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A prominent anti-Hamas activist was arrested for racism after eating a banana during a pro-Palestine protest. Niyak Ghorbani was accused of making a racist gesture with the banana while standing with counter protesters in central London last Saturday. The 38-year-old Iranian dissident, who has become a familiar figure for holding a “Hamas Are Terrorists” banner at counter protests, denies he was being racist and insists he was simply eating the fruit. He was referencing recent events on American campuses in which bananas were used to taunt pro-Palestinian protesters. Mr Gohrbani was handcuffed and led away by five officers after pro-Palestine...

Labour's Sadiq Khan has won a landmark third successive term as mayor of London. Mr Khan, who was first elected in May 2016, beat his Conservative rival Susan Hall by more than 276,000 votes - representing a swing of 3.2% to Labour. He won nine of the 14 constituencies including two gains from the Tories. More than 2.4m votes were cast reflecting a turnout of 42.8% - ever so slightly down compared to the 2021 mayoral election. Speaking after his victory was declared at City Hall in east London, Mr Khan said: "It is the honour of my life to...

Sadiq Khan’s reign in London will continue for at least another four years, as the Labour Party mayor has secured a record third term in office following Thursday’s mayoral election in the British capital. UPDATE 1620: London Mayor Sadiq Khan has defeated his Tory challenger, London Assembly Member Susan Hall, by a margin of 44 per cent to 33 per cent, with a majority of 276,428, The Telegraph reports. Having won 1,088,225 votes to 811,518, Khan significantly improved upon his performance in his 2021 re-election bid when he only beat out Conservative Shuan Bailey by 4.7 points.

Open borders advocates on the streets and within the government itself have stepped up efforts to derail plans to finally remove some illegal migrants from the United Kingdom in the wake of the passage of legislation supposedly clearing the way for aliens to be sent to Rwanda. On Thursday morning, leftist activists clad in coronavirus-style masks surrounded a bus to prevent migrants from being removed to the Bibby Stockholm oil rig worker accommodation barge floating off the coast of Dorset, which in addition to Rwanda is being used in lieu of putting migrants up at taxpayer expense in British hotels...

A 14-year-old boy has died after several people were stabbed - including two police officers - in a car and sword attack in north-east London. The boy was among five people treated at the scene in Hainault who were taken to hospital, where he died. A 36-year-old man was arrested after being Tasered by police 22 minutes after they were called to the scene. Eyewitnesses described seeing the suspect run through the area with a sword before he was Tasered. At a press conference, the Metropolitan Police said the suspect was in hospital being treated for injuries sustained when a...

DEVELOPING Story... Potential stabbing in London.

Four, currently unidentified, individuals approached the Jewish man, threatened him, and demanded he get into the truck of their car... appealing for info or sightings of a black Volkswagen T Cross EA24 VXF involved with the attempted kidnapping on Moundfield Road N16.

The establishment and its met police just had their noses blooded by England's son, Tommy Robinson, who has been cleared of wrongdoing after the met and CPs did their best to put him behind bars - and why? Because England is rising.

Happy Passover, the holiday when American Jews attempt to pass over an Ivy League campus and British Jews attempt to pass over a Central London thoroughfare. Surveying the scene at Columbia, Powerline's Scott Johnson posts a picture of Nazis preventing Jews from entering the University of Vienna in 1938. We are enjoined not to go full Godwin's this early in the column, but the photograph prompted this thought: A century ago, the Jews of Germany were the most assimilated in Europe. They had prospered under the Kaiser, and seemed set to do even better in the Weimar Republic. They were...

A horse which appears to be covered in blood is among seven Household Cavalry mounts which escaped were running loose through central London. Four people have been injured and taken to hospital after a spooked horse threw its rider and the seven animals escaped and started to run through London. Emergency services are on the scene in Victoria, with a blue tarpaulin put up while people, including a serviceman, received treatment. One horse appeared to be covered in blood as it hit a number of vehicles as it ran, including a tour bus which was left with a shattered...

The charges against activist and independent journalist Tommy Robinson were dropped on Tuesday after a judge at the Westminster Magistrates’ Court found that a police order banning him from a protest in London was unlawful. Mr Robinson, 40, was arrested in central London on November 26th for supposedly violating a ban from attending a pro-Israel demonstration. Police argued that he refused to comply with the order and therefore used synthetic pepper spray on him, placed Robinson in handcuffs and arrested him. ... Speaking outside the courthouse on Tuesday alongside one-time UKIP backer Lord Pearson of Rannoch and broadcaster Katie Hopkins,...

British government gets in not-so subtle dig at lefty London mayor Sadiq Khan and his policing policies by stating the Rwandan capital is now “arguably safer than London”. The governing Conservatives are pushing to pass its Rwanda deportation scheme enabling law, which anti-borders activists have decried as morally wrong because Rwanda is a safe place for migrant resettlement. In comments before Monday nights’ votes to make the bill law, Foreign Office minister Andrew Mitchell hit back at the claims, stating some of the attacks on African state Rwanda as being unsafe and badly governed were tantamount to racism.

Ever since the failed Sunak government ousted Suella Braverman for telling the truth about the Met Police’s ‘Dhimming’, the evidence that the woke bobbies are pandering to terrorists and suppressing their opponents continues to grow. The Met Police banned the display of English flags. Watched while the Union Jack was burned. While defending the display of Swastikas at pro-Hamas rallies. And then arrested Iranian protesters for signs denouncing Hamas While Hamas supporters have been able to call for Jihad, protesting them leads to public order arrests and then finally we can see the full implications of this policy “You are...

A staff member at Vardag's accidentally opened the file of a couple referred to in court papers as Mr and Mrs Williams, when trying to apply for a final divorce order for a different client. Vardag's applied three days later to rescind the order but judge Sir Andrew McFarlane dismissed the application. The firm's head Ayesha Vardag said the judge's decision effectively meant "the computer says no, you're divorced". Court papers say that Mrs Williams applied for divorce in January 2023 following 21 years of marriage. The mistake was made by solicitors acting for Mrs Williams on 3 October last...

It's not just happening in the United States. Recently, at least six squatters broke into celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay's temporarily closed London pub, boarded up the windows, barred the doors, and refused to leave.At least six freeloaders broke into Ramsay’s York and Albany hotel and gastropub, which is for sale for $16.1 million, boarded up the windows, locked the door with kitchen utensils and glued the locks. The chef is trying to sign over the building in a multi-million-dollar deal, The Sun reports. Ramsay stars in the "Hell's Kitchen, The American Dream" reality show and Next Level Chef on Fox.Shocking...

**SNIP** A swarm of squatters have shacked up inside the celebrity chef’s $16.1 million pub — using Ramsay’s own kitchen appliances to barricade themselves inside, according to a report. **SNIP** One person was seen barefoot and sprawled across on a black leather sofa inside the restaurant, with their personal belongings and debris, including empty wine bottles, strewn across the floor. **SNIP** “The pub was temporarily closed while he was finalizing a new lease, and during this handover period, a gang of professional squatters somehow bypassed all the security and CCTV, and got themselves in. “They’ve now boarded themselves in the...

Don’t count the Brits out just yet because there’s still a lot of rebelliousness left in them, and it’s directed against the system and politicians of the globalist New World Order. Sure, Muhammad has been the United Kingdom’s “favorite” name for baby boys since 2016, and yes, London is jokingly referred to a “Londonistan” with its Muslim mayor who infamously quipped that the probability of jihad terror was just “part and parcel” of big-city living, but… there’s also this, from James Saunders at GB News: Ulez vigilantes dress up as Batman as they thwart Sadiq Khan’s enforcement camerasAnti-Ulez activists dressed...

London’s Metropolitan Police has come under criticism after footage emerged showing an officer telling a Jewish woman that swastikas seen at a pro-Palestinian protest should be “taken in context”. A clip shared widely online appeared to show a London police officer suggesting that under certain circumstances swastikas paraded in public could be legal, despite Britain’s tough restrictions on so-called hate speech. In the clip filmed at a pro-Palestinian rally on Saturday, the officer was heard telling a Jewish woman: “I don’t have an in-depth knowledge of signs and symbols. I know the swastika was used by the Nazi party during...

Horrifying anti-Israel chants erupted in central London on Saturday afternoon as thousands of protesters took to the city's streets. Terrifying chants of 'long live Hamas' could be heard on the streets of London this afternoon as thousands of pro-Palestine protesters marched through the city's streets.

A man suffered “life-threatening” injuries after being attacked by a knife-wielding man on a train in London on Wednesday afternoon. An unidentified man was rushed to hospital after being assaulted with a knife by a hooded assailant on a train near Beckenham Junction around 4 pm in broad daylight. In footage widely circulated on social media, the attacker, wearing a coronavirus-style mask, was seen stabbing another man on the floor of the train with a large blade as commuters begged the him to stop. So far, police said that they have yet to make an arrest, but the apparent victim...