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The UK population could rise significantly under the immigration approach associated with the Green Party leadership of Zack Polanski, according to analysis from investment bank Panmure Liberum. The report suggests that if net migration were to reach around 900,000 a year, the UK population could increase from 71.5 million in 2029 to 75.9 million by 2034. It contrasts this scenario with alternative policy trajectories, estimating lower population growth under proposals associated with other parties, including much tighter migration levels under Reform UK and more moderate inflows under Conservative policy assumptions. Under the Reform UK approach, net migration is projected at...

Canadian-Iranian former MP Goldie Ghamari says Ottawa police officers recommended she remove social media posts critical of the regime in Iran, warning of possible criminal consequences. Golsa "Goldie" Ghamari, a Canadian of Iranian descent who opposes the Islamic regime in Tehran, is exposing what she describes as strict policing by Canadian authorities regarding discourse on social media. In a post on X, Ghamari, a former member of the Ontario provincial parliament for the Conservative Party, said officers from the Ottawa Police contacted her and recommended she delete posts she had published. In those posts, she wrote that mosques in Iran,...

Illegal immigrants in California could soon have their lawyers paid for by taxpayers if a new bill proposed by Sacramento politicians goes through. Starting next year, California would begin to fund legal representation for all unauthorized adults to fight their deportations under new legislation set to clear its first hurdle on Tuesday. “Legal representation saves lives, protects civil liberties and keeps families together,” said bill author Assemblymember Mia Bonta (D). “This is a due process issue in California. People can lose their freedom, their family, their job and home through immigration proceedings.” Last year, Bonta helped pass a law that...

State officials have awarded the City of Sacramento $2.5 million to support equity efforts in the local cannabis industry. The funding comes from the Cannabis Equity Grants Program for Local Jurisdictions, administered by the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (Go-Biz).

While guaranteed income advocates push to extend pilot programs to permanent government-sponsored cash assistance, one recipient spoke with Fox News Digital about the benefits of the policy. Austin, Texas native Taniquewa Brewster was financially supported by the city’s guaranteed income program during a critical transition period in her life as she juggled parenthood, long work hours and hoped to finish certification programs. "It helped me start out — it gave me time to take care of things that I needed to take care of. It's hard when you're working 40 hours a week, and you have five children," Brewster told...

Demonizing the Jews is one of the oldest tricks in the bag. In the early Middle Ages, the accusations against the Jews of Europe started to erupt, and in the first quarter of the 21st century, they haven't stopped. Justin Martyr accused us of being Christ killers in "Dialogue with Tripho", as early as A.D. 160. John Chrysostom, might very well be the poster child for early Christian antisemitism. In his work Adversus Judaeos (387), he describes the Jews as "lucious, rapacious, greedy, destroyers, demon-possessed and assassins of Christ." Then came the ritual murder libel of 1141 when Jews were...

Although the legal and clinical definitions may differ, popular conception defines “insanity” as repeating the same behavior and expecting different results. By that definition, leftist voters in New York City, California, and elsewhere recertified themselves as insane last week. Year after year, election after election, voters in “blue” cities and states follow the same recipe that has brought self-imposed economic and demographic decay for decades: bigger government, higher taxes, more regulation, unsustainable benefits, and sprawling public-sector obligations. They keep repeating their behavior, even as jobs evaporate, families leave, and businesses take investment elsewhere. Decades of left-leaning politicians and public policies...

More than 70 small boat migrants have landed a taxpayer-funded windfall after the High Court ruled the Home Office acted unlawfully by seizing their mobile phones on arrival in Britain. The controversial policy, introduced during a surge in Channel crossings in 2020, saw asylum seekers searched and their mobiles and SIM cards confiscated, with data in many cases said to have been fully downloaded. Devices were often allegedly held for three months or longer, and some were never returned. More than 70 small boat migrants have landed a taxpayer-funded windfall after the High Court ruled the Home Office acted unlawfully...

LARGE crowds of male migrants queued up to get paperwork in Spain after the country’s socialist PM offered to legalise the status of some half a million foreign nationals. Tech mogul Elon Musk then got into a row with left wing PM Pedro Sánchez on X over the policy, as the CEO re-shared a post which called the policy “electoral engineering”. The plan will give legal status to all foreign nationals who can prove they do not have a criminal record and had lived in Spain for at least five months before the start of 2026. Once approved, migrants will...

An OB-GYN who uses “she/her” pronouns repeatedly sidestepped a question about whether men can get pregnant during a congressional hearing on abortion pills. Dr. Nisha Verma, a Democratic witness and senior advisor to Physicians for Reproductive Health, acknowledged that she takes care of many pregnant women, but was coy about whether men can pull off that feat as well. *** “I hesitated there because I wasn’t sure where the conversation was going or what the goal was. I mean, I do take care of patients with different identities. I take care of many women,” she told Hawley, skirting around the...

The state’s parole board has released 39 “emerging adult” murder convicts who were originally sentenced to life without parole, but who later became eligible after a court ruling. The Massachusetts Parole Board has issued 51 parole decisions since the Supreme Judicial Court last year ruled that emerging adults who were 18 to 20 at the time of the offense cannot be sentenced to life without parole. Allen Alston, 47 — formerly known as Allen Scoggins — was one of the convicted murderers granted parole. On May 16, 1997, a then-19-year-old Alston shot and killed taxi driver Ismael Rivera, 56, in...

The family of a man who stabbed a SoCal deputy with a screwdriver before being shot and killed while he ran away was awarded $13.1 million by a jury in a lawsuit.

Meanwhile, I’m still banned from entering Britain solely because I dare to criticize Islam. Britain has chosen its fate, and that fate will surely come: conquest, Islamization, and the subjugation of the native community. “Migrant responsible for killing 269 people in deadly bombings wins appeal after being refused asylum,” by Richard Jeffries, GB News, December 1, 2025: A Sri Lankan national who faced arrest in connection with the devastating 2019 Easter bombings has succeeded in his appeal against the Home Office’s rejection of his asylum claim. The man, identified solely as ‘YA’, secured victory at the immigration Upper Tribunal in...

Jonathan Alpert, a licensed psychotherapist in New York City says "75% of my patients have Trump Derangement Syndrome. They are obsessed with Trump. They're hyperfixated on Trump. They say they can't sleep. They feel traumatized by Mr. Trump. They feel restless." "Our country has strayed so far away from where we once were," Alpert lamented. "If you look at the '80s when President Reagan was shot, people were united. He famously said, 'I hope you're all Republicans' to the surgeons. The response was, 'Today, Mr. President, we're all Republicans.' But our country has lost that." Emma Nutz, a former patient...

A Manhattan-based psychotherapist claims he has received dozens of hate messages, including death threats, since speaking publicly about seeing patients in his practice he describes as experiencing "Trump derangement syndrome." *snip* Psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert joins ‘The Faulkner Focus’ to talk about ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ and how it manifests in his patients’ extreme emotional reactions to President Donald Trump.Jonathan Alpert, author of the forthcoming book "Therapy Nation," said he faced backlash after appearing on Fox News last week to discuss his Nov. 12 Wall Street Journal op-ed about "patients across the political spectrum" who bring up President Donald Trump in therapy...

Dreamed about ships sinking and woke up to another day in Bizarro World. Got some questions for you. If you could change one thing, what would it be? 1. In our world? 2. In our country? 3. In our history? 4. In your life? Answer one, all or none. Just give it some thought. 🙏. Then I ask you to devote some prayer to it today. God bless you all. 🙏

One of New York City's most violent neighborhoods has banned uniformed police officers - all in the name of safety. A two-block corridor in a crime-plagued stretch of Brownsville, along Mother Gaston Boulevard, where shootings and robberies have long terrified residents, was declared a 'police-free zone' for five days earlier this month. Instead of officers, community patrols moved in under an arrangement funded by the city itself under a controversial initiative known as the Brownsville Safety Alliance (BSA). The project, once a twice-yearly pilot under former Mayor Bill de Blasio, now runs four times a year and aims to prove...

New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani has a bold plan for the city’s schools: phase out the Gifted and Talented program in elementary education. His rationale is that these programs create disparities and feed inequality. It’s a familiar progressive argument. If some students are excelling, others must be suffering. If a child is recognized as gifted, it’s unfair to those who aren’t. The logic is as simple as it is destructive: equality means sameness, even if sameness means mediocrity. There is nothing wrong with recognizing giftedness. In fact, it’s common sense. If a child demonstrates unusual ability in math, science, writing,...

Back in December of 2023, Dan and Jennifer Mead announced they were suing the Rockford Public School District in Michigan. The school their daughter attended had been socially transitioning her without informing them.The Meads' biologically female child had attended Rockford Public Schools, a district operating 20 schools in Rockford just north of Grand Rapids, since kindergarten, but after beginning sixth grade at East Rockford Middle School in fall of 2020, the child began meeting with the school counselor regarding a dip in their academic performance.Over the next two years, the child continued regularly meeting with the school counselor, branching into...

RainFurrest 2015 was one for the books. The convention, filled with full-grown adults dressed as bears, wearing diapers and taking drugs, catapulted the often sex-crazed subculture cast into the public eye. It was meant to be an annual convention designed for and by furries. But the debauchery that ensued left animal loving organizers banned from ever holding another event in the city of Seattle after brass at the hotel they defiled spread word about what happened the social gathering. Permanently plastered in the annals of internet history, the event started to go off the rails when someone purposely loosened a...