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An American polling organization has admitted fabricating the vast majority of its election surveys, exposing how invented figures entered major polling averages and national media coverage just two weeks before the November midterms. Wedgewood Polling made the unexpected admission on Tuesday, 20 October, after investigators confronted it with evidence that its supposed voter interviews were fake.

In a public statement, Wedgewood described the operation as a ‘social experiment’ intended to expose weak oversight in the political polling industry. Its organizers said they wanted to discover how easily a fictitious polling firm could gain credibility. ‘Far too easy,’ they concluded, claiming their data had been picked up by The New York Times, FiftyPlusOne, VoteHub and other major aggregators despite lacking genuine underlying surveys.

According to Wedgewood, the team, which consists of senior professionals from the polling industry, conducted only one genuine survey, in Nebraska, as a baseline for the alleged experiment.

The polling industry needs major reform. Our statement below: pic.twitter.com/Sj8JLYgply

— Wedgewood Polls (@WedgewoodPolls) October 20, 2026

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The confession followed an investigation by FiftyPlusOne, a polling and forecasting organization that had been suspicious of Wedgewood’s data for months. After receiving evidence of possible fabrication, researchers obtained Wedgewood’s raw data from a Mississippi Senate survey and compared its respondent identifiers with genuine records from Pollfish, the platform Wedgewood claimed to use. The identifiers and transaction timestamps displayed patterns incompatible with authentic interviews. When confronted, Wedgewood issued its confession rather than explaining the anomalies.

The fake polls had infiltrated some of the United States’ most prominent polling databases and election forecasting platforms, including The New York Times, Nate Silver’s Silver Bulletin, FiftyPlusOne, VoteHub, Decision Desk HQ and 270toWin. While some merely listed Wedgewood’s surveys, others incorporated the fabricated figures into their weighted polling averages and election forecasts.

Following the scandal, Decision Desk HQ removed 17 surveys and recalculated its forecasts, although it said the correction did not change its projected congressional seat totals or probabilities of party control. FiftyPlusOne similarly deleted Wedgewood’s surveys and permanently barred future submissions from its identified operators, while disputing the firm’s accusation that aggregators had conducted no vetting. Investigators also revealed that Wedgewood had collected donations to finance its supposedly legitimate surveys.

The real-world implications of the fake numbers now look particularly awkward in hindsight. In Mississippi, Wedgewood reported Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith leading Democratic challenger Scott Colom by just 52 to 48 per cent in a state Donald Trump carried comfortably in 2024. Colom’s campaign immediately seized on the survey and promoted it as evidence of a virtually tied race, while Newsweek wrote a full report around it, arguing that a historic Democratic upset in the state could be possible in November.

In Michigan, former Democratic Senate contender Mallory McMorrow said a Wedgewood survey showing her plunging into single-digit support helped devastate fundraising and volunteer morale. Journalists pressed her about abandoning her campaign, she recalled, after the Wedgewood poll contradicted her internal numbers. McMorrow subsequently withdrew from the primary.

The organization also published a fictitious October Michigan Senate poll showing Democrat Abdul El-Sayed ahead of Trump-backed Republican Mike Rogers by 53 to 47 per cent. Other invented surveys showed Democrats competitive in Republican-held states, including Kansas, Ohio and Texas.

‘Other invented surveys showed Democrats competitive in Republican-held states, including Kansas, Ohio and Texas’

The two political camps drew different conclusions from the still-evolving scandal. For Republicans, it reinforces long-standing complaints that the polling and media establishment can amplify misleadingly favourable Democratic narratives, thereby dragging down conservative campaigns. Democrats have a separate grievance: McMorrow’s experience shows that fabricated numbers can damage candidates within their own party. In that particular case, it helped a radical democratic socialist candidate defeat the moderate one.

With or without Wedgewood, the American polling industry’s record offers substantial grounds for scepticism. In three consecutive presidential elections, major pollsters systematically overstated Democratic support, inflating Hillary Clinton’s advantage over Donald Trump in 2016, exaggerating Joe Biden’s lead in 2020 and once again overestimating Kamala Harris’s performance in 2024. According to the American Association for Public Opinion Research, polls overstated Democratic margins by an average of 3.1 percentage points in 2016, 4.6 points in 2020 and 2.7 points in 2024 across electoral contests.

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A 33-year-old man has been charged with assaulting three Orthodox Jewish women in London’s Stamford Hill neighborhood, including a mother who was pushing her baby daughter in a stroller when she was allegedly attacked.

Abdisamad Siad, who has no permanent address, appeared before Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court, where he denied three charges of assault by beating. He was ordered to remain in custody.

🚨 Hate Crime; Jewish ladies viciously assaulted 🎥 CCTV shows 2nd attack 📞 Shomrim received a call from a visibly Jewish lady, reported being punched in the face by a middle-aged male on Clapton Common, E5. 👊 Shomrim volunteers arrived on scene 30 seconds later to witness a 2nd vicious assault on another Jewish lady. She was punched twice in the face, leaving significant bruising. 🚔 @MPSHackney arrested the male for racially & religiously aggravated GBH, as well as for outstanding warrants. ✡️ The victims told Shomrim that they believe they were assaulted because they were Jewish, as the offender only targeted Jewish ladies. 📢 Appeal: Further assaults have been reported to Shomrim, with additional victims yet to come forward. Shomrim are appealing for any witnesses or indeed any further victims to come forward. ☎️ Contact @Shomrim or @MetCC quoting CAD 3400 19/10/26. #ViolenceAgainstWomenAndGirls #VAWG #HateCrime #Antisemitism #GBH

— Shomrim (London North & East) (@Shomrim) October 19, 2026

According to the account presented in court, the first victim was struck across the face at approximately 1:30 p.m. on Monday on Clapton Common in Hackney. Six minutes later, another Jewish woman, accompanied by her infant daughter in a stroller, was allegedly punched twice in the face.

A third woman was reportedly hit between three and four times before the attacker fled the scene. All three complainants belong to the local Orthodox Jewish community.

As previously reported, the Jewish neighborhood security organization Shomrim responded to the initial attack and witnessed another assault shortly afterward. The organization subsequently released security camera footage appearing to show a man approaching a woman and striking her twice.

Shomrim previously stated that the victims believed they had been deliberately targeted because of their Jewish identity.

In addition to the three assault charges, Siad faces a separate charge of grievous bodily harm with intent in connection with an unrelated incident involving another woman.

The court scheduled a provisional trial for December 11 at Stratford Magistrates’ Court.

Following Monday’s attacks, the Metropolitan Police deployed additional patrols in the area and began coordinating with Jewish community representatives to address residents’ security concerns.

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Shortly before completing her training at the Graz Police Academy, a 27-year-old police cadet was dismissed from the force and came under the scrutiny of the Provincial Office for State Security and Countering Extremism (LSE). As reported by the newspaper Kronen Zeitung, the authority carried out a raid on behalf of the Graz Public Prosecutor’s Office. The woman is suspected of being a member of a terrorist organisation.

According to the investigation, the officer in question is alleged to have repeatedly drawn attention to herself during the training course through remarks that run counter to the core values of the police force. Among other things, she is accused of having attempted, during lessons, to recruit people for the terrorist organisation IS. Furthermore, she is alleged to have stated that she would not enforce certain legal requirements whilst on duty and that she did not wish to work with male colleagues outdoors in the future. According to the report, the accused herself described the incidents as “light-hearted banter”.

The incident quickly triggered political reactions. FPÖ security spokesman Gernot Darmann sharply criticised the conditions under which these individuals were recruited:

Anyone who squanders citizenship and turns a blind eye to police recruitment out of misguided tolerance is fostering a security risk in uniform.

Federal Police Director Michael Takàcs emphasised to the newspaper Krone that the police pursue a clear zero-tolerance policy towards anti-democratic attitudes. Behaviour that contradicts fundamental principles such as equality and the separation of faith and profession will not be tolerated. The data storage devices analysed following the house search are now in the hands of the judicial authorities.

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Argentine President Javier Milei has accused the Spanish Government of deliberately encouraging the invasion of Ceuta, telling an audience in Madrid that socialists count every migrant as a vote. He opened his remarks by describing Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez as an unpresentable dictator.

Milei was speaking on October 21 at a breakfast forum organised by Nueva Economía Fórum. The trip is his seventh to Spain since taking office and he had no meetings scheduled with Sánchez or with any member of the Government.

He said socialists would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven and were willing to turn any heaven into hell in order to do so. What happened in Ceuta at the end of July was neither an accident nor a coincidence, he argued, and the ruin of the country was a price they were ready to pay.

The Argentine President also claimed the economic case for unrestricted immigration had collapsed. Economies that took in the most migrants remained as stagnant as before, he said, because migrants generated more in public spending than they produced and forced higher taxes on productive workers.

Questioned afterwards by journalists, he called Sánchez a delinquent and a thief as well as a liberticide. Spain was the cradle of liberalism, he told the audience, and owed itself a debt of honour to kick the socialists out of power.

More than 70,000 people crossed from Morocco into the Spanish city of Ceuta on July 30 and 31, an invasion that the United States State Department later blamed on Sánchez and that left 141 dead by the Government’s own count. The crossings triggered an emergency meeting of European Union interior ministers and a Spanish request for support from Frontex, the bloc’s border agency.

Sánchez told parliament on September 3 that there was no solid evidence Morocco had organised the arrivals, a line he held to as Moroccan ministers renewed their claim to Ceuta and Melilla. His Government approved an emergency package of €309 million for the city.

Milei’s intervention lands in the middle of a Spanish election campaign. Sánchez announced on October 5 that he would dissolve parliament and call an early general election for November 29, after two housing decrees were defeated in Congress.

Later the same day the Argentine President was due to open the tenth Madrid Conference on Austrian Economics at the Rey Juan Carlos University, alongside the economist Jesús Huerta de Soto. The governing Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) marked his visit with a banner at its Madrid headquarters.

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German Federal Police recorded 98,026 crimes at train stations and on trains in the first half of 2026, with foreign nationals substantially overrepresented among identified suspects in violent, property and sexual offenses relative to their share of the population. In the crime of sexual offenses, foreigners represented 53 percent of suspects.

The figures, provided by the Interior Ministry in response to a parliamentary inquiry from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) group, exclude high-volume offenses such as fare evasion. They include roughly 14,000 violent crimes, 1,104 sexual offenses, about 24,000 property crimes, approximately 16,000 cases of property damage, nearly 4,500 drug offenses, and 796 weapons offenses, according to German newspaper Berliner Zeitung.

For sexual offenses, 53 percent of known suspects were non-German, with Syrians, Poles and Afghans again ranking highest.

Among suspects of known nationality in violent crimes, 5,596 were German citizens and 4,631 were non-German, meaning foreign nationals accounted for about 45 percent of identified suspects. The most frequent non-German nationalities were Syrian (581), Polish (575), Ukrainian (439) and Afghan (351).

In property crimes, non-Germans made up 56.4 percent of known suspects, ,948 versus 5,283 Germans, led by Poles, Ukrainians and Romanians.

Foreign nationals make up roughly 15 percent of Germany’s population of about 83 million, according to federal statistics. The share of non-German suspects in these categories is therefore several times higher than their population proportion.

Similar overrepresentation has appeared in prior years’ data for stations and trains, including elevated rates in knife-related and sexual offenses.

In 44 cases of people being pushed onto the tracks, 16 of the 25 suspects with known nationality were foreign nationals. Knife attacks totaled 141 at stations and 54 on trains. Attacks on Federal Police officers and railway staff also featured notable shares of non-German suspects among those identified.

The stations with the highest overall crime counts included Cologne Central Station (2,664), Hamburg (2,662) and Frankfurt (2,226). For violent crimes, Leipzig recorded the most (397), followed by Hanover and Frankfurt.

AfD lawmaker Martin Hess called the numbers a “security policy declaration of bankruptcy” by the government, highlighting the prominence of Syrian suspects in violence and sexual offenses and arguing that stations and trains were being turned into areas of fear.

It is important to note that for all German suspects, there is no information available out their migration background. In many cases, it has been discovered through the analysis of first names of these suspects that at least half of them have foreign names, such as in the category of gang rape.

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Dr. Stoner will see you now. Sorry, Dr. Stoner is actually not available. Would you like to see Dr. Beheader instead? Also, we have Dr. Hasan Chop Off Arm on staff here at the NHS where socialized medicine offers you the highest standards of Pakistani medicine.

The designer of a controversial ‘Palestine poppy’ is an Oxford-educated NHS paediatrician who has written books for teenagers on Islam that justify stoning.

Abdul Qader Ismail, 41, from Birmingham, describes himself as a ‘middle-aged, cake-baking, horror movie-watching, British-Pakistani, Muslim’ father-of-two.

Who likes moonlight walks on the beach and stoning infidels.

Dr Ismail’s series of books, entitled An Introduction to Challenging Topics for Muslim Teens, covers concepts such as stoning and homosexuality for a readership of older children. It is available for sale via Amazon and Waterstones, published by Islamic publishing house Invitation Publishing.

I remember when Amazon banned the Confederate flag, but apparently stoning people is okay.

In the first volume, Dr Ismail suggests punishments such as stoning are justified because they prevent Muslims from engaging in forbidden acts and ultimately ‘mov[ing] away from Islam’.

This way they can run really fast from Islam… assuming they can outrun stones.

The Spectator reports that Dr Ismail is a member of the Green Party and that he sponsored the controversial ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion at the party conference. It has since emerged that the motion’s proposer, Lubna Speitan, was described in US court documents as the ‘friend’ of a convicted al-Qaeda terrorist and once said she would be ‘happily labelled an “anti-Semitic Hamas terrorist”‘.

I don’t know. If your medical system depends on importing doctors who justify stoning people to death, maybe something has gone wrong along the way.

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The U.K.’s National Health Service has taken another step toward purging transgender ideology from hospitals.

According to new guidance published on October 15, trans-identifying patients will now be placed in hospital wards that accord to their sex rather than their self-professed “gender identity.”

This is a direct reversal of NHS England’s 2019 guidance, which formally instructed hospitals to place trans-identifying patients in wards that accorded to their “gender identity” rather than their sex. This reversal was not voluntary; the new guidance makes it crystal clear that the NHS was forced to make the changes based on the court rulings:

The Equality Act 2010 protects everyone in Britain from discrimination based on 9 protected characteristics. To support providers of single-sex services, including NHS organisations, to interpret the Equality Act, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has issued a revised Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations. In line with the Supreme Court’s judgment in For Women Scotland Ltd v. The Scottish Ministers, which clarified the meaning of sex in the Equality Act 2010, the code of practice says that single-sex services, such as hospital accommodation, should be provided on the basis of “biological sex.”

Therefore, to maintain hospital accommodation as single sex under the Equality Act 2010, trans people and others with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment should be accommodated in line with their biological sex, while also ensuring that: (i) clinical needs are met, and (ii) privacy, dignity and safety are maintained for all, including other patients sharing that accommodation.

READ: Spanish bishop to LGBT activists: ‘You have much to offer the Church’

Previously, trans-identifying patients could utilize single-sex accommodations that did not accord to their sex, but that, too, has been reversed. NHS staff have now been told that they may only consider alternatives “such as single‑occupancy or mixed-sex facilities with individual lockable rooms” which “can be provided to allow access to facilities in a way that respects privacy and dignity and supports inclusion of all staff.”

After the 2019 guidance implementing gender ideology took effect, nurses faced discipline and even suspension for “misgendering” patients (including, in one particularly egregious instance, a trans-identifying pedophile); for objecting to trans-identifying men in their changerooms; and for saying they felt “unsafe” with trans-identifying males watching them undress. Some nurses who complained were told that they needed “re-education,” and pro-LGBT groups demanded that they become more accepting. Now, those nurses have won.

LGBT groups – which showed zero compassion or understanding for the women expected to share private spaces with visibly male trans-identifying patients or staff – are outraged. According to TransActual and the Trans+ Solidarity Alliance: “Forcing trans patients into the wrong wards is unnecessary and unsafe – this is a policy that places politics above patient care.” The National Survivor User Network: “Trans patients deserve better – to be supported in spaces that align with their gender, to develop trusting relationships with healthcare staff, and to be free from medical discrimination.”

The women who have fought long and hard for this return to sanity, however, were thrilled with the new guidance – although cautious due to the NHS’s previous track record. Bethany Hutchison, a nurse who successfully sued her hospital after a male was permitted to use the female changerooms, called it “clear and necessary guidance” but noted that “the test is now whether NHS trusts will actually follow it.”

Maya Forstater of Sex Matters concurred, calling the guidance “a momentous shift back to reality” while noting that “NHS patient data is a mess, with potentially thousands of trans-identifying people recorded as the opposite sex.”

“This is welcome and long-overdue guidance,” said Andrea Williams of the Christian Legal Centre, which has defended medical personnel persecuted for speaking out. “It has taken a long-fought battle, led by courageous women such as the Darlington nurses, to put biological reality back at the heart of NHS policy. But an important gap remains. The guidance does not give NHS staff the clarity and protection they need over pronoun use.”

“Jennifer Melle was investigated, disciplined and referred to the Nursing and Midwifery Council after declining to use female pronouns for a biologically male patient,” Williams noted. “She was eventually cleared, but no nurse should have to endure that ordeal for using biologically accurate language. NHS England must now make clear that healthcare professionals cannot be compelled to use preferred pronouns or penalised for declining to express beliefs about gender identity that they do not hold.”

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In Belgium, protests mirroring the ongoing riots in France began in Liège on October 1 and spread to Mons, Charleroi, and Brussels. By October 9, Liège police had recorded 194 arrests, including 114 minors, and 43 injured officers. The city imposed a ban on gatherings of more than three people.

RTL footage and RTBF reporting documented the presence of RedFox, the secondary school youth movement of the Workers’ Party of Belgium (Parti du Travail de Belgique, or PTB), at the protests. RTBF’s investigation also found far-left activists distributing leaflets. Masked youths who admitted they were not from Liège described a pattern of stirring up the crowd and then inciting destruction.

RedFox’s leader denied that either the PTB or RedFox was responsible for the violence. The Confederation of Christian Trade Unions (Confédération des Syndicats Chrétiens, or CSC) and CGSP Enseignement, the education branch of the General Confederation of Public Services, declared their support for the students.

Georges-Louis Bouchez, chairman of the Reformist Movement (Mouvement Réformateur, or MR), accused the PTB of manipulating students. The far-left collective Bruxelles Dévie (Brussels Deviates) condemned the gathering ban imposed by Liège’s Socialist mayor, Willy Demeyer, as authoritarian.

On October 9, the socialist General Labour Federation of Belgium (Fédération Générale du Travail de Belgique, or FGTB) and the CSC held a national demonstration in Brussels against the federal government’s budget plans. The FGTB claimed 50,000 participants, while police counted 30,000. According to the FGTB, the march included many young people, students, and teachers. PTB president Raoul Hedebouw attended the demonstration.

Before and after the march, hundreds of masked youths dressed in black confronted police, throwing sticks, trash bins, glass bottles, and fireworks, even though the FGTB president had urged rioters to stay home. Police counted about a thousand rioters and more than 100 arrests.

Defense Minister Theo Francken accused the PTB of links to the violence at the October 9 march. In an October 12 response, PTB general secretary Peter Mertens wrote that Francken had blamed “Hedebouw’s antifa shock troops.” Mertens said the incidents had nothing to do with the demonstration. He accused the government of trying to criminalize the opposition, citing the Quintin bill, which would allow the executive to act against organizations it considers too radical.

In Germany, the first organized action was a solidarity rally on October 8 in front of the French Embassy at Pariser Platz. It was called by Berlin Insoumise, the local branch of France’s LFI (La France Insoumise, or France Unbowed, a far-left political party), and the Neukölln and Mitte chapters of Die Linke (The Left).

Supporters included Linksjugend Solid Neukölln (Left Youth Solid Neukölln), SDS Berlin (Socialist Democratic Students’ Association Berlin), and Klasse Gegen Klasse (Class Against Class). Other supporters were Sozialismus von Unten (Socialism from Below), Gruppe ArbeiterInnenmacht (Workers’ Power Group), Revolution, and Die Linke’s Palestine-solidarity working group (Klasse Gegen Klasse). The organizers demanded the release of more than 5,000 people arrested in France.

On October 12, about 150 students blockaded the French Gymnasium in Berlin’s Tiergarten district in solidarity with French students. A school in Hamburg was blocked with trash bins days later. On October 16, school strike committees organized another Berlin blockade under the banner “Schulstreik gegen die Wehrpflicht” (“School Strike Against Conscription”). Members of Linksjugend Solid, Klasse Gegen Klasse, and the GEW education union (Education and Science Workers’ Union) were on site.

The October 17 solidarity rally at Kleistpark was called by Linksjugend Solid, Die Linke’s Neukölln and Mitte chapters, and the Berlin branch of LFI. According to the Berliner Zeitung, a member of Linksjugend’s Berlin state board registered the rally.

About 250 people attended, few of them students. Participants carried flags of LFI, the Revolutionary Communist Party of Germany, and the Turkish Workers’ Party (TIP) (Tagesspiegel). Signs read “Mort au Roi” (“Death to the King”), and organizers announced a European day of action for November.

The Berlin police union GdP (Police Trade Union) warned that radical forces, chiefly Linksjugend Solid, could hijack the protests. Calls for French-style protests are circulating on TikTok ahead of anti-conscription demonstrations on October 31.

In both countries, left-wing youth organizations and political parties have participated in or supported the protests. Belgium has seen serious rioting, while Germany so far has seen school blockades and small rallies.

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Six EPR2 reactors—the backbone of France’s energy independence—are stuck in bureaucratic limbo while the European Commission plays its favorite game: strangling national champion

One year of paralysis created by the EU on purpose under the pretext of “competition.” This is not a technical delay. It is a deliberate act of political sabotage.

The facts are stark. France needs these reactors. They represent the only serious path to reliable, low-carbon baseload power at scale. Yet the Commission has refused to green-light the project. Construction has not advanced an inch.

According to reporting in French daily Les Échos, discussions with Brussels have been tense for more than twelve months. Competition officials claim EDF is simply “too big.” One source close to the company put it bluntly: it is not France’s fault that Germany and Italy failed to build operators of comparable size. On the question of state support and possible concessions, the same source observed that the two sides could argue for fifteen hours—or fifteen years.

Another interlocuteur cut to the heart of the matter: the Commission and its services reason purely in commercial market terms and refuse to acknowledge the strategic character of French energy policy.

That last point is decisive. Energy is not a commodity like shoes or smartphones. It is the foundation of industrial power, national security, and social stability. France’s nuclear fleet has for decades given the country a decisive advantage: cheap, dispatchable electricity that does not depend on the weather or on Russian gas. Dispatchable electricity refers to power sources that grid operators can turn on, turn off, or adjust up and down on demand to balance real-time energy supply and demand. Common examples include natural gas, coal, nuclear, hydropower, and battery storage systems.

The EPR2 program is the logical next step—standardized, improved, and designed for serial construction. Therefore, blocking it is not neutral regulation, but the systematic dismantling of a national asset.

Germany’s role is impossible to ignore. Berlin spent years shutting down its own nuclear plants while expanding coal and relying on intermittent renewables. Now, through the mechanisms of the single market and the Commission’s competition directorate, it exerts pressure to prevent France from consolidating a superior model.

The goal is transparent: weaken EDF, raise French electricity costs, and force Paris into the same fragile energy mix that has already damaged German industry. European “solidarity” here means the lowest common denominator—shared vulnerability rather than shared strength.

The Commission’s obsession with market purity is selective and hypocritical. State aid rules are applied with maximum severity against French nuclear while other forms of industrial policy elsewhere receive softer treatment. Strategic autonomy is praised in speeches about batteries, semiconductors, and defense, yet when France tries to secure its own electricity supply, the same officials suddenly discover that size is a problem and that public support distorts competition.

It has no legal foundation because it is ideology dressed up as technocracy.

The deeper issue is sovereignty. An entity that claims the right to decide whether a major European nation may build power plants on its own soil has ceased to be a cooperative framework and has become a mechanism of control. The European project was sold in France as a means of amplifying French influence. In practice it has become a device for diluting it.

Rules written in Brussels, interpreted by officials who view national champions with suspicion, now dictate the tempo of France’s most critical infrastructure. The result is delay, uncertainty, and rising costs—precisely when speed and scale are essential.

France cannot continue treating these constraints as inevitable. Energy policy is not a secondary dossier to be negotiated indefinitely with competition lawyers. It is a core function of the state. Accepting permanent supervision by an institution that prioritizes abstract market theory over concrete national interest is a choice, not a necessity.

That choice has already cost a full year of lost progress. Every additional month of blockage compounds the damage: industrial competitiveness erodes, the nuclear supply chain loses momentum, and the credibility of long-term planning collapses.

The European Union is no longer the solution to continental problems; it has become one of the problems. Its decision-making is suspect, its priorities are skewed toward the interests of Atlanticists, and its institutions display open hostility to any national strategy that threatens the preferred narrative of managed decline.

The blockage of the EPR2 program is a symptom of a larger failure: an organization that cannot deliver energy security, industrial strength, or strategic coherence, yet still demands obedience.

A political construction that systematically undermines the capacity of its strongest members to provide for themselves is not sustainable. It is already showing the cracks—paralysis on critical infrastructure, internal contradictions on energy, and a growing gap between rhetoric and results. France’s interest lies in reclaiming the freedom to act. The alternative is continued subordination to a crumbling edifice that prefers rules over results and theory over power.

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An Islamic terrorist who broke into Britain via small boat has been spotted shopping in King Charles’ local Co-op after being allowed to stay in the country.

Iraqi national Mohammed Yaseen was previously a member of Al-Qaeda and an Islamic State terror cell which routinely carried out large-scale executions.

After being released onto Britain’s streets following a six-month stint in prison, Yaseen has been living at a bail hostel in Windsor, which is just a stone’s throw away from Windsor Castle.

The convicted terrorist was seen leaving a Co-op location near the monarch’s residence last week.

The Iraqi national has since been recalled to prison after breaching good behaviour conditions imposed upon him following his release.

During his trial at Winchester Crown Court for his illegal entry into Britain, prosecutor Steven Molloy described Yaseen as having a “lengthy involvement in terrorism and Islamic extremist ideology”.

During proceedings, jurors heard he had provided a false name to officials at the border to avoid his past being unearthed.

His arrival into Britain came after he served almost five years behind bars in Germany over his membership of Islamic State.

Despite concerns being raised over the threat Yaseen poses to the British public, the Foreign Office reportedly expressed fears he could face “mistreatment” if returned to Iraq.

The Iraqi national has reapplied to remain in Britain, grinding any Home Office attempts to deport him to a halt.

Anger is also brewing the British taxpayer could be forced to fork out up to £500,000 in legal aid to the terrorist should he take his case to the European Court of Human Rights.

Yaseen’s upkeep at the taxpayer’s expense could cost up to £85,000 as the Home Office forks out for his accommodation, food allowance and monitoring, experts told The Mail on Sunday.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: “We are paying through the nose to feed, clothe and house individuals who pose a clear threat.

“If Andy Burnham took this seriously, he would deport this man at once.”

In 2020, a court in Dusseldorf, Germany was told Yaseen had participated in bomb attack which killed US personnel in Iraq.

Jurors also heard the Iraqi national had been deployed by Isis as a security guard for mass executions, stonings and beheadings.

Some of the massacres are said to have seen women and children killed.

The German court also heard Yaseen planted more than a dozen bombs around Ar-Rutbah in western Iraq when he was a teenage member of Al Qaeda.

Yaseen arrived in Germany during the height of Europe’s migrant crisis in 2015 and swiftly claimed asylum under Angela Merkel’s watch.

His history of terrorism was not discovered by German authorities, and he worked as a barber in North Rhine-Westphalia.

He was arrested in 2018 alongside three other Iraqi men after police received a tip-off.

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