Kremlin rules out talks with ‘semi-literate, incompetent’ EU bureaucrats

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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has categorically ruled out any negotiations with Vice-President of the European Commission Kaja Kallas or the European Union’s broader leadership, describing them as “incompetent” and lacking vision for the future.

The sharp dismissal comes as tensions over Ukraine and sanctions continue to dominate relations between Moscow and Brussels.

Peskov, speaking on Russian state television, said Russia and the US would “never discuss anything” with Kallas.

He claimed that Brussels is filled with “semi-literate, incompetent bureaucrats who are unable to look into the future or understand the system of coordinates that exists today”.

The entire international relations system was suffering as a result, Peskov added.

He described a “degeneration of politicians in power” in Europe, insisting there is nothing to discuss until such figures step down or are replaced.

Peskov noted that the EU only moved from its dependence on Russian oil and gas to dependence on the US.

He was particularly critical of Kallas, the former Estonian prime minister who now heads the European External Action Service.

She is known as a hardliner against Russia and has advocated carving up the country

Peskov’s comments, made as new EU travel restrictions for Russian diplomats took effect, follow repeated Kremlin rejections of EU-mediated diplomacy on Ukraine, with Moscow insisting any serious talks must involve parties it deems capable of realistic engagement.

Russian diplomats, consular staff and their families must now notify both their destination and any transit countries at least 24 hours before traveling within the Schengen area outside their host nation.

The restrictions, formally adopted in October as part of broader sanctions against Russia, aim to curb espionage and prevent the spread of disinformation regarding the war in Ukraine, which the EU says is intended to manipulate public opinion.

Meanwhile, fresh light has been shed on internal strains within the EU’s top ranks.

According to a Politico report, Kallas has privately labelled EC President Ursula von der Leyen a “dictator,” voicing frustration over von der Leyen’s dominance in foreign policy matters and feeling sidelined despite her formal role in EU diplomacy.

A senior official told Politico that Kallas “privately complains that she [von der Leyen] is a dictator but there’s little or nothing she can do about that”.

It was also noted that von der Leyen already had strained relations with Kallas’ predecessor Josep Borrell but he carried more weight because he came from Spain, while Kallas is from “tiny Estonia”.

Neither the EC chief’s nor Kallas’ offices immediately responded to requests for comment on the alleged private views.

It is not the first time Russia has criticised the EU leadership. Last summer, former Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev called them “imbeciles” when the 18th package of sanctions against Russia was approved, saying it would go the same way as the 17 other sanction packages.

Within the EU, criticism of the bloc’s leadership is also growing.

In an interview with TA-3 Slovak television channel on January 11, Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico sharply criticised Kallas, saying she needed to be replaced. He also cited what he said was the EU’s lack of ability to respond effectively to the international situation or to establish a coherent European stance.

Former German chancellor Gerhard Schroder similarly told news outlet Berliner Zeitung that, as a result of Europe’s current foreign policies, the EU will lose its international importance and stop being a strategic force.

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British Plan to Sail ‘D-Day Style’ Into Calais and Dunkirk to Protest Small Boats Invasion of the UK, but French Intel and Police Mobilize To Deport Protesters, Not the Illegals!

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The ‘invasion’ turned out to be a mere PR exercise.

Yesterday, France’s Intel Service and massive police numbers mobilized to counter a ‘D-Day style invasion’ protest by British protesters against the small boat illegal invasion.

Daily Mail reported:

“The French authorities imposed a sweeping ban on gatherings between Calais and Dunkirk on Saturday, and threatened to arrest and deport anyone arriving from the UK.

British protest leader Daniel Thomas, an ex-convict banned from France after harassing charity workers last month, appeared to have slipped into the country via Belgium.”

The ‘Operation Overlord’ did not draw 15,000 ‘proud Englishmen’ to France to ‘stop the boats’ – the weather didn’t permit crossings.

Only a small group arrived on a beach and waved flags.

A simultaneous protest in Dover turned out to be a small gathering in a pub.

“According to critics, French officials seemed markedly more concerned by the arrival of British protestors than they are by the tens of thousands of migrants setting off for England in dinghies every year.

[…] As well as large squads of Police Nationale officers, and gendarmes, those looking to stamp out British protests around Calais included ‘multiple members of the DGSI’, or General Directorate for Internal Security.”

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Vienna Refuses Statue of Christian King To Avoid Fueling ‘Islamophobia’

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A plan to honour the Polish king who saved Vienna from an Ottoman siege has sparked a diplomatic row after the Austrian capital refused to erect the monument, citing fears it could offend the Muslim community.

The long-running dispute centres on a proposed statue of King John III Sobieski, intended for Vienna’s Kahlenberg mountain—the site of his decisive victory over the Ottoman army in 1683. First proposed in 2013 and formally approved in 2018, the project had been stalled for years before being definitively rejected by the city authorities at the end of 2024.

The leftist city council said it did not want to create “a stage that could be instrumentalised for xenophobic agitation as well as Islamophobic or anti-Turkish resentments.”

That reasoning has now provoked a sharp response from Poland.

“The city of Vienna promised us the monument,” Polish ambassador Zenon Kosiniak-Kamysz said, adding that the statue has already been completed and is currently in Poland. The intention, he stressed, remains unchanged: to erect it at its historical location on the Kahlenberg.

Rejecting Vienna’s cultural policy outright, the ambassador pointed to existing memorials in the Austrian capital, including those commemorating Che Guevara and even a Stalin plaque, questioning why a Christian king credited with saving Vienna should be treated differently.

On September 12, 1683, Sobieski led the Christian relief army that broke the Ottoman siege of Vienna—a moment widely regarded as a turning point in Europe’s defence against Islamic expansion. To this day, he is often referred to as the “saviour of Vienna.”

Vienna officials have argued that Sobieski is already commemorated, citing a memorial at Kahlenberg, as well as streets and squares bearing his name. The ambassador dismissed that claim, saying: “That is just a pedestal, the inscription is barely readable.”

“The city of Vienna owes something to Sobieski,” he argued.

The decision to cancel Sobieski is part of a broader pattern among Western European leaders who appear increasingly uncomfortable with openly Christian symbols, while going to great lengths to avoid upsetting Muslim communities.

Opposition parties in Vienna have voiced fierce criticism. The centre-right ÖVP’s Jan Ledochowski described the situation as a “painful farce of the SPÖ–Neos city government.”

The right-wing nationalist FPÖ went further. Dagmar Belakowitsch called the refusal to erect the statue “scandalous,” saying it was based on “flimsy, ideological pretexts.” Leaving a bare pedestal and calling it a monument, she added, was “absolutely unworthy.”

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Former UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman Becomes Third Member of Parliament to Defect To Nigel Farage’s Reform UK This Month

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The Conservative party “utterly failed to do the right thing for the British people”, lied to the public, and has governed without courage, former Home Secretary Suella Braverman said as she announced her defection to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK on Monday.

Brexit pioneer and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage again grew his stable of Parliamentarians on Monday as he announced the defection of former Home Secretary (interior minister) Suella Braverman on stage at a rally for military veterans in London. Met with an enthusiastic cheer as she entered the hall, Braverman said: “when a country has given you everything, like it has done me, you owe it loyalty. And loyalty demands honesty. And honesty compels me to say this: Britain is indeed broken, she is suffering, she is not well… I believe a better Britain is possible, and because I believe that is possible today I resign the Conservative whip”.

Braverman said “Immigration is out of control. Our public services are on their knees. People don’t feel safe” and stated that Nigel Farage had the courage to lead Britain to a national renewal.

Once a high-flying Conservative government minister responsible for one of the great offices of state, Braverman was sacked from the Home Office by former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in 2023. As reported at the time, the influential Migration Watch think tank decried the sacking at the time given Braverman’s “clear understanding of the consequences of mass immigration. Her courage and determination to say what a majority of the public think will be a serious loss to the country”. As noted then, Braverman was sacked from high office days after accusing the police of giving preferential treatment to left-wing protesters, an element of two-tier Britain that Mr Farage has long decried.

Braverman said of the former Conservative government: “you see when it mattered, when we had the majority, when we had the power, indeed when we had the duty, the Conservative Party utterly failed to do the right thing for the British people”. She told the rally that her attempts to improve things from the inside had been confounded by her fellow Conservative ministers, and the Prime Minister sacked her when she attempted to speak out.

Braverman, who is part of the UK’s community of Indian-heritage migrant families who travelled with the then-British Empire to Britain via Africa in the 20th century and whose husband is a long-time supporter of Farage’s Reform, said the fundamentals of the Tories had not changed despite their rhetoric shifting. On the Conservatives now promising to take the United Kingdom out of the European Court of Human Rights — a key Reform Party pledge — she said:

… it’s a lie. It’s a lie! Half of Conservative MPs are dead against it, another group don’t even understand it, and a mere handful sincerely believe its the right thing to do. So I’m calling time on Tory betrayal, I’m calling time on Tory lies, I’m calling time on a party that keeps making promises with zero intention of keeping them. I tried my best, I tried privately, politely… they ignored me, then I tried loudly and forcefully, and then they sacked me for telling the truth.

As reported in 2023, Braverman’s time in office coincided with record-high levels of mass migration to the United Kingdom, a policy area she was responsible for as Home Secretary. Her comments today make clear her position that she was blocked from acting according to her conscience while in government.

The defection announcement came during the launch of new campaign group Veterans for Reform. During this rally spokesmen for the party decried the treatment of former troops by the UK government, which they said goes beyond neglect into actual abuse. It was stated that the party would end the now-emerging norm of British troops being hounded through the courts for battles fought decades ago while the politicians and generals who put them there never see the inside of a court room, and would put ex-soldiers at the top of housing priority lists to end veteran homelessness.

Mr Farage said of the now years-long campaign of persecution against veterans in courts of law:

…the prosecutions continue. Not just of people that did their job in very, very tense, difficult and dangerous circumstances in Northern Ireland up to half a century ago, but now they’re going for our special forces. Now they’re after the SAS, for virtually any action that took place in Afghanistan or Iraq.

The results of this are catastrophic. I have met face-to-face some of the men who are facing this misery. I have spoken to former commanders of both the SBS and the SAS and they tell me the result on recruitment is literally catastrophic. Our armed forces are something we should be immensely proud of, something the rest of the world looks up to.

The prosecutions would stop, Mr Farage said, adding that under a Reform government “for those who have been found guilty under very dubious codes of the Human Rights Act, we will grant a Royal pardon of mercy on their name”. Decrying the “outrageous” situation where illegal migrants are treated with more urgency by the government to get housing and services than military veterans, Mr Farage said: “it is time to start putting our own people, and our own veterans community first first first.”

The arrival of Mrs Braverman to Reform is the third defection to the party by a sitting Member of Parliament this month. The arrival of Robert Jenrick earlier in January may signal something of a tipping point for the Conservatives in their now years-long bifurcation into the two camps it long contained, between sovereigntist dries and liberal-globalist wets. Political analysis by the BBC conceded on Monday afternoon that “Another big beast defection shows momentum is with Reform… [Braverman’s] switch emphasises the momentum Reform are showing in draining the Conservative Party.”

Jenrick came a close second to lead the party and was something of a standard-bearer in the Conservatives for its right-wing. But the size of that right-wing — and therefore the number of remaining Tory MPs there are left to defect — is limited, given the party has spent 20 years purging its own ranks and its major electoral defeat last cut it down to size.

That Reform is absorbing the remains of the Tory right has triggered some controversy among observers who note that in some cases the defections are of politicians who were in power at the height of the Boriswave of migrant arrivals. Mr Farage has moved to address these concerns, stating that those who he accepts into Reform have shown contrition and who, in any case, bring valuable experience of the inner workings of government to the party ready for it to take power.

The official Conservative response to Mrs Braverman’s departure verged on bitter. The initial statement on the defection spoke of Braverman’s “mental health” but this was later withdrawn, the jibe blamed on a “draft version” of the statement having been published “in error”.

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Europe’s Geopolitical Harakiri: Resisting Trump, welcoming China

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On one side, a nervous West, gasping as it tries to defend a world order it no longer controls; on the other, a China that watches the cracks in its adversary and continues to weave its web of influence with strategic patience.

It is a two-speed race, but not in the same direction.

China builds infrastructure in Africa, invests in European ports (from Piraeus to Trieste, from Genoa to Rotterdam-in practice, all the main European ports), develops strategic technologies, and does not need to “win”; it merely needs to know that the other side is wearing itself out. The message is implicit but clear: the West runs, China walks-and he who walks does not tire and eventually goes farther.

China will therefore have its mega-embassy in London, and its expansionism is a slow poison that corrodes the foundations of Western civilization.

The Labour government of Keir Starmer has approved the much-debated and controversial construction of Chinese power in the heart of the British capital. It will rise on the site of the former Royal Mint Court, a stone’s throw from the Tower of London and the Thames, which once carried the riches of the British Empire.

A complex not only of bricks, glass, and steel, but a symbolic and operational outpost of the Chinese Party-State in the soft underbelly of the West. Post-Brexit Britain, despite having severed its ties with Brussels, remains the quintessential transatlantic bridge.

Everyone wants London.

There will also be a hidden room next to London’s most sensitive communications cables inside the new Chinese mega-embassy, which will be built despite protests from British intelligence.

Documents obtained by The Telegraph show an underground complex of 208 rooms beneath the diplomatic site, which Beijing tried to keep secret. Just centimeters from the fiber-optic cables that transmit the City’s financial data, along with email traffic and messages from millions of users. According to The Telegraph, the room could allow China to access sensitive information and critical economic data. Alicia Kearns, Shadow Minister for National Security, warned that approving the embassy would mean providing China with “a base for economic warfare at the heart of the nervous system of critical national infrastructure.”

For years now, China has been shopping.

Twenty major UK universities have accepted £40 million in funding from Huawei and Chinese state-owned companies, The Telegraph reports. Many of these companies have direct links to the Chinese Communist Party. Imperial College London accepted between £3.5 million and £14.5 million from Huawei, the Chinese telecoms giant that has been banned from many European 5G networks for security reasons. The university also received £10 million from Sinopec, the Chinese state-controlled petrochemical company, and £6.5 million from the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, a state-owned defense conglomerate. Huawei donated £1.1 million to Lancaster University. Other universities, including Bristol, Exeter, and Heriot-Watt, have refused to disclose details of their funding agreements.

But Chinese money is not free. In 2017, Cambridge blocked 300 academic articles at the request of Chinese authorities, covering topics from human rights to Tibet and Xinjiang. Louisa Lim, author of a book on the Tiananmen protests, called it a “terrible” example of how “profit motivates assessments of academic freedom.” It was clear what was being demanded in return.

The Times reports that at Cambridge, Professor Peter Nolan, director of the China Centre, warned against discussing China on campus, saying it would not help “mutual understanding,” and advised colleagues to avoid controversial debates on the state of human rights in China. Sir Iain Duncan Smith, former Conservative leader, had just stated that Cambridge and other British universities seem to have become “mouthpieces for the Chinese Communist Party.”

As always, follow the money…

The Cambridge college where Nolan teaches has, unsurprisingly, received a £3.7 million donation to fund his chair from a foundation belonging to the daughter of a former Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao.

“How China Is Buying Britain” (The Times). “How China Bought Britain” (The Spectator). The debate now is merely about the verb tense.

Opposing American hegemony, perceived as vulgar and caricatured, has become the gateway to embracing a far more sophisticated authority: that of the Chinese Communist Party, which does not tweet insults but builds the Belt and Road, buys ports, finances academic elites, and shapes global narratives with the patience of those who know time is on their side.

Last November, China invested another €138 billion in strategic sectors of European economies.

While Trump is portrayed as the bully who “threatens the liberal order,” Europe yields symbolic and strategic ground to its number one systemic rival.

Europeans are a blend of Vichy France, which collaborated with the Nazis to “resist” the Anglo-American Allies, and the Byzantine Empire, which allied with the Ottoman Turks against the Latin Crusaders, thereby accelerating its own fall.

The orange Yankee, however crude, defends values that Europe claims as its own: individual freedom, the free market (albeit with tariffs), Westernism, and a transatlantic alliance that saved the continent from Nazism and Soviet communism.

When we look into the face of the yellow mandarin, by contrast, we see nothing.

That is why preferring China’s quiet despotism to America’s tumultuous populism, Xi Jinping’s high-tech totalitarianism to Trump’s nationalism, is the royal road to European suicide. A geopolitical harakiri.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, praised by much of the press as an anti-Trump figure, has just concluded meetings with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping for a new strategic partnership. The next day, Carney was in Qatar signing further agreements.

Between the Chinese and the emirs, democracy is in excellent hands.

Royal Mint Court, where the largest Chinese embassy in Europe will rise, is not just a building; it is the place where pounds sterling were once minted, a symbol of monetary and imperial sovereignty. Now it will host the largest diplomatic fortress of a regime that considers Taiwan a rebel province, Hong Kong a memory to be erased, Uyghurs and rebellious Christians a “re-education” problem, Tibet a nuisance to be assimilated, and the West an adversary to be weakened with millennia-old patience.

Let us remember Orwell’s words in 1984: totalitarianism does not arrive wearing hobnailed boots, but with smiles and promises of prosperity.

Will we trade the West for the yuan? Our sunset will not be an eclipse, but a silent annexation.

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Police to guard German school after knife attacks, threats and 118 criminal complaints in one academic year

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German authorities plan to deploy police officers to guard the Karolina-Burger high school in Ludwigshafen following a series of violent incidents that have included knife attacks, beatings, threats of mass shootings, and repeated emergency call-outs, prompting officials to describe the campus as one of Germany’s most troubled schools.

As reported by Bild, the decision comes after 118 criminal complaints and around 100 fire department call-outs linked to the school. Two state ministers announced that a regular police presence would begin at the Ludwigshafen campus and could later be expanded to other schools in high-crime areas.

The move follows a letter written by teachers at the school, which detailed what staff described as an escalating breakdown in safety. The document catalogued death threats from students, such as “I’ll shoot you all,” physical assaults, including a “student hitting another student with an emergency hammer,” routine insults directed at teachers, and extensive vandalism, ranging from damaged walls to feces and urine found across the school premises.

The most serious incident occurred in May, when a 16-year-old student attacked a teacher in the staff room with a knife. Prosecutors later said the girl acted “with the intention of killing her.”

Eight months after that attack, the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Education and Ministry of the Interior presented what they called a prevention package focused on police visibility, additional educational staff, and psychological support. Interior Minister Michael Ebling said, “Violence has no place in our society – and certainly not in our schools.” Education Minister Sven Teuber added, “Every child has the right to learn well and safely.”

Under the plan, police visits to the school are intended to be “unprovoked, regular, time-limited, with fixed times and clearly designated contact persons.” Authorities also plan meetings with potential perpetrators of violence, some of which would take place at police stations to deter escalation. A confidential support center is to be set up for teachers who experience threats or violence. Officials said details such as officer equipment were still being finalized.

The school’s staff council, which represents a campus of around 800 students, had previously called for smaller classes, more teachers and social workers, and additional security measures, including cameras in hallways and schoolyards and metal detectors at entrances to prevent weapons from being brought into the building.

The school has previously drawn the attention of the police. In 2018, a special police unit was deployed after a student was reportedly seen with a weapon, although no weapon was found at the time.

Teachers have since complained that little changed, even after the knife attack in May, until the latest intervention by state authorities.

Insecurity across German schools has risen in tandem with the country’s policy of mass immigration.

In July 2025, new data showed that 40 percent of all suspects identified in school violence in 2024 were not German citizens, with Syrians at the top of the charts.

In total, there were 4,254 foreign suspects and 7,309 suspects with German citizenship, the German government announced at the time in response to a parliamentary inquiry from Alternative for Germany (AfD) MP Martin Hess.

Of the 11,558 suspects in total, 1,236 had Syrian passports, representing one in ten violent incidents, according to the data.

Earlier this month, the Cottbus public prosecutor’s office launched an investigation into 18 specific cases of serious violence in the migrant-dominated Regine Hildebrandt Primary School in the south of Cottbus, leading the AfD to speak out against migrant violence in schools.

Testimony from a fifth-grade victim at a school in Berlin last October revealed how she had been assaulted multiple times by foreign boys, causing her to suffer from psychological disorders, including PTSD. In four different incidents last year, the victim suffered from death threats, bruises on her body, abrasions, and even a headbutting attack.

Disintegration and attempts to curtail the violence and disorder are affecting educational standards. Last month, over 1,000 teachers in the German state of Hesse penned a letter to the state’s Ministry of Culture, warning that many elementary school children are not even able to undertake simple tasks like tying their shoes or using toilet paper when visiting the restroom.

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UK Town Erupts! 2,000 Protesters March Against Migrant Housing in Crowborough (Videos)

Tensions rise in Crowborough, UK, as approximately 2,000 residents march in protest of plans to house several hundred migrants in a former military barracks. Protesters chanted slogans like “Stop the boats” and expressed concerns about local safety and resources. Residents such as Ellie Anderson insisted, “We’re not racists at all, but many people commit offences here — we’ve already got enough to deal with.” The march covered 4.5 kilometers over two hours, highlighting the growing debate in the UK over migrant housing, integration, and local community concerns.

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Britain ‘discreetly bringing back Islamic State brides’ from Syria

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Britain has quietly brought back several women linked to Islamic State, along with their children, from detention camps in Syria, according to a senior official.

The so-called Isis brides had been held in facilities run by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the same camps where Shamima Begum remains detained.

Despite the discreet repatriations, 29 people who hold or previously held British passports are still being held at Al-Roj camp near the Iraqi border.

Rasheed Afrin, co-director of the site, told The Times that six British women previously held at the camp, along with nine children, had been repatriated.

Al-Roj is expected to be handed over to the Damascus government under President Ahmed al-Sharaa as Syrian forces move to reassert control over territory currently held by Kurdish authorities.

Begum was one of three schoolgirls from Bethnal Green in east London who travelled to Syria to join the terrorist group in 2015, when she was 15 years old.

Her two companions are believed to have died during fighting between Isis terrorists and coalition forces.

The then-Conservative government stripped Begum of her British citizenship after she was located in SDF custody in 2019, a decision that sparked widespread public debate.

While the UK’s official position has not changed, the Foreign Office has allowed a small number of women to return with their children following individual case assessments.

Most of those permitted back were under the age of 18 when they travelled to Syria.

A report published in November by the Independent Commission on Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice said that three adult women and 18 children had been repatriated – but only two of those cases were publicly acknowledged.

The security situation at Syria’s detention camps has deteriorated as Damascus launches military operations aimed at ending Kurdish autonomy in the northeast of the Middle Eastern country.

At Al-Hawl, the larger of the two main camps, the handover descended into chaos after SDF forces withdrew ahead of advancing Syrian troops.

It was reported that riots broke out, fires were set and dozens of detained women escaped amid the unrest.

Jihan Hanan, who served as Al-Hawl’s director until this week, told The Times: “There were no preparations for the handover. I’m looking at the videos and pictures coming out and it burns my heart.”

The camp once housed more than 40,000 people, though numbers fell to around 23,400 at the start of this year following repatriations by Iraq.

Aaron Zelin, a jihadist expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, warned that Damascus had acted too quickly without proper coordination with the SDF or the US.

“The biggest question is what happens to all the third-country nationals,” he said.

“I imagine we’ll see a continuation of this play out, where the foreigners are just left there to rot.”

The human rights charity Reprieve, which represents some of the detained families, condemned Britain’s approach.

Its chief executive, Maya Foa, said: “While all of our security allies have a policy of repatriating families, Britain has taken a ‘do nothing’ approach.

“Over two governments they have brought home just a handful of women and children – and there have been even fewer under this government than the previous one.

“This approach is totally inadequate in the current moment, when British families are at acute risk, in a dangerous detention camp that could collapse at any time.”

She added that the US had long since brought its citizens home and urged the UK to follow suit, arguing that any adults facing allegations could be prosecuted in British courts.

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FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE: Epstein Files Show Countess Clare Hazell Flew 40 Times in the ‘Lolita Express’, Was Suspected Key Member of ‘Inner Ring’ – Accused by Giuffre of ‘Sexual Abuse’

Clare Hazell: before her rise into higher aristocracy, there was Epstein.

Before marrying the Guinness brewery heir, she reportedly lived a dark life alongside Jeffrey Epstein.

When glamorous interior designer Clare Hazell married brewing heir Arthur Edward Guinness, the Earl of Iveagh, she triumphantly entered the higher aristocracy and ended up the custodian of one of the UK’s grandest estates.

But, as we have discussed here before, the hundreds of thousands of documents released by the US House Oversight Committee are keeping scores of journalists busy delving into the motherlode of data.

And these documents show that, in June 2020, the UK’s National Crime Agency contacted the FBI to inform them that Countess Hazell was ‘allegedly a close contact of Epstein’ and that a woman (whose identity has been redacted but widely suspected to be late Virginia Roberts Giuffre) claimed ‘she was sexually abused’ by her.

Daily Mail reported:

“A months-long investigation by The Mail on Sunday has revealed that, before meeting her future husband ‘Ned’ Guinness, the Countess was a key member of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s inner circle, flying on his private jet dubbed the ‘Lolita Express’ no less than 40 times in a four-year period.”

Giuffre’s allegation against the Countess ‘have not been investigated by the police nor tested in court’, and they will never be: both are dead.

Giuffre is said to have taken her own life in April 2025, while the Countess died two days before last Christmas, after a battle against brain cancer.

Document from the UK National Crime Agency notifying the FBI about the Jeffrey Epstein inquiry, detailing information sharing protocols and context for ongoing investigations.

“A source told the [Mail on Sunday]: ‘While she was alive, and particularly while she was so sick, people didn’t want to talk about the dark cloud hanging over Clare. She was universally loved by those closest to her. She led an exemplary life as a Countess but few knew about her time with Epstein and, if they did, they never talked about it’.”

Clare, Countess of Iveagh’s relationship with the vile pedophile has, until now, remained secret.

“The newly-discovered documents from the National Crime Agency (NCA) show the Countess’ links to Epstein were under the spotlight in 2020 after flight records showed her accompanying the pedophile on 40 flights to his Caribbean island and his homes in New York, Ohio and New Mexico.”

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Late Virginia Giuffre accused the Countess of sexually abusing her.

Epstein was also almost always on board as was disgraced socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.

Giuffre commented in 2021: ‘I didn’t understand Clare’s reasoning for being there. Jeffrey didn’t like older girls but he did with her.’

“Clare appears to have accepted Epstein as her ‘benefactor’. In 1996, she enrolled in Ohio State University – which received millions in donations from Wexner’s charitable foundation – and left with a BA in philosophy three years later.

One of her university friends claimed Epstein paid for Clare’s tuition fees, accommodation and a monthly allowance. Now a 50-year-old studio engineer, the friend told the MoS that Clare was living in a £1,000-a-month rental apartment near the university – a fortune in Ohio – but would frequently leave to jet around the world with Epstein and Maxwell.”

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UK: Former Trans Liaison Nurse Banned From Practicing After Conducting Unauthorized Genital Examinations On Child Patients

A nurse has been struck off the register after a professional panel found that he had performed unnecessary and sexually motivated “examinations” of children’s genitals. Ashley Boyd, who also goes by the name Rhys Cronin, was the Great Western Hospital NHS Trust’s first Trans Liaison Nurse.

This week, a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) panel reviewed concerning reports of Boyd’s conduct, learning that he was regularly rostered as a triage nurse on the Paediatric Assessment Unit at Great Western Hospital in Swindon.

The panel focused on a series of incidents between January 2023 and August 2023, during which Boyd was found to have performed testicular examinations on multiple child patients. Boyd was not a qualified children’s nurse and was not authorized to carry out intimate examinations.

According to Wiltshire 999S, some of the children had been brought to the hospital for unrelated health issues, with a report to the NMC panel citing examples including tonsillitis. Despite having no medical justification or professional scope, Boyd subjected multiple children to genital examinations which included touching their genitals and inner thighs.

The panel concluded that some or all of the examinations were sexually motivated, carried out for sexual gratification, and amounted to a serious breach of professional standards.

In addition to the examinations themselves, the panel criticized Boyd for failing to properly record key information expected during these intimate examinations involving children. There was poor documentation around whether consent had been obtained, and whether a parent or guardian was even present at the time.

Disturbingly, colleagues reportedly knew about Boyd’s conduct, and raised concerns on multiple occasions. According to the NMC panel, Boyd was explicitly told on two occasions by senior staff to stop carrying out the intimate examinations but did not listen.

Wiltshire 999S adds that police have interviewed Boyd, though it is unclear what action, if any, followed.

Boyd has been struck off the professional register, meaning he is no longer able to practice as a nurse or refer to himself as a nurse. While he is allowed to appeal the decision, an interim suspension order for 18 months was also applied while the case remains within an appeal period.

In addition to his work, Boyd was a representative with the NHS Great Western Hospitals Trust LGBTQ+ Network.

According to a 2022 Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Report, Boyd served as the Trust’s LGBTQ+ Network Chair and its first-ever Trans Liaison Nurse.

Boyd, featured in a 2022 Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Report for NHS Great Western Hospitals Trust.

“Much of [the role] involves simply listening to patients. I start the conversation and listen to their experiences, worries, and anxieties. I try my best to offer compassionate advice, support, and guidance,” Boyd is quoted as saying.

“I am constantly learning, through patient experiences, advocacy organizations like Stonewall, and even listening to people on YouTube. I also signpost patients and families to local charities and offer services when I think they need further support.”

Boyd was active in the community as an LGBTQ activist, indicated by the fact that he appears to have served as the Swindon & Wiltshire Pride Chair in 2023. He was quoted in a January 2023 article on the festivities by the Swindon Advertiser, suggesting he held that role at the same time he was performing inappropriate genital examinations on children at his workplace.

Many on social media are comparing the treatment Boyd received with that of Epsom and St. Helier NHS Trust nurse Jennifer Melle.

Journalist Teresa Smith noted on X that the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) offered some representation to Boyd in his dispute with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, but refused to intervene in Melle’s case.

While Boyd was initially allowed to continue practicing, even after significant concerns were raised about his conduct with children, Melle was suspended from her post after “misgendering” a transgender pedophile patient.

Melle had been a senior nurse at St. Helier Hospital in Carshalton when the pedophile was transferred in from a high-security prison in May of 2024. After referring to him as “Mister” in passing, the man went on a racist tirade against Melle and attempted to physically attack her. Melle was then given a written warning by her employer for misgendering the pedophile.

She later spoke to media about her experience, and was suspended in 2025 after the Epsom and St. Helier NHS Trust placed her under investigation for potential misconduct.

Melle was finally reinstated this week after a lengthy misconduct hearing process.

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