite British Army battalion is going all in on drones after working closely with Ukrainian soldiers and seeing how central these systems have become in modern warfare. The 1st Battalion of the Irish Guards now has 78 of its 300 members qualified as drone operators, its commanding officer, Lt. Col. Ben Irwin-Clark, told Business Insider. The unit has big plans to increase its training and work with drones further."That just gives you an idea of how important this is," he said.The battalion has built a training facility with drone warfare in mind, and its soldiers are heavily invested, he...

The number of unborn children with a disability who were aborted in England and Wales has increased, according to the latest abortion statistics released by the Department of Health and Social Care. Abortion statistics released by the Department of Health and Social Care in January revealed that 3,205 disability-selective abortions took place in 2023, an increase of 2.59% from the previous year. In England and Wales, 685 babies with Down’s syndrome were aborted in 2023, while 40 babies with a cleft lip or palate were aborted. Sadly, the figures for cleft lip and palate are likely to be higher; for...

Monarch expresses ‘profound concern’ over younger brother’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein The King has given his backing for Buckingham Palace to assist the police investigation into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.The monarch has authorised his officials to provide support needed to officers.A Buckingham Palace spokesman added that King Charles had expressed “profound concern” over the claims against his younger brother and repeated his support for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein.The King was heckled on Monday while on a royal engagement as pressure grew on the Royal family to compel Mr Mountbatten-Windsor to contribute to a police investigation.The Prince and Princess of Wales...

In Portugal, archaeologists uncover mass graves from a medieval clash that rewrote European history. The evidence reveals brutal close-quarters combat and the shocking tactics that secured a nation's survival. The Forgotten Battle That Saved a Kingdom Medieval Dead | S2 E3 | Full Episode | 44:11 Forbidden Mysteries | 5.55K subscribers | 9,611 views | December 21, 2025 YouTube transcript can be processed at reformatted at textformatter.ai.

Warnings that London secondary schools may soon be forced to close due to falling pupil numbers are the latest visible consequence of a much deeper demographic problem. While policymakers routinely point to housing costs, economic insecurity, and delayed parenthood, one central factor remains persistently under-examined: the long-term impact of abortion on Britain’s birth rate. London Councils have warned that demand for Year 7 places is now falling faster than demand for Reception places for the first time on record. Over the next four years, pupil numbers entering secondary schools in the capital are expected to drop by almost four percent,...

According to the bookies, Sir Keir Starmer is odds-on to leave No 10 this year, and if they are right, history might look back on Feb 4 as the day his departure became inevitable. With two U-turns in the space of a day, with his political guru Morgan McSweeney standing on a trapdoor, and with Angela Rayner biting at his ankles, Sir Keir’s authority has been shredded. Even before the Mandelson row exploded underneath him, Sir Keir was the least popular prime minister on record, dismissed by the public as useless and by his own MPs as a deadbeat. Rumours...

SIR Keir Starmer is one boat away from claiming Britain’s worst-ever small boats record. New figures show 65,703 migrants have arrived on his watch in just 19 months. That puts him within touching distance of Boris Johnson’s 65,811 tally, which took the ex-PM three years to reach. Crossings in 2025 alone hit 41,474, with another 23,242 pouring in as Labour took power. Monday’s crossing saw 56 migrants reach Britain – the first arrival since January 19, when 275 made the journey. Only 933 crossed last month, the lowest January figure in five years, but Storm Chandra and brutal winter seas...

According to a statement released by University College London, a team of researchers led by Simon Parfitt of University College London and London's Natural History Museum reviewed materials unearthed at the Boxgrove Paleolithic site in southern England in 1990. Among the artifacts, the scientists identified a 500,000-year-old tool made of elephant or mammoth bone. The outer layer of elephant bone would have been softer than stone, and yet harder than the bones of other animals. "Elephant bone would have been a rare but highly useful resource, and it's likely this tool was of considerable value," Parfitt said. The age of...

As Britain national identity has been eroded under leftist Labour party rule, other institutions like the ultra-woke Church of England (CoE) are helping speed up the collapse process. Today (28), Sarah Mullally was confirmed as the new archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to spiritually lead the CoE. In the video below, as the female speaker says ‘no person has appeared in opposition to the confirmation’, a furious male voice shouts ‘I did!’, and goes on a rant until security removes the person. The images show that not even half the seats in the Cathedral are taken in this...

@Nigel_Farage My full reaction to events after a long week in (UK) politics.

Amelia was created by Woke Government in the UK for a game brainwashing young people to accept the takeover of their island. Amelia was the purple haired girlfriend who encouraged "bad choices". Now, AI has transformed Amelia into a beautiful symbol of resistance.

The Bank of England must plan for a financial crisis being triggered by an official announcement confirming the existence of alien life, one of its former policy experts has claimed. Helen McCaw served as a senior analyst in financial security at the UK’s central bank, preparing for events that could impact the economy. She has now written to Andrew Bailey, the Bank’s governor, urging him to organise contingencies for the possibility that the White House may one day confirm we are not alone in the universe. McCaw, a Cambridge graduate, believes a declaration of that magnitude would send shockwaves through...

According to a statement released by the University of Edinburgh, analysis of tooth enamel samples collected from the remains of people buried in England between the end of Roman rule in Britain around A.D. 400 and the arrival of the Normans around 1100 indicates that migration to the island was continuous throughout the period. Tooth enamel is laid down during childhood and carries chemical markers of the local environment. Sam Leggett of the University of Edinburgh, Susanne Hakenbeck of the University of Cambridge, and their colleagues examined more than 700 chemical signatures in the samples, and determined that people came...

Civilisational decline happens slowly at first, and then all at once. Britain has not been this weak and irrelevant on the global stage since the early 1500s; France and Germany are facing equally severe existential crises. It took Donald Trump to call our bluff, exposing our impotence and insignificance to a world we once dominated. British and European politicians cannot stop Trump from buying Greenland, or kidnapping Latin American tyrants, or taking out the Mullahs’ evil nuclear programme, or sanctioning Left-wing international judges, or doing whatever else he wants. Eighty-one years after the end of the Second World War, the...

DIGITAL ID CARDS: "France and Germany have digital IDs, and they have record immigration" (Dr Renee Hoenderkamp) ⛔️NO to compulsory Digital ID - not in your manifesto and not wanted A national digital ID system, pushed using the excuse of "immigration control," threatens everyone’s freedom, privacy, and safety

Jimmy Kimmel is an idiot. That's where we start. Kimmel, who has trouble finding the bottom of the outrage manure pile, was suspended back in September for making crass remarks about Charlie Kirk's murder: Jimmy Kimmel's late-night talk show was suspended indefinitely following the host's comments on the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.Walt Disney-owned ABC said on Wednesday, Sept. 17, that it will indefinitely stop airing "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" after the late-night host's comments about Kirk's assassination came under harsh criticism from the head of the Federal Communications Commission. "'Jimmy Kimmel Live' will be pre-empted indefinitely," a spokesperson...

Lord Falconer, the sponsor of the assisted suicide Bill in the House of Lords, has said that “pregnancy should not be a bar” to receiving state assisted suicide under his assisted suicide Bill. Lord Falconer made the comment during the third Committee stage sitting of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in the House of Lords, which would legalise assisted suicide in England and Wales for those with a prognosis of six months or less. Lord Falconer made the comment in response to Lord Mackinlay’s question concerning whether or not pregnant women should be eligible for assisted suicide...

List of personae non gratae from UK and EU for their role in state-sanctioned extra-territorial censorship. Some are even in the US and are getting deported! Transcript linked below video

Government ministers say that “live boiling is not an acceptable killing method” for crustaceans and alternative guidance will soon be published in the Animal Welfare Strategy....... Boiling lobsters while they are alive and conscious will be banned in a bid to improve animal welfare in England. Government ministers say that “live boiling is not an acceptable killing method” for crustaceans and alternative guidance will soon be published. It forms part of the Government’s long-awaited Animal Welfare Strategy which sets out a raft of policies to improve the lives of pets and animals on farms and in the wild. Boiling lobsters...

A baby girl born in the family car at only 22 weeks gestation has made it home from the hospital in time for Christmas. Baby Daleyza weighed just over one pound when she was born in the front seat of the family car on the way to the hospital. Her mother, Jazmin, was only 22 weeks pregnant when she unexpectedly went into labour and had to drive 50 miles to a hospital after she discovered the local hospital was not equipped to care for such a premature baby. Baby Daleyza wouldn’t wait until they got to the hospital, however. She...