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Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry says it ‘condemns and denounces in the strongest terms the brutal Israeli aggression’. An Israeli attack in Qatar’s capital, Doha, targeting Hamas officials has drawn swift condemnation from across the region and beyond, with the United Nations chief calling it a “flagrant violation” of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Qatar. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office confirmed that the Israeli military carried out the attack in Doha on Tuesday against Hamas leaders. It was the first such attack by Israel on Qatar, which has been a key mediator in ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas...

Megyn Kelly is joined by Graham Linehan, comedy writer and co-creator of Father Ted, to discuss the backsliding in the culture of free speech, the details surrounding his arrest, his decision to sue the police over the arrest, and more.

Homeland ministers from Britain, the United States and the other "Five Eyes" alliance will announce new measures this week to increase border security and target people smugglers, British interior minister Shabana Mahmood said on Sunday. The ministers from the Five Eyes intelligence sharing network - the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - will meet in London on Monday and Tuesday, Britain's Home Office said, with measures to "smash criminal smuggling gangs" the focus of the talks.

A symbolic “border” as the UK tightens family-reunion rules. Credit : DesignRage, Shutterstock The Home Office has paused new family-reunion applications from refugees while it rewrites the scheme. Officials say the route, created to reunite families split by war and persecution, has ballooned far faster than expected and is piling extra pressure on housing in parts of the country. During the pause, refugees who want to bring relatives to the UK must use the standard immigration routes, not the bespoke humanitarian one. Stricter criteria are coming, with ministers signalling higher financial thresholds and firmer English-language requirements, in line with wider...

I regret the downfall of the soi-disant Ginger Growler. As corrupt and talentless as she was, the Deputy Prime Minister was, in a certain sense, real - in a way that Sir Keir never can be, except perhaps to favoured Ukrainian rent-boys. And her boast that she threw Boris Johnson off his stroke at Prime Minister's Questions by "flashing me ginger growler" was, by the standards of the age, a harmless jest that added to the gaiety of the nation. However, politicians only matter if politics matters. And the consistent message from the courts, the cops, the press and the...

A concerted campaign has been launched, openly backed by the Conservative Party, Reform UK, the police and the courts, to create a mass fascist force in Britain, capable of being used not only against immigrants and asylum seekers but the entire working class under conditions in which class conflict is escalating. It is proceeding under the supportive political umbrella provided by the Starmer Labour government’s escalating assault on asylum seekers and refugees.

Graham Linehan is the creator of Father Ted, a truly beloved sitcom from the UK's Channel Four. But, because he is opposed to the notion that women have penises, he was forced out of TV comedy (as ruthlessly homogeneous a world as can be found) and then out of Britain itself. He returned from exile this morning only for the purposes of attending his trial, starting at Westminster Magistrates' Court this Thursday, following his previous arrest by Big Tranny's ideological enforcers at Scotland Yard. So naturally, on landing at Heathrow this morning, he was immediately arrested all over again by...

’ve sat and followed what is happening with the media in the UK with interest. One of the reasons I started Politically Inclined was due to the erosion of journalistic integrity in the main stream media. It started off with small things – politicians not being fact checked (well, let’s face it, only certain politicians), certain words being dropped (fascism, genocide, right-wing, racist) while use of other words increased (trans predators, woke, Asian grooming gangs). At the same time that legacy media started to bend the knee to what they perceived the be the rise of the right wing (and...

"They escorted me to a private area and told me I was under arrest for three tweets" No, this isn’t me. Since I’m not unfortunate enough to live in the UK where the Starmer regime arrests more people for tweets than most totalitarian regimes. The London Times recently reported that “British police arrest more than 30 people a day for online posts”. London’s Met Police, who have been at the center of some of the worst speech abuses, maintain a secretive operation monitoring social media leading to almost immediate arrests. The Met Police arrested a staggering 5,332 people in 9...

Award-winning Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan said that he was arrested in London over posts on social media criticising transgenderism. The creator of celebrated comedy programmes, including Father Ted and The IT Crowd, said on Tuesday that upon recently arriving at Heathrow Airport, he was met by five “armed police officers” who he says arrested him over “three tweets”. “In a country where paedophiles escape sentencing, where knife crime is out of control, where women are assaulted and harassed every time they gather to speak, the state had mobilised five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer for this tweet...

Anger is boiling over in the UK pressure cooker, and it is hard to see anybody in power finding the courage to use the steam release valve before it explodes. On the issue of immigration, it now boils down to the state vs its citizens. What began as a flag protest--English people putting up the St George's flag as an act of defiance against government indifference to their anger--has spread to Wales and Scotland. Larger and larger crowds are gathering, and confrontations with police are becoming common. The latest outrage--a High Court decision ruling that a migrant hotel the Epping...

I hope our American and Canadian readers had a good Labor/Labour Day weekend. Herewith, a brisk survey of the passing scene: ~Today the 47th president appeared, finally, to break with the 45th president on what he had continued to insist was his great achievement - the Covid vaccines: This makes me want to cry. Thank you @POTUS. Finally. pic.twitter.com/eUPOLnZZQ0 — Mary Talley Bowden MD (@MdBreathe) September 1, 2025 As RFK Jr and I have discussed, Americans are the most medicated population on earth: it seems to be pretty lousy for, among others, life expectancy, childhood obesity, and ameliorating the homicidal...

Britain faces an epidemic it refuses to name, while Israel, with a larger Muslim minority, has kept it in check. The difference holds urgent lessons. In the days before the establishment of Israel, when Arabs made up nearly 70 percent of the population and Jews were a minority suffering harsh pogroms, even rumors of sexual violence against a Jewish girl were met with the harshest retribution...

The Blessing UK — At this unique and challenging time in the United Kingdom over 65 churches and movements, representing hundreds of others, have come together online to sing a blessing over our land. Standing together as one, our desire is that this song will fill you with hope and encourage you. But the church is not simply singing a blessing, each day we're looking to practically be a blessing. Many of the churches included in this song have assisted with supplying over 400,000 meals to the most vulnerable and isolated in our nation since COVID-19 lockdown began. This alongside...

Vice President JD Vance has told the people of Britain to “push back against the crazies” and keep putting up flags, as protests spread across the country The protests, dubbed “Operation Raise the Colours,” have grown with the backlash against the British government’s migration policies, and in particular its policy of housing migrants in hotels in local communities. Patriotic British citizens are putting up flags across the nation, but facing significant resistance from the government, local councils, the police, leftists and immigrants Vice President JD Vance has told the people of Britain to “push back against the crazies” and...

Party conference begins next week when Reform UK kick off their two-day jamboree in Birmingham. Spirits within Nigel Farage’s party are high after a successful summer in which they dominated the recess period with a well-executed ‘flood the zone’ media strategy. A steady drumbeat of weekly announcements culminated on Tuesday when Reform’s long-awaited deportation strategy was unveiled. Now, the party has received a further boost with a new poll for the i paper which gives them their highest polling to date: Reform 35, Labour 20, Conservatives 17 per cent. This is the first time Reform has hit 35 points. Polling...

Reform UK is on course for a landslide majority at the election, as a new poll reveals Nigel Farage's party is now polling more than Labour and the Tories combined. FindOutNow asked voters who they would back at the election, and found Reform now sits well ahead of all other parties on 34% of the vote. Labour support is now at just 18%, their lowest since 2019, while the Tories have fallen another two points to a paltry 15%. The LibDems are closing in on Kemi Badenoch, rising one point to 13%, with the Greens on 10%. According to the...

By now you might have seen a video clip circulating on social media of a defiant and terrified young Scottish girl wielding a knife and a hatchet to fend off the advances of a migrant man who allegedly had been harassing her and her younger sister. You can hear the fear and anger in their voices, a mix of desperation and rage and confusion. You can also hear the man’s voice, taunting them. At one point one of the girls cries out, “Don’t touch my little sister, she’s only twelve!” You might also have heard how the story ended: the...

When we see people of all ages and both sexes demonstrating under St George’s Cross and the Union flag, and when local residents hang flags on lampposts, it is a sign of something momentous. This combination of English and British flags is full of meaning, symbolising respectively the culture of the country and the sovereignty of the state – both now under threat. Usually, displaying the flag signals loyalty. Today, it has become a sign of discontent. When local authorities remove our national flags because they are deemed “dangerous”, the point is emphatically underlined. “We are the people of England,...

Flying the St George's cross has been a topic of hot debate this week with many left wondering what the law says on flying flags from your home. What many people don't know is that there are certain criteria which must be met to fly a flag from your house without consent, according to the government website. Now the rules have been clarified as many residents across North Staffordshire have been erecting flags over the last few days. On the 'Flying flags: a plain English guide' page, the government makes it clear flags are "a very British way of expressing...