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In what is being hailed as a “landmark judgment” and “major victory” for women’s rights and workplace safety, a UK Employment Tribunal has ruled that a National Health System (NHS) policy allowing men in women’s private spaces is “unlawful” and “violates the rights of female staff.” 

The court found that County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust unlawfully discriminated against and harassed female nurses by requiring them to share female-only changing rooms with a biological male.

“The Tribunal found that the Trust failed to uphold its legal obligations under the Equality Act by disregarding the nurses’ safeguarding concerns about privacy and dignity,” according to a press release from Christian Concern (CC). 

The nurses were supported by the Christian Legal Centre (CLC) and represented in court by Niazi Fetto.

“By requiring the Claimants to share a changing room with a biological male trans woman … the Respondent engaged in unwanted conduct related to sex and gender reassignment which had the effect of violating the dignity of the Claimants and creating for the Claimants a hostile, humiliating and degrading environment,” declared employment Judge Sweeney and Tribunal members Denise Newey Malcolm Brain in their ruling. 

They added:

By not taking seriously and declining to address the Claimants’ concerns of August and September 2023 and of 04 April 2024, regarding that part of the Transition in the Workplace Policy that afforded biological males access to the female changing room, the Respondent engaged in unwanted conduct related to sex and gender reassignment which had the effect of creating for the Claimants a hostile and intimidating environment.

Female nurses had reportedly been told by NHS that if they had an issue with getting changed in front of a man who identifies as a woman, they should find alternative changing facilities, according to CC. 

The Tribunal’s ruling concluded: 

We were unclear what was meant by the submission that the policy was ‘lawful’ and deeper consideration of the argument led us to conclude that the policy of permitting biological males who identify as women to use a female changing room was not ‘lawful’. 

The Tribunal further pointed out that the Workplace (Health, Safety, and Welfare) Regulations 1992 requires an employer to provide changing facilities which “include separate facilities for, or separate use of facilities by, men and women where necessary or reasons of propriety.”

“This is a victory for common sense and for every woman who simply wants to feel safe at work,” said Bethany Hutchison, Darlington nurse and President of the Darlington Nursing Union. “Women deserve access to single-sex spaces without fear or intimidation. Forcing us to undress in front of a man was not only degrading but dangerous. Today’s ruling sends a clear message: the NHS cannot ignore women’s rights in the name of ideology.”

“We stood up because we knew this was wrong. No woman should be forced to choose between her job and her safety,” continued Hutchison. “This ruling is a turning point, and we will keep fighting until every woman in the NHS is guaranteed the dignity and protection she deserves.”

“This judgment exposes the extent to which the NHS hierarchy has been captured by extreme gender ideology and its willingness to sacrifice women’s safety and dignity in order to uphold it,” declared Andrea Williams, Chief Executive of the CLC. “Allowing a man into a female-only space because he claims to be a woman violates human dignity, common sense, the law of the land and biblical truth.”

“The NHS and the government should now give up their sabotage of clear judicial decisions and abide by the law which acknowledges that men are men and women are women,” added Williams. 

According to Christian Concern’s press release, “the Tribunal’s decision comes amid growing national concern about NHS policies that prioritise gender identity over sex-based protections.”

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A father of a pupil, an Algerian national with regular residence status and no criminal record, who is accused of violence and terrorist threats against a pupil, was taken into police custody on Thursday January 15, according to France Info, citing a source close to the case, Radio ICI Occitanie, and the public prosecutor’s office in Albi. The incident took place in Saint-Benoit-de-Carmaux (Tarn, population 2,060) at the Augustin Malroux school. The man attacked a pupil and school staff. No one was injured.

According to information obtained by France Info, this violent incident occurred after an argument between pupils. The suspect is accused of threatening bloodshed and referring to the murder of Samuel Paty. Paty, a history and geography teacher, was killed on October 16, 2020, near his high school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) after showing caricatures of Mohammed in class.

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In Fourchambault, an ongoing dispute between two residents of a rental building has escalated into a legal battle. A 43-year-old man, an Afghan refugee, appeared before the Nevers Criminal Court on Wednesday, January 14, charged with acts of violence against his female neighbor.

On April 24, 2025, following a new dispute over the use of a shared door, the man allegedly splashed water on his neighbour from his floor before going downstairs to hit her. The victim suffered a broken ankle during the act of self-defence, resulting in 28 days of temporary total incapacity to work. On June 27, there was another incident: the man was unable to reach her, but destroyed her roller shutter. At the hearing, he admitted to the damage but denied the physical violence, claiming that he had only been cleaning his windowsill. ‘I don’t hit women,’ he said on the witness stand.

After fleeing the Taliban regime, he arrived in France in 2016, lives in an unstable legal situation and speaks little French, which is why a Dari interpreter must be present at the hearing. The court also mentions a problem with alcoholism, which is highlighted by his own words – ‘I drink beer, not alcohol’ – and by witness statements from local residents. There are further complaints from another neighbour about violent behaviour.

Based on a range of evidence, including an external statement and a medical certificate, the prosecution requested a ten-month suspended sentence. The court ultimately sentenced the defendant to one year in prison, suspended, with the obligation to undergo addiction treatment, pay a fine of €500 from a previous case of social fraud, and take steps to find employment.

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The chief constable of England’s second-largest police force has stepped down after an official inquiry found that West Midlands Police relied on “greatly exaggerated” intelligence to justify banning fans of Israeli soccer club Maccabi Tel Aviv from attending a Europa League match in Birmingham, The Guardian reports.

Craig Guildford retired with immediate effect on Friday, two days after a damning report prompted Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to announce she had lost confidence in him. Although Mahmood had no legal authority to remove him, Guildford initially believed he could remain in office until Police and Crime Commissioner Simon Foster made a decision – a process expected to take at least 10 days.

However, continued criticism from cabinet ministers, signals from Downing Street that Prime Minister Keir Starmer had also lost confidence, and warnings from fellow police chiefs that his refusal to resign risked damaging the force nationally ultimately led to his departure. One senior policing source described him as a “dead man walking.”

Guildford, who earned £220,000 a year and will retire on a full pension, concluded that the controversy would overshadow the force for months. A deal for his exit was finalized Friday with Foster’s agreement, avoiding a potential legal battle, according to The Guardian.

The controversy began when West Midlands Police advised Birmingham’s safety advisory group in October that Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters were too dangerous to attend the November 6 match against Aston Villa. The intelligence case later unraveled, though sources told The Guardian that Guildford still believed the decision had been “made on good grounds, and kept everyone safe.”

Guildford, who has served 32 years in policing and led the West Midlands force since 2022, said the “political and media frenzy” had become detrimental to the work of his officers. “I have carefully considered my position and concluded that retirement is in the best interests of the organisation, myself and my family,” he said.

The report also revealed that West Midlands Police had relied heavily on information from Dutch authorities, claiming Maccabi fans were responsible for violence at a 2024 match in Amsterdam. Dutch police disputed this, saying the unrest involved both Israeli fans and pro-Palestinian Arab supporters.

Further intelligence suggested some locals might arm themselves if Israeli fans attended, leading to accusations that the ban capitulated to antisemitism – especially as it came shortly after a terrorist attack that killed two people at a Manchester synagogue.

Jewish groups, including Campaign Against Antisemitism and the Board of Deputies of British Jews, welcomed Guildford’s departure. The Board said it would work with his successor “to restore confidence.”

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by Olivia Murray

At the end of last month, Remix News reported that the German government had admitted around 300,000 new foreigners over the course of 2025, only rejecting asylum petitions from a few hundred applicants—however, the outlet was woefully off in its numbers, and with new government data out now, that number needed to be increase-adjusted by roughly 33%, making the real total closer to 400,000, which teeters toward half-a-million.

As a member of the German Parliament told a local outlet:

‘At least 300,000 social migrants and so-called refugees, more like 400,000, in one year: that’s equivalent to a major German city. Anyone who fantasizes about a turnaround in view of this magnitude wants to deceive the citizens.’

The equivalent of an entire city…of third worlders…unskilled and unable to function in a first world economy…immediately jumping onto the taxpayers’ backs…bringing their disgusting culture of pedophilia, incest, and rape with them.

To see the problem at scale: Of all the German cities, Berlin has the most residents, with around 3.8 million people living there. Following Berlin is Hamburg, with 1.9 million; Munich, with 1.6 million; Cologne, with 1 million; then Frankfurt am Main, with somewhere between 700,000 and 800,000 inhabitants.

However, when we get to the bottom five largest cities of the top ten, we see Leipzig with its roughly 500,000 residents—which is getting close to the 2025 admission numbers now reported by government officials. And, if we look at total admissions just over the last ten years, we see a drastic increase. The ROCKWOOL Foundation of Berlin (headquartered in Denmark), a nonprofit which “supports research related to social and economic challenges to the sustainability” of welfare states and programs, released a report just over a month ago that “Germany’s immigrant population rose from 16.9 million in 2023 to 17.4 million in 2024 (or from 20.3% to 20.9% of the population)….”

When you add up the top five largest cities, which already have significant migrant populations in them, you get 9.1 million people—and when you consider that the foreign population was 17.4 million as of two years ago (it’s only increasing), that means Germany’s five largest cities could be filled entirely with foreigners, not a single white European to be found, and there are still almost 8 million more individuals spread out throughout the rest of Germany.

Almost as if the United Nations’s “Replacement Migration” plan from the year 2000 is in effect….

Anyone arguing that “replacement” of whites in white majority countries isn’t happening, is utterly brainless.

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As evidence emerges suggesting approximately 400 sex-selective abortions of baby girls happened between 2017 and 2021, Britain’s largest abortion provider continues to claim the practice is not illegal, despite a government confirmation to the contrary.

The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), which in the last financial year performed over 110,000 abortions in the U.K., claims on its website that sex-selective abortions are not illegal, sparking wide condemnation.

On its website, BPAS claims “The law is silent on the [sex-selective abortion] matter. Reason of fetal sex is not a specified ground for abortion within the Abortion Act, but nor is it specifically prohibited.”

This directly contradicts a statement from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) in response to these revelations. “This Government’s position is unequivocal: sex-selective abortion is illegal in England and Wales and will not be tolerated.”

“Sex is not a lawful ground for termination of pregnancy, and it is a criminal offence for any practitioner to carry out an abortion for that reason alone.”

“Anyone with evidence that this illegal practice is occurring must report it to the police immediately.”

The DHSC’s position on sex-selective abortion has been explicit since 2014, when they issued guidance saying, “Abortion on the grounds of gender alone is illegal. Gender is not itself a lawful ground under the Abortion Act.”

Despite the government’s position, a BPAS spokesperson doubled down on their view that sex-selective abortion is not illegal, insisting “there are instances” where abortion on the grounds of the sex of the unborn baby may be justified.

Approximately 400 sex-selective abortions of unborn baby girls

BPAS’s statement on sex-selective abortion follows revelations from a Department of Health and Social Care 2023 report of sex ratios at birth, which suggested that approximately 400 sex-selective abortions have taken place of female fetuses of Indian ethnicity between 2017 and 2021.

The report explains that where the ratio of males to females for a particular ethnicity or mother’s country of birth is greater than 107 males born for every 100 females born, “this may indicate that people in this group have been involved in sex selective abortions.”

The 2023 report conducted an analysis of birth sex ratios by the ethnicity of the child for England and Wales, both for overall birth sex ratio and by birth order, and found the “birth sex ratio for children of Indian ethnicity of the birth order 3 or more was 113 and found to be significantly higher than 107.”

This disparity in sex ratio at birth was used to draw the conclusion that “there may have been approximately 400 sex selective abortions to female fetuses of Indian ethnicity, after 2 or more previous children, in England and Wales over the 5 year period from 2017 to 2021.”

The report may underestimate the total number of sex-selective abortions in the UK

Due to the small number of births within many ethnic minority communities analyzed, even a large imbalance in sex ratios at birth for a particular minority community may not be identified as statistically significant using the approach taken by this report, meaning sex-selective abortions could be happening in a number of these minority communities in the U.K., but are not being detected by the statistical approach taken to produce the report. This suggests the 2023 report, which found evidence of approximately 400 sex-selective abortions, may be underestimating the true number of sex-selective abortions in the U.K.

The report itself illustrates this limitation, stating that for 100 births, there would need to be a sex ratio of about 149 boys per 100 girls before it is flagged as significant; even with 5,000 births, you still need 112 boys per 100 girls. Furthermore, the report also outlines that, because of this limitation, 80 countries with fewer than 100 births were excluded entirely. The absence of a statistically significant finding elsewhere is not the same as proof that sex selection is not happening within other ethnic minority communities in the U.K.

Countries with a sex-selective abortion problem which have migrant populations in the U.K., where sex-selective abortions may be happening but where the approach taken by this report is likely to not be able to detect them, include Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, Albania, Nepal, Vietnam, South Korea, Armenia, Georgia, Taiwan, Tunisia, Azerbaijan, and Montenegro.

On the NHS (Britain’s nationalized health care system), it is not possible for mothers to find out the sex of their baby until 18 weeks. However, the report outlines that it is now possible to identify fetal sex through NIPT testing in private clinics after just 7 weeks gestation.

Repeated denial of the problem by abortion campaigners

Pro-abortion campaigners have repeatedly stated there is no evidence that sex-selective abortions are happening in the U.K., even after the Department of Health’s findings released in 2023, indicating there were around 400 such cases in the U.K.

In June 2025, Stella Creasy MP said in Parliament that sex-selective abortion was a “trope” and added that “nobody can prove that abortion for sex selection reasons has happened.”

In May of the same year, she told Glamour Magazine that “Parliament ordered a national investigation into claims that ‘sex selection’ was happening, only for it to show there was no evidence of this at all.”

In July 2024, BPAS, with 24 other organizations, including the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said in a Parliamentary briefing that “The U.K. Government has found no evidence that women from some cultural backgrounds are ending pregnancies if they are expecting a girl.”

A March 2025 report from the British Medical Association said that “ongoing analysis of gender ratios in Britain have repeatedly found ‘no evidence for gender selective abortions occurring in Great Britain.’”

Data on sex ratio at birth may be being delayed

The previous government produced sex-ratio at birth reports every year from 2016 to 2023, with the most recent report being published under the Conservative government in October 2023 (this being the report that showed the 400 missing girls). These reports have routinely been released in October/November.

However, since the current Labour government came into power in July 2024, it has not published the reports that were expected to be published in October/November 2024 and October/November 2025. The Labour government has made no commitment to when it will release the data.

The previous Conservative government apparently had no difficulties publishing these reports on time, and the data it reported on is already delayed by two years with each report.

The government is required to produce these reports every year following an amendment to the Serious Crime Act 2015 (which became section 84 of the Serious Crime Act 2015), which required the government to investigate the issue; one of the outcomes of that investigation is that they committed to produce the sex-ratio reports each year.

Further evidence of sex-selective abortion

There is a growing body of evidence that sex-selective abortions are already occurring in the U.K.

A 2018 BBC investigation revealed evidence that new non-invasive prenatal tests (NIPT) were being used on a widespread basis to determine the sex of babies early in pregnancy and that some women are coming under intense pressure to undergo sex-selective abortions.

Evidence was strong enough for the Labour Party to call for a ban on using NIPT for determining the baby’s sex in 2018, as a preference for boys in some cultures and the concept of “family balancing” may have led to an increase in the numbers of abortions of baby girls.

Also in 2018, Sky News reported fears that “The [NIPT] test can lead to the termination of baby girls due to a preference for boys in some cultures,” and, as Labour MP Naz Shah stated, could force expectant mothers and fathers to adopt methods such as NIPT “to live up to expectations of family members.” She further told the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire program that “NIPT screenings should be used for their intended purpose, to screen for serious conditions such as Down’s syndrome […] The government needs to look into this exploitative practice and enforce appropriate restrictions.”

A 2017 report by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (a government advisory body) concluded that there was a “real possibility that permitting NIPT for sex determination in the U.K. may be encouraging sex selection.” In its view, the risk was high enough to justify calling for a restriction on NIPT.

The report also found several websites offering baby gender tests for about £170 ($227), and The Nuffield Council on Bioethics warned that the increasingly widespread private NIPT testing in the U.K. could lead to the country becoming a haven for “sex-selective” abortions.

A 2015 Department of Health report on sex-selective abortion detailed the personal testimonies of women who had been coerced into obtaining a sex-selective abortion in the U.K. by their partner or family.

In its evidence submitted to the government, Jeena International (a charity supporting women from ethnic minority communities in the U.K.) notes how one woman, “A,” “undertook the decision to have an abortion based on gender, not because of domestic violence or duress by any of her in-laws or husband, but for various complex cultural reasons both self imposed and community imposed, she thought by giving birth to a boy she would be accepted into the family, she would therefore have a status.… A registered at an ante-natal clinic and attended all appointments, when she was 18/19 weeks and went for a private scan at Harley St, as a result of the scan that she was expecting a girl. The next day A booked an appointment to have an abortion, she told a doctor it was because she could not afford to have a baby. Ante-natal clinic called to chase her missed appointment, A informed them that she had miscarried when she was on holiday. A at the age of 29 was again expecting however this time twins she then repeated the cycle of aborting on the basis of gender.”

Abortion provider, BPAS, defends sex-selective abortion

This is not the first time that the abortion provider, BPAS, has publicly defended sex-selective abortion. A Telegraph investigation into sex-selective abortion in 2012 found that doctors agreed to perform such abortions “no questions asked,” with one such doctor informing an undercover journalist, “I don’t ask questions. If you want a termination, you want a termination.”

While the Department of Health reiterated at the time that “abortion on the grounds of gender alone is illegal,” Ann Furedi, then-CEO of BPAS, put out an open letter defending the doctors and claiming that “sex selective abortion is not gender discrimination” because “gender discrimination applies only to living people.” They argued that unborn children “cannot be said to suffer from discrimination.” BPAS also published the Britain’s Abortion Law booklet and online material explicitly telling women that sex-selective abortion is not illegal.

Then-Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said, “I’m extremely concerned to hear about these allegations. Sex selection is illegal and is morally wrong. I’ve asked my officials to investigate this as a matter of urgency.”

In the wake of the Telegraph investigation, in 2013 Furedi said that women are legally free to terminate because of the baby’s gender and that there was nothing wrong with providing sex-selective abortions.

The abortion provider has consistently defended the practice of sex-selective abortion. In 2014, they voiced opposition to a move supported by the vast majority of MPs (181 to 1) to create an explicit ban of sex-selective abortion. The organization opposed a similar amendment to ban sex-selective abortion in 2015, too.

In 2017, in a submission to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health, BPAS outlined its opposition to restricting sex-selective abortion. In the same year, BPAS medical director, Patricia Lohr, when giving evidence to an Irish parliamentary committee on abortion law reform, was pressed repeatedly about whether she agreed with Furedi’s stance on sex-selective abortion. She responded “I absolutely agree with the view that it is for the woman to decide when and whether she is ready to parent.”

In 2017, Loose Women host Denise Van Outen became visibly emotional as Furedi said that there is nothing wrong with sex-selective abortions.

In 2024, BPAS said it “strongly oppose[s] efforts” to ban sex-selective abortion.

Toward the end of last year, in November, BPAS head of policy, Rachael Clarke, responded to a journalist who was appalled at the prospect of sex-selective abortions becoming legal in Scotland, apparently justifying the practice if a woman is in an abusive relationship.

Kevin Duffy, former global director of clinics development at abortion provider Marie Stopes International, responded to Clarke’s comments saying, “Clarke is wrong, what she proposes is not healthcare, or care of any sort. She wants to provide the abortion and then send the vulnerable woman back into the awful, abusive environment in which she has been living in fear and dread.”

In 2017, a former BPAS trustee, Wendy Savage, said that women should be able to have abortions because their unborn child is the “wrong” sex.

Of the 13 members of the Scottish Government Expert Group who recommended Scotland legalize sex-selective abortion, two are past trustees of BPAS (Annabelle Glassier, Sally Sheldon), and one is head of advocacy (Rachael Clarke) at the U.K.’s largest abortion provider, BPAS.

Sex-selective abortion a ‘repugnant practice’

Dame Jasvinder Sanghera, a campaigner against forced marriages, said, “Without a shadow of a doubt, sex-selective abortions are going on. There are many reasons. There is still the practice of dowry, which means girls immediately become a financial burden.”

“Health professionals need to stop turning a blind eye because of cultural sensitivities or the fear of being accused of racism.”

Journalist Suzanne Moore said in the Telegraph that this case perpetuates the worrying fact that some cultures “think girls are so worthless that they should not even be born.”

Journalist Dominic Lawson called the practice “barbaric,” saying, “We have for some time known that the termination of pregnancies solely because the child-to-be is identified by scans as female has been a feature within parts of the British-Indian community. Now we have the official statistics to prove it.”

Rani Bilkhu, founder of Jeena International, a charity for Asian victims of domestic violence, said, “The authorities are reluctant to talk about this issue because they feel it might be based on racism, but it isn’t. This is lived experience from our communities, and we need to talk about it.”

“There is a lot of burden on the woman to give birth to a male, even more so if she has given birth to one or two girls. Pressure is imposed by the in-laws and the husband.”

“And it’s regardless of whether they are first-generation or second-generation immigrants, or educated or not,” she added.

Former Member of the European Parliament, Annunziata Rees-Mogg, said, “Gender selection is abhorrent. As is aborting perfectly healthy and viable babies up to date of birth. The government’s position on the latter makes the former more likely thanks to gender scans.”

Speaking to GB News, journalist Khadija Khan criticized the revelations, saying, “It’s time health professionals need to stop turning a blind eye because of cultural sensitivities,” and saying that sex-selective abortion is “a repugnant practice that should make any mother recoil.”

Khan went on to accuse BPAS of “gaslighting vulnerable women who seek its services” via their claim that “law is silent on the matter” of sex-selective abortions.

She said that for the women who do have abortions on the basis of sex, they are not doing so freely but under “the expectation and judgment of their families and the wider community, and they may even live in fear of their husbands divorcing them – or worse.” Khan said it “beggars belief” BPAS “would want to facilitate such a corrosive custom as this.”

Peer launches bid to stop sex-selective abortion being legalized in England and Wales

Senior Conservative peer, Baroness Eaton, who has tabled an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill to ensure sex-selective abortion does not become legal, said, “This is a great tragedy to which society must not turn a blind eye. Parliament needs to change the law to ensure there is an explicit prohibition on sex-selective abortions, protecting both baby girls and women at risk of being coerced into abortions.”

Tonia Antoniazzi MP launched an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that would legalize sex-selective abortion for women performing their own abortions at home, throughout all nine months of pregnancy. The bill was passed after just 46 minutes of debate in the House of Commons in June last year.

Spokesperson for Right To Life UK, Catherine Robinson, said:

It’s irresponsible for BPAS to publish advice suggesting that sex-selective abortion is not illegal, because it risks normalizing sex-selective abortion and is likely encouraging abortions sought purely because of a baby’s sex.

It is also likely making it much harder for women to push back when a husband, boyfriend, or other family member is pressuring them into an abortion simply because they are expecting a girl. Women trying to resist that pressure by pointing out that sex-selective abortion is unlawful may be met with the response from coercive third parties that the U.K.’s largest abortion provider itself says that it is not illegal.

Even though the Government has said that sex-selective abortion is illegal, the U.K.’s largest abortion provider, BPAS, which receives the vast majority of its funding from the Government, is telling women that sex-selective abortion is not illegal. This is a shocking contradiction in values from the Government.

The Government must act without delay to cut all funding it provides to BPAS, urgently update legislation to introduce an explicit ban on sex-selective abortion, and must not pursue further changes to legislation, such as those proposed in Scotland, that would likely make this problem much worse.

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Migrants are vastly overrepresented in UK crime statistics, with new data revealing they are the suspects in 80% of all train theft arrests despite making up just 10% of the population. 

Analysis from the Centre for Migration Control (CMC) shows that foreign nationals accounted for 79.3% of arrests for theft of passenger property across Britain’s transport network during 2024–2025.

A total of 9,771 arrests were recorded by British Transport Police over the period. Of these, 3,688 involved foreign nationals, representing 37.7% of all arrests. Migrants also accounted for 36.6% of arrests for sexual offences, 35.7% for violent crimes, and 39.6% for drug-related offences. In raw numbers, this equates to 225 migrant arrests for sexual offences, 900 for violence, 187 for drugs, and 304 for theft of passenger property.

Robert Bates, Research Director of the CMC, told GB News: “Immigration has caused a crime wave on British trains and public transport. Immigrants are vastly overrepresented in arrest figures, particularly when it comes to theft.”

According to Bates, every three minutes last year, a migrant was arrested on in the country. “They have made our trains unsafe. Any sane government must end uncontrolled immigration and start a programme of mass deportations” he added.

Harrison Pitt, Senior Policy Fellow at Restore Britain, stated “the safety of Britain’s host ought to matter more than the hurt feelings of foreigners with no natural right to be here.”

The issue is compounded by continued illegal migration. On January 5th, 2026, the first migrant group of the year arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel in sub-zero temperatures. Dozens made the journey from Calais, where temperatures dropped to -1°C, to Dover, which recorded lows of -3°C, with several treated in French hospitals for hypothermia. The overcrowded small boats now average 64 passengers each.

The arrivals come on the back of a record-breaking 2025, when 41,427 people crossed the Channel illegally, only slightly below the 2022 record. Despite a short 28-day hiatus at the end of 2025, hundreds resumed the dangerous crossings, highlighting the Labour government’s lack of control over the issue. 

Ministers even admitted they cannot track the whereabouts of tens of thousands of migrants on social care visas or foreign workers still employed in the UK.

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The number of deaths outpaced the number of births in France for the first time since the Second World War and ten years before the official French national statistics bureau had projected.

Data published by the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) on Tuesday revealed that there were 651,000 deaths in 2025, an increase of 1.5 per cent over last year. The official statistician attributed this increase to a particularly deadly winter flu at the start of the year.

However, this trend is likely to continue, with 2026 marking the first year in which members of the baby boom generation will have reached the age of 80 in France, the head of the demographic and social studies unit at INSEE, Sylvie Le Minez, said per Le Figaro.

Meanwhile, there was a 2.1 per cent decline in births, with 645,000 babies being born in 2025. This marked the lowest level since 1942 and represented a 24 per cent drop since the last high in 2010.

It means that for the first time since World War II, France experienced a negative natural population growth at -6,000. This came ten years ahead of previous projections from the INSEE, which estimated that the so-called demographic winter would arrive by 2035.

Despite the decline, the total population of France continued to rise to 69.1 million people, compared to 68.6 million in 2024. Like other stagnating European nations, the increase in the population of around 500,000 was almost entirely attributable to mass migration.

As of the latest figures released by INSEE, the foreign-born population of France hit a fresh record in 2024 of 7.7 million out of a total 68 million, meaning that over one in ten people in the country were born elsewhere.

This natural population decline comes despite President Macron’s “ demographic rearmament ” scheme that he pitched at the start of 2024 to increase birth rates in France. Critics have noted that none of the central pillars of the plan have been enacted two years later as the French government was plunged into political chaos by Macron’s cyincal tactics to prevent the populist National Rally of Marine Le Pen from coming to power.

According to the INSEE report, the French fertility rate continued to decline last year, falling to just 1.56 children per woman, compared to 1.61 in 2024 and well below the 2.1 children per woman needed for population replacement.

“You have to go back to the end of the First World War to find a total fertility rate this low,” the public statistician noted.

As with other Western nations experiencing demographic collapse, a critical factor has been the move by many women to delay having children into their 30s, when they are often physically able to have as many children as they would have been able to in their 20s. Indeed, the average age of a first time mother continued to rise in 2025, hitting 31.2 years old. Just two decades prior, the average was below 30.

The INSEE’s Sylvie Le Minez said that the birth rate “continues to decrease for the most fertile women, aged 25 to 34, and remains stable for women aged 35 and over, whose fertility had increased in the past.”

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