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An illegal migrant has been placed in pre-trial detention over alleged plans to launch a jihadist terror attack against the world-famous Louvre museum and Paris’ Jewish community.

A 27-year-old Tunisian migrant faced charges of preparing a terrorist attack before a Paris court on Monday and was placed in pre-trial detention pending further hearings. The “undocumented” migrant is thoguht to have first entered France after travelling to Europe on a migrant smuggler boat in 2022.

France’s Le Monde newspaper reports the male was arrested on Thursday 7th. The arrest followed an investigation which, Le Figaro states, was triggered by a traffic stop back in April. Officers stopping the man discovered he was using a fake driving licence, kicking off an investigation which revealed he did not have a residence permit, and allegedly discovered extremist material on his mobile phone.

Among the material said to be on the device was jihadist propaganda, “hundreds” of images of weapons, and his dating profile, which included a profile picture showing an Islamic State fighter executing captives.

The report states the suspect’s internet history allegedly included requests to ChatGPT on “how to make a bomb” and for information on the TNT explosive.

Authorities believe the man was planning to launch terror attacks in the Paris region, including against the Louvre museum, and the city’s Jewish community. The security failings of the Louvre including unsecured windows and faulty security cameras have recently become widespread knowledge after last year’s jewels heist.

It is stated the suspect also allegedly planned to travel abroad to join an Islamic State organisation.

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NCF Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo on Keir Starmer’s devastating premiership.

A 21-year-old woman fell victim to an attempted rape last night in Paris, according to the chief editor of Valeurs Actuelles, Amaury Brelet. A native of West Africa’s Ivory Coast is now under arrest for the crime. It is not known if he was on French territory legally.

The attack took place in the 19th arrondissement of Paris on the night of May 10, with 25-year-old suspect Ayouba S., born in the ivory Coast, found with his pants down and genitals exposed.

🔴 [Info @Valeurs] Une jeune femme de 21 ans a été victime d'une tentative de viol dans le 19e à Paris, cette nuit. Le suspect de 25 ans, Ayouba S., né en Côte d'Ivoire, pantalon baissé et sexe visible, a agressé la jeune femme en lui lançant "Je vais te baiser", puis a étranglé…

— Amaury Brelet (@AmauryBrelet) May 11, 2026

Shouting “I’m going to fuck you,” Ayouba S. then strangled the victim’s father, who had come running to her aid after hearing her screaming for help.

Police officers were called to the scene and arrested the offender, but not before local residents intervened and “nearly lynched the suspect” to ensure he was unable to flee the scene.

Cases involving brazen rapes involving Africans have plagued Paris in recent years, including the harrowing case of Claire Geronimi. In that case, Jordy Goukara confessed to raping both her and another victim in the space of just 45 minutes.

The case was shocking at nearly every level. The African, Goukara, already had 12 criminal convictions, including for sexual assaults, and had three deportation orders, none of which were executed.

The defendant, Goukara, has already confessed to the crime in the first day of court, saying that he has “uncontrollable sexual urges” and could not help himself from raping the women. He also stated that he masturbates 10 times a day.

Currently, the front runner for upcoming national election is National Rally (NR), which is promising to curb immigration and deport those illegally on French soil or found guilty of committing crimes while legally residing in France.

It appears, however, that the ruling establishment is looking to target Bardella as elections approach with the same type of case judges have used to remove Marine Le Pen as a candidate.

Meanwhile, France is having to deal with the recent measure by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to regularize what could end up being as many as 1.6 million illegals there, despite raging migrant crime, with concerns that those handed permits can then easily cross the border into France.

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Women marched through the Dutch town of Apeldoorn this weekend to protest plans for a new asylum seeker centre (AZC), warning that mass immigration and the placement of large groups of male asylum seekers are making women feel increasingly unsafe while local residents are ignored.

Protesters said politicians and the media routinely dismiss concerns about crime, harassment, and women’s safety linked to mass immigration and the placement of asylum seekers near residential areas.

Several women at the march said they joined because they no longer feel safe in public spaces and believe local residents have little influence over decisions affecting their communities.

One participant said she attended the protest “for safety,” adding that local residents felt ignored..

Asked about her own experiences, she described facing “whistling, shouting,” and other intimidating behaviour in public.

Another demonstrator, wearing a shirt reading “No is No,” said people living near the proposed AZC feared the arrival of large groups of single male asylum seekers.

“You just have to watch the footage,” she said, adding that she lived “right next to the place where they want to place the AZC.”

She argued that earlier women’s safety campaigns often avoided discussing migration-linked crime, focusing instead on issues such as street lighting or public awareness campaigns.

“The trust in politics is gone,” she said, arguing that many residents no longer believe voting changes anything.

Several participants also criticism of migration policy is too often shut down through accusations of racism or extremism.

The same speaker said women raising concerns about immigration are frequently branded “right-wing” or “extreme,” while activists on the political Left are treated as legitimate voices despite, in her view, offering no real solutions.

“As a woman, you shouldn’t accept that,” she said. “Whether you’re left or right.”

Another demonstrator carried a banner accusing politicians and activists of “sacrificing women.” She claimed counter-protesters had downplayed cases of sexual violence committed by migrants and said her own experiences hosting a refugee had left her fearful and disillusioned.

Another participant said she attended the march “out of solidarity” with residents opposed to the AZC, arguing that too many people were being placed in an area “completely unsuitable” without proper consultation.

She said the issue was not only about safety, but also about whether citizens still have any meaningful say over major decisions affecting their neighbourhoods.

“Democracy is a pact between the citizen and the government,” she said. “I pay taxes, I obey the law, in exchange for voicing and safeguarding my interests.”

According to her, many Dutch citizens now feel they are expected to accept major political decisions while remaining silent about the impact on their own communities.

She also urged people not to be intimidated by accusations of racism or fascism for speaking openly about immigration and local safety concerns.

“Just because you want a say over what happens in your neighbourhood and your own family’s safety,” she said, “does not make you dangerous.”

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The provision applies to unions formed abroad in jurisdictions where polygamy is lawful, between partners domiciled in those countries at the time, who later relocated to Britain.

The UK’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed that “additional spouses” in “polygamous marriages” are receiving a 4.8 per cent rise in benefits from April 2026, even though polygamy and bigamy remain illegal in the country.

According to the department’s annual uprating list, second, third or fourth spouses living in polygamous households who are above state pension age can claim £125.25 (€145) per week each in Pension Credit or Housing Benefit, up from £119.50 (€138) in 2025-26.

There is no cap on the number of additional spouses who can claim the allowance, though the overall household benefit ceiling still applies.

The rise – worth roughly £5.75 (€6.65) per week or £299 (€346) per year – is tied to wage growth, the formula used to uprate Pension Credit each spring. Over a year, each additional spouse stands to receive about £6,513 (€7,529).

The DWP’s benefits and pension rates document for 2026-27 sets the weekly allowance for the claimant and the first spouse at £363.25 (€420), with £125.25 added “for each additional spouse who is a member of the same household as the claimant”.

All marriages contracted in the UK must be monogamous to be legally recognised. The provision applies to unions formed abroad in jurisdictions where polygamy is lawful, between partners domiciled in those countries at the time, who later relocated to Britain.

A House of Commons research briefing on polygamy, published in 2023, stated: “It has been the policy of successive governments to prevent the formation of polygamous households in the UK.”

Since the Immigration Act 1988, UK residents have been barred from bringing a second spouse through the spouse-visa route, though additional spouses can enter the country independently on other visas such as work or study.

Universal Credit, the unified working-age benefit gradually replacing legacy payments such as Income Support, Housing Benefit and Jobseeker’s Allowance, does not recognise polygamous households. Under the newer system, each adult in a household must claim as a single person.

In a 2024 written reply to a question tabled by Conservative life peer Baroness Buscombe, Conservative Viscount Younger of Leckie said: “Polygamous marriages are illegal in the UK. Universal Credit does not recognise polygamous households in the benefit system.”

He added that older benefits “do recognise a small number of polygamous marriages which took place in a jurisdiction where polygamy is permitted”.

The DWP has not published the number of additional spouses receiving the payment but believes it to be small. The pool of eligible households is expected to shrink as Universal Credit replaces legacy benefits, with Pension Credit set to remain the main route through which the rule continues to apply.

The issue has resurfaced amid wider debates across western Europe about immigration, integration and the recognition of foreign marital practices that conflict with domestic law.

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The French République is submitting itself, neighborhood after neighborhood, bistro after bistro, with the same elegance with which it once guillotined its kings.

The Enlightenment has been digested in a single Ramadan and the nation that invented the rights of man and secularism is turning itself halal without even the modesty of an explicit conversion. It is a creeping surrender, bureaucratic, commercial, smelling of fear and terminal goodism.

Even fast-food chains are adapting to sharia: locals in Lyon with rooms to pray to Allah.

All that was missing was the République en djellaba turning itself into a catering service for Islamization.

In Submission, Michel Houellebecq has a character say: “Old Bat Ye’or is not wrong with her phantom of the Eurabia conspiracy.”

“Eurabia is not a conspiracy!” Bat Ye’or boldly replied this week in the Journal du dimanche:

“Eurabia is not a conspiracy. The Euro-Arab fusion policy became official with the Barcelona Pact (1995). The denial of public and established facts does not prove a conspiracy, but an equally established concealment. At the time, I perceived in Europe social behaviors that evoked those of dhimmitude, but I did not yet see the pathways or networks that were implanting in the heart of twentieth-century European societies social schemes dating back to the Muslim Middle Ages and conforming to sharia.

“Still active today in most Muslim countries, these dynamics derive from jihad, a set of theological and legal directives dictating relations between Muslims and non-Muslims. We are living through a transitional period: that of the passage from a European country of Judeo-Christian culture to an Islamo-Christian state, a stage toward its Islamization.”

In Vienna, Islam is now the majority religion in public schools. They tried twice to conquer Vienna (and Europe) militarily; now they are entering step by step.

Anyone entering certain suburbs and town centers today has the impression of having landed in another civilization, except that nobody had the courage to declare the change of sovereignty.

In Lyon, now 30 percent Islamic, Alexandre Dallery announced that his bakery no longer sells pork-based products. No more salami, ham, lard, or bacon. On Facebook, Dallery spoke of “various pressures over several months to make everything halal. To calm things down, we no longer sell ham. Otherwise they burn everything down.”

In Vaulx-en-Velin, also near Lyon, even non-Muslim schoolgirls confess that they feel the pressure of sharia. Sara, a 15-year-old student, tries every day to look pretty when she goes to school: she wears makeup. This displeases some of her Muslim friends of the same age. “When they see a girl wearing makeup, wearing short clothes, they say you are not a Muslim, you have no right to do that, you have no right to dress like that, you have no right to wear makeup like that, you must be discreet.”

In Paris, an Algerian restaurateur stopped selling alcohol following a raid organized by Muslims adhering to Quranic prohibitions.

In Ardèche, cinemas refuse to screen the film “Persepolis” so as not to upset Muslim students.

In Blanc-Mesnil, the bar near the mosque gave up organizing the music festival, considered “impure” by the neighbors.

In Montpellier, a bar behind the station receives visits from an Islamist making sure that “no alcohol is served.”

In the historic center of Bordeaux, an Afghan stabbed two people, killing one and seriously wounding the other. He had reproached them for “boire un coup,” drinking alcohol, on the day of Eid al-Fitr, the celebration marking the end of Ramadan.

It was the beginning of Ramadan when the Evian brand published an apparently banal message: “Retweet if you have already drunk one liter of Evian today.” The advertisement unleashed a hate campaign against the Danone subsidiary. Evian was accused of “Islamophobia.” And it decided to apologize. In France, not in Iran.

In Seine-Saint-Denis, the book “Inch’allah” by Le Monde journalists Gérard Davet and Fabrice Lhomme recounts the testimony of the Equal Opportunities official Fadela Benrabia:

“The first halal butcher, the second halal butcher, the third halal butcher, then the religious bookseller and the Muslim stylist selling niqabs… Entire neighborhoods are under halal influence. Yes, Islamization is at work in Seine-Saint-Denis. Pastry shops no longer use pork gelatin.”

A principal is threatened with death for asking a student to remove her veil in class.

A veil in the classroom? Yet municipalities use it in advertising to symbolize “progress.”

In Trappes there are no more mixed hair salons and people go to school without jeans or makeup, but with veils and gloves.

In Nanterre, hair salons are reserved for veiled women.

In many municipal swimming pools, there are only separate hours for women and men.

There is no need for anyone to officially declare the imposition of sharia in certain neighborhoods: there, social control is already pervasive.

When Secretary of State for Equality Marlène Schiappa decided to move for three days to the city of Trappes to demonstrate attention toward cities with high immigration rates, she tried to stop at a bar “where women are not welcome.” The prefect invited the minister to continue on her way “to avoid an incident.”

A report by the broadcaster France 2 also denounced the disappearance of female presence from bars in French neighborhoods with Muslim majorities. Nadia Remadna and Aziza Sayah, two activists from the Brigade des Mères (Mothers’ Brigade), entered a café in the Paris suburb of Sevran. “It’s better to wait outside. There are men in here; this bar is not mixed,” a customer told them. Another said: “In this café there is no promiscuity. Here there is another mentality. It’s like going back home.”

The Algerian poet Kamel Bencheikh denounced what happened to his daughter in Paris’s nineteenth arrondissement. “She was waiting for the bus with a friend. When it arrived, the driver stopped, looked at them, and drove away without opening the doors.” The driver told Bencheikh’s daughter, who was wearing a miniskirt: “Dress properly.”

In Perpignan, a halal supermarket seeking new employees wants them to be Muslim and male.

In Bordeaux, shops have emerged asking “sisters” to come on Saturdays and Sundays and “brothers” on weekdays.

Secularism, once a sharp weapon against Catholic clericalism, is still invoked in official speeches, but in practice it is sacrificed on the altar of “living together” and the fear of being accused of Islamophobia.

At this moment, 179 new mosques are under construction in the country. There will be a great deal of “diversity” in the future.

Today Muslims in France are 10 percent, perhaps more. 9 million, according to former prime minister François Bayrou. It means 14 percent of the total population.

What do we think will happen when, within a few years, they become 20-30 percent?

200.000 Jews have already left France in thirty years.

The presidential elections of 2027 will be the last opportunity to stop French suicide (and perhaps it may already be too late).

Meanwhile Europe watches from afar the war that will decide, among other things, its own future, against the Islamic Republic of Iran, with the glazed stare of someone who has already abdicated his sovereignty. It is not neutrality, it is paralysis: they are hostages to a demographic and cultural blackmail they cultivated for decades with foolish short-sightedness.

The banlieues of Paris, the neighborhoods of Molenbeek, the suburbs of Malmö or East London, the “difficult areas” of Turin and Milan, are potential powder kegs. Politicians know it. Intelligence services know it. Citizens sense it but are silenced by the ritual accusation of “Islamophobia.” The media self-censor.

Meanwhile, General de Gaulle’s house has gone up for sale.

De Gaulle told an aide in 1959: “Do you think the French political body can absorb 10 million Muslims, who tomorrow will be 20 million and the day after 40 million?”

De Gaulle added that his village, Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, would be renamed “Colombey-les-Deux-Mosquées.”

Today, around Colombey, there are not two mosques, but three.

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Sweden’s Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard recently announced that the Swedish government would be dropping not just the word but the entire concept of “Islamophobia,” out of a preference for freedom of speech.

“We are pushing for the term ‘Islamophobia’ to be replaced with what is called ‘anti-Muslim racism’ or ‘anti-Muslim hatred’ in English,” Stenergard said in response to a question from the Sweden Democrats party. Charges of “racist” or “Islamophobe” are being used worldwide to shut down anyone who questions or criticizes Islam or Islamist doctrines.

Sweden’s decision is long overdue.

“[T]he term Islamophobia is deeply problematic, as it conflates two very different phenomena,” wrote the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) in a 2025 report titled “The Muslim Brotherhood’s Strategic Entryism Into the United States: A Systemic Analysis.”

“On the one hand, there are people who suffer genuine anti-Muslim hatred, bigotry, and discrimination based on their faith or perceived identity. This must always be challenged and addressed, as it undermines pluralism and social cohesion. On the other hand, Islamist organizations have deliberately weaponized the term Islamophobia to shut down scrutiny of their ideology and political activities. By labeling criticism of Islamist ideas or networks as ‘Islamophobic,’ they deliberately blur the line between protecting people and protecting an ideology. This is why Islamophobia is the wrong term—it places an ideology beyond criticism rather than safeguarding individuals from hatred.”

The Swedish initiative should be viewed as part of a historic attempt to deal with the Islamist infiltration of the country.

In May 2025, a French Interior Ministry report, “Muslim Brotherhood and Political Islamism in France,” cited evidence attesting “to [the organization’s] active presence” in Sweden.

According to Le Monde:

“The report asserts that the Swedish branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, ‘though small in size, is characterized by its influence over the movement’s European structures.’ This influence, the report states, ‘is explained by the supply of funding from Qatar, the great tolerance of Sweden’s multiculturalist policies, and the good relations between the movement and local political parties, particularly the Swedish Social Democratic Party.'”

The French report led to the launch of a Swedish government investigation in October 2025 into the Islamist infiltration of Swedish society.

In an interview with the Swedish daily Expressen published on October 1, Sweden’s Education and Integration Minister Simona Mohamsson said:

“We see that political Islam has gained a foothold and is being allowed to take over neighborhoods, schools, welfare, and even risks taking over political parties. Then we need to fight back…. Islamism does not want constitutions but Sharia law. It does not want integration but segregation. It wants men to have control over women and that you are not allowed to love whoever you want…. There are many Islamists who think they know better and that they have taken control of society, and we have let it be. We have not fought back.”

Stenergard also noted that Sweden’s government would be working towards pushing the European Union and the United Nations to follow the Swedish example of stopping the use of “Islamophobia.” It is a most praiseworthy ambition considering the extreme extent to which the concept of Islamophobia has been allowed to become entrenched over the globe, as an entire industry of organizations pumps out material about the perceived offenses against Islam and Muslims — even as bloody attacks meanwhile escalate against Christians and Jews (such as here, here, here, here and here).

Headquartered in Saudi Arabia, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), consisting of 57 Muslim-majority countries, operates an “Islamophobia Observatory,” that has published no fewer than 17 reports on Islamophobia in roughly the past two decades. In 2022, the UN General Assembly established an official “International Day to Combat Islamophobia,” which is observed annually on March 15. In the UK, every November, an entire “Islamophobia Awareness Month ” is observed — including at universities. There are no international UN days to combat Christian-hate or Jew-hate.

The Swedish announcement came in response to inquiries by the Sweden Democrats, who for years have been condemned as “racist” and “Islamophobic” for criticizing the destructive effects that the influx of Muslims into Sweden has had on the country. Sweden is among the countries that have accepted the most Muslim migrants per capita in Europe. Sweden’s generosity has been rewarded by a raft of problems: parallel Islamic societies, no-go zones, and one of the highest reported rape rates in Europe. In addition, migrant gangs have for years been laying waste to Swedish cities by rampant violence, bombings and shootings. All of these problems were probably allowed to spiral out of control from a fear of being called “racist” or “Islamophobic.”

Europe should take notice that Sweden — once a country where naming the multitude of problems linked to Muslim immigration was considered the greatest taboo — has become the first to name one of the greatest obstacles to having an honest public conversation about the roaring Islamic takeover of Europe. It is urgent that other countries follow suit.

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by Thomas Kolbe 

The transformation of the German economy into a green “transition economy” has failed. The consequences of a socialist command economy are reflected in the surging deficits of public budgets. It is a disaster that lays bare the full extent of incompetence and ideological blindness in German politics.

You are all surely familiar with the endlessly repeated phrase: “The budget is the sovereign right of parliament.” Let us ignore for a moment this faintly monarchical undertone, which in the orbit of our democracy’s party cartel translates performatively into an attitude of rule, and instead look at what awaits us in the years ahead.

It will not surprise you: the political menu that the transformation duo Merz-Klingbeil will serve comes with a bill you would otherwise only expect at five-star restaurants. Your plate will arrive largely untouched, but your wallet will be emptied in one stroke — by an outrageously high amount.

On Tuesday, the master of debt, Lars Klingbeil, presented the key figures of the federal budget. For the current year, net new borrowing is set at €98 billion — significantly higher than originally planned. Klingbeil’s budget thus remains marginally below the magical €100 billion debt threshold — one does not want to stir up too much dust in the 2026 super election year. That this figure is somewhat massaged will become apparent in the final accounts, after the elections, when the true fiscal situation is debated in parliament.

What could not yet be achieved this year will certainly be achieved in 2027: Berlin will then break the sound barrier and add another €110 billion to the debt pile of €2.7 trillion within a single year. The debt party will really get going — raise your cups — by 2030, annual new borrowing is expected to reach at least €150 billion. The debt disaster is gaining momentum. Yet so far we have spoken only of the federal budget. Most media coverage focuses solely on the damage inflicted by the top tier of the party-state. However, the supporting pillars of the state — cities and municipalities — are also consuming their substance and living on credit.

Last year, the combined new debt of states and municipalities amounted to €38 billion — out in the provinces, they are hosting their own debt party. The fact that Klingbeil, with the help of his debt-financed special funds, allows a few modest fiscal crumbs to rain down on municipal budgets is met with little more than a shrug, given the catastrophic state of their finances. The consequences of migration chaos and deindustrialization driven by the degrowth agenda are felt first and foremost in local coffers: in former industrial centers, people are now learning what it means to place ideology above reason.

But relief is on the way: a major raid is on the agenda. New taxes — higher levies on tobacco, alcohol, and sugar — are planned, along with increases in inheritance tax and a hefty debate on wealth taxation. After all, anything goes in the land of grand transformation, as long as one thing is ensured: the ever-expanding, ever more expensive state apparatus must be secured at all costs. As mentioned: budget policy is a sovereign right — and the sovereign is now reaching ever deeper into increasingly empty pockets.

I am aware that it may be difficult to imagine Lars Klingbeil as the provisional endpoint of a royal lineage. Yet his spending behavior — set to load at least €800 billion in new debt by 2030 — resembles Caesar-like megalomania: what does the world cost when one can help oneself either to the middle class or to the bond markets, with the European Central Bank as a backstop?

Incidentally, Germany’s debt-to-GDP ratio is expected to rise from the current 63 percent to at least 85 percent by 2030. Not included in these figures are the state’s obligations under pension and retirement systems, which are by no means economically secured. Also excluded are roughly €600 billion in additional debt hidden in more than 20 so-called special funds — Berlin’s off-book shadow budgets — thus kept out of public debate.

The two debt monarchs, Friedrich Merz and Lars Klingbeil, would in principle stand naked if not for the apathetic German taxpayer. He is being burdened with the entire weight of societal transformation, environmentalism, and the multicultural catastrophe — yet too many citizens continue to pay this moral indulgence thoughtlessly and without protest. After all, everything is supposedly at stake: sometimes it is the salvation of the global climate, sometimes the protection of our democracy from corrosive patriotic conservatism — that party spoiler of Berlin’s hippie politics, whose call for a return to bourgeois society is drowned out by the shrill noise of a hysterically overdriven media apparatus.

It is nearly impossible to break through this iron curtain of ideological media work and point to the true severity of Germany’s budgetary situation. But one crucial observation must be made: spending dynamics are out of control. While federal expenditures grew by an average of 2 to at most 3 percent annually over the past decade, we are now seeing an increase of 6 percent last year and likely 7 to 8 percent in 2027. Keep an eye on the bond markets and observe how long the European Central Bank can maintain the illusion of limitless debt financing without the market eventually giving a thumbs-down. Mario Draghi’s famous phrase “Whatever it takes” should remain front of mind in the coming months: it is an unmistakable invitation to inflate away fiscal problems. 

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A Green councillor has posted videos of himself driving a Lamborghini supercar just days after winning a seat in the local elections.

Baggy Khan, 25, took to Instagram to share snaps in a bright orange Lamborghini Huracán Spyder at a wedding despite campaigning for a party that pledges to remove petrol and diesel cars from the roads.

The supercar, which typically sells new for more than £200,000, consumes around 15 miles per gallon, compared with 38 miles per gallon for an average British road car.

The vehicle is powered by a 5.2-litre V10 engine, giving it a top speed of 200mph.

Frequently appearing on his page is a Mercedes with a personalised number plate.

Some users have pointed out the hypocrisy of driving a supercar with significantly more greenhouse gases per kilometre than standard passenger vehicles.

One wrote: “Looks very Green!! NOT! What a joke!!”

Another added: “Green Party campaigning against billionaires and driving a Lambo.”

A third added: “Apparently, this man is a Green councillor, is that right?”

Responding to the critics on social media, Mr Khan said: “Who said councillors can’t drive cars like this?”

The Green Party has faced intense scrutiny and accusations of shifting its focus away from traditional ecological platforms toward identity politics and sectarian campaigning, especially focusing on Gaza.

Since Zack Polanski took over the Party, their recent electoral strategies have triggered significant backlash, including from Sir Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage.

The Prime Minister publicly condemned the Party for engaging in “divisive, sectarian politics” following their by-election victory in Gorton and Denton in February.

In a formal letter to Labour MPs, he argued that the Greens’ campaign tactics prove they “are not the harmless environmentalists they pretend to be” and warned that they were mimicking George Galloway’s faith-based campaigning style.

Nigel Farage branded Green electoral victories in heavily Muslim areas as the result of “sectarian voting and cheating” and further raised questions about democratic integrity by reporting alleged “family voting”.

Furthermore, the Greens advocate a zero-emissions transport strategy that heavily restricts, penalises, and phases out fossil-fuelled vehicles, while explicitly shifting the UK away from private car ownership.

The party demands that all new cars, vans, motorbikes, and scooters sold in the UK must be zero-emission vehicles by 2027.

Any existing petrol or diesel cars would be entirely banned from driving on UK roads by 2035.

Mr Khan has also faced further criticism over a video that appears to show the now councillor filming on his phone whilst behind the wheel.

The 25-year-old previously said: “I am confident that I will be able to prove that I am not guilty of breaking the law. Anyone who knows me will know that I am a clean-cut young man with no criminal record. I give respect to all and am often involved in helping and mediating in the community.

He added: “Labour have framed their story in a fashion to try and tar me with the same brush as those irresponsible drivers who drive at crazy speeds and film themselves whilst putting others at risk, which is absolutely not the case here.

“I got into politics to help my local communities and to represent young people in politics as many are disenfranchised with the gutter politics that have been carrying on for years.”

The Green Party was said to be “internally investigating” the incident.

Mr Khan, the Green Party, and Greater Manchester Police have been contacted for comment.

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Leo, the affable smiling pope, is now a bona fide hero of the secular left and legacy media.

Not only has he captured the minds and hearts of progressive cafeteria Catholics, pro-choice women, and weak men who voted for Kamala Harris, but various open border groups, like the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The USCCB loves him because he speaks less about Catholicism than he does about the new world order while using “peace” as a buzzword to get more and more people to love him.

This first “American” pope who identifies as Latin American, also appeals to atheists and secularists but not to traditional Catholics, many of whom don’t view him as a “holy” pope at all, at least when compared to Saint Pius X, Pius XII, or Leo XIII. Leo is very much a political pope who should be working for the UN and not the Catholic Church.

Like his predecessor Francis, Leo loves giving interviews at 30,000 feet on the papal jet.

He also clearly loves being a celebrity, though this was the case since his days as a seminarian. His pre-ordination years included dressing up as John Belushi with slicked-back black hair, black hooligan hat, sculpted sideburns that conjure up sleazy nightclubs, and sunglasses. In another photograph from the same period – which has never been officially published but somehow wound up in the hands of a distant family member of mine – he’s dressed as Groucho Marx, taken when he was a student at Villanova University.

Villanova, it should be noted, is a Main Line Philadelphia suburban party school where sports is king.

Fast forward several decades after Leo’s time in Latin America as a missionary-liberation theology advocate and communist sympathizer, to the day he was elected on the fourth ballot by progressive cardinals in Rome to put a dent in the Trump presidency. Many were fooled when he greeted the world dressed in traditional vestments, unlike Francis who would go on to make a show of his ostentatious “humility.” Leo smiled, waved, then prayed in Latin, but the intuitively-sensitive picked up a vibe.

A vibe that was not good.

A little confession here. Immediately after his election I checked out a tarot card reader on You Tube who asked the cards (or “spirit”) what kind of pope Leo would be. I expected to have a good laugh but was taken aback when the reader said the new pope would almost be a pacifist obsessed with peace at any cost and that he would initiate some of the most revolutionary changes in the Catholic Church since its founding. The changes would start off slowly, the reader emphasized, but then accelerate in a manner that would shock many Catholics.

I think of that card reader a lot these days as Leo not only turns the Catholic Church on its head but has come forward – as that popular meme so accurately states – like a typical Democrat from Chicago. Leo is more of a secular leader than a spiritual father: blessing a block of ice, honoring Pachamama and Pope Francis’s agenda more than the teachings of Christ, essentially telling Our Lady of Fatima that she was wrong when she told the three shepherds in 1917 that more people go to Hell because of sins of the flesh than any other sin.

“That’s not true,” Leo seems to be firing back at the Mother of God. “You concentrate too much on sex, being uncharitable to migrants is the greatest sin, so take your negativity and stop telling children lies.”

This is the arrogance of Francis’s Synodal Church.

Since his installation (they used to call it a coronation), Leo has appointed radically-liberal clergy to head dioceses throughout the country: easy on abortion-James Martin acolytes who also hate ICE, and the president’s immigration policies.

He refuses  to meet with leaders of the SSPX – the voice of the true Catholic Church as opposed to the diabolical Synodal Church invented by Francis – while meeting with the Obama administration’s David Axelrod and feuding with President Trump, and before that with White House Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations,  Tom Homan, who has said of Pope Leo and the Vatican, “I wish they’d stay out of immigration.”

Homan was correct when he said the pope and the Vatican do not understand the immigration problem the United States is dealing with.

“They’re looking at this from an ivory tower perspective while American families are being destroyed by fentanyl, human trafficking, and criminal cartels,” he said.

Progressive American Catholics and atheistic leftists don’t care about immigration nuance. The latter camp is happy Leo dislikes Trump and fights the administration when it comes to immigration. Both groups think Homan’s concern is made up or exaggerated, an excuse to “hate” the pope. They also brush off allegations brought by the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) and other advocacy organizations that have expressed deep concern over Pope Leo XIV’s past handling of abuse cases.

What happens in Peru, stays in Peru.

The Daily Mail reported on a man named Lopez de Casas, a victim of clergy abuse who happens to be the national vice president of SNAP, who accused Leo of failing to address abuse allegations when he was a bishop in Peru.

“Staying silent is a sin. It’s not what God wants us to do. Jesus wants us to stop these things, not to make a heathy garden for secular abuse to grow,” he told the publication.

This week I read that the National Constitution Center (NCC) in Philadelphia will award Pope Leo its 38th Annual Liberty Medal at a public ceremony to be held July 3, 2026 on Independence Mall.

The Center’s website states: “The award recognizes The Holy Father’s lifelong work promoting religious liberty and freedom of conscience and expression around the world, ideals enshrined by America’s founders in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”

The NCC’s logic defies common sense.

Every pope in recent times has supported “religious liberty and freedom of conscience and expression.”

What the NCC is really awarding Leo for is his standing up to Trump when it comes to immigration and ICE. For years the NCC has walked a haphazard line between conservative and leftwing politics. Former Liberty Medal winners include Bill Clinton, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Muhammad Ali, and Ken Burns, so you know where this institution is coming from.

The NCC is also located in one of the most leftwing cities in the nation, where public schools are encouraged and even rewarded for the promotion of Islam and issues related to Palestine. Much like in Chicago public schools, students in middle and high schools are not penalized when they attend anti-ICE protests. In the Philly public school system, no references are made to Easter while every effort is made to promote Ramadan and other Muslim holidays.

The NCC’s announcement came on the heels of Pope Leo’s appointment of a former illegal alien to the bishopric of West Virginia, Evelio Menjivar- Ayala, born in El Salvador in 1970.  In an interview with (the liberal) U.S. Catholic, Menjivar-Ayala recalls that his impoverished childhood included dreams of one day leaving El Salvador.

“I always dreamed of crossing the border to see what lay beyond,” he said. Menjivar-Ayala’s dream was almost realized when he came to the U.S. in 1990 as an illegal alien when he was smuggled unsuccessfully into the country in the trunk of a car.

Menjivar-Ayala tried three more times to enter the country.  As Monica Showalter writes in American Thinker,

“He tried to enter the U.S. three times, getting thrown out each time until he paid a cartel human smuggler to illegally get him in.

“After that, he filed a what looks like a typical asylum claim, as many do, an economic migrant claiming to be escaping persecution and being deathly afraid of returning to his home country. “

Menjivar-Ayala was not escaping persecution. That was a lie. In the U.S. he worked a number of menial jobs before becoming acquainted with Chicago’s leftwing clerical cabal. In due time, he was appointed a Deacon by the defrocked sexual predator, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of Washington, D.C., accused of molesting handsome seminarians.

Showalter questions in her article if Menjivar-Ayala was ever “courted” by McCarrick and then showered with favors (the Deaconate) from the sugar daddy.

The appointment of Menjivar-Ayala to West Virginia, a Protestant  majority state with only 60,000 Catholics, 90% white and that voted for Trump by 42 points, is also very queer. Obviously, there is a Vatican agenda here to do everything possible to help transform the state politically. Leo’s move is much like the EU’s forced immigration policies that have gone a long way to destroy much of Europe, especially France, the UK, and Ireland.

Menjivar-Ayala also told U.S. Catholic:

“The church was very instrumental in helping people organize themselves after the watershed 1968 meeting of Latin American Bishops in Medellín, Colombia. That awakened a sense of social awareness and a closeness, a conscious awakening.

“People began to join different organizations and to read the Bible from that perspective. Seeing faith from that perspective brings liberation, not only salvation in heaven but liberation from what oppresses you here on Earth.”

The last paragraph can be used to justify both the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Most of the devastation from this pontificate is yet to come. True Catholics are in for a real heartbreak.

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