NCF Senior Fellow Emma Trimble debates the issue of illegal migrants on GB News.
Burkini ban ruled ‘discriminatory’ by Austrian court
An Austrian court has ruled that a hotel’s ban on burkinis, full-body swimsuits worn by some Muslim women, in its swimming pool amounts to religious discrimination, upholding a fine already imposed on the establishment.
The two complainants, sisters and practising Muslims, were refused access to the pool at a hotel in the Pongau district of Salzburg province, western Austria, because staff enforced a rule that effectively banned burkinis.
The Salzburg Regional Administrative Court (Landesverwaltungsgericht) determined that the ban was not justified by legitimate hygiene or safety reasons and breached anti-discrimination provisions, dismissing the operator’s appeal and confirming the penalty notices issued by the Pongau district administration, Austrian daily Heute reported.
According to the court, the hotel operator had discriminated against the two women on the basis of their religious beliefs and prevented them from using a service.
“As managing director of the hotel, you prohibited two hotel guests from using the hotel’s own swimming pool on the grounds that wearing burkinis is not allowed. In doing so, you discriminated against these people on the basis of their religious beliefs,” the ruling stated.
It stressed that burkinis are made of the same materials as other swimwear and that routine water checks had not revealed any abnormalities. The court added that “subjective feelings of other guests cannot legally legitimise unequal treatment”.
Statements by the hotel operator weighed heavy for the court. She reportedly stated that the guests must adhere to “Austrian customs” and that burkinis were more fitting in Saudi Arabia. According to the court, this was direct discrimination on religious grounds.
Earlier, the responsible ministry stated in a parliamentary inquiry that a burkini was neither harmful to the water nor unhygienic. Austria’s Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) reached a similar conclusion in 2020, finding that swimwear has no relevant significance as a source of germs.
In a reaction to the verdict, one of the two women who filed the complaint, a lawyer who describes herself as a peace activist, stated: “For the good of all of us, it should not be about whether people dress or undress, but about how we treat each other, because respect and humanity are the basis for peaceful coexistence, which is vital for all of us.”
‘I identify as a trolleybus!’ – A public transport company in Czechia draws fire from LGBT groups over anniversary slogan
Prague’s public transport operator has found itself in hot water with human rights groups after rolling out special vehicles to mark the 90th anniversary of the city’s first trolleybuses. The campaign features eye-catching purple-and-white buses and a tram carrying the slogan “I identify as a trolleybus!”
The stickers appeared in mid-May as part of DPP’s promotional visuals shared on social media. Two buses and one tram now operate with the eye-catching design and provocative wording. While the company presents the effort as a light-hearted celebration of the shift toward emission-free electric trolleybus services, critics argue the phrasing crosses a line.
Human rights organizations that support transgender and non-binary people have condemned the slogan.
“But attacks are not only directed against trans and non-binary people. It is a broader effort to discredit the entire younger generation, who are concerned with their identity and refuse to be pushed into the pre-prepared boxes set out for them by their parents or society,“ stated the Prague Pride association, according to Czech news outlet Idnes.cz.
DPP defends the campaign as harmless personification
DPP spokesperson Daniel Šabík rejected suggestions that the slogan targets any group of people. He described it as a deliberate advertising exaggeration meant to give human traits to vehicles.
“Part of the visual ‘bus in the design of the trolleybus’ and the related slogan is the personification or anthropomorphization of means of transport, which receive human characteristics in a certain form of advertising exaggeration,” Šabík told Qult magazine. “It is a visual and sloganic abbreviation in the highly positive spirit of the transformation of the diesel bus service used so far into a modern, locally emission-free trolleybus service. This is in no way a comment on the personal identity of any group of people.”
Prague Pride association pushes back
The Prague Pride association disagreed sharply. In a statement, the group said the slogan spreads the misconception that individuals identify as objects and contributes to efforts aimed at discrediting human rights discussions more broadly.
“But attacks are not only directed against trans and non-binary people,” the association stated. “It is a broader effort to discredit the entire younger generation, who are concerned with their identity and refuse to be pushed into the pre-prepared boxes set out for them by their parents or society.”
The controversy has also reached Prague’s political leadership. Zdeněk Hřib, chairman of the Pirates party and former deputy mayor responsible for transport, called the marketing choice inappropriate.
“I consider this marketing slogan inappropriate and I will draw this to the attention of the DPP marketing department,” Hřib said.
Current deputy mayor for transport Jaromír Beránek, a fellow Pirate, has expressed agreement with Hřib’s assessment. The Prague municipality is expected to raise the issue directly with DPP’s marketing team.
‘PEOPLE VERSUS THE ESTABLISHMENT’: Reform Leader Nigel Farage Resigns From Parliament, Triggers a By Election, Announces He Will Run for the Seat to Let the People Decide
Under multiple, relentless parliamentary investigations and harassed by some news outlets, Reform UK leader – and favorite to be the next Prime Minister – Nigel Farage has announced his resignation as the MP for Clacton.
But he also announced that he will participate in the ‘people versus the establishment’ by-election.
GB News reported:
“Addressing the nation with a live statement, Mr. Farage said: ‘I could go out and try and make some real big money. I could go to the USA where I’ve got plenty of offers.
‘And then I thought, why should I be judged today or in the future by Sky News or the media? Why should they be the people that decide my fate when as I repeat I’ve done nothing wrong?’
‘I’ve thought about it hard and I’ve decided about it today, today I will resign as a Member of Parliament for Clacton-on-Sea, thereby forcing a by-election which would happen I hope in short order’.”
BREAKING: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage announcing his resignation from Parliament before revealing he'll run in the by-election for his seat to let voters decide.
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 7, 2026
Calling it a "people versus the establishment" contest, Farage says the people of Clacton—not the press—should be… pic.twitter.com/qhV1195QM6
BBC reported:
“Mr Farage has faced questions over a large amount of money given to him before his election, in early 2024, by a billionaire Reform UK donor, which he had not declared.
The Sunday Times newspaper has also reported he had not declared benefits, including staff and security, given to him from a different political supporter.
Members of Parliament are supposed to register any “gifts, benefits or hospitality” worth over £300.
New MPs must register gifts they received 12 months before becoming an MP.”
Farage’s party colleague Suella Braverman, former Home Secretary, went out in defense of Farage.
‘He is the victim of an establishment witch hunt.’
— GB News (@GBNEWS) July 7, 2026
Suella Braverman reacts to the establishment media targeting Nigel Farage’s family and the attacks on him, which carry risks to his personal safety.
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‘This is about asking the people. It’s a very noble act that Nigel has done today.’
— GB News (@GBNEWS) July 7, 2026
Reform UK’s Suella Braverman says the costs of the Clacton by-election will be paid by the Reform UK Party in order not to waste taxpayers' money. pic.twitter.com/WsKMqtI6gp
Several people wounded in attack at German school as police ‘cannot rule out possibility of school shooting’
Police officers have rushed to a high school in Germany after several people have been injured in an attack authorities are considering as a school shooting.
More than 15 patrol cars were called to the Welfen-Gymnasium in Schongau, Upper Bavaria, this afternoon, where a suspected perpetrator has been arrested by officers at the scene just southwest of Munich.
The alarm was raised to emergency services at around 12.50pm local time (11.50am BST), having took place during school hours.
A police spokesperson told local media: “We cannot rule out the possibility of a school shooting.”
Shock Report: Macron and France Were Prepared for ‘War’ with America After Maduro Raid
French President Emmanuel Macron said his country was willing to engage in a “shooting war” with the U.S. earlier this year, according to a report.
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Macron made the decision earlier this year after American forces carried out a precision strike in Venezuela that led to the arrest of former dictator Nicolas Maduro.
The French president reportedly made comments about fighting Americans over Greenland, the desolate Danish island that could prove crucial to keeping non-NATO powers out of the North Atlantic.
With President Donald Trump expressing his desire to acquire the island as a territory for the U.S., coupled with the success of the raid to capture Maduro for drug crimes, Macron reportedly was prepared to fight one of his country’s oldest allies — an ally that twice saved it from German aggression in the last century.
In a report with multiple authors, the Journal reported:
It was almost midnight in Brussels and the leaders of Europe were locked in their fifth hour of an emergency meeting with a single theme for discussion: how to manage a breakup with America.
The new year was only three weeks old and President Trump, after removing Venezuela’s autocratic strongman, had briefly threatened to seize Greenland from Denmark. Around a circular table in the European Council headquarters known as “The Space Egg,” heads of government were venting so emotionally about the 47th president that some of the nearly 30 leaders present would later call the session “therapy night.”
In a room where no phones or recording devices were permitted, Macron reportedly said, “We are drawing a line here.”
The Journal further reported:
Have Wrinkles
Now, French soldiers were in Greenland, alongside Danish special forces equipped for a shooting war with America. The French president repeated an argument he’d been pressing for years, with mounting urgency: that Europe’s overreliance on America was a security risk. “There is no going back,” he said.
Other European leaders at the meeting are said to have grumbled that under Trump, the U.S. was operating differently than it had in previous decades.
As opposed to protecting European interests without question and no matter the cost, American diplomats representing the Trump administration were seeking compensation and fair deals, which irked many in the room.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was not in the room, but was reportedly on the phone with several European leaders.
According to the report, Carney “had been regularly messaging Europe’s major leaders using a British phone number from his time in London, trying to persuade them that ‘the old America isn’t coming back.’”
According to the Journal, many European leaders have spent the months since the meeting encouraging one another to stop using American technology and services.
The newspaper stated:
“Authorities from France to the Netherlands are quietly removing American tech from their systems, adopting European open-source software and urging civil servants to no longer use Microsoft Teams or Office. Belatedly, they are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to try to boost Europe’s own private space firms, AI companies, and data centers, to avoid leaning on U.S. juggernauts.”
Man targets ‘Christian religious symbols’ in attack on French Catholic church, priest says
A Catholic church in Mulhouse, France, was vandalized after a man damaged an altar cross and three confessionals before leaving the building.
On July 5, according to reports from Le Figaro and Tribune Chrétienne, a man entered Saint-Étienne Catholic Church in Mulhouse, in France’s Haut-Rhin department, and vandalized several liturgical furnishings. Notably, no property was stolen.
The church, which is open to the public each day, was empty at the time. The episode lasted about five minutes and was recorded by the church’s video surveillance system. The footage reportedly shows the suspect entering the sanctuary “in shorts, bare‑chested and barefoot,” throwing the altar cross to the floor.
According to Le Figaro, “the same individual then grabbed a vase and spilled its contents – water and flowers – onto the altar. He continued his rampage with his face fully visible, ripping open the doors of three confessionals using the cross as a crowbar.” Some of those confessionals date from the early 19th century. Thanks to the surveillance cameras, it was also possible to see that “the perpetrator fled with a second individual” who was waiting outside.
“He persisted and targeted Christian religious symbols,” said Father Pascal Boulic, parish priest of Saint-Étienne. Boulic also said that, during the five years since he arrived in Mulhouse, the parish had “never experienced” an incident of this kind.
Following the report filed by the priest on July 6, a 37‑year‑old man was arrested for vandalism. However, the president of the Grand Est region, Franck Leroy, has already cautioned in a statement that it will first be necessary to clarify “his degree of discernment at the time of the events.” The vandal’s identity has not been disclosed.
In recent months, France has witnessed a dramatic collapse of the sense of the sacred, visible both in the growing number of violent profanations against Catholic churches and in the permissive attitude of much of the clergy. In Paris last month, churches were used as venues for performances with occult or blasphemous symbolism, approved by ecclesiastical authorities, during the city’s “Nuit Blanche” exhibition.
Teen girl (allegedly) raped in park by a Muslim migrant, officials refer to him as a ‘tanned European’
by Olivia Murray
England, your ‘police’ are not police. They are the janissaries of your invaders.”
This comment was made in response to a video which showed some sort of sub-Saharan migrant randomly karate-kicking an English man sitting atop his bicycle, only to have the police rush in and defend the aggressor and shuffle him away to freedom. No arrests, nothing.
But, the comment also applies to the Scottish “police,” who recently spoke to media about a rape of a minor girl in a Glasgow park, describing her attacker as a “tanned European” man—the rapist had escaped after the crime, and was on the lam. Here’s how The Scottish Sun reported the sicko’s description:
ATTACK MANHUNT Girl, 16, raped in Glasgow park by ‘tanned, European’ man as cops issue fresh update
The man is described as being in his 30s with tanned complexion, possibly European, and being of an average height and build.
If you didn’t know better and you were only going off what the cops said, you’d be on the lookout for…a tanned European man. But, if you’re someone with any sort of political awareness, you’d take the description with a grain of salt, acknowledging the chances a “tanned European” man raped a young girl in a park were next to zero, and something was amiss. And you’d be right—they quickly caught the alleged rapist, and he actually ended up being Hamid Wali, a Muslim invader. From BBC:
A man has appeared in court charged with the rape of a teenager at a park in Glasgow.
Hamid Wali is alleged to have pushed the 16-year-old into bushes at Springburn Park before attacking her on the evening of 26 June.
Was it a “mostly peaceful” rape too?
“Police” like this are in fact the household troops for the invading Islamic hordes, with what appears to be undying loyalty to the caliphate cause.
Careful of those “tanned European” folks, they’ll get you!
Germany: Lebanese nursing trainee strangles 91-year-old woman to death but will serve no prison time
A German court has ordered a 23-year-old Lebanese nursing trainee placed in a psychiatric hospital indefinitely after ruling that he strangled a 91-year-old patient to death in a Chemnitz nursing home.
Mouemen A. killed Klara Liane M. at noon on Jan. 18 in the woman’s room by strangling her with part of her pajamas, the court found at the end of security proceedings. The court determined there was no doubt that the Lebanese man had killed the woman but he could not be held criminally responsible because of his mental illness.
The court found that voices in his head forced the man to murder the woman because he suffers from schizophrenia. The mental disorder developed while the nursing trainee was still living in Lebanon. Schizophrenia then developed further in Germany as well, according to German outlet Tag24.
“They had felt persecuted and developed delusions,” said Judge Janko Ehrlich, 53, while explaining his verdict.
Due to the illness, Ehrlich told the Lebanese man: “You can’t help it.”
Remix News reported on the story earlier this month, where Senior Public Prosecutor Ingrid Burghart confirmed that the suspect has made no statement about the alleged crime. Some German media outlets are reporting that the victim was strangled with her own pajamas, while others say that her swimsuit was used as a ligature.
Now, it has been determined that Mouemen A. will be permanently placed in a psychiatric hospital and it is possible that the killer could also be deported during this time.
It remains unclear what kind of screening and hiring policies allowed for a man with a history of mental illness to obtain employment working with vulnerable elderly patients.
Le Pen can pursue 2027 bid but uncertainty remains
Marine Le Pen has moved closer to a fourth bid for the French presidency after the Paris Court of Appeal on July 7 reduced the ineligibility imposed on her in the case over the misuse of European Parliament funds allocated for parliamentary assistants.
The appeal court confirmed that the leader of the National Rally (RN), formerly the Front National (FN), was guilty of misusing European Parliament funds and of complicity in the scheme. It cut her ban from public office from the five years handed down at first instance to 45 months, 30 of them suspended.
Her prison sentence was reduced to three years, two of them suspended, with the remaining year to be served at home under electronic monitoring. A €100,000 fine formed part of the original penalty.
The court found that the 15 months of the ban still to be served were already covered by the provisional execution of her 2025 conviction, meaning that Marine Le Pen remains eligible to run.
Le Pen has been ineligible since the Paris Correctional Court convicted her on March 31, 2025, when it imposed a five-year ban that took effect immediately.
“The court finds that the instigator is a more dangerous accomplice than the person who provides help or assistance,” the presiding judge said.
The ruling removes the principal legal obstacle that had threatened Le Pen’s ability to contest France’s 2027 presidential election, the first round of which is set for April 18 and the run-off for May 2.
The decision is a victory for the French right-wing party, which has maintained throughout the proceedings that Le Pen should remain its presidential candidate.
The electronic tag attached to her prison term remains a potential obstacle, though.
In a July 2, 2026 interview with LCI, Le Pen said that “when you’re a presidential candidate, you have to be completely free to move about” and that this would not be possible “if you’re wearing an electronic tag”.
Prosecutors had described Le Pen as the head of the arrangement, which they said allowed some €1.4 million to be diverted and which was built up under her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen. They asked the court on February 3, 2026 for a five-year ban without immediate effect, four years in prison with one to be served under electronic monitoring, and a €100,000 fine.
The appeal ruling also confirmed convictions for several other figures linked to the case. Louis Aliot, mayor of Perpignan, southern France, and an RN vice-president, received a one-year suspended sentence and a two-year suspended ban, allowing him to keep his mayoralty.
Nicolas Bay, a sitting MEP, and Bruno Gollnisch, a former MEP, were also convicted, though their sentences varied. The court’s reasoning emphasised that a party leader bears particular responsibility for ensuring compliance with financial rules.
The first-instance court found that the party’s system had diverted more than €4 million of European Parliament funds between 2004 and 2016, using money intended for assistants in Brussels to pay party staff in France.
During the appeal trial, the RN denied operating any such system and said it had acted in “good faith”. Le Pen has consistently denied wrongdoing.
The March 2025 verdict drew condemnation from US President Donald Trump and vice-president JD Vance, who cast it as politically motivated.
President Emmanuel Macron cannot seek a third consecutive term, and Le Pen has led early polling for the contest, giving the ruling wide significance for the race.
Marine Le Pen is expected to respond in a television interview on the evening of July 7, having left the court without speaking to reporters. She may still challenge the ruling before the Court of Cassation, France’s highest court, within 10 days, though it is unclear whether such an appeal would suspend the sentence.
If she decides not to run, the RN is expected to field its president, Jordan Bardella, 30, who has led the party since 2022 and headed its lists in the 2024 European Parliament and legislative elections.
If she decides not to run, it will be the first presidential election since 1988 without a member of the Le Pen family on the ballot, ending more than three decades in which the family has been the dominant force of the French right-wing presidential campaigns.