The Shakespeare National Trust determines that Shakespeare is ‘not to be’

By Andrea Widburg

William Shakespeare has long been considered one of England’s great men because of his extraordinary output of timeless plays and sonnets. They that shaped the English language as well as exporting ideas about British culture…not because the Brits foisted his works on others, but because others recognized their beauty and universality.

Now, though, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, as part of the nation’s push for national suicide, which is the premier Shakespeare organization in England, has decided that Shakespeare is just too…English, and that’s bad. In answer to Hamlet’s question (“to be or not to be”), the Trust has determined that Shakespeare is not to be.

Once, every educated person had seen or read at least some Shakespeare plays. His comedies made us laugh, his histories taught us about the nature of power and reminded us that those who are high can be brought low and vice versa, and his tragedies’ continued popularity revealed that the human condition is unchanging and that human folly brings disaster in its wake.

Yes, these plays were set in England (even the plays set in Italy or ancient Rome were still set in England), but they had a universality that saw them rise above time and place. Add in Shakespeare’s exquisite prose, which shaped the English language for centuries after he died, and you had something that made, and should still make, the British very proud.

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However, as Shakespeare himself knew, human folly remains constant, and nothing reveals greater folly than the left’s march on Western culture.

Britain definitely did bad things over the centuries. After all, it kicked every Jew out of England for hundreds of years (so Shakespeare had never seen a Jew when he created Shylock) it was one of the major participants in the African slave trade, it was one of the world’s major colonizers, and it treated factory workers badly during the beginning of the industrial revolution. Bad Britain!

But, because events must be understood within the times in which they occur, the entire medieval world was antisemitic, every nation in the history of humankind relied on slavery, every powerful nation in the history of world practiced colonialism, and all Western nations allowed workers to be abused in the early days of industrialism. In other words, Britain was no worse than the nations around her.

When Britain was good, though, she was very, very good. It was Britain’s Great Awakening, a religious crisis of conscience, that led to the abolition of slavery, the end of child labor, and the general improvement of working conditions.

And while Britain was a colonialist, Niall Ferguson has pointed out something fascinating: Former British colonies, wherever they are in the world, have thrived, exceeding nations in their regions that others had colonized (and everyone was colonizing everyone, whether Western, Asian, or Muslim). In other words, while we moderns can rant against the evils of colonization, everyone was doing it, and the lucky nations got England as their rulers.

Here in America, a former British colony that rose to be the most successful nation in the world, we thrived because the British gave us their ideas about individual liberty. Thank you, Britain! We parted ways with you when you abandoned your own principles, but we kept the principles.

In other words, England’s history is a mixed bag but it was better than most—and the British, while they shouldn’t deny the bad, should mostly be proud of the good.

But now, having drowned itself in a sea of leftism, and imported millions of people who believe that their culture (Islam) is infinitely superior to that of their new home, Britain has determined that Shakespeare, who was practically the avatar of the best of Britain, must be jettisoned. To that end, his birthplace will be cleansed of Britain’s “colonialist” stain:

William Shakespeare’s birthplace is being “decolonised” following concerns about the playwright being used to promote “white supremacy”.

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It is now “decolonising” its vast collection to “create a more inclusive museum experience”.

This process includes exploring “the continued impact of Empire” on the collection, the “impact of colonialism” on world history, and how “Shakespeare’s work has played a part in this”.

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The process of “decolonising”, which typically means moving away from Western perspectives, comes after concerns were raised that Shakespeare’s genius was used to advance ideas about “white supremacy”.

The claims were made in a 2022 collaborative research project between the trust and Dr Helen Hopkins, an academic at the University of Birmingham.

The problem was that the Trust dared present Shakespeare’s ideas as genius universal ruminations about power, folly, love, and tragedy. Nothing, it seems, could be more evil:

“This idea of Shakespeare’s universal genius ‘benefits the ideology of white European supremacy’, it was claimed.”

The audacity! What this means is that those who dare admire Shakespeare are guilty of “white Anglo-centric, Eurocentric, and increasingly ‘West-centric’ worldviews that continue to do harm in the world today.”  This admiration causes “epistemic violence” (a nonsense phrase meaning it makes leftists sad).

In an interview with Laura Ingraham, JD Vance warned that “Europe is at risk of engaging in civilizational suicide.” He spoke in terms of open borders and totalitarian speech control. He’s right, of course. But those are the manifestations of something deeper: For over 100 years, leftists have brainwashed Europeans into believing that the civilization they built is so flawed that their very existence is evil. Marinated in those beliefs, civilizational suicide is the only reasonable option.

And so, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, which once existed to celebrate Britain’s greatest man of letters, must now go out of its way to expose the evil inherent in his work.

What’s happening at Shakespeare’s birthplace is another reason America really needs to pull out of NATO, because there’s nothing left in Europe to defend. We are simply giving money to people who hate the West and America, and who are dedicating themselves to the downfall of both.

The Shakespeare National Trust determines that Shakespeare is ‘not to be’ – American Thinker

Woman Doused with Gasoline and Set on Fire on Tram in Germany

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A woman on a tram in Germany suffered life-threatening injuries after she was covered with gasoline and set on fire by an unknown attacker in the small city of Gera.

At around 10 am local time, a 46-year-old woman was approached by an unknown assailant, who poured gasoline over her and set her on fire while on the Gera tram in eastern Thuringia.

Immediately after the woman was set ablaze, fellow passengers pressed the emergency stop button on the tram, police spokeswoman Katja Ridder said per Bild.

However, the attacker could flee the scene because the tram’s emergency stop function also opened all of the train doors.

The tram driver quickly grabbed a fire extinguisher and used it to put out the fire engulfing the woman. She received medical attention on the scene before being flown by helicopter to a nearby hospital. She remains in a life-threatening condition.

Thuringian police have launched a major search operation for the suspect in the city of Gera and the surrounding area.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/03/16/woman-doused-with-gasoline-and-set-on-fire-on-german-tram

Police are looking for 46-year-old Tengizi Kakiashvili (see photo).


Mr. Kakiashvili is about 180 cm tall, of Georgian origin and dressed in a black work jacket with a blue address. He was also wearing a black cap at the time of the crime. Furthermore, Mr. Kakiashvili and the victim are related to each other. He is her husband.

At the present time, it cannot be ruled out that the wanted man poses a danger to the public. If you come across Mr. Kakiashvili or can provide information about his current whereabouts, please inform the criminal investigation department in Gera (Tel. 0365 / 8234 – 1465) or any other police station immediately. Please do not put yourself in danger!

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Shakespeare’s birthplace to be ‘decolonised’ over concerns playwright promotes ‘white supremacy’

The tourists’ entrance to Shakespeare’s house is via the adjacent Shakespeare Centre opened in 1964. Wikimedia Commons, Snowmanradio, CC-BY-SA-3.0

The birthplace of William Shakespeare is undergoing “decolonisation” after concerns were raised after the bard was being deployed to promote “white supremacy”.

Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust owns a number of buildings across Stratford-upon-Avon, as well as a collection of personal documents of the famous playwright.

Now, the trust is now “decolonising” its collection of artefacts to “create a more inclusive museum experience”.

The museum curators will carry out further analysis on the “impact of colonialism” on world history and the ways in which “Shakespeare’s work has played a part in this”.

Certain items in its archives might include “language or depictions that are racist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise harmful”, the trust said.

The change comes as the playwright receives significant posthumous backlash against his works – many of which have had trigger warnings for racism, sexism and violence.

Several years ago, findings of a research project between Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust and the University of Birmingham’s Dr Helen Hopkins indicated that the writer’s works “benefits the ideology of white European supremacy”, The Telegraph reports.

The research argues that European culture was forced to become the world standard for high art via “colonial inculcation” and that Shakespeare was deployed as a symbol of “British cultural superiority”.

The researchers declared that such a narrative was harmful and urged the trust to stop referring to the playwright as the “greatest” writer and encouraged them to say that he was part of a group of “equal and different” international authors.

The trust received funding from an organisation – named the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation – that works to encourage diversity and inclusion and provide a more international perspective in the museum’s curation.

The museum has attempted to incorporate more international events into its calendar by, for instance, adding in a Romeo and Juliet-themed dance class.

It is also working towards analysing how artefacts could be differently interpreted to tell more diverse and inclusive stories.

Offensive language will also be removed from its collections as they conduct a “long, thoughtful” process.

A statement from the trust said: “As part of our ongoing work, we’ve undertaken a project which explores our collections to ensure they are as accessible as possible.”

The trust’s process comes amid public indignation against “woke” trigger warnings on Shakespeare’s plays, as a university slaps over 200 warnings on his works for depictions of storms and the action of popping a balloon.

High-profile actors have condemned such actions, including Dame Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, arguing that it reduces the shocking impact of theatre.

https://www.gbnews.com/news/shakespeare-birthplace-decolonised-white-supremacy-concerns-stratford-upon-avon

Polish, Hungarian conservatives partner with Heritage Foundation to challenge globalist EU

Jerzy Kwaśniewski

Editorial note: Ordo Iuris and MCC’s use of the expression “The Great Reset” is both ironic and suggestive of their radical proposed changes to the current federalist European Union.

A wave of hysteria was unleashed this week following a presentation at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC, of a blueprint for sweeping reform of the European Union. 

The formerly USAID-funded, left-wing Central European media outlet VSquare expressed dismay, writing: 

The Trump administration’s most influential think tank, The Heritage Foundation, is receiving proposals from illiberal [sic] forces in Poland and Hungary on how to shape the future of the European Union. The proposals, obtained by VSquare, include dismantling key EU institutions and renaming the entire bloc. 

The article, widely reproduced in European media, was entitled: “Renaming the EU, Dismantling the Commission: What Polish and Hungarian Illiberals Seek U.S. Backing For.” 

Indeed, a presentation of the report “The Great Reset: Restoring Member State Sovereignty in the European Union” did take place on March 11 at an event organized in Washington by the influential Heritage Foundation. The report was prepared by Poland’s Ordo Iuris Institute and Hungary’s Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) and presents two possible scenarios for reforming the European Union to restore democracy and the sovereignty of its member states. 

This was one of several events in the United States attended by Ordo Iuris representatives. This first ‘live’ presentation of these preliminary reform proposals—charting a course different from that envisioned by Brussels elites—took place ahead of the scheduled March 18 presentation in Budapest and the March 26 presentation in Brussels. 

There will undoubtedly be more such presentations (one is already planned for Warsaw, though the exact date remains unknown). This is especially relevant as the push for an alternative EU reform project extends beyond Poland’s Ordo Iuris and Hungary’s MCC, encompassing a broader coalition of right-wing, conservative circles across Europe. 

Democracy at risk: Two competing visions for the European Union 

In fact, the initiative to develop a counterproposal to the reform plan voted on by the European Parliament in November 2023—strongly backed by the French President and the German Chancellor—began at a conference jointly organized in September in Warsaw by Ordo Iuris and The Heritage Foundation. The conference, titled “On the Threshold of the State of Europe: Economy, Defense, Ideology, and the Protection of Sovereignty in a Transatlantic Perspective,” gathered representatives of think tanks, politicians, academics, social activists, and public intellectuals from Poland, Spain, France, the UK, Italy, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, and the USA. 

“The Heritage Foundation is now planning to destroy the EU—with the help of Polish and Hungarian partners,” wrote New York Times columnist Anne Applebaum in reaction to the VSquare article on social media.  

Applebaum is the wife of Poland’s Foreign Minister, Radosław Sikorski (to whom Elon Musk recently referred as ‘a Soros puppet amid their high-profile feud on X). and a vocal Trump critic. During last year’s presidential campaign in the U.S., she went so far as to write, “Trump is speaking like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini.”  

However, it was not the Heritage Foundation that authored the report but rather two independent European think tanks. Moreover, Europe’s democracy- and freedom-oriented patriotic circles are invited to contribute to the ongoing work on this preliminary draft. 

Elon Musk himself has drawn comparisons between the contemporary European Union and the former Soviet Union in his X posts, while U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance warned at the Munich Security Conference: 

 The threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. What I worry about is the threat from within—the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America. 

A reform plan rooted in the Communist Ventotene Manifesto, as championed by zealous Euro-federalists such as MEP Guy Verhofstadt, Emmanuel Macron, and former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, would spell the end of democracy on the continent—unless it brought the disintegration of the European Union. Their plan is not merely federalist but outright centralist. 

The Ordo Iuris Institute detailed this in last year’s report, “Why Do We Need Sovereignty? Ten Areas of the Proposed Surrender of National Sovereignty in Light of the European Parliament’s Resolution on Proposals for the Amending of the Treaties.” 

By contrast, the alternative vision proposed by European conservatives is outlined in the newly presented report: “The Great Reset: Restoring Member State Sovereignty in the European Union.” 

In response to Anne Applebaum’s criticism, the president of Ordo Iuris took to X, stating: 

 The Great Reset provides for the restoration of true freedom and sovereign power to states. A common market free from overregulation. An end to bureaucratic rules. A flexible, multi-speed European Union ready for global challenges. 

The need for such an alternative reform project is growing more urgent, with the goal of Making Europe Great Again. While U.S. President Donald Trump has criticized the EU as “nasty” in the context of trade policies, the bloc is becoming increasingly oppressive and indeed nasty in a political sense. 

The liberal left in Europe now sees Ukraine’s war and America’s new approach to this war under Donald Trump as an opportunity to accelerate “European integration”—which, in reality, translates into further centralization of power in the hands of unelected Eurocrats who cannot be held accountable by voters. 

Even without waiting for formal treaty reforms—currently being discreetly advanced by European elites with little media scrutiny—the European Commission and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) are already asserting that EU law and its interpretation by the CJEU should take precedence over national constitutions. This would directly subordinate the judiciary and constitutional courts of EU member states to Luxembourg-based judges, effectively sidelining national democratic processes. 

A judicial European superstate is being built in place of parliamentary democracies, bypassing the will of national electorates. This shift is underscored by recent developments, such as the cancellation of Romania’s presidential election, the EU-funded “militant democracy” in Poland (a pretext for liberal-left control), and EU Commissioner Thierry Breton’s chilling declaration that the EU could intervene in Germany if the AfD were to win, and also elsewhere, just as it did in Romania. 

Why ‘The Great Reset’ of the European Union? 

The Heritage Foundation’s interest in this project stems from the fact that Americans have a vested interest in the trajectory of their European allies. Western civilization requires both a strong American democracy and a vibrant, democratic Europe. Such a Europe cannot exist without strong, democratic, and sovereign nation-states. 

The conversation should therefore shift away from the Brussels elite’s vision of reform and toward a grassroots-driven transformation of the European Union. This alternative path involves moving away from the communist-inspired superstate model, envisioned by the Ventotene Manifesto (explicitly referenced in the European Parliament’s 2023 reform proposal), and returning to the Christian democratic vision of Robert Schuman, one of the founding fathers of post-war European integration. 

Schuman once wrote, “Democracy must be Christian, or there will be no democracy at all.” 

Today, we see just how true those words are—on both sides of the Atlantic.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/polish-hungarian-conservatives-partner-with-heritage-foundation-to-challenge-globalist-eu/?utm_source=most_recent&utm_campaign=usa

Austrian identitarian leader Martin Sellner calls for remigration after highlighting sex crimes committed by migrants

Austrian identitarian leader Martin Sellner took to social media on Friday to call attention to four sex crimes committed by migrants that were reported on in his home country just within the previous week. He then used the cases to in order to highlight the fact that immigrant crime is out of control. Crime statistics have shown that rape is being perpetrated by migrants at highly disproportionate levels in many Western European countries.

Sellner posted four news headlines from the Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung regarding these crimes that had been translated into English.

“4 Headlines from just one Week in Austria,” Sellner wrote. “[Elon] Musk called this systemic r4pe of our woman ‘genocidal.’ I don’t think this is an exaggeration.”

Sellner then added, “Be aware: If you are against remigration you are complicit.”

Sellner is likely referring to entrepreneur and Trump administration official Elon Musk’s recent tweets in which he has attacked the British government for ignoring the widespread rape and abuse of young girls by migrant “grooming gangs” over the course of years. In one such tweet in January, Musk referred to these crimes as well as the failures of British law enforcement as “genocidal rape.”

Viennese teacher raped and then blackmailed by teenage migrants

The first story that Sellner shared was about a 29-year-old Viennese woman working as a teacher who was allegedly raped by seven teenagers between the ages of 14 and 17. The young men are also being charged with extortion and arson. Five of them are currently being held in custody, according to Vienna’s Prosecutor’s Office.

The suspects are reported to be of Afghan, Austrian, Iraqi, and Romanian nationality.

The Viennese woman allegedly began an “intimate relationship” with the oldest of the teens last year and became pregnant. The teen pressured her to have an abortion, although the teacher ultimately lost her baby through natural causes.

The victim is then said to have been blackmailed with recordings of her sexual encounters with the teen, which would have been sent to the school where she was employed, in order to force her to provide and pay for drugs. She was subsequently raped by three of the accused over the course of several hours on two separate days. They also set fire to her apartment.

It took nearly a year for the victim, who was in a state of fear, to come forward. The accused teens have all exercised their right to remain silent.

Two teenage girls abducted by migrants and then brutally raped

The second story recounts the case of two girls in Vienna, ages 14 and 15, who were lured into an abandoned office building by two Algerian migrants. They were then drugged and raped.

The migrants tricked the girls by telling them that they would be taken to a party if they got into a cab with them at around midnight. When they arrived at their destination, it turned out that the girls had arrived at an abandoned building where illegal migrants and drug addicts were squatting. The Algerians then allegedly threatened to kill the girls unless they took ecstasy, which they did.

One of the migrants, who is 31, is accused of telling the 15-year-old that he would kill her unless she had sex with him. His subsequent brutal treatment of her was attested by the fact that investigators discovered that her body bore marks of strangulation, hematomas, and scratches.

The younger girl then called the police, but given that she was unable to tell authorities where the building was, responding officers were unable to find her. The 31-year-old migrant then threatened her with a fake gun and raped her as well, so roughly that one of her ribs was bruised.

The other migrant, who is 24, is accused of assisting in the assaults.

It wasn’t until the following afternoon that the girls were able to escape and notify police.

The two Algerians are now on trial in Vienna. They have denied the accusations, despite the fact that the authorities have DNA evidence connecting them to the rapes.

Migrant “youths” accused of sexually abusing and blackmailing young girl

In the third story, an Afghan migrant has been charged with sexual abuse of a minor, attempted coercion, and possession of child pornography. The migrant, who was 16 at the time of the alleged crimes in 2023, has been charged after two Syrian migrants were recently acquitted of repeatedly raping the same girl over a period of months. Others were possibly involved in the abuse as well, but the investigation remains ongoing.

According to the indictment, the girl, who was 13 at the time, entered into a sexual relationship with the accused after meeting him in the summer of 2023. The girl has claimed that the Afghan promised to protect her from being abused by other boys who are being investigated in this case, but then instead molested her himself. He is also said to have filmed them having sex, and threatened to publish the videos if she ever revealed his crimes, as previously reported by Remix News.

The prosecutor has alleged that the migrant was aware that the girl was only 13, and therefore knew that she was legally underage. Investigators also discovered 15 explicit images of underage boys and girls on his phone.

The Afghan migrant is to be tried beginning on March 24 in Vienna’s Regional Court. Over a dozen people are currently under investigation for abuse in this case.

Two teenage girls raped at Christmas party

In the last of the four cases, two teenage schoolgirls, aged 15 and 16, are alleged to have been raped by nine migrants after inviting them for a Christmas party.

According to the indictment, the girls invited a number of their migrant friends to a party on the night of December 25-26, 2023 at the apartment of the 15-year-old’s parents, who were away at the time. The girls were then allegedly attacked after consuming a large amount of alcohol. Four of their guests have been accused of having either sexually abused or raped the two girls while they were intoxicated, while charges against the others present may yet follow.

Eight boys and one girl, all teenagers, are currently being investigated for these crimes by police. They are of Serbian and Turkish nationality, as well as Austrian citizens of a migrant background.

Evidence is plentiful in this case, given that some of the accused filmed the attacks with their phones. Investigators who have viewed the videos have said that the two girls were so intoxicated at the time that they were hardly able to react.

Sellner, who is the leader of the Identitarian Movement of Austria that he co-founded in 2012, is a vocal proponent of remigration – the peaceful yet mandatory return of immigrants in Europe to their homelands – as a solution to the unending list of crimes perpetrated by foreigners.

In November 2023, Sellner made headlines when it was reported that he had addressed a meeting of Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) politicians on the topic of remigration in Potsdam, Germany. He was subsequently banned from entering Germany, although the ban was later overturned by the courts.

https://rmx.news/article/austrian-identitarian-leader-martin-sellner-calls-for-remigration-after-highlighting-sex-crimes-committed-by-migrants/

UK: Pride Group Founder and Trans Activist Found GUILTY of Raping 12 Year-Old Boy

A prominent LGBT activist who provided diversity training to local police has been found guilty of raping a 12 year-old boy he met on Grindr. Stephen Ireland, 41, co-founder of Pride in Surrey, was convicted of raping the child in the Addlestone flat he shared with his partner David Sutton, 27, in April 2024.

On August 14, 2024, Ireland and Sutton were both arrested and jointly charged with 15 offenses, including conspiracy to kidnap a child and conspiracy to sexually assault a child.

Ireland was separately charged with an additional 22 offenses, including the rape of a child, the sexual assault of a child, and six counts of making indecent photographs of children under the age of 13. Sutton was charged with an additional 7 similarly serious offenses.

The Guilford Crown Court heard that Ireland targeted the boy on the gay hookup app and invited him to his home. He then showed pornography to the child before raping the boy. Ireland and Sutton admitted to possession of prohibited images of children while Ireland also admitted possessing an extreme pornographic image.

In a statement, Detective Chief Superintendent Debbie White, Head of Surrey Police’s Public Protection Team, said: “Stephen Ireland was a sexual predator who targeted a young boy and took advantage of his age and vulnerability for his own gratification. I would like to pay tribute to the victim in this case for their courage in coming forward and for giving evidence. I hope the guilty verdicts help them start to re-build their life.”

White continued: “Both men have demonstrated an extreme sexual interest in children and the fact that the jury has found them both guilty of multiple sexual offences today means that they will no longer pose that risk. Both men then tried to cover up their offending by intentionally deleting material from their phones once they became aware of the police investigation and following their arrests.”

Following Ireland’s establishment of Pride in Surrey in 2018, the organization was responsible for arranging the annual Pride festivities, which included activities for children and youth. As a result of his activism, Ireland garnered the support of Surrey Police, who regularly attended events he organized in cars outfitted with rainbow decals.

On June 6, shortly before Ireland was arrested on numerous child sexual abuse charges, Surrey Police visited local school Woking High with his organization to take part in “Pride engagement” work. The force would have already been aware of the charges prepared to be pressed against Ireland at this time.

Evidence presented during trial argued that the men were targeting children for their sexual proclivities” between 2022 and 2024. WhatsApp messages from 2022 showed the pair discussing “snatching” or “kidnapping” a schoolchild, Prosecutor Isabel Delamere revealed.

Other messages involved discussion of preying on children outside of school gates while pretending to be a talent coach or music manager, reported The Telegraph.

In one message, Ireland allegedly described himself as “a f—— up sick pedo perv.” Similarly, Sutton spoke of having a 14-year-old making sexual advances towards him. One message from Ireland read, “All I’m thinking of is making out with a 13”, while in another he said to Sutton “Every day passes and I wanna do something terrible with you.”

According to Prosecutor Delamere, in August 2022 the pair also made plans to procure a 13 year-old boy for Sutton to abuse for his 25th birthday, which would take place in October. When Sutton’s birthday drew closer, he and Ireland discussed picking up a teenage boy and possibly his younger sister, aged eight or nine, to rape at the flat they shared together.

However, Ireland and Sutton were acquitted of conspiring to kidnap a child, and Sutton was cleared of six counts of conspiring to sexually assault a child. Sutton also pleaded guilty to two counts of distributing indecent photographs of a child.

The trial was attended by representatives of local women’s rights group Women in Surrey. From their account on X, they shared what they had heard in court within hours of the verdict being delivered. Arguments and evidence presented during proceedings for which the pair were not convicted depict a disturbing network of predatory men involved with or adjacent to Pride in Surrey who still have access to children in their roles.

“During the trial we learnt that Ireland was previously married to a man who went on to identify as a woman. Ireland told the court that as a gay man he found this ‘difficult’ as he is ‘not attracted to women,” Women in Surrey wrote.

“In an effort to keep the marriage alive, Ireland and his husband introduced a third person into their relationship: Charlie Watts. Watts and Ireland went on to set up Pride in Surrey. Watts remains the current CEO.”

Court attendees from Women in Surrey went on to explain that while Ireland and Watts’ relationship developed, Ireland’s unnamed husband began another relationship of his own. Then, in 2020, university student Sam Powell became involved with Watts and Ireland, and he quickly became the Volunteer Manager at Pride in Surrey, and remains in the position to this date.

Additionally, Women in Surrey volunteers explained that the court was told how both Ireland and Sutton referred to themselves as “pedos” who fantasize about “pump[ing] children full of estrogen” and “get[ting] their vocal cords snipped.” In one message, Ireland, who is HIV positive, stated about a child, “If we breed him now, he’ll be [HIV positive] in 6-8 weeks.”

Ireland also declared in court that Sam Powell was into a BDSM fetish known as “pup play,” typically associated with the gay male community. The fetish involves elements of dominance and subordination, with one or more individuals roleplaying as dogs for the pleasure of a dominant “master.”

Last August, Reduxx revealed a social media trail that demonstrated how Ireland groomed a teen girl into transgenderism and “pup play” through Pride in Surrey. Ireland began interacting with the girl online when she was as young as 16 years old and assisted her to transition into a “boy” and “leatherpup.”

Their interactions were conducted through both his personal account and his Pride in Surrey account. The two referred to each other as “bro,” and exchanged jokes about urine fetishism. Their earliest interactions date to 2018, when Julie was just 16. At that time she had begun counting down the days until the first Pride in Surrey event.

As previously reported by Reduxx, prior to his charges, Ireland was an influential and respected figure within the LGBT community. As the founder of a Pride group in Surrey, he was responsible for organizing the annual local Pride festival. His work put him in close contact with regional police, who repeatedly recommended that people follow his group from their official social media accounts.

Ireland was invited to speak by the police multiple times, including at a training day for their LGBT task force. In 2021, Ireland was invited to speak at an LGBT History Month Seminar hosted by Surrey Police. In February of 2024, Pride in Surrey also shortlisted Surrey Police for a Community Champion Award. The page listing the event has since been scrubbed, but was viewed by Reduxx prior to its deletion.

Pride in Surrey also received substantial public funds. According to information provided by the Surrey County Council following a Freedom of Information request, nearly £100,000 were allotted to the LGBT activist group between 2020 – 2022.

Meanwhile, in the time leading up to and during the grooming and sexual abuse of minors for which Ireland and Sutton have been found guilty, Ireland was using his social media account to condemn critics of gender identity ideology.

Ireland reserved a particular disdain for “TERFs,” a derogatory term used most often to refer to women critical of gender ideology. The acronym stands for “trans exclusionary radical feminist,” but is largely aimed at any woman who disagrees with the medical transitioning of children or accomodating trans-identified males in women’s spaces.

On several occasions, Ireland shared his thoughts about “TERFs,” and in June 2020, he took aim at beloved author J. K. Rowling.

“This is not HATE, this is FACT! JK Rowling has clearly expressed a view that is Transphobic, Intersexist and inconsiderate of the LGBTQ+ community who stand together in solidarity. SHAME ON YOU!” Ireland posted.

That same month, Ireland advocated for controversial gender self-identity policies, saying, “Please ALLOW Self ID, let those who want to be themselves, be! I won’t be sitting on my hands watching as you implement yet another step backwards for rights of those who are part of the community I hold dear.”

“Calling all MP’s who oppose this TERF bullshit, calling all celebrities who stand with us. We need you now, more than ever to be a voice and get people talking, we need you to stand strong and ensure the harm these proposed changes will have is known,” he added.

The convicted child rapist also responded to Surrey Police and Crime Commissioner Lisa Townsend on X, saying, “Trans Women are Women and therefor the same sex. Please stop your anti-trans and quite exclusionary rhetoric. It’s not achieving anything other than upsetting our Trans siblings who deserve the love and respect any other person deserves. You are NOT the voice of the majority.”

Disturbingly, after founding Pride in Surrey, Ireland had been actively leading Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) seminars, and was a patron of the trans activist charity Educate and Celebrate.

The charity, founded by Dr. Elly Barnes, a teacher who received an MBE for her contribution to equality and diversity in education, sought to “embed gender, gender identity and sexual orientation into the fabric” of societal institutions.

To promote this goal, Educate and Celebrate created lesson plans and resources regarding gender identity for public schools aimed at children and teenagers.

The organization ran a PRIDE Youth Network program targeted at children aged 11 – 18 years old, and encouraged youth to “campaign for social justice in their schools” while providing “a particular focus on gender identity and sexual orientation.”

Ireland was a patron of Educate and Celebrate alongside leading LGBT activist Peter Tatchell, with whom Ireland has attended events and has praised as an “inspiration.” Tatchell has been widely regarded as a pedophile sympathizer by many, and, as previously reported by Reduxx, Tatchell has an unsettling history of downplaying the harms of child sexual abuse.

https://reduxx.info/uk-pride-group-founder-and-trans-activist-found-guilty-of-raping-12-year-old-boy/

WATCH: VP Vance Says Germany ‘Is Killing Itself’ With Unchecked Mass Migration

AI-Generated image by Grok: US VP JD Vance, and future German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

As the Donald J. Trump’s administration shocks the world with its America First agenda, a rejection of all Globalist thesis and a firm commitment for peace, his top advisers are going round and reinforcing these policies and principles all over the world.

A shinny example is Vice President JD Vance, who has tackled Foreign Policy matters head on, both in his speeches and interviews.

It’s still reverberating around the geopolitical world his speech in the Munich Security Conference on February 14th, where he said: “The threat that I worry most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, not China, it’s not any other external actor. What I worry about is the threat from within—the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America.”

Vance claimed free speech is ‘in retreat’ across Europe, but alerted against the catastrophe of the EU Unchecked Mass Migration Policies: “Of all the pressing challenges… there is nothing more urgent than mass migration… No voter on this continent went to the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants.”

Vance has often spoken about Germany; a country ha has great affinity with.

In his Munich Speech, he urged Germany to drop the political ‘firewall’ against the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), and he met AfD leader Alice Weidel post-speech.

Vance made a fiery CPAC Speech on February 20th where he has a few words about his Teutonic friends: “Germany’s entire defense is subsidized by the American taxpayer… Do you think the American taxpayer is going to stand for that if you get thrown in jail in Germany for posting a mean tweet?”

Today (15) on Fox News, Vance returned to his warnings: ‘If Germany takes in millions more incompatible migrants, it’ll destroy itself. America can’t save it’.

Vance sees Europe, and Germany in particular, as undermining democracy via free-speech curbs and migration policies, while depending too much on U.S. support.

Watch: JD Vance says Germany ‘kiIIs itself’ by letting in millions of fake asylum seekers ‘from countries that are totally culturally incompatible’.

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Attack in Cannes, France, with shouts of ‘Allah Akbar’: A Moroccan migrant armed with a knife tries to kill police officers outside the police station

It was an attack outside the central police station in Cannes, where several police officers had been targeted in 2021. A 21-year-old man, who according to our information has been under OQTF ( obligation to leave French territory) since November 24, 2024, attempted to attack a police crew at around 11am on Saturday.

The person armed with a knife attacked the National Police officers stationed outside the town’s police station in the Maritime Alps. The police then used a stun gun to subdue and arrest him. No officers were injured in the attack (…).

According to our information, the man, a Moroccan, had been arrested earlier in the week after he had kicked off the rear-view mirror of a city police car. He was released and summoned at a later date.

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The man shouted ‘Allah Akbar’ at the time of the offence and continued to utter these words loudly in his cell, the source added. There were no injuries in this case. The prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes department went to the scene of the crime. (…)

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A knife attack on police officers took place at the same location in November 2021. The attacker, 40-year-old Algerian Lakhdar B., was neutralised by shots fired by the police. A terrorist trail had been ruled out in this case. The judiciary still has to decide whether or not the suspect can be held criminally liable due to his mental condition. The decision is expected on March 27. (…)

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Attaque à Cannes aux cris de « Allah Akbar » : un migrant marocain sous OQTF armé d’un couteau tente de tuer des policiers devant le commissariat ; aucun blessé. Le préfet se rend sur place – Fdesouche

School children in Wales taught to plot illegal migrant routes from Syria to the UK during class – ‘Anti-British propaganda!’

The book came with a teaching guide that included one classroom activity in which children had to write to their local MPs to express how much refugees “enrich our countries”USBOURNE PUBLISHING

School children in Wales have been taught to plot illegal migration routes from Syria to the UK during class.

Students at St John Lloyd School in Llanelli attended lessons where they were urged to plot land and sea journeys across Europe.

Pupils were awarded either bronze, silver or gold grades if they found routes in which “all controlled borders are avoided”.

To earn gold, a student must “plan a route from Syria to the UK,” ensuring that “controlled borders are avoided using land and sea”.

To receive a bronze grade, they must ensure that “all controlled borders are avoided”.

It is understood that teachers were using resources from the platform Google Classroom.

The material has been removed from the library of school resources, while Carmarthenshire council has launched an investigation to “look into the matter”.

Speaking to The Telegraph, psychotherapist James Essess, who initially highlighted the lessons, said: “Increasingly, woke and often anti-British propaganda continues to be snuck in through the back door in schools.”

“Instead of simply teaching students how to read maps, they appear to do so under the guise of helping illegal immigrants enter the United Kingdom.”

He added: “Given the widespread concerns across the country regarding illegal migration, I imagine most parents would be up in arms at the thought of such ideological indoctrination in their children’s schools.”

It comes amid concerns of how schoolchildren are being taught about migration.

Last year, Usbourne Publishing released a children’s book for those aged seven and over titled Lift the Flap: Questions and Answers About Refugees, which told readers that “we all have roots in other countries”.

The book came with a teaching guide that included one classroom activity in which children had to write to their local MPs to express how much refugees “enrich our countries”.

In addition, the Labour-run Welsh Government has vowed to create an “Anti-Racist Wales” by 2030, with all public bodies called on to play a part in addressing discrimination.

The directive has required organisations and museums to educate pupils in the “right historic narrative” that recognises “historical injustices”, while requiring teaching material at museums and other attractions to “tell stories through the lens of black, Asian and minority”.

https://www.gbnews.com/news/wales-news-school-children-illegal-migrant-routes-plot-lessons