Europe used wartime powers to seize control of Nexperia. The move claims to defend security yet it signals the surrender of economic sovereignty to Washington. In an extraordinary act of economic self sabotage, the Dutch government used emergency wartime powers to take control of Nexperia, a major semiconductor producer based in the Netherlands and owned […]
At Valdai, Vladimir Putin’s joke about “Oreshnik” masked a serious message. Russia and the United States are both trapped in an era where escalation depends on infrastructure, not intent. Every modern weapon now travels with its own network of satellites, planners, and launchers — and building that network is the new act of war.
For eight decades Europe nestled under America’s triple canopy, military, technological, psychological. It was a seductive bargain. Washington’s shield let Europe skimp on tanks, pour billions into cradle to grave welfare, and sermonize about liberal values without the gritty cost of standing alone. The Ukraine war tore that illusion to shreds.
When a leading London broadsheet claimed that North Koreans were “hunting tigers for food,” it exposed more than journalistic sloppiness. It revealed the desperation of Britain’s old media class to preserve a moral hierarchy that no longer exists. This essay traces how a false story about famine and wildlife became a metaphor for imperial nostalgia — and why the West’s fading press can no longer distinguish narrative from truth.
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Populist energy has moved from the street into the state. Alice Weidel in Germany and Nigel Farage in Britain are converting discontent into parliamentary power, while Tommy Robinson’s crowds still march without machinery. The same sentiment frustration with distant rule and collapsing trust now runs from Saxony to small-town England and deep into the American South.
Britain is spending the income on Russia’s frozen reserves, a move critics call theft. Once London’s trust premium erodes, investors may not return.
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The alleged violation was sensationalised and given wall-to-wall coverage in Western media. What was not mentioned is that in April 2025 Estonia passed a law expanding its military authority over its exclusive economic zone, blurring the line between territorial waters and international airspace. Embedded video under YouTube license. The autumn of 2025 has been marked […]
YouTube embedded video under license. Uploaded by No Comment TV. Aerial and ground footage showing the crowd at the Tommy Robinson, mainly white working-class rally in central London. I read a strange syndicated piece this week on one of the big online news portals. It insisted that Britain’s divisions were the fault of an overmighty […]
Labour Together began as a quiet project after Corbyn’s shock leadership win. A decade later, it stands at the heart of Starmer’s government.
Britain has pushed further than almost any other Western democracy in marrying surveillance, internet regulation, and artificial intelligence to its domestic security system.
The government has now confirmed that digital ID will be mandatory for Right to Work checks, marking a decisive shift from earlier voluntary trials. Framed as a tool to combat fraud and streamline services, the move has revived old arguments about surveillance, exclusion, and the erosion of civil liberties. The government dresses it as efficiency, […]
Video from Radio Free Europe. The situation on September 24 has become more difficult for the Ukrainians, with the Russians making major gains. Embedded under YouTube license. Russian forces in eastern Ukraine say they have turned a corner. After months of grinding attrition, Moscow’s troops are presenting a story of momentum: the isolation of a […]
Anna Netrebko returned to the Royal Opera House in London with a triumphant Tosca, her first appearance since 2019. Her performance comes after years of political bans and media hysteria, underscoring how the campaign to silence Russian artists has collapsed.
The MiG-31, a Soviet-era interceptor built to race nearly three times the speed of sound and patrol vast frontiers, is not a plane often mistaken for routine traffic. Designed to hunt down high-flying threats with its powerful radar, it remains central to Russia’s long-range air defense. On Friday, three of them cut across the skies […]
Video credit: Travelling with Russell — YouTube channel. Please visit him. Embedded under YouTube’s Embedding Terms and Conditions. © Google LLC 2025. Russia’s economy is booming compared to Britain’s. In 2024 it grew by about 4.1 percent, while the United Kingdom managed only 1.1 percent. Against this backdrop, the Kremlin has introduced a new progressive […]
LONDON — Britain rolled out its oldest tricks of statecraft when President Donald J. Trump returned this summer for an “unprecedented” second state visit. The carriages, the uniforms, the banquets in Windsor Castle were not just theatre. They were a strategy — carefully designed to flatter a president known to crave ceremony while insulating him […]
Donald Trump left Winfield House this morning, the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Regent’s Park, and flew to Windsor Castle. In the Walled Garden he was greeted by the Prince and Princess of Wales, then by King Charles and Queen Camilla. A guard of honour lined the grounds; carriages gleamed; medals and swords caught the light. […]
On Saturday London felt less like a capital city and more like a verdict. A sea of St. George’s flags, “take our country back” placards, and a battery of phones filming Tommy Robinson as if he were a head of state. Police counted crowds in the six figures; reporters on the ground described one of […]
Within the first six months, the outcome was already a foregone conclusion. Russia had shifted to a war of attrition, sanctions had failed, and Ukraine’s manpower was collapsing. Yet the West continued to encourage Kyiv to fight — not to secure victory, but to weaken Russia. What followed was a proxy war: tens of thousands […]
Four days on, the framing remains deliberate: a narrative of escalation, not the forensic reality of decoys that drifted across the border. WARSAW, LVIV, BERLIN European leaders continue to build the narrative as Russian escalation. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz condemned it as “a reckless assault on NATO territory by armed Russian drones.” The BBC has […]
Atmosphere and Key Moments Right Now • Peaceful but charged: Drums, anthems, and chants like “Patriotism is the future” and “Borders are the future” are echoing through the streets. Robinson just addressed the crowd from the stage, declaring “Britain has finally awoken—this is never going away.” Other speakers including Ant Middleton, Katie Hopkins, and Steve […]
Under the banner “Unite the Kingdom,” Robinson (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) has mobilised a mass of supporters, casting the demonstration as both a free speech crusade and an anti-immigration revolt. What the crowd actually looks like tells a different story: flags, fury, and a dangerous appetite for something bigger. Numbers Game: Magnitude vs Manipulation Robinson’s camp is […]
Tommy Robinson has been laying the groundwork for months. The rally that London is seeing today did not appear out of thin air. It was seeded in encrypted chat groups, cultivated in livestream rants, monetised through merchandise drops and donor appeals, and fertilised by every cultural panic that Robinson could harness. The killing of Charlie […]
Londoners woke up Friday to a city edging back toward normal after a week of stoppages that turned the Underground into a patchwork of shuttered gates, sporadic services and crowded alternatives. The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union’s rolling action, which began on 5 September and ran through late on 11 September, forced commuters onto […]
The Tube strike entered its second full day on Tuesday, intensifying disruption across London as commuters grappled with packed buses, long walks and overloaded journey planners. With negotiations stalled, the capital is facing a week of rolling shutdowns that have turned routine journeys into logistical puzzles. Virtually all Underground lines remain closed, including major arteries […]
Prince Harry during an Invictus-related engagement, 2019. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Prince Harry’s return to the United Kingdom this week is more than a diary of engagements. It is a reminder of his commitment to service, his enduring ties to Britain, and his capacity to connect with people not as a distant royal but as a […]
Broadcasting House, the BBC headquarters in London. Photo: Oxyman, via Wikimedia Commons. LONDON — 8 September 2025 Yes, a widely respected organisation’s report suggests that the licence fee — which is sold as a guarantee of independence — is in practice underwriting a state-aligned media machine. Instead of protecting audiences from propaganda, the BBC’s failures […]
Birmingham residents paint the St George’s Cross on mini-roundabouts. Descriptive footage of the street-level flag campaign. “Operation Raise the Colours” footage: flags painted and flown in Birmingham neighbourhoods. If your theme blocks iframes, link directly instead: Video 1 · Video 2 The flag, above all, has become central to this story. Across towns and cities, […]
Jeremy Corbyn, 2019. Zarah Sultana, official parliamentary portrait. The start of this new political realignment comes as Britain drifts headlong into an economic crisis. The divide between rich and poor is widening, with wealth concentrating at the very top. For the working and middle classes, the system now feels rigged against them — a daily […]
Exterior of an Aldi supermarket. Photo via Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Exterior of a Morrisons supermarket. Photo via Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0). Aldi has taken the crown as the UK’s cheapest supermarket this month. It beat Lidl by just a few pence on a standard 75-item basket. The figures, released this week, show […]
Londoners faced one of their most chaotic mornings yet today, as a London Underground strike entered its first full day in force. With almost no Tube service before 08:00 and journeys advised to be complete by 18:00, commuters resorted to creative workarounds—including walking, cycling, and enduring grinding waits for overloaded buses and Elizabeth line services. […]
KYIV — The claim landed like a hammer blow in a war already defined by attrition and exhaustion: “142,000 servicemen deserted.” In a few words it compressed two and a half years of fear, flight and discipline into a single number large enough to bend the narrative. It ricocheted through Telegram channels and regional outlets, […]
Russian accounts describe custom malware, a OneDrive trove and a casualty ledger; Kyiv rejects the story as information warfare NY-Style Enhanced — Excerpt (No Headline) MOSCOW — The story began with a single post on a Telegram channel, buried in a feed of battlefield footage and provincial news. But within hours, it had been transformed […]
LONDON — Jeremy Corbyn’s inquiry has shifted the debate back onto the government, forcing ministers to confront allegations of complicity in Gaza that will now circulate in public reports and international forums. Last week Corbyn convened a two-day tribunal in Westminster to examine Britain’s role in Israel’s war in Gaza, after Parliament blocked his bid […]
PARIS — When Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer convened a “coalition of the willing” in Paris to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine, they were not speaking from a position of strength. Twenty-six capitals signed the communiqués. None could answer the basic question: what can Europe actually guarantee? The answer lies on the battlefield. Russia dictates […]
BIRMINGHAM — In 2021, Reform UK was little more than a footnote. Its inaugural conference drew a few hundred activists to a function room in Manchester, far overshadowed by the Conservative Party gathering down the road. Nigel Farage, the perennial agitator of British politics, was not even in the room. The party was polling at […]
LONDON — London is bracing for days of severe disruption on the Underground as members of the RMT union prepare a rolling walkout that is expected to halt most Tube services for four consecutive weekdays, with only limited trains resuming early Friday. The action follows months of talks over pay, fatigue, and shift patterns. Transport […]
BERLIN — The turbulence in Germany’s politics cannot be separated from the choices its leaders have made since 2022. What some analysts describe as a “political tsunami” is also the result of self-inflicted wounds: policies that have left Europe’s largest economy cut off from its energy lifelines, its export markets, and its sense of security. […]
Russia has now turned its back on Europe. It has signed an agreement with China to build a new pipeline that will carry Siberian gas straight into the Chinese heartland — and, in time, potentially southward into India. The Power of Siberia-2 is more than a project on paper: it is the symbol of a […]
LONDON — On the afternoon of 24 July 2025, a bare-bones website suddenly lit up with traffic. Its message was stark: “It’s time to build a new kind of political party — one that belongs to you.” Below the slogan sat nothing more than a simple email sign-up box and the promise of a founding […]
LONDON — Immigration is once again Britain’s most combustible political issue, and this week it spilled into the streets and across X — the platform once known as Twitter — with hashtags like #StopTheBoats trending at the top of the feed. Protest clips outside hotels housing asylum seekers, posts accusing Labour of favouring migrants over […]
LONDON — The arrest of Graham Linehan, co-creator of the sitcom Father Ted, has erupted into a global flashpoint after Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling used their platforms on X to denounce the move. Linehan, 57, was arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of inciting violence, following April posts in which he urged that if […]
LONDON — Graham Linehan, the Irish writer and co-creator of the cult sitcom Father Ted, was arrested at Heathrow Airport this week on suspicion of inciting violence through social media posts. What might once have been a narrow police matter quickly escalated into a political and cultural storm, amplified by prominent voices on X, including […]
LONDON — Britain’s long-term borrowing costs have surged to their highest level since 1998, rattling the Treasury and intensifying the pressure on Chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of her first full Budget. The yield on 30-year government bonds — gilts — has climbed sharply in recent weeks, outpacing both U.S. Treasuries and German Bunds. For investors, […]
By Jaffa Levy An impulse—to reclaim a sense of belonging—echoed in England this weekend, where flags and protests occurred in the open air. A surge of English and British flags across town centres and transport arteries complemented with anti-immigration protests this weekend, offering a vivid tableau of how national symbols have become proxy battlegrounds for […]
By Elizabeth Wang Britain’s rental crisis has spawned a chilling new trend: landlords quietly trading rooms for sexual favours, targeting the most vulnerable and flouting criminal law. Britain’s rental crisis has spawned a chilling new trend: landlords quietly trading rooms for sexual favours, targeting the most vulnerable and flouting criminal law. With private rents surging […]
How sabotage, austerity and Trump’s shadow left the continent exposed By Jaffa Levy Europe has slipped into a brittle bargain. In Berlin, ministers say the welfare state is “too expensive,” even as they prepare to bring back military service—voluntary first, compulsory if too few step forward. In Paris, Emmanuel Macron casts Russia as a predator […]
By Jaffa Levy Man is free. He does not need to be surveilled, categorised, or indexed. That principle has always been central to British life. From Magna Carta to the rejection of continental-style identity papers, the understanding has endured: a citizen is not required to account for himself to the state at every turn. Now, […]