Sophie Corcoran is a young writer, commentator and journalist best known for her media appearances (GB News, Talk TV, BBC, Jeremy Vine etc.) and her articles in various publications. However she is also a recent university graduate now embarking on a career in the law. When seeking a paid internship to work in a barristers’ chambers, she was distraught to find that the Bar Council had endorsed a major scheme that is only open to black candidates. Sophie is now suing the Bar Council and the charity behind the scheme for anti-White discrimination. She says she is doing this on behalf of all those who are being disadvantaged simply because of the colour of their skin, especially the white working class.
UK: ‘Queer migrant’ Green MSP under fire after saying ‘rape is a spectrum’
A Scottish Green MSP has come under fire after claiming “rape is a spectrum”.
Q Manivannan, a transgender Indian migrant who was elected while only holding a student visa, faces a barrage of criticism after a short 23-second video circulated on social media.
In the clip, the 30-year-old said: “There definitely is a demonisation of rape, in the sense that it is a spectrum.”
The Scottish Greens came under pressure to withdraw the whip from Q Manivannan after the remarks sparked a furious backlash from Reform UK and Tory MSPs.
Reform MSP Thomas Kerr said: “This bloke doesn’t belong in our national Parliament.
“Q Manivannan’s smirk while he argues that rape is ‘demonised’ and that there are ‘spectrums’ is beyond reprehensible.
“Will Ross Greer and Gillian MacKay take action?”
Scottish Tory MSP Rachael Hamilton added: “There are spectrums of rape?
“What is he talking about? This is insulting to victims of rape and it’s incredibly dangerous to normalise a violent act.
“Do the Scottish Greens share Manivannan’s warped views?”
After being elected to Holyrood in May 2026, Q Manivannan also came under fire after it emerged the 30-year-old stood while only holding a student visa.
Q Manivannan, who pushed for Scottish taxpayers to fund reparations to the Palestinian people, was fundraising to pay for a graduate visa despite MSP’s earning £77,711 a year.
The Green MSP also owns a relatively expensive £250,000 home in their home country of India.
Buyers could secure a four or five-bedroom detached villa with its own garden and parking for such a figure in Q Manivannan’s hometown of Chennai.
Meanwhile, £250,000 would likely stretch to a one-bedroom flat in Edinburgh.
However, Q Manivannan dismissed the suggestion the recent remarks were offensive.
The 30-year-old responded by instead claiming the comments had been taken out of context.
The Edinburgh MSP said: “This clip has been clearly misrepresented and taken out of context from a much longer interview.
“As a survivor of sexual violence, who has spoken openly about my recovery, I am clear that we need to focus on reducing the likelihood of perpetrators of rape reoffending.
“The point I made about demonisation was that not all rapists fit a stereotype, and that all kinds of men can and do commit it.
“The vast majority of sexual violence is from men who the victims know personally. Victims should be believed regardless of who the perpetrator was, and rapists should be punished in the strongest terms.”
Q Manivannan added: “If we are to tackle rape and sexual violence we need to tackle wider issues in society, including the ways boys and men are socialised, the communities or lack thereof they’re in, and how they’re raised.
“When talking about a spectrum I was making the point that laws often take a narrow definition of what rape and sexual violence is, which often allows it to continue without consequence.
“A full viewing of the interview clarifies this. In a country where rape has the lowest conviction rates of any crime, and reoffending continues, this is an urgent and important conversation we need to have in Scotland.”
From Adenauer to Spahn: The Unraveling of Germany’s Christian Democratic Tradition
CDU, Peter Bouserath, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons
The recent controversy surrounding German politician Jens Spahn, until recently the parliamentary leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the Bundestag and long regarded as a potential future chancellor, was revealing. Spahn resigned after it emerged that he and his same-sex partner had commissioned an American surrogate mother, despite belonging to a party that has long opposed the encroachment of the market into one of the most fundamental of human relationships: that between a mother and her unborn child. Most commentators treated the affair as a straightforward case of political hypocrisy, while other more opportunistic actors hoped to seize upon it as an opportunity to argue for the liberalization of Germany’s laws governing assisted reproduction. Yet the deeper significance of the episode lies elsewhere.
The Spahn affair is symptomatic of a Christian Democratic tradition that is now Christian largely in name alone. The party founded by Konrad Adenauer sought to rebuild Germany on the moral and spiritual foundations of Christian civilization after the catastrophic rupture that was National Socialism. Over time, however, the CDU has gradually surrendered that inheritance. It has exchanged a confident vision of redemption and renewal for the cautious respectability of a bourgeois party whose primary ambition is the acquisition and preservation of political power. At worst, it risks becoming defined not by resistance but by accommodation—a Vichy-like surrender to the very forces that Pope Benedict XVI, a proud son of Bavaria, warned against as the “dictatorship of relativism.”
In channeling our inner La Bouche and invoking the question posed by the band’s 1995 Eurodance hit “Where Do You Go,” we must first examine the genius of postwar Christian Democracy. This was a distinctly Teutonic project, and its architect was a single towering figure: Konrad Adenauer — not unlike the way Frank Farian stood behind La Bouche’s success. At first, Adenauer was regarded with deep suspicion by the British military government. He appeared to them as a parochial Catholic Rhinelander whose earlier flirtations with regional separatism belonged to the fractured politics of the Weimar era. But Adenauer proved remarkably adaptable. He emerged in Allied eyes as an elder statesman capable of carrying out the formidable task of restoring Germany to the community of civilized nations, beginning with the creation of the CDU in the British-occupied zone in 1946.
In many respects, Adenauer anticipated the synthesis later articulated by Pope John Paul II in his 1991 encyclical Centesimus Annus, which defended the legitimacy of private property and free economic initiative while insisting upon a genuine commitment to social justice. Adenauer sought to ground Germany’s economic reconstruction in the principles of Catholic social teaching. He rejected both socialist collectivism and a purely materialistic conception of capitalism, recognizing that both become reductive when detached from the proper telos of the human person. In other words, while recognizing that man requires his daily bread, bread alone cannot satisfy the deeper spiritual longings that animate human existence. Thus, the CDU’s enduring appeal rests on a fundamentally anthropological claim: that human dignity is rooted in man’s creation in the image of God and that the moral order is not made by politics but precedes it. As Adenauer later wrote in his memoirs:
The struggle of our age is essentially a conflict between Christianity and materialism. That is what the struggle is about, and this conflict also exists within the democracies. The modern technical world in which we live, with its movies, radio, and television, favors development toward a mass society, and this “man of the masses” will always incline toward materialism. To counterbalance this we need, in all countries, Christian parties which not only permeate political, social, and economic life with a Christian spirit, but over and above that aim at creating the essential conditions for a Christian existence of the individual.
Suffice it to say, one could be forgiven for adopting the posture of a doubting Thomas when questioning whether the contemporary CDU remains animated by an authentically “Christian spirit.” Particularly in the post-Merkel era, the party finds itself marooned on an island of postmodern ideological androgyny. The contrast with the party’s origins could scarcely be more striking.The contrast with the party’s origins could scarcely be more striking. The CDU once confidently heralded a new constitutional order rooted in the state’s explicit recognition of “its obligations before God and Man.” Its institutions possessed the moral confidence to declare that de facto repudiations of Christian morality—such as the legalization of abortion, which the Constitutional Court rejected in its 1975 decision—were incompatible with fundamental principles of the Basic Law, including respect for human dignity. Today, however, they are reduced to debating initiatives by party activists such as the historian Andreas Rödder over whether the “C” in the party’s name is a barrier that “excludes” non-Christians from membership.
With that in mind, the CDU should not be blamed for any unique culpability but rather for its lack of courage, owing to its inherent “go with the flow” managerialism. In fairness, Christianity in Germany has been in a state of profound decline, a trend that intensified after reunification disrupted the country’s longstanding Catholic–Protestant balance. The absorption of East Germany brought millions of largely unaffiliated citizens into the Federal Republic, many of whom had been demoralized by nearly half a century of official state atheism. This development is critical to understanding how the CDU could move from another long-serving Catholic Rhinelander in the Chancellery, Helmut Kohl, with his jovial vision of a “spiritual and moral turning point,” to the famously stoic Angela Merkel, whose own ideological and religious convictions, beyond the CDU’s historic commitment to the imago Dei, have themselves become the subject of debate in the span of just two decades.
Compounding this growing disenchantment in the western Länder, the CDU — much like Germany’s Catholic hierarchy in its embrace of the so-called “Synodal Way” — has committed the fundamental error of seeking relevance through accommodation to secular values. It is a futile endeavor, no less absurd than attempting to make sauerkraut out of turnips. Ultimately, this means conceding to Rödder’s vision of embracing the secular theology of “diversity and inclusion,” perhaps best symbolized by the ubiquitous display of the Pride flag. In a certain sense, one is reminded of the conclusion of Michel Houellebecq’s Submission: a desperate search for palpable meaning in the face of an indifferent world, at least from the perspective of a Bible-believing Christian living under Habermasian secularism.
Perhaps the most fitting epilogue to this story came not from Jens Spahn, but from Bavarian minister-president Markus Söder, who back in 2018 promulgated the Kreuzpflicht, requiring crucifixes to be displayed in the entrance halls of all Bavarian state buildings. While the restoration of the cross to public view might appear, at first glance, to represent a reaffirmation of Christian heritage, Söder’s rationale revealed a deeper problem. His defense of the policy remained rooted not in the cross’s explicitly religious meaning, but primarily in its role as a marker of Bavarian cultural identity and historical heritage.In other words, the Cross was hollowed out of meaning, becoming a symbol of folklore instead of that of a living faith.
If Jens Spahn represents the future of a Christian Democracy untethered from its Christian anthropology, Markus Söder’s Kreuzpflicht reveals the fate of its patrimonial inheritance. The cross endures, but increasingly as an emblem of identity shrouded in vague notions of ‘cultural Christianity’ rather than as the sign of a moral order to which both ruler and citizen are accountable. At best, the cross becomes a political instrument wielded to reclaim cultural ground from the insurgent AfD, a party that now threatens to eclipse the CDU as the principal force on the right side of Germany’s political spectrum. Yet this instrumentalization of Christian heritage—preserving its symbols while severing them from their theological foundations—is not only unprincipled but strategically shortsighted. One can only imagine that Konrad Adenauer, devout Catholic and astute statesman in equal measure, would find little comfort in the trajectory of his party.
French Catholics demand cancellation of ‘escape box’ events inside historic basilica
Catholics in Saint-Quentin have sent a letter demanding the cancellation of multiple “escape games” scheduled to take place inside the Basilica of Saint-Quentin, which dates back to the 12th century and contains the relics of the third-century martyr by the same name.
The letter, addressed to Father Matthieu Saur, pastor of the Saint-Quentin Basilica, urged the priest not to allow this “desecration” to be hosted inside the Gothic basilica. The letter was also shared with Father Bernard Proffit, the diocesan administrator of the Diocese of Soissons, Laon, and Saint-Quentin, as well as the French news outlet Tribune Chrétienne.
The ongoing “escape box” games, advertised for children ages 12 and up, give participants an hour to solve puzzles and open a mysterious box located in the Saint-Fursy Chapel to “uncover the secret of the Basilica.” Several sessions were already held in the basilica in July, with others, which are already sold out, scheduled for August 19, 21, 28, and 29.
“We find it hard to believe that our ecclesiastical authorities in charge of the site have authorized this ‘entertainment,’” the faithful wrote in the letter.
The letter denounces the fact that the event will lead to “indiscreet exploration of the sacred precincts, disorderly wandering, loud verbal outbursts, laughter, shouting.”
“During these four days, the sacred character of the place will be seriously compromised, which is the very definition of the word ‘desecration,’” the concerned faithful continued.
The Catholic Church has consistently taught that its churches, as sacred places for divine worship, are not to be used for secular purposes.
In their letter, the faithful cite the Congregation for Divine Worship’s 1987 letter Concerti nelle chiese (Concerts in Churches), which explicitly states that churches “serve first and foremost as places of gathering for the People of God and for the celebration of the sacraments and other liturgical acts” and “are not public places.”
The faithful also cited Canon 1210 of the Code of Canon Law, which says, “In a sacred place only those things are to be permitted which serve to exercise or promote worship, piety and religion. Anything out of harmony with the holiness of the place is forbidden.”
The signatories further invoked Article 13 of the 1905 French Law on the Separation of Church and State, arguing that a place of worship such as the basilica cannot be diverted from its intended religious purpose.
Catholic churches being used for purely secular purposes have become common in Europe. In June, the Church of San Antón in Madrid hosted a World Cup watch party before the Blessed Sacrament.
Counter-Terror Police Reopen Inquiry Into Farage Home ‘Firebombing’ Attempt
British counter-terrorism police have reportedly reopened an inquiry into an apparent attempted firebombing of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage’s home last year.
According to a report from the BBC, the counter-terror police unit investigating the killing of former Conservative government minister and Reform UK spokeswoman Anne Widdecombe will also investigate an April 2025 incident at Nigel Farage’s home in South London, in which the Reform boss claimed a “lit incendiary device” was pushed through the letterbox of his front door.
A Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) London spokesman told the public broadcaster that it was investigating an “attempted burglary” at a property in connection with the Widdecombe murder investigation. It has also referred itself to a police watchdog over its handling of the initial incident at Farage’s home, which resulted in no arrests.
In a statement to The Telegraph, the senior national co-ordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing, Vicki Evans, said: “As part of the ongoing investigation led by Counter Terrorism Policing South East into the murder of Ann Widdecombe, officers have reopened an investigation into an incident reported to police last year.
“Given the nature of this matter and the significant public interest in the investigation into Ann Widdecombe’s death, it was of critical importance for us to provide this update.”
Meanwhile, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) confirmed that it has “decided to independently investigate the conduct of a Counter Terrorism Policing London staff member following a referral received earlier [on Friday]”.
“The conduct relates to an allegation the individual failed to identify and pursue a line of enquiry relating to an attempted burglary reported in April 2025.”
Man Arrested Over ‘I Am Going To Shoot You’ Death Threat Against Nigel Faragehttps://t.co/Gj55EPa35t
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) July 15, 2026
Reform UK Deputy Leader Richard Tice accused authorities of having failed to take the threat against Mr Farage and part officials seriously.
“Only recently have the authorities woken up to the abuse and intimidation I and other Reform MPs have had, despite plenty of real examples that we have provided,” he told The Telegraph.
“I was perhaps very lucky with one particular incident I faced last year. For too long, the threats we have faced have not been taken seriously. The fact that the police have referred themselves to the IOPC speaks for itself. They recognise that they’ve messed up.”
The Boston and Skegness MP told the broadsheet that he was followed home from outside Parliament last year by an aggressive man, forcing him to use a panic button at his home and call the police.
Reform leader Nigel Farage has come under attack multiple times while in public and has been the subject of frequent death threats made online, including by an illegal migrant from Afghanistan, Fayaz Khan, who vowed to come to England and shoot the Brexiteer.
However, the issue of security was forced to the fore last month following the death of former Brexit Party MEP and Reform spokeswoman Anne Widdecombe. According to prosecutors, the longtime Farage ally was beaten to death by Joshua Kerry, 28, in her Devon home with a hammer, suffering 21 blows to the head. She was 78 years old.
Netherlands: Citizens Forced to Pay for Forest Walks
Private foundations are blocking off forests with barriers, QR codes and payment machines – forcing citizens to pay for their freedom of movement.
At forest areas such as Pan van Persijn, physical barriers have been erected with a requirement to pay a fee at a machine at the gate. When De Hoge Veluwe National Park earlier this year raised the fee for walkers to 13.85 euros per adult and 6.95 euros per child (6–13 years), it sparked new protests.
Boil frog
The Netherlands has had symbolic fees since the 1930s. When the system was privatized and automated in the 1990s, many people raised the alarm, but most people didn’t care as the fees were the equivalent of a few Euros. Slowly but surely, the infrastructure developed while the fees remained low.
With the corona virus, which started The Great Reset in 2020, everything changed in one fell swoop. The cashless infrastructure with entrance and parking machines and various physical barriers, which had been installed over several decades, meant that the giant private organization Natuurmonumenten was able to block off nature in no time and raise fees by 25–50 percent. The protests were then drowned in the rage against draconian corona restrictions, lockdowns and forced vaccinations. This year, the issue has come into focus again.
Popular anger
In the regional newspaper De Gelderlander, residents expressed their dismay at the transformation of nature into a commercial luxury. One contributor bluntly stated that “this will become a park for the rich.”
It’s not just about ticket prices, but about a deeper conflict of principles about who nature belongs to. Ella de Hullu, chairwoman of the non-profit environmental and cultural heritage foundation Veluwse Bekenstichting, sharply criticized how the large organizations have taken control:
“They are claiming exclusive rights. If we accept this, it will create problems in other areas as well.”
This is a global technocratic transformation in line with the UN’s Agenda 2030, driven by networks such as the European Forest Institute (EFI) after what they call “validation of ecosystem services”. It emerges in their document that nature should no longer be considered a free resource for citizens, but be transformed into “financial entities for climate credits.”
Forest owners have also sounded the alarm in the local newspaper De Stentor that withdrawn government funding is forcing them to demand fees from walkers. Many accept traditional symbolic fees, but not to demand between 45 and 62 Euros from a family of two children for a forest walk of a few hours.
Dystopian plans
Critics within various freedom movements warn that the system is gradually dismantling freedom of movement, a fundamental human right. By phasing out cash and forcing citizens to use digital barriers, apps and QR codes, a system of control over the individual is being created – a development that is now accelerating at a rapid pace.
Research reports and scientific future analyses (so-called horizon scans) on modern forest management, including “A horizon scan of global issues on forests and livelihoods for 2026”, published on April 1 in the scientific journal Forest Policy and Economics, confirm this trend. The researchers explicitly warn that the integration of digital ID systems and AI-driven surveillance in nature leads to “exclusion through surveillance”.
The result is a faceless technocratic governance in which the individual is considered an environmental burden – who, in the name of the globalist agenda, must be monitored, registered and forced to pay for every step taken outside the cities, which in turn are to be divided, blocked off and tolled.
Christian grandmother killed by euthanasia in Canada against family’s will
A 83-year-old Christian grandmother with cognitive problems was euthanized despite her stated opposition and against her family’s will through Canada’s euthanasia program in July.
According to her family’s horrifying account, great-grandmother Brigitte Stegemann had lived in an Ontario long-term care facility for the final two years of her life. She originally explicitly stated that, due to her Christian beliefs, she didn’t want to be euthanized. About five months before her death, she had been diagnosed with untreatable Stage IV stomach cancer.
While her granddaughter — named Brigette in her grandmother’s honor — who held legal power of attorney was away on vacation, the medical team convinced Stegemann to request euthanasia or “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAID).
“The facility initiated the renewed MAiD discussions with a patient who had declined,” noted Kelsi Sheren in her Substack report, “The Last Ten Days of Brigette ‘GG’ Stegemann.”
Sheren listed the ways that staff at the facility quietly worked toward planning Stegemann’s demise without her family’s knowledge.
“The facility’s staff conducted the private meetings while the advocate was away. The facility’s manager completed the application. The facility’s personnel witnessed the signature,” wrote Sheren.
“At every load bearing point where the law imagines independence, the same institution appears initiator, facilitator, scribe, and witness while the one genuinely independent party, a Power of Attorney of twelve years, was kept, in the family’s phrase, in the dark despite their constant physical presence at the home.”
Writing at the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition’s blog, the family recounted a troubling July 6 meeting with staff:
Our family attended the scheduled MAID meeting expecting to discuss the process with GG’s physician.
Before the physician arrived, an administrator and a registered nurse from the facility entered the room and advised us that the doctor was running behind schedule.
During this conversation, which took place entirely inside GG’s room in her immediate presence, Brigitte asked who had arranged the MAID meeting. No clear answer was ever given. Instead, the family was met with an immediate wall of defensiveness, specifically from the registered nurse. The nurse informed the family that staff had met privately with GG on two occasions during Brigitte’s 10-day vacation to discuss MAID.
Brigitte asked why those discussions had been initiated when GG had previously declined MAID due to her Christian beliefs. She asked point-blank whether these conversations were initiated by GG herself or by the facility staff.
The registered nurse became physically agitated and defensive, wagging her head back and forth as she spoke directly to Brigitte, stating, “I’m advocating for her.”
When Brigitte pushed further to find out exactly who brought up the conversation about MAID, the nurse snapped, “I don’t need to tell you anything.”
Brigitte countered that she had served as GG’s advocate for over a decade, held Power of Attorney, and visited consistently, noting that she had never once encountered this particular nurse during her frequent visits. As the interaction grew increasingly hostile, Brigitte finally stated, “I don’t understand where this attitude is coming from.”
The nurse snapped back, “Well, you have attitude.” At that point, Brigitte told the nurse she needed to leave the room and return only when she was composed. The nurse scoffed and stormed out.
“As family members preparing to discuss the impending death of our grandmother, we found this volatile, unprofessional behaviour from a staff member completely unacceptable, particularly because this aggressive argument was brought directly into GG’s room where she could see and hear the distress it was causing,” wrote the family.
GG’s family described the July 7 meeting with her doctor, referred to as “Dr. K”, as a “deeply alarming farce.” The purpose of the meeting was for Dr. K to determine whether the elderly grandmother possessed the capacity to make an informed decision regarding MAID. Brigitte repeatedly proved unable to answer simple questions about her family.
Despite clear, undeniable indicators of cognitive disorientation and the family’s direct objections, the assessment continued:
Dr. K then explained MAID to GG in specific terms, describing it, to the best of our recollection, as receiving medication, feeling peace, falling asleep, and explicitly promising GG that she “would not lose control of her bowels.”
Our family was deeply unsettled by this framing. For an elderly individual of GG’s demographic background and cognitive capacity, “medication” was a term conceptually linked entirely to healing, care, and relief.
Describing a lethal injection as merely receiving medication—while focusing intensely on her specific, everyday fears of physical indignity—exploited her vulnerability, making it impossible for her to truly grasp that she was consenting to the active termination of her life.
Before any further discussion took place, Dr. K instructed all family members to leave the room. Brigitte requested permission to remain, citing her role as long-time advocate and legal Power of Attorney. Her request was flatly denied, and the critical conversation between Dr. K and GG occurred entirely in private.
When Dr. K emerged from the room, she addressed the family and stated flatly, “I have deemed her capable of making her own decisions.” She then informed us that GG had consented to proceed and that the procedure was scheduled for Friday, July 10, 2026.
On July 8, granddaughter Brigitte received a phone call telling her that the euthanasia procedure was being moved up a full day to July 9, because the physician suddenly had an opening in her schedule.
When Brigitte showed up at the facility and objected to the move, she said that “the MAiD program was being forcefully rammed down the family’s throats, while the items of actual importance to GG were being brushed aside.”
When Brigitte then sat with her grandmother and asked if she was certain she wanted to go through with euthanasia, GG appeared confused and visibly distressed.
The elderly woman responded to her granddaughter with questions: “I’m going to die Friday? They’re going to kill me Friday?”
According to the family, GG “wept for an extended period, repeatedly stating that she had made a mistake. Brigitte comforted her and reassured her that if she had changed her mind, she had the absolute right to tell the medical team on Friday that she did not want to proceed.”
Because of the family’s strong opposition and immediate intervention, the facility backed down from moving the timeline, and the original date of Friday, July 10, at 11:00 a.m. was maintained.
On the morning of the planned procedure, GG’s family brought her out to the facility’s patio so she could enjoy the fresh air and a scoop of strawberry ice cream. But the moment was ruined as an administrator insisted on cutting the outdoor visit short so that an intravenous (IV) line could be inserted.
Shortly afterward, Dr. K arrived and attempted to speak with GG, who never provided a verbal response.
Our family had been strictly assured that GG would be asked for a final, explicit verbal confirmation on the day of the procedure to ensure she still wished to proceed.
When GG remained completely silent and gave no response, Brigitte felt a sudden wave of relief and a big smile came over her face, believing that the procedure would finally be halted because the strict requirement for final consent had not been met.
Tragically, we were left alarmed and horrified when the clinical team completely ignored her silence and carried the procedure forward regardless.
Dr. K reportedly encountered difficulty administering the medications via GG’s IV line, but soon the deed was done.
The room fell completely silent. Our family said our final goodbyes to the matriarch we had protected, loved, and fought for over so many years.
“What happened to Brigitte ‘GG’ Stegemann was a systemic failure driven by clinical arrogance, a total lack of transparency, and a blatant disregard for the safeguards meant to protect vulnerable patients,” declared her family.
“One of our greatest ethical concerns is that GG had explicitly declined MAID, stating it violated her Christian faith. Once a vulnerable patient explicitly declines this path, the facility should never have targeted her for re-evaluation behind closed doors while her primary advocate was away,” they said. “We are deeply alarmed by the absolute lack of transparency and independent oversight regarding the application process.”
“The events of GG’s final morning … have left a lasting trauma on our family.”
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A pro-life group headed by a former LifeSiteNews staffer publishes a homecare planning guide to help seniors remain independent and safe.
D.E.I.: How Many Other Jason Ardays Are Out There? + Reform’s Boat Plan + Kemi Attacks “Woke” Reform
On today’s show, NCF Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo, Amy Gallagher of Stand up to Woke, International Thatcher Reagan Society Fellow David Oldroyd-Bolt and barrister and commentator Steven Barrett discuss:
- Kemi Badenoch accuses the Reform party of being “woke”
- Reform’s bold new plans to stop the boats and imprison employers who employ illegal migrants
- Jason Arday: Is this the tip of the D.E.I. iceberg?
Italian Police Arrests Young Immigrant Planning Terror Attack
A 16-year-old Italian of immigrant background has been arrested on suspicion of supporting ISIS and spreading jihadist propaganda, after investigators allegedly found a large collection of extremist material on his computer, including videos showing how to build an improvised explosive device.
The teenager was arrested by Milan police in Grosseto, where he was on vacation with his family. He is accused of participating in an association with the aim of international terrorism, as well as propaganda and incitement to commit crimes motivated by racial, ethnic and religious discrimination.
The investigation began following a report from Italy’s intelligence agency for internal security. The teenager had no criminal record, and his profile had never emerged in connection with radical circles. According to investigators, however, he regularly used an instant messaging platform to distribute jihadist and pro-ISIS propaganda.
Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini commented on the arrest on social media, writing sarcastically: “Another ‘Italian’ boy of foreign origin, well-educated and perfectly integrated. Ready to build bombs in the name of Islamic terrorism…”
Investigators found a substantial quantity of digital files on the devices of the young man concerning the Islamic State, translated into several languages. The material included propaganda videos and images depicting training sessions and executions.
Investigators also uncovered several conversations in which the teenager explicitly expressed his support for ISIS. In those exchanges, he allegedly stated that he had previously helped produce propaganda content for the terrorist organization.
Among the seized material were also videos sharing instructions for manufacturing an improvised explosive device using readily available materials, bearing the Islamic State’s logo.
The material led investigators to conclude that the teenager’s radicalization had reached an advanced stage. Of particular concern were traces of conversations with members of Daesh, which contributed to the decision to seek precautionary measures against him.
The arrest marks another terrorism case in Italy involving a young man of foreign origin, highlighting the dangers of unregulated mass immigration into Europe. Earlier this year, a 21-year-old man of Moroccan descent was apprehended by police for planning an Islamist terror attack in Northern Italy.
Swedish Left Party MP praises jailed al-Aqsa Brigades commander
Ilona Szatmári Waldau, a Riksdag member for the Left Party, wrote an open letter to Ahmad al-Moghrabi, who is serving 18 life sentences in Israel.
A Swedish Left Party member of parliament has praised a local leader of the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades and sent a letter of support to the imprisoned terrorist, prompting an admission of error from both the politician and her party.
Ilona Szatmári Waldau, a Riksdag member for the Left Party (Vänsterpartiet) since 2018, wrote an open letter in December 2025 to Ahmad al-Moghrabi, who is serving 18 life sentences in Israel.
Al-Moghrabi was arrested in 2002, when he was a local commander of the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah and a group listed as a terrorist organisation by the EU and the US. He was convicted of organising suicide bombings during the Second Intifada.
They included an attack on March 2, 2002 on families gathered after a bar mitzvah celebration in the Beit Yisrael district of Jerusalem, which killed 11 people, among them two infants.
Another attack involved a 17-year-old Palestinian girl who had been sent with a bomb to blow herself up among the customers in a supermarket in Jerusalem on March 29, 2002. The day before the attack, al-Moghrabi recorded a farewell and confession video with the girl and is said to have personally handed over the bomb at her school.
In her letter, Szatmári Waldau wrote that his “courage and perseverance in the fight for freedom and dignity” inspired people far beyond Palestine, and declared: “Your fight is also our fight.”
The letter formed part of a wider campaign in which several Left Party MPs and MEPs sent messages of solidarity to Palestinian prisoners, coordinated with information from the Palestinian Association in Sweden.
After the matter was revealed by newspaper Expressen on August 3, 2026, Szatmári Waldau said the fact-checking had gone wrong.
She stated on Facebook that none of the prisoners selected for the campaign were supposed to have been involved in violence against civilians, removed the post, and insisted that she does not support terrorism or violence against civilians.
The party leadership described the mistake as unacceptable and said all related posts had been deleted. The Left Party has since ended its cooperation with the association that supplied the information and said it was reviewing its procedures for similar campaigns.
The episode has drawn sharp criticism from government ministers, who argued that it forms part of a recurring pattern of Left Party figures expressing solidarity with individuals convicted of terrorism.
Foreign minister Maria Malmer Stenergard said she was deeply provoked by the party’s explanations, telling Expressen that tributes to terrorism and anti-Semitism kept recurring within it.
Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar described the reports as very serious and said the party had not known the prisoner’s background when the letter was sent.
She also expressed her support for Szatmári Waldau, telling Aftonbladet that her colleague had meant to argue for a fair trial under the Geneva Conventions, and adding: “I feel very comfortable with her values.”