NCF Senior Fellow Emma Trimble joins Talk TV to discuss bankrupt Birmingham Council’s decision to spend millions removing English and British flags from the city’s streets. Plus are the Dover protests a sign of things to come?
Germany’s ‘far-right’ AfD set to secure overwhelming majority in key state election
Germany’s “far-right” party AfD is set for a major victory in a crucial German state elction, according to exit polls, putting it well ahead of the mainstream parties.
It remains unclear whether the result in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt will be enough for the AfD to form a government, although the party says voters have given it a mandate to govern.
With full results expected tomorrow, the AfD is projected to win between 44 per cent and 44.5 per cent of the vote, comfortably ahead of the conservative CDU, which is forecast to take around 18.5 per cent.
The AfD has described the result as a “historic outcome”, with its influential state leader, Ulrich Siegmund, also refusing to rule out governing alone or in partnership with other parties.
No “far-right” party has taken control of a German state since the Second World War.
A government led by the AfD at state level would give the party significant influence over areas including policing, education and culture.
Saxony-Anhalt has a population of around 2.1 million.
Germany’s domestic intelligence agency classifies the state’s AfD branch as “far-right extremist”, a designation rejected by Siegmund.
The projected result is significantly higher than earlier opinion polls had indicated.
However, the AfD’s ability to govern will depend on which smaller parties manage to enter the state parliament, and how the seats are ultimately distributed.
A key factor could be whether any of the smaller parties cross the 5 per cent electoral threshold.
If one or more fail to do so, the AfD could benefit from the resulting distribution of seats, and potentially move closer to securing a majority.
The party’s victory in the election for the state government represents a historic shift in German politics after years of cooperation between the other parties to keep the hard right out of power.
The AfD seeks to restrict immigration, quit the Euro and restore ties with Russia as most of Europe rallies around Ukraine.
Siegmund said that he was open to work with partners following the exit poll results.
He said: “We extend a hand to all democratic forces that wish to pursue better policies”.
However, the state leader added that topics including migration and domestic security were “non-negotiable”.
This win is the biggest achievement in the party’s 13-year history, at a time of widespread discontent with an unpopular national government that has yet to persuade voters it can get the country’s sluggish economy moving.
Victory for the AfD is also a symbolic blow to the CDU – a centre-right party which has led Saxony-Anhalt for 24 years.
Vienna teacher warns of a slide towards apartheid: “They see us as infidels”
The parents of her Muslim pupils regard their new homeland as a “hostile Christian country”, view Christians as “infidels” and therefore wish to remain in “their” neighbourhoods – the well-known Viennese teacher Susanne Wiesinger speaks openly about the current undesirable developments resulting from uncontrolled immigration.
Susanne Wiesinger, a Viennese teacher and author, has recently described in the newspaper Kleine Zeitung a school day in which learning to read, write and do arithmetic is often overshadowed by serious conflicts. Her assessment: Anyone who continues to gloss over the integration problems at high-risk schools is heading towards segregated neighbourhoods – towards a ‘self-imposed apartheid’ that nobody wants.
Susanne Wiesinger sparked a wide-ranging and emotionally charged debate as early as 2018 with her book *Kulturkampf im Klassenzimmer* (Culture War in the Classroom); she later served as ombudswoman for values issues at the Ministry of Education. She now teaches at a primary school near Reumannplatz in Vienna’s Favoriten district: according to her, of 250 children, only eight do not have a migrant background. In her new book *Gebt unseren Kindern eine Chance!* (*Give Our Children a Chance!*), she writes that in 2018 she believed things could hardly get any worse. Today, her verdict is: “I was wrong.”
To illustrate the current situation in Vienna’s schools, the teacher gives an example: when first-graders were given counting cubes, many did not know what to do with them. They swiped their fingers across the box – as if it were a smartphone – and waited. In the past, Wiesinger says, children would have emptied the cubes straight away and started playing. The contrast is shocking. At the same time, she explains, up to 70 per cent of lesson time is lost to defusing conflicts. Even a bump against a pencil case or a glance can provoke an argument. Added to this are clashes between ethnic groups, which are carried over into the school from families and communities.
A lack of German language skills exacerbates the problem, says Wiesinger: Some children can technically decipher words but do not understand their meaning; she therefore works with pictures and gestures. The Viennese teacher would therefore be in favour of a compulsory, enforceable assessment of language skills as early as the age of three – and, at the same time, significantly more funding for nurseries. Nursery teachers are poorly paid, have class sizes that are too large and receive too little recognition.
The latest figures underscore the urgency of reform: in Vienna’s primary schools, 39 per cent of pupils are Muslim, whilst in secondary schools the figure stands at 49 per cent. In the Favoriten district, 74 per cent of pupils are from foreign backgrounds. Vienna recently sent 1,700 children starting school to German language support courses.
Discussions between teachers and pupils’ parents are particularly sensitive: alongside language barriers, Wiesinger describes a fundamental conflict over identity. Many strictly religious families define themselves through their faith, their customs and their clans. They do not want their children to stray from this way of life. To them, Austria appears to be a ‘culture of infidels’, a ‘hostile Christian country’. That is why, according to Wiesinger, they remain in ‘their’ neighbourhoods – whilst other immigrant groups integrate much more successfully. The problem, Wiesinger says, lies primarily with strictly Muslim communities. The teacher also mentions the issue of patriarchal patterns: in cases of brawls and serious verbal abuse, it is predominantly boys who are involved.
Despite the fact that the track record is not exactly positive, Susanne Wiesinger does not consider the future to be lost: giving up would mean allowing neighbourhoods to develop “around which fences would one day have to be erected”. What is needed, she says, is a long-term plan for Austria as a country of immigration – ideally one that transcends party lines.
Thousands of Antifa Radicals Rally Ahead of Expected AfD Victory in German State Election
Thousands of far-left Antifa activists took to the streets of the German city of Halle on Saturday ahead of an expected historic victory for the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany party in a state election.
Panic appears to be setting in as voters head to the polls on Sunday in Saxony-Anhalt amid the prospect of the AfD taking control of a state government for the first time in the populist-nationalist party’s 13-year history.
According to Tagesschau, some 26 protests were registered to be held across the state over the weekend. This included some 2,500 who joined an Antifa rally in the city of Halle on Saturday evening, local police said.
Participants of the “Stay anti-fascist!” demonstration were seen wearing black bloc clothing with masks, while carrying the Antifa and LGBT flags. Others were seen carrying placards reading “FCK NZS” and “FCK AFD”.
A further 15,000 people were estimated to have joined a so-called pro-democracy festival in the state capital of Magdeburg on Saturday, organised by the “Saxony-Anhalt Open to the World” alliance.
However, it is unclear exactly how organic such demonstrations were, with MDR reporting that, rather than being a purely local outpouring, demonstrators came from cities across Germany, including Leipzig, Dresden, Jena, and Berlin.
The leftist protests come as the Alternative for Germany (AfD) is set for one of its most significant victories since its formation in 2013. Polling ahead of Sunday’s vote in Saxony-Anhalt projected the party to win between 41 and 43 per cent of the vote.
This would put the party on the precipice of forming a government outright for the first time in its history.
Much will depend on the performance of smaller parties with no prospect of winning the election; however, the proportion of seats allocated will be heavily influenced by the number of parties that secure the five per cent threshold for representation in the state parliament.
Indeed, should the left-wing Social Democrats (SDP) and the far-left Greens clear the threshold, it would likely enable the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by Chancellor Friedrich Merz to form a minority government, despite being projected to win only around 20 per cent of the vote on Sunday.
So intent are the supposedly conservative CDU on not working with the AfD that they would likely need to form a government with either the informal support or at least the abstention of Die Linke (The Left), the direct descendant of the governing communist government of East Germany during Soviet control.
The English city where the West goes to die
Birmingham City Council decided to ban the English flag and the flag of St George. For “public safety”
by Giulio Meotti
As the 25th anniversary of September 11 approaches, Canadian public television has asked newsrooms not to speak of “terrorist attacks.”
In the camp of the Good, the day has now arrived when they criminalize patriotism, an obstacle to building the multicultural dream with eyes wide open.
Welcome to Birmingham, Britain’s second-largest city, for a few months now administered by a Muslim mayor, Zaker Choudhry.
For “public safety,” Birmingham City Council decided to ban the English flag and the flag of St George.
Yes, you read that right. When they want to take a liberty from you they will always invoke your “safety.”
And if your memory is short: the city of Birmingham, again for “public safety,” decided to ban Israeli fans.
And before that it had been Bristol’s turn.
The Green-led city council issued its own fatwa against the English flag to ensure that Bristol remained “welcoming, respectful and safe for everyone during the tournament.”
No flag – but celebrating Ramadan inside one of England’s landmark cathedrals is fine.
If things go badly – and the way they are going – Birmingham is the city where we will all live at the end of the long multicultural night.
A city where fewer than half of residents are now white, one in three is Muslim, the vast majority of social housing has gone to people not born in the United Kingdom, one in seven openly rejects a British or English identity and more than one in five lives in households where the adults do not speak English.
Birmingham spent several million on a project to rename streets to reflect the woke creed, such as “Diversity Grove” or “Equality Road.”
In the city the muezzin calls to prayer. But the flag of St George is a public danger. That is what happens when you lose control of your country.
Muslim children in Birmingham have overtaken Christians.
Churches are becoming mosques.
Imams explain how women are stoned.
And at the university, Jews are no longer welcome: “Death to Zionists.”
“In the working-class neighborhood of Small Heath, 95 percent of the population is Muslim,” Le Figaro reports. “Shops have different closing times corresponding to the daily prayers… Bookshops are religious. Travel agencies guarantee ‘Muslim friendly’ holidays with destinations where clients – especially female clients – are offered access to facilities with single-sex spaces and pools where women can ‘preserve their modesty.’”
Another area is Sparkhill, the Telegraph reports:
“In the last remaining pub in Sparkhill, if the Guinness signs weren’t enough, the gold lettering painted above the door should be: ‘Licensed to sell intoxicating liquor of all kinds.’ Clear, then. ‘There were 23 pubs in Sparkhill and this is the last one left,’ says owner Mark McDwyer. The Salah Al-Shahrazuri mosque is one of five in Sparkhill.”
Today there are more than 200 mosques in Birmingham.
In Birmingham in 2005 there were the first immigration riots in all of Europe.
Today, to temper the effects of the same catastrophe, they ban the flag.
Welcome to the future!
Asylum seeker who raped teenage girl, 14, ordered to leave Britain after falsely claiming to be bisexual
A convicted rapist who claimed he should be allowed to remain in Britain because he is bisexual has lost his latest legal challenge against deportation.
Karam Majdi, 27, was sentenced to seven years in custody after raping a 14-year-old girl he had met online.
An immigration tribunal has now rejected his appeal, concluding that his removal from the UK “was and remains in the public interest”.
Majdi had argued that returning him to Egypt would expose him to persecution because of his alleged bisexuality.
However, Judge R Abdar found that he had failed to establish the claim and concluded that he remained a danger to the community.
“I am satisfied that the appellant has failed to rebut the presumption of the appellant posing a danger to the community,” the judge said, adding: “I am not satisfied that the appellant is bisexual.”
The tribunal also rejected Majdi’s claim that he was Syrian, while questioning the evidence he provided about relationships with men.
The case dates back to 2017, when Majdi was living in a hostel in Hove before travelling to East Croydon, where he attacked the schoolgirl.
During his criminal trial, the court heard that he pinned the teenager down despite her protests.
The victim was left with severe bruising to her thighs, with Majdi held in a youth offender institution and released in 2021 after serving part of his sentence.
He has continued to contest his removal from Britain, claiming that he arrived in the country as an unaccompanied child after allegedly fleeing fighting in Aleppo.
He claimed his identity documents were lost during his journey to the UK by small boat in 2016 and at his latest immigration hearing, the Home Office challenged his account of both his nationality and sexuality.
George Mavrantonis, representing the Home Office, told the tribunal that Majdi’s bisexuality claim had emerged in 2021 and amounted to an attempt to strengthen his asylum case.
The tribunal heard that an earlier professional assessment had led the Government to accept that Majdi was bisexual.
The Home Office later acknowledged that this had been an error and successfully asked for the concession to be withdrawn.
Majdi claimed to have had relationships with two men, but was unable to provide supporting evidence – attributing the absence of photographs or messages to losing his phone SIM card.
The tribunal also heard that he had committed further offences since his release from prison.
In April, he was convicted and fined for cocaine possession, driving without a licence and driving without insurance.
He is also due to appear in court next June over an allegation that he possessed a personal quantity of cannabis.
Majdi represented himself during parts of the hearing after declining to use an interpreter requested by his solicitor.
The tribunal also rejected an application to keep his identity anonymous, following an argument by the Home Office that naming him was justified by the principle of open justice.
A Home Office spokesman said the department would continue efforts to remove Majdi from the UK.
They said: “We will do everything in our power to deport this dangerous criminal and will continue to resist all appeals against his deportation.”
The department said 11,733 foreign criminals, including murderers and rapists, had been removed since the last general election, describing the figure as a 41 per cent increase on the final two years of the previous government.
Bucolic Dutch Village Becomes Frontline in the Drug War as Gangs Clash Over $210 Million Coke Theft – Security Guard Killed, Two Policemen Shot – 34 Suspects Arrested (VIDEOS)
In Overasselt, near the German border, the European reality arrived with a bang.
A gang war over a $210 Million Coke Theft turns a bucolic village into a war zone.
The Dutch police have arrested 34 alleged gang members after a massive attack.
BREAKING:
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 2, 2026
The Dutch police have arrested 34 Dutch, Belgian, French and Algerian citizens after yesterday’s massive gang attack in Overasselt in the Netherlands.
Dozens of men armed with Kalashnikovs and pistols shot a security guard and 2 policemen.
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The Telegraph reported:
“The bucolic setting of Overasselt, eastern Netherlands, was plunged into chaos on Tuesday morning after 32 hooded men, armed with pistols and machine guns, arrived in a convoy of unmarked vans.
Along a road next to a gated estate, the group piled out of their vehicles. Before Berry Leenders, a 51-year-old security guard, had time to react, he had been shot dead. He was guarding the home of Jan G Jr, a 28-year-old convicted drug dealer allegedly responsible for stealing an estimated £160m [$210 Million] worth of cocaine from a rival.”
“We will kill you all”: a chilling video has emerged of a Dutch drug boss being demanded to return cocaine
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 2, 2026
In the recording, a masked man speaking English with a Spanish accent accuses 28-year-old Jan G. Jr. of stealing a large shipment of cocaine from a “Belgian friend.”
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“Elite officers from the Dienst Speciale Interventies, a tactical police unit reserved for terrorist attacks or handling large-scale public disruption, arrived shortly afterwards.
Officers fired several warning shots, scattering any remaining suspects, before cordoning off the estate and combing the site for evidence.
By Friday morning, the Netherlands National Police Corps had arrested a total of 34 men, and all but three had been charged with the murder or manslaughter, or both, of Mr Leenders.”
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— E®️ik. (@ErikTiel) September 1, 2026
RTL reported (translated from the Dutch):
“There are 34 suspects, 32 of whom are still in custody. This concerns sixteen French, eleven Dutch, two Algerians, one Libyan, one Ukrainian and one Belgian.
The arraignment was already ‘a huge challenge’, said deputy chief public prosecutor Monique Vinkesteijn. The arraignments were done by five examining judges. ‘I have not experienced it myself before, so in that respect it is also a special achievement’. The suspects are detained in different locations. That is why part of the arraignments were done via a video link.
Just holding so many suspects requires the necessary organization. That says director Patrick Fluyt of police union ACP. He has been working for the police for 35 years, including as an assistant public prosecutor. In addition, he has also participated in interrogations himself and therefore has a good idea of how such an investigation works.
‘We have different cell blocks in different locations and different houses of detention’, he explains. Moreover, the suspects in this case are only allowed to have contact with their lawyer, as restrictions have been imposed on them.”
Black-Clad Protesters in Balaclavas March in Dover Against Channel Migrant Crisis
Hundreds of men dressed in black and balaclavas descended upon the Port of Dover on Saturday, blocking traffic in an apparent protest against the migrant crisis in the English Channel.
The Port of Dover, which stands as Britain’s main short-sea ferry and freight port on the Channel, also serves as the central hub for illegal boat migrants being brought ashore in England by the Border Force or the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).
Rather than pushing the boats back to the beaches of France, the Border Force typically collects the illegal migrants halfway through the Channel — where they are often escorted to by the French Navy — and ferries them the rest of the way to Dover.
Since the crisis began in earnest around 2019, over 200,000 illegals have successfully reached British territory via the route.
Although crossings have declined this year, over 16,000 more illegals have been brought ashore at Dover since the start of the year.
While the government has claimed that it was a result of its policies, the Migration Observatory notes that it is often “difficult to know what caused changes in small boat arrivals during a specific period” and that weather may have played just as important a role in reducing the flow of migrants across the Channel.
According to the BBC, masked protesters clad in black clothing took to the streets surrounding the port on Saturday, reportedly “blocking all traffic entering the port”.
The public broadcaster said that the protesters refused to speak to the press. However, they were heard chanting “send them back” and “stop the boats”.
Masked men have been pictured on the streets of Dover on Saturday morning.
— Sky News (@SkyNews) September 5, 2026
Kent Police said they have not received any reports of violent incidents and are talking to demonstrators.
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Kent Police merely said that they were aware of a protest taking place and that they were ” engaging with protesters”.
The demonstrators drew some support, with veteran street organiser Tommy Robinson describing the balaclava-wearing men as “British patriots” while urging his followers on social media to “get there to support them”.
Others were critical, with Reform UK councillor for Dover West, Paul King, saying that many local women were “frightened by such a large group of men walking up the street” with masks on and that this was not the way to solve the issue.
However, West did say that he understands “why people feel motivated to protest, as this Useless Labour Government has no clue how to stop the boats.”
On Friday, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage signed an agreement with French National Rally leader, committing to sending the migrant boats back to France if both parties come to power, an agreement which has long eluded successive British governments when dealing with the now-outgoing government of President Emmanuel Macron.
Feminine devolution
by Eric Utter
What has happened to women in the course of my lifetime is almost unfathomable — and unspeakable.
Females had an almost mystical hold on me as I went through puberty and into my young adulthood. Feminine, soft, curvy, sweet, nurturing, as I saw the fair sex. I probably pedestalized them. Much of this was likely due to examples I had in my own family.
Several decades later, I have lost my faith in females — and humanity in general.
So let’s be honest: at best feminism has coarsened and cheapened the relation between the sexes. At worst, it has nearly destroyed a great many women and has severely weakened the foundations of our society. Today we see “karens” everywhere, AWFULs are ubiquitous, and there seems no end to bitter, angry, entitled, unfulfilled women. Many of those (coincidentally?) look nothing like women.
Women have been sold a bill of goods. It is no wonder rates of depression, hopelessness, and suicide have crept up over the years. We see crazed “liberal” women in the street, launching dildos and attacking law enforcement officers who are trying to take criminals and rapists off the streets.
And now we see thousands upon thousands of women, clad in pink, vociferously and vocally supporting a three-time child murderer. If a woman who strangles all three of her own children is exonerated, that will be a disaster for the society — and nation — in which that decision was made. If the premeditated murder of one, let alone all, of one’s children does not even warrant serious criminal penalties, what will? Of course, the logical answer would be nothing. Even other hardened criminals in prison famously do not tolerate child molesters … let alone child killers.
But there will be a crime so heinous that it will be treated harshly in the future. That crime will be daring to speak out — and stand up — against the crazed leftists that want to unleash chaos and evil across the land. There are currently precious few of those. (One with just such courage is the lone male who steadfastly stood against the other 11 jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial.)
On the other hand, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently dressed herself in a hijab while speaking to Muslim men two weeks before the 25th “anniversary” observation of 9/11, illustrating many women’s bizarre and disturbing desire to submit to hypocrisy — and evil — rather than truth and decency.
It pains me to say this, but it may be time to truly ask ourselves if we really want to see a woman president, or perhaps an administration filled with women. It wouldn’t surprise me to see a “progressive” woman president dressed in a pink hijab and wearing a facial mask speaking from the Oval Office.
Would we also see abortion legalized until the age of nine? The legal age to vote lowered to the age of nine? Along with the legal age to wed?
Leftists, be they male or female, are desperately trying to break apart the melting pot and turn us once again into a tribal nation. They want to pit women against men, black against white, rich against poor, gay versus straight, the mentally ill against the sane, etcetera, etcetera. All of this is reprehensible and highly detrimental, but when men and women no longer see themselves as divinely complementary but at loggerheads, that society is dead whether it yet knows it or not.
Everyone’s heard of “toxic masculinity.” Yet it is the lack of masculinity, properly understood, that is adversely affecting us now. And the lack of traditional femininity.
EXPLOSIVE REPORT: Children Under 5 Married Off in UK. Plus: Labour’s Attempt to ‘Rig’ Elections
On today’s show, host Rafe Heydel-Mankoo is joined by Peter Barnes, political strategist and commentator, Michael Murphy, Head of Journalism at Outpost Studios, and the Free Speech Union’s Celeste Warren, making her first appearance on the show. This week the panel discuss:
* Britain’s Child Marriage Scandal – shocking new report reveals the scale of child marriage in the UK, and the degree to which much of it now occurs entirely within the UK.
* Labour’s “Representation of the People Bill” will fundamentally change who can vote at the next election. Is this an attempt to ‘rig’ the election against the right?
* The UN has ordered Britain to erect statutes of Africans and create public spaces acknowledging the sin of slavery. Is the UN still fit for purpose?