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A teenage stabbing victim bled to death on the street in Southampton after British police arrested and cuffed him rather than his alleged Sikh attacker, after the suspect claimed he’d been racially abused, according to court testimony. Henry Nowak, 18, a finance student at the University of Southampton, was walking home from a night out in December 2025, chatting with some friends on Snapchat, when he was encountered by Vickrum Digwa, 23. After a brief exchange, Digwa stabbed Nowak with an eight-inch Sikh ceremonial shastar blade, according to court testimony reported by BBC. A post-mortem examination showed Nowak had four...

In a disturbing snapshot of today’s Britain, the Henry Jackson Society published figures after this month’s local elections suggesting that more than 570 of new councillors were what it classed as “sectarian-style” candidates. The criteria used to define this were the emphases those candidates had, in their campaigns, put on issues of “Muslim communal grievance” and “transnational Muslim causes”. The Green Party, illustrating how it has stopped focusing on the environment or ecology, accounted for 350 of those councillors. What this has to do with local government is unclear; what it has to do with a complete failure of certain...

Tens of thousands of protesters have descended on London for two rival marches - the Unite the Kingdom rally, organised by far-right figure Tommy Robinson, and a pro-Palestinian demonstration. More than 4,000 police officers have been deployed to the capital, and they are managing a so-called "sterile zone" between the two marches. Officers are also using drones, police horses and dogs, and have armoured vehicles on standby. The Metropolitan Police has called it one of the most significant policing operations in years. In addition to the protests, tens of thousands of football fans are heading to Wembley Stadium for the...

UK Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has sharply criticized the government’s handling of rising antisemitism, describing the situation as a “national emergency" and calling for immediate action, including a ban on pro-Palestinian marches, as reported in the Daily Mail. Her remarks come as Prime Minister Keir Starmer convenes senior officials, police representatives, and public figures in Downing Street for a “whole of society" discussion on the recent surge in attacks targeting Jewish communities throughout the UK. The meeting follows a stabbing incident in Golders Green last week, which left two Jewish men injured and heightened concerns over public safety. Badenoch warned...

Growing up in Pakistan until my late teens, I never encountered a Jewish person. My passport permitted me to travel the world, but not to Israel, and so my intrigue at my first encounter with a Jewish person when I was in my twenties in New York was palpable. It was reciprocated, as he had never met a Muslim socially, but he was nevertheless taken aback by how little I knew of the Holocaust and Jewish history. I picked up a copy of Primo Levi’s account of surviving Auschwitz, If This is a Man, which began my education about people...

Nigel Farage insisted "the British people will not put up with this any longer" amid a row over a Ramadan event held in London. Tory MP Nick Timothy sparked controversy with a tweet saying public Muslim prayer is an "act of domination and division", following the Open Iftar in Trafalgar Square on Monday. He is facing calls, including from Sir Keir Starmer, to be sacked as shadow justice secretary over the post. But Mr Farage echoed Mr Timothy's comments as he weighed in on the furore. The Reform UK leader wrote on X: "What we witnessed in London at the...

The government has approved a request from the police to ban the Al Quds Day march in London on Sunday to prevent “serious public disorder” given the conflict in the Middle East, the home secretary has said. The Metropolitan Police asked for the ban saying it was concerned about the high number of protesters and counterprotesters, adding the march organizers were “supportive of the Iranian regime” . The Islamic Human Rights Commission, who organize the annual march, insist it is a peaceful, pro-Palestinian event. It says a static protest will take place instead. It is the first time a protest...

If hostile states believe Britain can be deterred by the threat of domestic unrest, they will exploit that perception, utilising communities which have failed to fully integrate into British society. Activists from the Islamic Human Rights Commission hold a banner and placards showing the face of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Downing Street in central London, on July 19, 2025, as they join a ‘National March for Palestine’ organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. CARLOS JASSO / AFP. Whatever one’s view of the so-called ‘special relationship’ between the United Kingdom and the United States (and I, for one,...

Summary Asylum seeker Deng Majek is sentenced to a minimum term of 29 years in prison for murdering hotel worker Rhiannon Whyte Whyte died on 23 October 2024, three days after Majek stabbed her 23 times with a screwdriver at a train station in Walsall, West Midlands Delivering the sentence, Mr Justice Soole says the attack "involved a significant degree of pre-meditation" and a "particularly vicious brutality" He says Majek is aged between 25 and 28, following an earlier claim from the defendant he was only 19 Majek, a Sudanese national who arrived in the UK on a small boat...

Democrat state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi became the new lieutenant governor of Virginia on Saturday, taking the oath of office as she placed her left hand on the Quran. In video footage posted on social media, Hashmi was seen being instructed to place her left hand on the Quran and to raise her right hand. Hashmi defeated radio host John Reid in Virginia’s election in November 2025. As Breitbart News’s Hannah Knudsen reported, during the campaign Reid “identified himself as someone who has ‘very strong principles,'” while Hashmi “appealed to her status as a diverse candidate.”:

Plans to house 70 asylum seekers next to a medical centre in the heart of a Welsh village have sparked uproar. Police officers kept watch and patrolled Rhosllanerchrugog, near Wrexham, today as around 500 locals queued for the packed public meeting. In the end so many people arrived that the event had to be held outdoors. Many say the former sheltered housing should instead be used by the under-pressure NHS to relieve bed-blocking in hospitals. They also fear that if the proposal goes ahead, it could house single men about whose backgrounds they know nothing, leaving them feeling unsafe in...

On this Special Report, Anisha Mathur and Pranay Upadhyay discuss a horrific grooming gang incident in London's Hounslow area. A 15-year-old Sikh girl was allegedly abducted, stalked, and abused by a gang of six Pakistani-origin men. The situation escalated when approximately 200 members of the Sikh community took matters into their own hands to rescue the child from a flat after claiming police inaction. Anisha Mathur notes that the girl was 'stalked, trapped and raped and on camera' while community members confronted the accused. The programme highlights the outrage within the Sikh community over the recurring nature of such crimes...

The German people are increasingly concerned about safety in public spaces compared to before the 2015 migrant crisis, which was imposed on the country by the Berlin establishment. Nearly half of German voters say they are personally concerned about their safety in public, according to the Deutschlandtrend survey by the Infratest Dimap opinion research institute, which surveyed 1,300 eligible voters between November 3 and 5. According to the survey, 48 per cent of Germans feel uneasy in parks, public squares, streets, or trains and buses. This represented nearly a 100 per cent increase over the past decade, the pollster noted....

Sweden the latest country to propose a burka ban. Mail: Swedish deputy PM says the country must ban the burqa 'while we can' and condemns 'failed integration'". Fractured Sweden DECLARES Dramatic U-Turn | 2:00 Michael Heaver | 197K subscribers | 160,368 views | October 19, 2025

Nigel Farage has likened masked Muslim protesters marching through the streets of east London to a 'foreign invading army'. The Reform UK leader today condemned the scenes of balaclava-clad men who declared they were 'uniting' while chanting a series of messages in Arabic. He revealed that Saturday's Tower Hamlets demonstration - which came after police banned a planned UKIP protest to 'reclaim' the area - was 'one of the most terrifying things I've ever seen in my life'. Many young men dressed in black, with hoods up and their faces covered, roamed the streets waving Bangladesh and Palestine flags where...

Bukele is now a verb. To ‘Bukele’ something is to fix a problem that liberals say is ‘too complicated’ by simply ignoring their long-winded excuses and just doing the obvious. It is named after the leader of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, who has turned a country that was once dubbed the murder capital of the world into one of the safest. Meanwhile, Britain, once Europe’s most orderly nation, is mired in rape gangs, knife crime, and shoplifting. The UK doesn’t need Bukele-style mega-prisons, but it certainly needs his clarity. The problem is that our elites in Westminster have mastered the...

ANGER is growing in Uxbridge, where residents and councillors say they are being "significantly underfunded" by the Home Office after the borough was forced to take on one of the largest migrant housing burden in Britain. With one in every 10 hotel-housed immigrants in the UK currently being housed in Hillingdon which includes Uxbridge, the local council is legally required to house those ‘presenting as homeless’ that come through the international airport, Heathrow, which is inside its boundaries. The situation has pushed local services to breaking point, and left taxpayers footing the bill which has risen to more than £10million...

Police have arrested pro-Israel supporters who were holding placards which read 'we stand with Britain's Jews', while pro-Palestine protesters were filmed chanting 'death to the IDF' elsewhere in central London. A small group of people from Our Fight, a pro-Israeli organisation that describes itself as mostly made up of non-Jewish Brits, were seen facing off with protesters while holding signs that read: 'We stand with Britain's Jews'. Mark Birbeck, an activist from a non-Jewish but pro-Israeli group, was arrested after being escorted by police officers while holding the sign emblazoned with a Union Jack flag. Two others were also seen...

King Charles says he wants to inspire a "sense of determination" to protect the environment, as details are announced of a TV documentary in which he will explain his philosophy of "harmony" and the need "to work with rather than against nature".The King's Foundation says the feature-length TV film, provisionally titled Finding Harmony: A King's Vision, will be screened on Amazon's Prime Video early next year."Never has it been more important for the world to make a concerted effort to protect and prioritise our planet, and to restore our relationship with it," the monarch said about the project.In the film...

Jews across the UK have been urged to lock their doors and not to congregate in groups as police patrols are stepped up outside synagogues and in areas with large Jewish populations after the Manchester attack. Sir Keir Starmer told the Jewish community that he would do “everything in my power to guarantee you the security you deserve” as he announced additional police officers and assets would be deployed to all Jewish communities. Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, said that she would “do whatever is required” to keep the Jewish community safe as she visited the site of the attack...