Month: February 2026

Two journalists have just embarked on the exercise of writing a ‘biography,’ or rather a damning pamphlet, against the writer Renaud Camus, on whom they intend to heap all the ignominy of having invented and popularised the phrase ‘the great replacement.’”

But what crime is this when the expression is now swallowed and spat out by everyone, including and especially on the Left, by certain MPs and politicians who today make it a point of pride and a programme?

To feed its fundamental need to feel useful, the Left needs scapegoats. As Le Figaro editorialist Eugénie Bastié points out, Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead, so a ‘replacement’ must be found. Renaud Camus is the ideal candidate for the role.

Olivier Faye and Gaspard Delhemmes, two journalists from Le Monde, which in itself speaks volumes for those familiar with the ideological background of this so-called leading newspaper, which has long since sold out to the most dishonest left-wing thinking, have set themselves the goal of writing the ‘biography’ of The Man Who Brought the Plague, according to the quasi-mythological title they have given to their latest opus.

Mythological, or rather mythomaniacal. The Renaud Camus of Faye and Delhemmes is above all a construction of these two men, who polish the figure of their detestation according to their needs and not according to the reality of their model. Renaud Camus does not hide. He hides nothing, revealing himself from top to bottom, with a concern for transparency so complete that it is almost unhealthy. He keeps a diary in which he records his thoughts, actions, joys, and sorrows every day. Reading this diary is like reading his heart. The honourable writer, now in his eighties, spends a considerable amount of time on X—a new source of information for investigators. Camus’s concerns and outbursts of anger are all known and available online. But it is not this reality that interests the journalists at Le Monde, but what they can do with it to fuel their little media spectacle.

From the very first pages of the book, the tone is set, unsurprisingly. The drama opens with a reference to the Christchurch massacre in New Zealand, in which 51 people were killed by terrorist Brenton Tarrant. A pamphlet entitled The Great Replacement was later found in his home, in which Camus is not mentioned. This was enough to attribute the mass shooting to Camus, who abhors all forms of violence, perhaps one of the few things he has in common with a certain section of the Left. One would like to see the same media outlets be just as quick to establish murderous connections when a terrorist is found to have a copy of the Koran on his bookshelf.

Faithful to the masters of the philosophy of suspicion, the authors—who are merely their pale avatars of the 21st century—prefer to refute the background of the thinker they are studying by focusing on his childhood and youth, his fears and frustrations, rather than risking arguing on the merits.

Camus grew up in the small Parisian homosexual artistic milieu. He was a member of the Socialist Party but slipped to the ‘wrong side.’ The Left does not allow him to have deserted its ranks without questioning the causes of such a shift—if there was one.

Moving from the Left to the Right, as Marguerite Stern explains in her latest autobiographical essay, Les Rives contraires, is a forbidden crime. Camus is a writer—a real one, with a style that, as we have known since Proust, is “for the writer as much as colour is for the painter, a question not of technique but of vision.”

Before reading his political prose, I discovered him through his delightful Demeures de l’esprit (Dwellings of the Mind), which hint at a man with a rich inner life and a lively mind, just like those masters, politicians, writers, and musicians whose homes he so loves to scrutinise.

Those who castigate him for having developed the concept of the ‘great replacement’ always forget—unsurprisingly—that his thinking is primarily one of decadence and cultural resignation, that is to say, that the ‘small replacement’ always precedes and makes possible the ‘great replacement.’ It is when he describes the multiple collapses of our French and Western civilisation that he truly touches on genius—this is what makes him so demanding, even in the eyes of some of the so-called ‘reactionary’ youth who reduce him to his loudmouth side and politically incorrect icon but are only willing to hear part of his poignant warning message. He alone knows how to put into words the tragedies that the disappearance of formal dress, the ease of language, and the daily choice of material mediocrity bring to the country that so many of these young people imagine they want to save. But the subtlety of this thought is completely lost on Delhemmes and Faye.

Behind The Man Who Brought the Plague lies a surprising paradox. The journalists of Le Monde, imbued with the moral authority of their media pedigree, make Camus the intellectual mentor of hundreds of thousands of people in France and around the world—even though they observe that very few people have read him and still read him.

Should we count among the disciples of the master of Plieux Jean-Luc Mélenchon, president of La France Insoumise, who just a few days ago welcomed the ‘great replacement’ underway in France? Or Carlos Martens Bilongo, an MP from the same party, who proudly explained that black people “have more  kids” than native French people and will therefore inevitably replace them one day?

Mélenchon insists that his use of the expression in his political rhetoric is a deliberate ‘trap,’ a kind of decoy to flush out the ‘far right.’ Nevertheless, in this case, he resembles one of those teachers who, guilty of having betrayed himself by saying something stupid at the blackboard, replies with aplomb to his shocked pupils: ‘I was just testing you to see if you were paying attention.’ Mélenchon knows very well what he is saying, and that the great replacement does indeed exist. 

What makes the concept work so well is not the sprawling moral authority that Camus exercises from behind the thick walls of his Gascon fortress, but simply that he very accurately describes what millions of French people see every day. The hallmark of great writers is to put into carefully chosen words what the vulgum pecus feel only vaguely—but recognise immediately when it is clearly stated.

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NCF Senior Fellow Philip Kiszely on the future of PM Keir Starmer

The Welsh Government has invested more than £1.2million in a virtual reality educational platform designed to lecture students about “white privilege”.

Described as the “world’s first anti-racist virtual world,” the immersive 3D environment has been deployed in colleges across Wales for pupils aged 16 and above since 2024.

Students navigate through a digital space featuring a central atrium decorated with portraits of civil rights figures, including Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela and Betty Campbell.

The platform contains interactive lessons covering “black feminism” and “decolonising politics,” with one section examining “sociology through an anti-racist lens.”

It also explores how “whiteness” manifests in language, policies and research, and how privilege affects social, educational and workplace settings.

Among the key terms students are encouraged to learn are “patriarchy” and “imperialism,” alongside the concept of “white privilege”, which the platform defines as “inherent advantages possessed by a white person, which means that during their day-to-day life, they do not have to consider their race.”

One room in the metaverse platform is devoted to a “world timeline”, designed to teach pupils about colonialism and the intertwined histories of Europe, Africa and India.

Within the India section, the Bengal famine of 1770 is explicitly compared to the Holocaust.

“Although partly down to weather conditions and droughts, most historians agree that the vast loss of life was directly down to the policies of the British,” a narrator states.

“During the famine of 1770 the agricultural tax was increased from 10 per cent under the Mughals to 50 per cent under the British East India Company, leading to the loss of 10 million lives in Bengal, equivalent to the Black Death in Europe or the Holocaust,” the platform preaches.

The metaverse also presents various strands of feminist thought, including psychoanalytical feminism, a 1970s theory which draws on the work of Sigmund Freud.

The platform describes this as a “theory of oppression that asserts that men have an inherent psychological need to subjugate women.”

It adds: “This branch of feminism seeks to gain insight into how our psychic lives develop in order to better understand and change women’s oppression.”

The curriculum further contends that feminism remains insufficiently taught in schools, attributing this partly to patriarchal influence over conventional education.

The platform had labelled a campaign leaflet by former Wales Secretary David TC Davies as an example of “dog whistling” over his calls for greater consultation on traveller site developments.

References to Mr Davies were subsequently removed following media enquiries, reported The Telegraph.

Elsewhere in the virtual space, a billboard shows a leaflet circulated in 2022 as “part of a collaborative campaign to prevent Jimmy Carr performing in Wales”, following controversy over anti-gypsy remarks in one of his Netflix shows.

The initiative forms part of Wales’s broader anti-racist action plan, unveiled in 2022, which aims to make the nation the world’s first anti-racist country by 2030.

An official report underpinning the strategy identified “deeply rooted racial inequalities experienced by black, Asian and minority ethnic people in Wales”.

It stated that “ethnic minority people are disproportionately disadvantaged at nearly every level of every system.”

Conservative Party chairman Kevin Hollinrake condemned the project, describing the use of political campaign material within the platform as “outrageous” and tantamount to accusing MPs of racism.

He said: “Hard-pressed Welsh taxpayers will be disgusted to know that Welsh Labour are spending their cash on this kind of nonsense.

“It is also outrageous that the Welsh Government is using state funding to support attacks on other parties’ MPs, accusing them of racism just for standing up for their constituents.”

Mr Hollinrake declared that the “woke metaverse” demonstrated Welsh Labour was “living in a virtual reality.”

The Welsh Government defended its investment, with a spokesman stating: “We have invested £1.2m in the further education curriculum for anti-racism since 2022.

“This pioneering project has delivered overwhelmingly positive outcomes and reflects our commitments to an anti-racist Wales, as well as reflecting similar offers within English institutions.”

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There’s some poetic justice in that. Starmer’s people did everything possible to keep Trump from being elected. And while the Epstein files haven’t told us much that we didn’t already know (elites loved Epstein, some possible Russian and Qatari ties) and the Clinton House testimony isn’t likely to be a game changer, the effects on the other side of the pond are different.

The British Labour opposition to Starmer from the Corbynite left and the Blairite centrists are calling for his resignation over the appointment of an Epstein linked ambassador. If that doesn’t quite seem like a big enough deal to Americans, the UK is a parliamentary democracy which means a backstabbing snake pit in which members of your own party and the media can start shouting SCANDAL loudly enough at the right opportunity and then start forcing resignation. In short, few American presidents would have survived a single term a UK PM.

PM Starmer has done things a thousand times worse, like the mass arrests of critics of Islam, legalizing blasphemy law and putting an Islamic terror supporter in charge of national security, but those were not ‘scandals’. This however is.

I’d say that despite the outcry, the odds are that he may survive it, but the odds are also narrow. And it depends on how much internal insecurity there is. Labour has been running a massive propaganda campaign to promote Starmer’s regime  but if the internal numbers are bad, they’ll take the opportunity to dump him and likely put up someone worse.

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Train conductor Serkan C. was beaten to death—and a presenter from German broadcaster WDR has a wild idea about why that might be. She draws a direct line from the crime to US President Donald Trump.
Serkan C., a train conductor for Deutsche Bahn, is dead—the train conductor was beaten to death while checking tickets on a train. The case has caused a lot of consternation – and apparently also has something to do with Donald Trump.

At least, that’s what listeners, readers and viewers of WDR are being told. In a TV interview about the death of the train conductor, the public broadcaster discusses the increasing brutalization of society with a sociologist. “We are seeing increasing levels of aggression, an increasing willingness to use violence against a wide range of professions in the public sector,” says sociologist Joris Steg. “We are witnessing a trend toward brutalization across society as a whole, which is increasingly erupting into violence.”

But the moderator’s third question reveals a very special connection: the US president could somehow be to blame for the tragic act. “Does this also have something to do with the overall situation?” asks the journalist, adding: “We are seeing Donald Trump and others around the world acting according to the law of the jungle and no longer relying on international law.”

This is a question that also seems to irritate the sociologist being interviewed—at least briefly. “Of course, there is no direct connection,” explains Steg. But: “We are also seeing globally that the law of the strongest prevails, that the willingness to use violence, including the willingness to wage war, prevails. And in societies, we are seeing, first and foremost, a disinhibition of language, especially in the digital space: disrespect, obscenities, insults, and threats are on the rise, especially on the internet.”

For the sociologist, there is a connection: “And when the boundaries of what can be said shift, the boundaries of what is considered legitimate action also shift at some point—and that verbal violence can even translate into raw physical violence.” However, he sees no connection between violence and origin.
According to Steg, such a connection cannot be confirmed. “What we do see is that almost all perpetrators are male, especially in cases of raw physical violence. But if we look at cases of violence against police officers, for example, alcohol or drugs are usually involved, and origin or cultural background does not play a major role,” says the sociologist.

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A former army cadet has admitted possessing terrorist bomb-making material after threatening to carry out a Valentine’s Day shooting at his school.

Dihan Rahman, 19, from Uxbridge in west London, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey on Friday to three terrorism offences involving documents and videos capable of assisting someone preparing an attack.

The offences were committed when Rahman was 17.

The court heard the teenager also threatened violence at his school prom and shared personal details of female pupils online to incite harassment.

Rahman changed his plea on the second day of his trial, having previously denied possessing extremist material that included instructions reportedly used by the Manchester Arena bomber.

Prosecutors said the case marked the first known example of an individual combining far-right and violent Islamist ideologies through a shared hatred of Jewish people.

Rahman was an administrator of the Sturmjager Division, a violent extremist Telegram group that attracted young followers obsessed with mass killers and far-right figures.

Prosecutor Serena Gates told the court Rahman had “embraced” an extreme ideology featuring graphic videos of women being mutilated alongside neo-Nazi and jihadist propaganda.

He photographed himself in cadet uniform performing Nazi salutes with “Heil Hitler” captions and displayed the number 1488, a known white supremacist code.

At the same time, Rahman possessed material glorifying Hamas and the October 7 attacks on Israel, as well as ISIS execution footage, appearing to have made “common cause” between the two extremist movements.

He admitted stalking a girl two years younger than him after she rejected his romantic advances, along with her friend and a teacher who investigated his behaviour.

The court was told Rahman had adopted “incel ideology”, an online subculture of so-called “involuntary celibates” who blame women for their lack of relationships and advocate violence.

His phone contained graphic videos showing women being mutilated, lashed and strangled with cable ties, prosecutors said.

Even after his arrest, Rahman continued targeting his victims from prison, the Old Bailey heard.

He shared “doxing” material online, publishing personal information to encourage harassment and suggesting the women were part of a conspiracy against him.

The investigation began in March 2024 after allegations of stalking and threats against two schoolgirls.

A teacher who checked Rahman’s phone found images of beheadings, corpses, Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein.

Counter-terrorism officers later seized his digital devices, uncovering two bomb-making instruction videos on an encrypted drive and a third extremist document on a USB stick.

Rahman was arrested again in November 2024 for breaching bail conditions after contacting victims online and posting threatening images of the prom venue alongside a photo of a Nazi soldier holding a gun.

Detective Chief Superintendent Helen Flanagan said: “This case is yet another example of a growing and concerning trend of young people being drawn into extremist, violent and terrorist ideologies – principally from what they are exposed to and consuming online.”

Rahman is due to be sentenced on May 6.

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An Edmonton jury believed a man convicted of sexual assault ‘deserved a reduced sentence’ because his mother is Indigenous, although he ‘had not been exposed to indigenous culture.’

Is there any phrase more farcical than “Canadian justice”? Consider:

• Last November, the Canadian Supreme Court struck down the mandatory one-year prison sentence for possessing or accessing child pornography.
• Also in 2025, an Indian national who confessed to attempting to pay for sex from a 15-year-old was given conditional discharge — no recorded criminal conviction — instead of prison because the judge wanted to avoid “collateral consequences,” including “delays to Khant’s citizenship application.”
• Last July, Oumaima Chouay was sentenced to a single day in custody (in addition to the 110 days served pre-trial) for traveling to Syria to marry an ISIS fighter and consciously choose to serve the genocidal Islamist’s group’s ideology. Her conviction was for “aiding a terrorist group.”
• Last September, high-risk sexual predator Randall Peter Hopley, who has been convicted of both “sexual assault and the abduction of persons under 14 years,” was released despite police stating that he is still a threat. Hopley had kidnapped a three-year-old boy and held him captive for four days in 2011. He has a lengthy criminal record but remains free to commit crimes once again.
• Also in September, there was this story in the National Post: “A Calgary judge knocked two years off a 10-year sentence she would have given a man who terrorized and repeatedly sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl he met when he was 25 because the offender is Indigenous.”
• A high-risk child predator, previously convicted of multiple violent sex crimes involving children and arrested in May, only hours after release for breaching his conditions, has been released yet again, according to Vancouver police.

The Western Standard recently reported on the latest missive from Canada’s broken justice system — a half-Indigenous man getting a reduced prison sentence from an Alberta judge for the crime of sexual assault.

Aaron Moore Minshull was convicted by an Edmonton jury of “major sexual assault,” but according to the Western Standard, the jury “believed he deserved a reduced sentence” due to the fact that his mother is Indigenous, although Minshull “had not been exposed to indigenous culture.”

“In deciding on this sentence, I have taken into account the mitigating factors regarding Mr. Moore (Minshull’s) rehabilitation efforts, his indigenous heritage, and his mental health struggles, along with the collateral consequences that will be visited on him and his new family by a lengthy prison sentence,” Justice Christopher Simard wrote in his explanation of the decision.

Under a 1999 Canadian Supreme Court decision, a specialized pre-sentencing document called a “Gladue report” analyzes the historical and personal circumstances of Indigenous offenders in order to reduce the “over-representation” of Indigenous Canadians in custody. Minshull’s Gladue report indicated “traumatic events” during childhood, parental separation, and siblings being placed in foster care due to physical abuse.

Minshull, the report noted, has a substance abuse problem, including daily marijuana use, occasional cocaine use, and alcohol abuse; he went through a substance abuse rehabilitation program at least once. All of that, apparently, is relevant to the brutal rape he committed after the victim repeatedly told him she did not want to “engage in sexual contact.”

“She tried to evade and escape him,” the judge stated. “He used his much greater size and strength to physically and forcefully overcome her resistance. This was a violent and forceful sexual assault. This was not sexual touching in the context of confusion or mixed signals about consent … (Minshull used) his physical strength to overpower her attempts to resist and impose his will on her forcefully to satisfy himself sexually.”

“He treated her as an object for his gratification. This was a gross and serious violation of (her) physical, sexual and emotional integrity,” the judge concluded. The victim was “devastated” and suffered severe psychological damage as a result.

“She describes herself before the assault as having been an independent, adventurous and confident person,” the judge wrote. “She now feels broken and describes having lost all her self-worth, her excitement and passion for life, her ability to feel happy or excited, and her ability to trust others. She now experiences anxiety, nightmares, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.”

None of that, however, prevented the judge from giving Minshull a reduced sentence. He cited Minshull’s attempts at rehabilitation and his mental health struggles.

“Without those mitigating factors, the fit and appropriate sentence would be significantly longer than three years,” he stated. “However, a sentence below three years would simply not be proportionate to the gravity of this major sexual assault, and Mr. Moore Minshull’s very high degree of moral blameworthiness. Considering the circumstances, the gravity of this offence is very high. Mr. Moore Minshull’s degree of responsibility is also very high.”

Minshull’s case is not the exception. Hardly a month passes without similar examples:

Last summer in Nova Scotia, a court took fast-tracked the release of an Indigenous-identifying girlfriend-beater by shaving 2 years off his sentence at the request of a sentencing circle.

He's now been charged with 2 counts of attempted murder (while on probation). pic.twitter.com/9Qkt7QUB5W

— Jamie Sarkonak (@sarkonakj) March 3, 2025

Canada’s justice system is broken. Criminals are treated as victims and given the opportunity to offend again, and their victims must suffer in the knowledge that in Canadian courts, the alleged victimhood status of their assailants trumps the violence they endured.

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Shortly before Christmas, the U.S. State Department slapped visa sanctions on five individuals whom it described as being agents of a “global censorship-industrial complex” bent on restricting the freedom of speech of Americans. The headliner of the sanctions list was, of course, Thierry Breton, the former EU internal market commissioner, who spearheaded efforts to enforce the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) during the last years of his tenure in the Commission. But the directors of three organizations allegedly involved in censorship activities were also sanctioned: HateAid, the Global Disinformation Index, and the Center for Countering Digital Hate.

As discussed in my recent portrait of HateAid, the German organization is directly integrated into the DSA censorship system as a so-called trusted flagger of allegedly illegal or harmful online content. Under the DSA, online platforms and search engines are required to give priority treatment to the notifications of ‘trusted flaggers’ precisely because they have been certified as ‘trusted’ by EU member state governments—in this case, the German government. 

But even though it does not have ‘trusted flagger’ status, another of the organizations targeted by the U.S. sanctions has likewise been a major player in the EU’s efforts to ‘regulate’ online speech, which in fact began many years before the passage of the DSA. Moreover, it, too, has important, if largely unclarified, ties to Germany. The organization in question is the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), whose executive director and best-known figure, Clare Melford, was placed on the sanctions list.

Although it had already come under scrutiny from right-leaning media and politicians in the U.S., GDI gained particularly wide public attention in April 2024 when the British website UnHerd revealed that it had been placed on a ‘dynamic exclusion list’ by the organization and was losing advertising revenue as a result. ‘Defunding disinformation’—or, more precisely, alleged purveyors of disinformation—by compiling this sort of advertising blacklist is the stated goal of GDI. 

GDI is usually identified as a British organization in news reports, and it is that in the sense that it has a London office and Melford is British. But it is not only that, as the below entry from the European Commission’s CORDIS database makes clear. The GDI receives funding from the European Union as a German organization with its headquarters in Berlin.

Moreover, GDI also receives funding from the German government itself—or at least was receiving such funding when it last deigned to acknowledge its funding sources. 

Thus, when UnHerd went public with its beef with GDI in 2024 and raised the issue of GDI’s funding by the British government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), it soon turned out that FCDO had already ceased funding the organization. The U.S. State Department had done likewise, following a similar controversy involving conservative media in the United States. As UnHerd noted in a follow-up report, FCDO and Disinfo Cloud, a now defunct platform that was funded by the U.S. State Department, quickly disappeared from the funders list on the GDI website. European Union and the German Foreign Office—Auswärtiges Amt—remained, as can be seen in the below screen cap from the site as it appeared on 19 April 2024. 

Meanwhile, the entire funders list has been purged from the GDI website. As it so happens, the German Foreign Office, located in Berlin’s central ‘Mitte’ district, is about a five-minute drive from GDI’s Friedrichstrasse 114 address, which is likewise in Berlin Mitte.

In 2018, the European Commission rolled out its first formalized effort to combat alleged online ‘disinformation’ in the form of the so-called Code of Practice on Disinformation, a supposedly ‘self-regulatory’ industry code into which the Commission recruited all the major online platforms and search engines. GDI was founded that very year.

In June 2022, shortly before the passage of the DSA, the Code of Practice was strengthened, and the EU-funded European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) was given a seat on a Permanent Task Force on Disinformation that was created under it. Melford serves on the EDMO advisory board. Last year, the Code of Practice was elevated to the status of a Code of Conduct, meaning that platforms can use Code participation as a means of demonstrating compliance with the DSA.

In a 2021 presentation to the European Parliament titled “Monetizing Disinformation in the EU,” Melford identified not only the Russian media RT and Sputnik as purveyors of ‘disinformation’ but also the American media Breitbart, The Epoch Times, and The Western Journal (see the below visual). The following year, Ursula von der Leyen would, of course, ban RT and Sputnik from operating in the EU—a ban that did not only cover their broadcasting but was also dutifully applied by online platforms.

In its early years, GDI was indeed generously funded by the British government. But GDI submissions to the EU lobby register already made its eagerness to be serviceable to the coalescing EU censorship regime unmistakably clear. Thus, GDI data circa May 2022 notes, 

We are working globally but see a clear and unique opportunity at the EU level to advance the code of practice on disinformation to defund sites. We are keen to leverage our knowledge of this topic for meeting the EU’s commitment to this issue.

The submitted information also refers to “the weekly evidence we compile and share with EU contacts”—notably, on “ads funding disinformation (on COVID-19 conspiracies, for example).” 

Lobbyfacts.eu, which assembled the above-cited data, was also able to document numerous meetings between GDI and European commissioners or their staff between 2020 and 2022. These included meetings with the offices of all the commissioners most actively involved in the Code of Practice and the preparation of the DSA: Thierry Breton (Internal Market), Margrethe Vestager (Europe Fit for Digital Age), and Věra Jourová (Values and Transparency).

Interestingly, the May 2022 data still lists a major grant of nearly €1.5 million from FCDO. Since, however, the British funding began to dry up (the last FCDO contribution was in 2023), GDI has taken to listing Disinformation Index Inc. as its main donor. See, for instance, the most recent register data here. 

This is to say that GDI lists itself as its main donor! ‘Disinformation Index Inc.’ is the name used by an American branch of GDI. As we will see momentarily, this lack of transparency is typical for the organization—and indeed extends to the American branch as well, thus rendering GDI’s funding almost entirely opaque.

The current version of the register entry notes that “The Global Disinformation Index is tracking and supporting EU commitments to combat disinformation as outlined in the EU Code of Conduct on Disinformation and the Digital Services Act,” and Lobbyfacts.eu has been able to document five more meetings with European Commission officials—including one just last week! The most recent meeting was with the Commission’s current point person on the DSA, Executive Vice President Henna Virkkunen.

In 2022, following controversy over the GDI’s targeting of conservative U.S. media, the American branch of the organization released tax returns to the DC-based news outlet The Washington Examiner. The returns, however, not only omitted the identity of donors but even redacted those of its own officers.

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a 990 that excludes the names of officers and directors,” a lawyer specializing in non-profit law told The Washington Examiner at the time, “And I’ve looked at hundreds.” 

In any case, the German government’s response to a parliamentary question (p. 82) shows that already in 2023, precisely as the British funding was being wound down, the German foreign office had begun funding GDI via, namely, its American branch, as can be seen below. “AA” is the Auswärtiges Amt, and “Disinformation Index Foundation” is another name associated with the American branch of GDI. That year, the AA contributed a relatively modest sum of €48,000.

As touched upon above, GDI is devoted to defunding alleged online purveyors of ‘disinformation’ by depriving them of their advertising revenues. Not coincidentally, this demonetization agenda is part of both the 2022 strengthened Code of Practice on Disinformation and the DSA. But the irony of this is that advertising revenues are, of course, precisely what allow non-paywalled websites to remain independent. GDI calls itself “independent”—namely, from the media whose reliability it claims to assess—but if it depends on funding from governments and public institutions like the European Commission, what kind of independence is that? The would-be ‘watchdog’ could be nothing more than a guard dog.  

And why has GDI become so cagey about its funding sources since the FCDO funding dried up? Who exactly is funding the defunders? 

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A beauty salon in the southern French city of Grenoble was rocked on Friday after masked men threw a grenade inside the building, injuring six people, including a young child.

Shortly before 3 pm on Friday, two men entered the salon on Grenoble’s Boulevard Gambetta, with one throwing an explosive device into the shop while the other filmed the attack before fleeing the scene.

Six people were treated with minor injuries at the site of the attack, including a five-year-old child, according to the local newspaper Dauphiné Libéré.

Grenoble’s public prosecutor, Etienne Manteaux, said from the scene: “An individual entered the shop and threw an explosive device. It wasn’t a standard grenade, a military grenade. It was more of a blast device, but it caused significant damage because it shattered the window. No one was seriously injured, and no one was hospitalised.”

Authorities have yet to identify the alleged perpetrators; however, police say they have “some interesting leads”. A motive for the attack has also yet to be identified.

En plein jour, en plein centre, il lance une grenade dans un salon de beauté : 6 blessés dont un enfant de 5 ans.

Encore Grenoble, ville dirigée par les écologistes…

Quand la sécurité n’est pas la priorité du maire 🇫🇷, c’est le Far-West.

Enfin non, on se croirait à Chicago ! pic.twitter.com/tIjEBChGQi

— Matthieu Valet (@mvalet_officiel) February 6, 2026

Two shopkeepers who were close to the salon at the time of the blast said, “We heard a loud bang that knocked the wind out of us. Then the sound of breaking glass followed by screams. We went outside and saw people shouting. We didn’t immediately understand what was happening.”

A friend of the salon owner said, “The manager, some of her relatives, and some customers were inside. They saw someone throw something, and then there was a loud bang. Fortunately, there are only minor injuries, but everyone is in shock. They were very scared.”

Responding to the attack, French Member of European Parliament Matthieu Valet said: “Yet another incident in Grenoble, a city run by the Greens… When security is not the mayor’s priority, it becomes the Wild West. Actually no, it feels more like Chicago!”

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In this episode of Starkey and Mogg, Jacob and I call things by their proper names.

The Mandelson affair isn’t personal. It’s not about “Petey’s” child-in-a-sweet-shop venality. Or about the rules-obsessed Starmer’s tin-ear for real moral and political choices.

Instead, it’s bigger. And it’s systematic. Because it tears the veil from the organised system of lies-based corruption that is the whole New Labour Project.

Mandelson, with his sidekick Alistair Campbell (who has never refuted the multiple charges of direct lying brought against him by Peter Oborne in his book, The Rise of Political Lying), invented New Labour.

They had to because the death of Socialism, in the wake of Thatcher and the collapse of the Soviet Union, left an ideological void at the heart of the Labour Party.

Of course, the relationship between Socialism and Labour had always been awkward. Hence the cynical pragmatism of Herbert Morrison’s remark that “Socialism is what the Labour government does”.

But it was left to Mandelson, Morrison’s grandson, to discover what a Labour Government had to do without Socialism.

The answer, it turned out, was to lie.

To find anything similar, we have to go back to the system of “Old Corruption” invented by Sir Robert Walpole at the beginning of the 18th century.

But there’s a difference. Walpole’s system worked and laid the foundations of political stability and prosperity at home and empire abroad.

But New Labour Isn’t Working: it’s destroying its authors, the Labour Party and, if it’s not checked, the country itself.

Jacob ends by suggesting we use Impeachment to cleanse the stable. I demur because of the risk of political tit for tat.

But, as the revelations tumble out, I think he might be right.