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Today, AD joins architect Nick Potts in London to uncover the city's ancient Roman origins. Before London, there was Londinium, the capital of Roman Britain, and although it was abandoned by AD 450, the influence and some remnants of the ancient city still remain. Join Potts as he explores how modern London rose up from Roman ruins. An Entire Roman City Is Hidden Beneath London | Walking Tour | 10:01 Architectural Digest | 7.37M subscribers | 192,282 views | April 22, 2025

I think we don’t really realize what’s happening. When British PM Keir Starmer visited the White House, he rejected J.D. Vance’s claim that free speech is restricted in Britain. “We’ve had free speech for a very long time in the UK,” Starmer retorted, “and it will last for a very long time”. Unfortunately, Starmer’s Home Office seems not to have taken notice. Because it has just blocked a famous French writer from entering the UK to give a speech on the dangers of mass immigration, while in the courts British lawyers are trying to legalise Hamas. The writer is Renaud...

Trans rights activists defaced a statue of Millicent Fawcett during a protest against the Supreme Court’s ruling on the definition of a woman. The Parliament Square statue of the suffragist, a prominent campaigner for women’s rights in the 19th century, was daubed with graffiti reading “f-- rights” on Saturday. It happened as thousands of protesters marched through central London in an “emergency demonstration” against Wednesday’s decision that only biological women are women. The landmark Supreme Court ruling, which has caused many public bodies to review their gender policies, stated that laws against sex-based discrimination should only apply to biological women....

London -- Keir Starmer hailed the contributions of British Sikhs across all walks of life in the UK in his Baisakhi greetings from 10 Downing Street on Sunday. Having hosted a special reception earlier this week to mark the festival symbolising the birth of the Khalsa, Starmer posted a video on social media showcasing the festivities along with his Baisakhi message. “It’s really fantastic to be able to come together and to celebrate the contribution of British Sikhs to our nation, and what a contribution that is and has been and will be into the future,” said Starmer. “From across...

Rival gang members were caught swinging machetes as they tried to stab each other in front of commuters on a platform in London. Video footage recorded by a passenger on a Jubilee line train at Queensbury tube station shows two people in a group of five threatening each other with the long blades. The violence broke out at 5.30 pm on Monday and officers from British Transport Police attended the scene. In the video, one of the group seen wearing a black jacket and grey hat aims a machete at another in the group who is also dressed all in...

London’s Heathrow Airport has announced a complete shutdown because of a power outage due to a large fire nearby, causing massive disruption to one of the world’s busiest travel hubs. • Heathrow’s closure is expected to affect more than 1,300 flights, potentially causing disruption for tens of thousands of travelers. An airline analytics firm estimated that “upwards of 145,000” passengers could be impacted. • The airport is warning of “significant disruption” over the coming days. Heathrow said “passengers should not travel to the airport under any circumstances until the airport reopens” and should contact their airline for more information. •...

The airport has urged passengers not to go there until it has reopened.. What we know.. London's Heathrow Airport will be closed all day Friday local time because of a fire at a nearby electricity substation. The fire has caused a power outage at the airport, one of the world's busiest. The airport has urged passengers not to go there until it has reopened, which the airport said would happen at 11:59 p.m. Friday. ... Heathrow closure will affect at least 1,351 flights, ... Heathrow Airport busiest in U.K., 4th in the world.. London Heathrow Airport, shuttered by a fire...

The invasion of Ukraine is the deadliest conflict for Russia since the Second World War, the British government says, as it places the “likely” death toll for Russian Federation forces at a quarter of a million so far. Russia is “likely” to have taken 900,000 casualties in all since it renewed its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and between 200,000 and 250,000 of those are fatalities, an intelligence digest from Britain’s Ministry of Defence has said. The review of Russia’s combat casualties so far come as U.S. President Donald Trump places clear emphasises on ending what he calls the “killing...

Public lampposts in London, England, governed by Muslim Mayor Sadiq Khan, have been festooned with banners instructing viewers to ‘Trust in Allah’ and ‘Give Zakat’—a form of charitable donation mandated by Islam. The banners were produced by Islamic Relief, an Islamic charity likely hoping to benefit financially from such Zakat donations. . . In another sign of Islam’s growing influence over Britain’s national life, King Charles III and his wife, Queen Camilla, shared a video of themselves packing dates to be sent to Muslims as special treats during Ramadan, which they described as a “holy month” despite the King’s status...

According to a Live Science report, radiocarbon dating of ancient human skeletons recovered from the River Thames indicates that they date to between 4000 B.C. and A.D. 1800. Nichola Arthur of London's Natural History Museum said that most of the remains dated to the Bronze Age, between 2300 and 800 B.C., and the Iron Age, between 800 B.C. and A.D. 43. These bones were recovered in upstream zones of the river, she added. "We can now say with confidence that these don't appear to just be bones that have steadily accumulated in the river through time," she explained. "There really...

The remnants of one of early Roman London's most important buildings was discovered beneath an office building at 85 Gracechurch Street in the city center, according to a statement released by the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA). Archaeologists uncovered a section of a 30-foot-long stone wall that they believe belonged to the city's first basilica, which was built in the 70s or 80s a.d. Roman basilicas were typically located within the forum, which was the social, political, and religious center of a Roman town. MOLA researchers think that the part of the basilica they unearthed belonged to the Tribunal, where...

President Donald Trump's tariff plans have prompted some of the largest banks in the U.S. and Britain to fly gold bars from London to New York City on commercial flights. Trump's plans to impose tariffs on U.S. trading partners – including a reciprocal tariff regime that's expected to be formalized by early April and tariffs on the European Union he hasn't yet detailed – have spurred banks to relocate their gold reserves. That move has been driven by a price differential between gold sold in London and New York – The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the prices...

Gold is being flown from London to New York in unusually high volumes. Gold held in the UK's central bank has been trading at a discount due to tariff fears. The metal has been trading at record highs of about $2,9000 an ounce this month. Significant amounts of gold are being taken out of the UK's central bank and flown to New York, driven by fears about the impact of tariffs threatened by President Donald Trump. The uncertainty means gold held at the Bank of England has been trading at a discount to the wider market, and traders face lengthy...

Jack the Ripper's murder spree claimed the lives of countless women A researcher has claimed to have definitively identified Jack the Ripper through DNA evidence, sparking calls for an official inquest into the infamous murders. Russell Edwards says he has obtained a "100 per cent DNA match" linking the killer to Aaron Kosminski, a Polish barber who emigrated to London. "It's very difficult to put into words the elation I felt when I saw the 100 per cent DNA match," Edwards said. "This brings closure and it's a form of justice for the descendants," he added. Russell Edwards says he...

Far-left London Mayor Sadiq Khan has warned that the “spectre of a resurgent fascism” threatens the West with the rise of populists in Europe, tech giants rolling back censorship, and the return of Donald Trump to the White House. The leftist Labour Party politician, writing for the Observer, the sister paper of the Guardian, likened the growing rejection of neo-liberal globalist policies in Europe and America to the rise of fascism in the “1920s and 1930s”. “The far right is on the march,” Mayor Khan exclaimed. “From Switzerland and Sweden to Hungary, Austria and Italy, European nations are coming under...

Footage of Islamist protestors protesting not being allowed to protest, and storming Westminster, and getting arrested, lots of soyboys and girls among them. Two-tier Keir and Khan has their limits, I suppose. Transcript attached below video.

Green radicals from the Just Stop Oil activist collective defaced Charles Darwin’s grave on Monday, claiming that humanity will not be able to adapt to the supposed climate crisis. Members of the climate change alarmist Just Stop Oil group used orange spray paint to deface ‘Father of Evolution’ Charles Darwin’s grave memorial in Westminster Abbey, with the message “1.5 is dead”, a reference to the 2015 Paris Agreement, which called on governments to prevent the world from increasing temperatures beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius. “Two Just Stop Oil supporters have painted Charles Darwin’s grave to demand that the UK government works...

Just Stop Oil (JSO) supporters have spray-painted “1.5 is dead” on Charles Darwin’s grave after confirmation that last year was the first to breach the important global warming threshold. Two people used chalk paint on the naturalist’s grave in Westminster Abbey, London, at about 9.30am on Monday, the climate protest group said. Alyson Lee, 66, a retired teaching assistant from Derby, and Di Bligh, a 77-year-old former chief executive of Reading council, from Rode in Somerset, were involved in the action, JSO added. The Metropolitan police confirmed two women were arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage “with what is...

FReepers this is an update to the video I posted last week about this story. Cops raided wrong house and killed innocent man over stolen weedeater in London, Kentucky.

Sara Sharif's killer father has been ambushed in prison and 'had his neck slashed with tuna can lid' in a vicious attack. Two inmates pounced on Urfan Sharif, 43, in his cell on New Years' Day at HMP Belmarsh, South London. Just weeks into his 40-year sentence, the murderer was left in a critical condition, but is understood to have survived the brutal attempt on his life. Allegedly the pair were sickened by his abuse of the 10-year-old school girl, who was hooded, bitten, burned and eventually beaten to death during a campaign of abuse before her body was found...