British Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has instructed local councils run by her party not to fly the ultra-woke ‘Progress Pride’ flag—but indicated that the older pride flag is fine.
In recent years, many progressive organisations have abandoned the traditional six-stripe rainbow flag in favour of the Progress Pride flag, a newer design that supposedly incorporates transgender colours, stripes representing ethnic minorities, and an intersex emblem.
However, in an email to Conservative-run councils, seen by the Mail, party chairman Kevin Hollinrake writes:
The original Rainbow Pride flag has come to be widely recognised as a symbol of respect and inclusion for gay people.
The so-called Progress flag, by contrast, was explicitly designed to represent a broader set of political and ideological causes.
Its additional symbols are associated with contested ideas about gender identity, critical race theory, and social justice. Rather than uniting communities, the Progress flag is a symbol of identity politics, atomising society into different and divisive identities.
The guidance comes after Westminster City Council, which the Conservatives reclaimed from Labour at last month’s local elections, was seen flying the Progress Pride flag above its Victoria Street offices. The council’s leader even tweeted a video of the flag being hoisted.
— Westminster City Council Leader (@Leader_WCC) June 1, 2026
The Mail reports that the banner was quickly taken down and replaced with the ‘traditional’ rainbow flag once it was noticed.
The Conservative Party’s position is in stark contrast to Reform UK, which has imposed a blanket ban on all Pride flags at council buildings under its control.
Last week, two local authorities controlled by Nigel Farage’s party moved to restrict Pride-related displays and events as part of a broader policy limiting the use of political and campaign flags on public property.
In the London borough of Havering, council leaders cancelled an annual Pride flag-raising ceremony that had marked the start of Pride Month for almost a decade. The authority also reiterated Reform UK’s policy that council buildings should generally fly only the Union Flag, the St George’s Cross, and flags honouring the armed forces and veterans.
Meanwhile, Reform-run Essex County Council instructed its 74 libraries to suspend the promotion of Pride Month activities through official council communication channels.
The episode highlights how far Britain’s political debate has shifted. Rather than questioning whether Pride flags belong on public buildings, the Conservative Party is now debating which Pride flag should be flown.
Reform UK, by contrast, has opted for a far simpler answer: none of them.
Kiran Kaur, the mother of Henry Nowak’s killer Vickrum Digwa, was arrested for concealing the murder weapon following Henry’s gruesome murder. – p
Mother of the year–
In case you missed it… The mother of Henry Nowak’s killer was arrested and charged with assisting an offender and found guilty by a jury. She awaits sentencing for her crime.
According to reports, The mother of Henry Nowak’s killer, Vickrum Digwa (also referred to as Vickrum Singh Digwa), hid the murder weapon.
Digwa called his parents and they arrived at the scene before police.
Kiran Kaur (Digwa’s mother) took the knife from the scene before police arrived and hid it at their family home in nearby St Denys. Police later recovered it.
She took the knife home while Henry was bleeding out on the ground.
Kaur later was charged with assisting an offender (by removing/hiding the murder weapon) and found guilty by a jury. Digwa himself was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 21 years (sentencing on 1–2 June 2026).
The Breizh Kebab restaurant in Lorient (Morbihan) opened its doors at the end of April 2026. It is located at 33 Avenue de La Perrière. The business is run by Paola Manso, her father Pietro and her brother Kylian. The Breizh Kebab restaurant opened its doors on April 30, 2026, on Avenue de La Perrière in Lorient (Morbihan).
“We had a stall at the Interceltic Festival for several years,” says Paola Manso, the manager. She runs the establishment alongside her father Pietro and her brother Kylian. “At first we made classic kebabs, and one day our supplier ran out of meat and helped us out with pork. It was a huge success right from the start. The pork comes from Ty producers in Kervignac. Today, Breizh Kebab is developing into a restaurant.”
Rahim Peerzada is seated in the middle, (via @rahimpeerzada on X)
Mohammad Rahim Peerzada (also known as Rahim Pirzada or Mohammad Rahim Wahidi), Afghanistan’s former ambassador to Spain under the Taliban regime, faces multiple accusations of sexual assault, including the alleged drug-facilitated rape of at least one German-Afghan woman.
Spanish authorities revoked his diplomatic immunity in March 2025 after several women came forward with serious allegations.
At least four women have accused him of sexual misconduct, with some claiming he used his official position to approach them and, in one case, drugged and raped them.
One of the most serious accusations comes from a 37-year-old Afghan woman living in Germany.
According to reporting by German newspaper Die Welt today, she claims Peerzada drugged and raped her in Madrid in 2022.
The woman told Die Welt anonymously: “My life will never return to how it was, but I at least hope there’s a chance for justice.”
Spanish police have formally requested an international arrest warrant for Peerzada.
He was detained by US immigration authorities at Washington Dulles Airport in late March 2025 while using an alias, and was questioned by the FBI about the allegations.
New judicial documents show the ex-ambassador’s background and testimony.
Peerzada served as the Taliban-appointed ambassador in Madrid.
He reportedly replied that “in Europe a lot is legal” and downplayed the accusations.
Regarding an accuser he said, “My wife knows that we are allowed to have several wives in Islam. But I don’t know that woman”.
There was also an exchange on Facebook, with someone telling him, “There is nothing more to talk about. You raped her 2.5 years ago. Now you have to wait and see what happens. I promise you will be on the news.”
Several victims allege he abused his diplomatic status to gain their trust, only to later abuse them.
Spanish authorities initially shelved investigations due to his diplomatic immunity, but revoked it after public pressure and media revelations.
He is no longer protected and Spain is seeking his extradition.
In Afghanistan he is also facing corruption allegations.
The case has drawn parallels to other high-profile scandals involving powerful men using drugs to commit sexual assaults (DFSA).
It has also sparked outrage over how diplomatic immunity can shield serious criminals.
Peerzada has denied all allegations, calling them baseless and saying that there were people who wanted to destroy his reputation.
His legal team has argued that no formal criminal charges were filed while he held immunity.
The scandal has embarrassed the Taliban regime, though, Peerzada, who also appears under the name Mohammad Rahim Wahidi, has also worked for the former, internationally recognised Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
The father of a German teenager murdered by a migrant on a regional train has questioned whether he and other bereaved parents could be treated as right-wing extremists after Saxony-Anhalt’s domestic intelligence agency cited an Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician’s remarks about “murdered children” in its classification of the party’s state branch as an extremist organization.
According to Apollo News, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony-Anhalt justified its classification of the AfD state association as a confirmed right-wing extremist organization in part by pointing to the party’s migration rhetoric.
The agency’s report accuses the AfD of being “essentially permeated by the racist ideology of ethnopluralism” and says the party promotes the vision of ethnically homogeneous states. It claims that such a vision amounts to “the expulsion of all ‘aliens’.”
Among the examples cited as “xenophobic agitation” were a carnival speech by AfD deputy state chairman Hans-Thomas Tillschneider in which he claimed that illegal migrants “stream in here in masses and want to squander our money,” and a Facebook post from Oliver Kirchner, co-chairman of the AfD parliamentary group in Saxony-Anhalt in which he wrote, “”Let us never forget the murdered children for whom this illegal and uncontrolled immigration by the established parties is responsible. It can happen to anyone in Germany, anytime, anywhere!”
He also called for the removal of those “on whose hands the blood of the victims is stained and who are responsible for these conditions.”
The reference to murdered children has now become the center of a wider dispute after Michael Kyrath, whose 17-year-old daughter Ann-Marie was stabbed to death on a train near Brokstedt on Jan. 25, 2023, publicly challenged the state government.
Ann-Marie was killed alongside her 19-year-old boyfriend, Danny, by a stateless Palestinian man who had reportedly been released from custody just days earlier despite a history of violent crime.
Since his daughter’s murder, Kyrath has become a prominent voice among bereaved families demanding answers over violent crime, immigration, deportation failures and political accountability.
His daughter was murdered by an illegal Palestinian migrant, stabbed 38 times, along with her boyfriend.
17-year-old Ann-Marie is gone, but her father won't let her memory die. He delivered a message to Olaf Scholz's face:
In an interview with FAZ in January, Kyrath said families like his were repeatedly told that such attacks were isolated incidents.
“People always talk about these as regrettable isolated incidents. But we’re in contact with more than 1,000 families who have lost loved ones to violent crimes in recent years. It’s always the same perpetrator profile. It’s almost always the same weapon. It’s nearly always the same sequence of events. It’s always the same motives. And it’s always the same platitudes from the same politicians, who, after such an act, tearfully cry into the cameras. Then nothing happens,” he said.
Following the Saxony-Anhalt report, Kyrath asked on X whether he too would now be considered a right-wing extremist for publicly commemorating victims of illegal immigration.
The Saxony-Anhalt Interior Ministry replied to his post, saying, “Unfortunately, we are unable to comprehend why you assume that the Constitutional Protection Agency of Saxony-Anhalt would classify you as hostile to the constitution. We would be happy to discuss this in person. A phone number will follow via direct message.”
Kyrath responded by directly linking his own campaigning to the AfD passage cited by the intelligence agency.
“Is it not correct that someone from the Constitutional Protection Agency of Saxony-Anhalt was classified as a confirmed right-wing extremist because he thought of the murdered children by an illegal and uncontrolled immigration, and warned that it can strike anyone and anywhere?
“According to hearsay, the Constitutional Protection Agency of Saxony-Anhalt must also classify me and countless other bereaved parents as right-wing extremist — for after all, we too commemorate our children who were killed by murderers who immigrated illegally, had multiple prior convictions, and were subject to deportation! After all, we citizens are all equal before the law, aren’t we?” Kyrath wrote.
The ministry replied, “We can assure you that the Office for the Protection of the Constitution does not classify anyone as extremist for mourning the victims of the most horrific crimes.”
Kyrath later clarified that he did not believe he personally would be classified as a confirmed right-wing extremist, but said the logic of the report still raised a troubling question.
So, an diesem Punkt muss eines mal klar, deutlich und unmissverständlich klar gestellt werden: NEIN, ich persönlich werde wohl nicht vom Verfassungsschutz als gesichert rechtsEXTREM eingestuft!
Allerdings hat der Verfassungsschutz einen Politiker als gesichert rechtsextrem…
“The Constitutional Protection Agency has classified a politician as a right-wing extremist because he reminded people of the murdered children of illegal and uncontrolled migration and warned that it could strike anyone at any time!” he wrote.
“That’s exactly what I’m doing, and many other bereaved parents are doing too… we publicly remember our children murdered by illegal and uncontrolled migration and try to change something, because it can indeed strike anyone anywhere!”
“Of course, my post was deliberately provocative — and posed more as a question than as a fact,” he added.
“Nevertheless, the question remains hanging in the air: What is extreme right about it if one mourns murdered children of uncontrolled and thus illegal migration?”
The Saxony-Anhalt report also accuses the AfD of comparing modern Germany to the former East Germany and National Socialism, which officials say denigrates the democratic system and its institutions. It claims the state branch aims to break with the existing order across several areas of society.
The report additionally names a restaurant used for AfD events, describing it as a hub for “supra-regional gatherings of the far-right spectrum.”
Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar were killed by Valdo Calocane | NOTTINGHAMSHIRE POLICE
The mother of a Nottingham stabbing victim has raised questions over why the murder of her son was not treated as a racist attack.
Emma Webber declared it time to “consider the unpalatable” in discussions about Britain’s policing system and race, almost three years after her son, Barnaby Webber, was stabbed to death by a black man.
Valdo Calocane murdered three white people before attempting to kill another three in Nottingham, leaving them seriously injured on June 13 2023.
Valdo Calocane killed three people in Nottingham. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE POLICE
The murderer, a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, is now serving an indefinite hospital order in a high-security facility.
Much of the case has focused on Calocane’s mental illness, having been treated by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust for two years before the attacks.
But, with the recent tragedy of Henry Nowak fuelling anger towards Britain’s policing system, Mrs Webber, Barnaby’s mother, has compared her son’s murder to the killing of the 18-year-old university student, who was stabbed to death with a Sikh ceremonial blade.
She called on Britain to address the relevance of race in crime across Britain and claimed that if Calocane was a white man who murdered black people, race would have played a larger role in discourse surrounding the incident.
“What we do need to do is be brave and have those really difficult discussions in this country,” Mrs Webber told The Telegraph.
“(Calocane) was a black man who killed three white people and tried to kill another three white people, and that was never part of the conversation.
“If it had been the other way round, it would have been.”
In the case of Henry Nowak, discussions surrounding the local police force’s commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) were catapulted into the limelight.
On the night of the murder, officers were originally called to the scene in Southampton on December 3 after the murderer’s brother lied and said he had been racially abused.
The finance student was left to die while police handcuffed him and read his rights, just as the victim slipped out of consciousness after repeating “I can’t breathe” nine times.
Following a racism and misogyny scandal which led to the dismissal of five officers in 2021, the force introduced a mandatory equality and inclusion training programme.
The taxpayer-funded scheme cost £861,737 in total, which is roughly £144 for every employee over a three-year period.
Hampshire Police’s 6,250 members of staff were all made to undergo the in-house initiative.
After interviewing officers, Reading University’s Professor Netta Weinstein – one of the training course’s creators – warned that the course could “backfire, resulting in reinforcing bias or counterproductive behaviours”.
The force’s staff were trained to be aware of racism, unconscious bias, and privilege, alongside contested “critical race theory”.
One in seven of those at Hampshire Police had felt “controlled and pressured” to adopt these notions, living in fear “mistakes would have been held against me”, a damning survey exposed.
Meanwhile, a fifth said they feared being “rejected for saying the wrong thing”.
I’m not sure if he said it first, but Mark Steyn probably said it most clearly: Demographics is destiny. A society that doesn’t reproduce is going to perish. Unless it replenishes its population through immigration, in which case, it’s going to be a very different society, and almost certainly not one that nations’ founders ever envisioned. That’s the reality of contemporary Europe, including England, and it’s not pretty, as Matt Goodwin reports:
According to new figures from Eurostat, the people of Europe are experiencing the most profound demographic shift in their history. Between 2010 and today, in only 16 years, the number of foreign-born residents in Europe rocketed from 40million to more than 64million. In other words, Europe’s ruling class added 24million foreign-born residents in only 16 years, with nearly three-quarters coming from radically different cultures and nations.
The changes in specific nations are striking. Between 2015 and 2024, Germany’s immigrant population exploded from 11 million to more than 17 million. In Spain, it surged from 5.9 million to close to 10 million.
As in the UK, immigration is now the only reason Europe’s population is growing. Why? Because Europe’s people are no longer reproducing themselves naturally. Europe has now recorded more deaths than births every single year since 2012, with Latvia, Bulgaria and Lithuania suffering the sharpest falls.
Last year, in just one year, Europe’s natural population collapsed by 1.3 million, while net immigration added 2.3 million.
The birth replacement rate remains at 2.1children per woman, but that’s not happening. Europe’s rate is now 1.34, and in the UK, it’s 1.39, and 40% of all kids have one or two foreign-born parents. Spain is 1.10, Poland is 1.14, Italy is 1.18, Ireland and Sweden are 1.4, and France is 1.56. Unless their women begin to reproduce at a rate of at least 2.1, Sweden will no longer be Swedish, nor will the rest be recognizable as a native population. The decline is happening fast:
Between 2010 and 2024, in just 14 years, the share of foreign-born people in Germany rocketed from 12.9 percent to 21 percent. In Austria, it is 22 per cent. In Ireland, it is 23 percent. In Sweden, it is 21 percent. In the UK, thanks to the ‘Boriswave’, it is 20 percent. In Spain, it’s 19 percent. These are all record highs and point to a continent that’s being transformed in terms of both its demography and culture.
Alarming too is that European nations are granting citizenship to people from very different, often hostile, cultures with no intention of assimilating or even learning the language.
Graphic: X Post
In Vienna, for instance, 42 percent of all pupils at state schools are Muslim, while in Berlin, Hamburg, and other parts of Germany more than half of all school pupils are migrants or the children of migrants (like parts of the UK).
Muslim immigration has skyrocketed, and immigrant rape gangs roam the streets. The UK has an insane rate of gang rape, and the police ignore it and harass women who dare to report rapes. The same is true of Sweden, where hand grenade(!) attacks have become common. Wherever there is substantial Muslim immigration, there are “no go” zones for police, where Sharia rules. Importing violent, medieval immigrants determined to conquer their adopted lands turns out to have rather severe consequences for the conquered. It would be impossible to reestablish the rule of law without requiring the police to cause severe bloodshed, so squeamish politicians watch their cultures disintegrate.
As European populations age, the problem worsens:
Look at Poland, for example. While Poland’s been one of the most vocal critics of mass immigration, between 2005 and 2025 it also experienced the sharpest increase of all European nations in the share of pensioners, which rocketed from 13 to 21 per cent. If the likes of Poland cannot find a way of boosting the fertility rate, for how long will they be able to resist the same demographic pressures that are radically reshaping other nations?
At this rate, it’s not going to take long for Europe, the birthplace of the Enlightenment, to regress to the Dark Ages, full of people incapable of building and maintaining the modern world and forever expecting increasingly old populations that know and can do such things to provide for them.
Again, this is particularly dangerous where Muslims overrun a nation, because their goal is never assimilation, but conquest. Once their populations are sufficiently large, they don’t build but destroy and rule the rubble.
It’s tempting to say this is civilizational suicide, but it’s not. It’s an intentional failure of the people who swore to defend and maintain their nations, not that the result will differ.
A Virginia Circuit Court has dismissed criminal charges against Richard Cox, a registered sex offender who identifies as a transgender woman and who was accused of exposing himself to women and girls in female locker rooms across Northern Virginia.
In court, Cox argued that he had a right to access female-only facilities based on his gender identity, citing local policies in Fairfax and Arlington counties that allow individuals to use bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding to their self-declared gender.
The controversy first emerged in 2024, when Cox began frequenting women’s locker rooms and changing facilities at public recreation centers and school-based aquatic facilities throughout Fairfax and Arlington counties. According to police reports and court filings, Cox used women’s locker rooms at multiple locations, including facilities located inside Arlington County high schools, where he accessed public swimming pools during community-use hours.
Women and girls subsequently reported Cox to authorities, alleging that he exposed his penis while using the facilities. The complaints prompted investigations by both Fairfax County and Arlington County law enforcement.
Richard Cox at the time of his arrest, as seen on police body cam footage.
When questioned by police, Cox maintained that local policies permitted his use of women’s facilities. In body-camera footage obtained by local media, Cox told officers that his civil rights as a “transgender woman” entitled him to use public restrooms and changing rooms consistent with his gender identity.
As the case gained public attention, it emerged that Cox was a registered sex offender. According to the Virginia Sex Offender Registry, Cox is classified as a Tier III offender—the highest level under Virginia law—which generally requires lifetime registration and monitoring.
Court records indicate that Cox has been listed on the Virginia Sex Offender Registry since at least 1998. Public records and court filings show a lengthy criminal history, including prior child-pornography-related convictions that contributed to his status as a registered sex offender.
Arlington County authorities ultimately pursued criminal charges related to Cox’s presence near schools and youth programs, as well as allegations that he exposed himself in women’s locker rooms.
While Fairfax County police investigated complaints arising from Cox’s use of female facilities, Arlington prosecutors charged him under a Virginia statute restricting certain convicted sex offenders from loitering near schools and child-focused programs. Prosecutors alleged that Cox repeatedly entered facilities located near schools and youth activities, including school locker rooms and recreational centers, in violation of state law.
The Commonwealth also pursued charges stemming from allegations that Cox exposed himself to women and girls while using those facilities. In court, multiple women offered testimonies detailing inappropriate behavior by Cox while he was using the female facilities.
In one case, a disturbed mother said she and her 5-year-old daughter went to use a public women’s locker at an Arlington-area school after a swim class when she saw Cox touching himself while nude in a shower stall with the curtain open. In another, a different woman said that she and her two young daughters were at the Barcroft Sports and Fitness Center for a gymnastics class when they found Cox naked in the girls’ locker room.
A 17-year-old lifeguard who worked at one of the Arlington pools said she also witnessed Cox naked in a school locker room.
During the hearings, Cox reportedly reprimanded the prosecutor for “misgendering” him, and attempted to have the judge order the prosecution to refer to him using feminine pronouns. The judge declined.
Cox’s attorneys challenged the indictments, arguing that the “loitering” statute relied upon by prosecutors was unconstitutional.
On June 2, Arlington County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Lopez agreed, dismissing the indictments after concluding that the law was unconstitutionally vague.
In his ruling, Lopez found that the statute criminalized “loitering” within 100 feet of schools and child day programs for certain registered sex offenders, but failed to clearly define what conduct constituted loitering. The court concluded that the law did not provide adequate notice of what behavior was prohibited and could result in arbitrary or inconsistent enforcement.
The ruling is significant because it did not merely address how the statute was applied in Cox’s case. Instead, the court found that the statute itself was constitutionally defective.
The Arlington Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office has appealed the decision, and the case is now headed to the Virginia Court of Appeals. Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones is expected to represent the Commonwealth during the appeal.
Separate from the dismissed indictments, Cox continues to face additional legal troubles in both Arlington and Fairfax counties.
At the time of his arrest in 2024, Cox was found to be in possession of child sexual abuse material, and investigators found schedules on his phone pertaining to girls’ gymnastics and swimming classes at the very recreation centers he was known to frequent.
Cox was recently convicted by a jury on the charges involving possession of child pornography.
Separately, Cox is also facing a sexual-assault charge connected to allegations dating back to 1988. The complainant told local media that recent reporting about Cox’s use of women’s locker rooms prompted her to come forward and report the decades-old allegation to police.
That Fairfax County case remains active and is continuing through the court system. Cox has not been convicted of the sexual-assault allegation, and the charge remains pending.
For now, Cox remains in custody at the Arlington County jail as prosecutors pursue their appeal and the remaining criminal cases proceed through Virginia’s courts.
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has publicly accused tech billionaire Elon Musk of attempting to incite division following the murder of eighteen-year-old Henry Nowak.
BBC News reports that the murder of British teen Henry Nowak has sparked protests in Southampton and reignited debates about police conduct and alleged disparities in law enforcement. Elon Musk entered the controversy on Tuesday when he posted on X, writing: “Send the video to everyone you know showing how heinously Nowak was treated by the police in his dying moments and how the police cravenly kowtowed to his murderer. Legacy mainstream media, same ones who wrote about George Floyd millions of times, are dead silent about Nowak.”
Send the video to everyone you know showing how heinously Nowak was treated by the police in his dying moments and how the police cravenly kowtowed to his murderer.
Legacy mainstream media, same ones who wrote about George Floyd millions of times, are dead silent about Nowak.
During a visit to York on Thursday, Starmer responded forcefully to Musk’s comments, accusing him of interfering in British politics. He said: “We need to also assert who we are as a country, because Musk, again, has been interfering in our politics in the last few days, trying to whip up division – that is not who we are in Britain. In Britain, we are reasonable, tolerant people. When we have a terrible case like Henry’s case, Henry Nowak, we react calmly, as his family have done.”
The Prime Minister emphasized that Nowak’s grieving family had specifically appealed for calm in the aftermath of the tragedy. Following the sentencing, Henry Nowak’s father Mark made a public statement outside the court, saying: “We do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension. We want his story to make our streets safer for everyone.”
Sir Keir stated that the Independent Office for Police Conduct is investigating the officers’ behavior and that the National Police Chiefs Council guidance around race is being reviewed as a result of this case. When asked whether he supported Conservative calls for a full misconduct investigation against the involved officers, the Prime Minister emphasized the importance of political leadership.
He said: “I think it’s right that there may need to be changes and we shouldn’t shy away from that, not for one moment. But how we conduct ourselves now as politicians is really important. And I call on all politicians, all politicians, to just listen again to what the family are asking of us, which is to remain calm, to show the leadership that’s needed here and not allow this case to be used to whip up division.”
Breitbart News previously reported that Nigel Farage has said English people should react to the murder with “pure, cold, rage,” and that the police must end their polities of anti-white discrimination:
The British government manages race relations with hate speech laws, a “DEI” (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) culture, and “positive discrimination” in favour of ethnic minorities over non-whites, Farage said. Thus, Britons should not be surprised at the instinctive response of police officers responding to a crime scene and deciding who to believe between a Sikh man alleging racial abuse and a white man alleging a stabbing.
While he condemned the individual decisions of the officers on the scene, Farage made clear they were reacting to their training, the policing culture, and its incentive structures. He said, “Much as we condemn the two police officers involved here, think of this, the biggest fear a police officer now has going about his or her duty on the street is the fear of being reported for having acted in a way that was racially biased. That fear now greater than dealing with a dying man lying on the ground.”
The BBC has been forced to issue a groveling apology to Farage after making up and repeating false quotes:
The BBC presenter wrongfully asserted three times that Farage had said “white, cold rage” was justified in response to Nowak’s death. In reality, the Reform boss had said that “pure, cold rage” was an understandable response from the public.
Mr Chorley claimed that he had misremembered the quote. Although he apologised, the BBC journalist claimed that the false quotes “didn’t change the content” of the interview in which he repeated them, despite some feeling the invented quote added a racialised element to the public anger.
BBC Newsnight host Victoria Derbyshire also issued an on-air apology for the false quotes and said that the episode in question had been removed from the BBC’s video and audio streaming services.
