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Greek authorities have arrested two people after investigators concluded that sparks from electricity cables linked to a private wind farm ignited a major wildfire that has been burning for three days west of Athens.

The blaze began on Friday morning near Agios Vasileios in the Boeotia region at a site known as Mavro Spithari.

Fire Service investigators, using video footage and witness statements, determined that oscillations in the conductors of a private transmission line carrying power from a five-turbine wind farm to the national grid produced sparks that fell onto dry vegetation.

The fire then spread rapidly under strong winds into neighbouring Attica, destroying thousands of hectares of forest and scrubland and damaging or destroying around 200 homes in the coastal area of Porto Germeno.

The two suspects, an electrical engineer responsible for the project’s design and supervision and the contractor who installed the cables, were brought before the Thebes Public Prosecutor and face charges of arson with possible malice aforethought.

Police are also seeking the owner of the wind farm.

A similar incident involving the same network occurred only weeks earlier, about 100 metres from the current ignition point, burning around 60 acres before being contained.

The company carried out repair work on the damaged infrastructure, but this was apparently not sufficient and did not prevent the subsequent catastrophic blaze.

Around 500 firefighters, supported by fire engines, aircraft and teams from other European countries, continued battling the flames on Sunday as evacuations were ordered for several villages and an industrial park near Megara. Strong winds have repeatedly hampered aerial operations.

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Nigel Farage has vowed to build a “broad coalition” capable of defeating Labour after Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe offered to cooperate with Reform UK ahead of the next general election.

The Reform leader said the party would need to attract voters from across the political spectrum, as well as millions who have previously stayed at home, to secure power.

“Patriotic voters believe in many of the same things, but only one party truly has the possibility of delivering change,” Farage said on Sunday.

“To deliver that change, I understand Reform UK will need the support of people from other parties, as well as millions who have never voted before. That is the broad coalition I am building.”

Farage said the election would be a “binary choice between Reform UK and Labour,” while pointing to his decision not to stand candidates against Brexit-supporting Conservatives in 2019 as evidence that he was prepared to “put country before party.”

His remarks followed a public appeal from Lowe, a former Reform MP who now leads the smaller Restore Britain party, for the two sides to overcome their bitter differences.

“If you are prepared to work together around serious policies, serious reform, and serious government, then so are we,” Lowe said in a video addressed to Farage.

However, Lowe attached five far-reaching conditions to any pact. These included mass deportations, a ban on the burka, a referendum on restoring the death penalty, and deep cuts to welfare spending. He also demanded that former Conservative ministers, including Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman, be excluded from a future cabinet.

Farage did not endorse Lowe’s proposed terms and made clear that he would not sacrifice senior Reform figures to secure an agreement.

“I will never turn my back on my team,” he said.

Restore has demonstrated some ability to attract voters, winning 9% of first-preference votes in the recent Greater Manchester mayoral by-election and finishing ahead of the Conservatives. Nevertheless, its emergence risks dividing the right-wing vote and allowing Labour or other left-wing parties to win seats despite lacking majority support.

The debate over cooperation comes as Reform seeks to seize the political initiative on border control following the mass crossing into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta.

The party has announced “Operation Fortress,” under which Farage would order the Royal Navy to make the English Channel “impenetrable” to unauthorised migrant boats. A joint command involving the Navy, Royal Marines, RAF, and Army would intercept vessels, provide medical assessments and escort their occupants back to France or Belgium.

The proposal was unveiled after more than 60,000 migrants entered Ceuta from Morocco, prompting Spain to return tens of thousands across the border.

Zia Yusuf, Reform’s home affairs spokesman, said the crisis demonstrated what could happen when governments lost control of their frontiers.

“Britain is being invaded. Tory and Labour governments responded with a free ferry service and free hotels,” he said.

“Reform UK will respond by launching the largest military operation in the English Channel since World War Two.”

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood rejected comparisons with Spain, arguing that Channel crossings were “different and trickier” because boats pass through both French and British waters. Reform insists its plan would comply with international law and prevent migrants from risking their lives at sea.

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Our Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo appeared on News 24 Australia (formerly Sky News Australia) to discuss the ongoing fallout from the “small army” of Moroccan young men who flooded the Spanish town of Ceuta recently.

Nearly half of all foreign nationals receiving Spain’s Minimum Living Income (IMV) are Moroccan, according to previously unpublished figures obtained by The Objective through a transparency request.

The National Social Security Institute recorded 139,446 foreign recipients of the benefit, including 69,517 Moroccan nationals. Foreigners therefore account for approximately half of the nearly 280,000 registered recipients, while Moroccans represent almost 50 percent of the foreign total.

The figures provide the first official nationality-by-nationality breakdown of foreign IMV recipients. Public statistics had previously distinguished only between Spanish and foreign claimants without identifying their countries of origin.

Romanians formed the second-largest foreign group, with 15,262 recipients, followed by Ukrainians with 4,612. Colombians accounted for 3,549 recipients, Algerians for 3,362, Italians for 3,043, and Bulgarians for 2,826.

Other recipients included Portuguese, Pakistani, Venezuelan, Brazilian, and Nigerian nationals. More than 100 nationalities were represented overall, alongside 215 people categorized under “other nationalities” and 175 stateless recipients.

The data counts only the registered recipient in each household, rather than every family member supported by the payment. The actual number of people benefiting from the program is therefore higher.

The totals also exclude the Basque Country and Navarre, which administer the Minimum Living Income independently under their special fiscal arrangements.

Social Security data also indicates that around 70 percent of Moroccan women of working age do not formally contribute to Spain’s employment system, reflecting particularly low labor-force participation among that group.

The publication of the figures comes at a politically sensitive time, given the much-reported migrant influx from the Arab country into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.

Over 50,000 Moroccans are estimated to have entered the autonomous city illegally within the past week, and the number to have since been returned is heavily disputed.

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Austria saw a rise in anti-Christian hate crimes in 2025.

According to a report by Austria’s Federal Ministry of the Interior, hate crimes against Christians rose by 29 percent in 2025, compared to the previous year. The total amount of decidedly anti-Christian hate crimes was 133, around 19 percent of all religiously motivated crimes.

In 2025, a total of 6,751 hate crimes were recorded by the police in Austria. Religious hostility ranks as the third most common motive for such crimes in the country, following “worldview” and “national or ethnic origin.” A total of 696 hate crimes motivated by religious hostility were documented.

Particularly significant in 2025 was the increase in reported anti-Christian attacks on religious sites such as churches, cemeteries, and monuments. Of the total of 21 documented anti-religious incidents at religious sites, 12 were motivated by anti-Christian sentiment, with these acts primarily taking the form of serious property damage.

In contrast, incidents recorded as anti-Muslim occurred primarily in public spaces, where the police recorded 69 such incidents. Crimes categorized as anti-Semitic, on the other hand, were particularly prevalent in the online sphere, as more than a third of these crimes were online posts.

Anti-Christian hate crimes are most often committed by young foreigners. While the overall proportion of non-Austrians among all hate crime suspects in the country is 28 percent, in cases of anti-Christian sentiment, 57 percent of the suspects did not hold Austrian citizenship. The age group that stands out most prominently in hostility against Christian is adolescents aged 14 to under 18.

In cases of anti-Muslim hostility, 43 percent were foreigners, whereas 74 percent of anti-Semitic offenses were committed by Austrian citizens, meaning that only 26% of suspects were non-Austrian.

The anti-Christian hate crimes in Austria are part of a growing trend of such incidents across Europe.

Data from the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe recorded more than 2,200 anti-Christian crimes in 2024 throughout the continent.

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Something quietly remarkable happened in the Greater Manchester mayoral by-election on 30 July. A party registered only four and a half months earlier finished fourth, beating the Conservatives into fifth.

Restore Britain, led by Rupert Lowe and registered with the Electoral Commission on 20 March, took 46,289 first-preference votes — 9 percent of the total. The Tories managed just 41,021 votes, or 8 percent. For a brand-new party with almost no infrastructure, that is extraordinary.

Labour’s Bev Craig won comfortably with 47 percent on first preferences, rising to 66 percent after second preferences. Reform UK’s Sian Astley came second on 21 percent. The Greens took 12 percent. Turnout was a miserable 25 percent. But the real story was further down the ballot.

Restore Britain’s candidate was Marlon West, a former nurse whose daughter was a victim of the grooming gangs. He talked about child sexual exploitation, immigration and the long failure of governments to protect ordinary communities. That message landed hardest where it was needed most.

In Tameside they took around 14 percent. In Rochdale and Oldham it was roughly 12 percent. The raw numbers tell the same story: nearly 6,000 votes in Tameside, over 5,600 in Wigan, almost 4,800 in Rochdale and more than 4,300 in Oldham. In several of these boroughs Restore Britain comfortably beat the Conservatives.

A party with minimal organisation and limited media coverage is not supposed to outpoll the Conservatives in a major metropolitan contest. Yet that is exactly what happened. When you speak directly to the issues people care about most — and that the mainstream parties keep avoiding — voters listen.

The Conservative performance is the real catastrophe. Finishing fifth behind a party that did not even exist as a registered organisation five months earlier is devastating. The modern Conservative Party is usually dated to Robert Peel’s Tamworth Manifesto in 1834 — nearly two hundred years older than Restore Britain. After almost two centuries of continuous existence, fourteen years in government and two years in opposition, they could not finish ahead of a brand-new party. Their 8 percent is not a bad night. It is a warning that the party is finished as a serious force.

Reform UK remains the larger party on the right and finished a clear second. But Restore Britain’s result shows there is a significant group of voters who want something more uncompromising — especially on immigration, demographic change and the protection of British children.

The result has already stirred movement at the top. On 2 August Nigel Farage posted that the next general election will be “an existential fight to save the country we love.” He said Reform will need support from people in other parties and that he is building a broad coalition, while stressing he will never turn his back on his own team.

A few hours earlier Rupert Lowe made a public offer of cooperation. He said the Greater Manchester result showed what Restore Britain can deliver, and that maximising the chance of real change means putting personal differences aside. He set out clear conditions: reversing mass immigration through large-scale deportations, restoring demographic security, banning the burqa and related practices, a referendum on the death penalty, and keeping former Conservative ministers out of any future cabinet.

Whether those positions can be reconciled is another matter. But the fact that both men are now talking about cooperation at all is significant. The Greater Manchester result has forced the issue into the open.

Voters in places like Tameside, Rochdale and Oldham are not interested in personal history between Farage and Lowe. They want borders controlled, grooming gangs properly dealt with, and a political class that puts the interests of the indigenous population first. When a party registered in March can outpoll the Conservatives — a party nearly two centuries older — the message is clear. The old Conservative Party is finished. The right cannot afford to stay divided if it wants to beat the left.

Restore Britain’s 9 percent is not yet a breakthrough on the scale of Reform’s earlier advances. It is, however, proof of concept. A party with almost no institutional advantages can still win nearly one in eleven votes in a major urban contest simply by talking about the things that matter most.

The Conservatives have been pushed into fifth place by a party that barely existed five months ago. Reform remains the biggest force on the right. Restore Britain has shown it can mobilise support that neither of the others currently owns. If the right stays fragmented, Labour keeps winning. If it finds a way to work together without abandoning principle, the political map of Britain could change fast.

The voters of Greater Manchester have already given their verdict. The only question left is whether the leaders of the right are prepared to listen.

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Even former high-ranking officials from the institutions of the European Union are beginning to speak out against the undemocratic regime of the unelected, untransparent, unaccountable European Commission — especially under its senior bureaucrat, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

“Today, the Commission is trying to take control. That’s not in line with the [EU] treaty,” said Charles Michel, former president of the European Council and Belgium’s former prime minister, in a recent interview. “There is a super-authoritarian governance,” he added.

The European Commission was never meant to have any power beyond what its EU member states granted it. Michel, however, noted that the EU, by using the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and other crises, has expanded its authority into areas that were always intended to remain in the hands of member states.

Fabrice Leggeri, who from 2015 to 2022 served as executive director of Frontex, the EU Border and Coast Guard Agency, has also become extremely critical of the EU, and the European Commission in particular. According to Leggeri, however, Sweden’s Ylva Johanssen, who served as European Commissioner for Home Affairs from 2019 to 2024, undermined the agency’s ability to fight illegal migration:

“The first time I met her [Johanssen] in October 2019, Frontex was preparing to equip itself with small arms and uniforms mandated by European lawmakers. When I explained to her that we needed more time to achieve our goal because of the legal problems regarding weapons and uniforms, she interrupted me and said, ‘Don’t worry. You don’t need guns and uniforms because migrants come in search of love. Europe is an ageing continent, so whether you like it or not, it is your job to welcome migrants.'”

Leggeri, after facing continued pushback from the Commission for doing the job that he was hired to do, resigned in 2022.

“I realised that… there was a huge political gap between me and the Commission. My concept of the mission was to establish a law enforcement authority to help nation state authorities protect their borders, not to be an NGO or a humanitarian agency.”

Today, Leggeri is a Member of the European Parliament for France’s Rassemblement Nationale party (RN), headed by Jordan Bardella. When Leggeri informed Bardella and former party leader Marine Le Pen about what really goes on inside the European Commission,

“Le Pen and Bardella told me that what I had told them was so serious and so bad that they could not even have imagined it. When you are outside… the system, you cannot even imagine what is going on inside.”

Von der Leyen — still under investigation for alleged wrongdoing in the acquisition of COVID-19 vaccines in the European Union, “Pfizergate” — would reportedly like even more power. She has been pushing to abolish EU unanimity rules. Currently, they ensure that in sensitive policy areas — such as questions of the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy, finances and taxation, EU membership eligibility and negotiations with potential member states, issues pertaining to justice and home affairs, citizenship and more — every EU member state has a veto right. Von der Leyen wants to change that to just a majority decision, and declared in her 2025 “state of the union” speech:

“It is time to break free from the shackles of unanimity. I believe we should move to qualified majority voting in certain areas, for example, in foreign policy.”

After the election defeat of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán in April, von der Leyen again pushed her agenda: “I think moving to qualified majority voting in foreign policy is an important way to avoid systemic blockages as we’ve seen in the past,” she said, referring to Orbán’s frequent use of Hungary’s veto when he was prime minister. “And we should use the momentum now really to move forward on that topic.”

The Middle East Forum’s Jose Lev Alvarez described how Orbán, one of Israel’s staunchest supporters in the EU, leveraged his country’s veto:

“Budapest used its veto power—enabled by the unanimity requirement in European Union foreign policy—to block joint statements condemning Israeli operations in Gaza, sanctions packages aimed at harming communities in the West Bank, and calls for unilateral ceasefires. Diplomatic records show Orbán’s government successfully intervened on at least six major Israel-related initiatives between late 2023 and early 2025.”

Former President and Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus — who suffered through decades of Soviet-imposed communism in Czechoslovakia and knows better than anyone what the dangers of totalitarianism are — warned in a 2009 address to the European Parliament about what others are discovering only now:

“The present decision-making system of the European Union is different from a classic parliamentary democracy, tested and proven by history. In a normal parliamentary system, part of the MPs support the government and part support the opposition. In the European Parliament, this arrangement has been missing… Here, only one single alternative is being promoted, and those who dare think about a different option are labelled as enemies of European integration. Not so long ago, in our part of Europe we lived in a political system that permitted no alternatives and therefore also no parliamentary opposition. It was through this experience that we learned the bitter lesson that with no opposition, there is no freedom. That is why political alternatives must exist.”

At the time, the Atlantic Council trashed Klaus’s sharp-eyed comparison of the EU to the Soviet Union as “truly bizarre.”

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A 26-year-old Afghan man has been taken into custody and charged in connection with the killing of British woman Elisabeth Jane Ross, whose remains were discovered stuffed inside a suitcase in Athens.

Ms Ross, 38, who was also known as Lisa, was found on July 18 by a homeless man who came across the suitcase in an abandoned property in the area of Kypseli.

Greek authorities confirmed that the suspect confessed to his involvement after detectives identified him through analysis of video surveillance footage.

He faces charges of manslaughter, robbery and breaches of weapons legislation.

Greek police said no fingerprints or DNA traces were recovered from the suitcase, suggesting the individual who placed Ms Ross’s body inside had acted with deliberation.

Her precise cause of death has yet to be officially confirmed.

Ms Ross, from Edinburgh, had arrived in Greece on a flight from the Scottish capital on June 26.

Initial reports had suggested she had travelled from the US, though Greek police subsequently confirmed her departure point was the UK.

Upon arriving in Athens, she stayed with a Greek couple in Keratsini, a suburban town in the Piraeus region situated roughly 40 minutes by car from where her body was ultimately found.

From there, she reportedly intended to travel to Kypseli to stay with American acquaintances.

However, investigators have been unable to establish whether she ever reached her intended destination, as police have not managed to trace her supposed hosts.

A source told The Sun: “We see these Americans as key. We believe they have valuable information.”

There were also suggestions that these friends may not have existed and that Ms Ross simply wished to spend time on her own.

The suspect was identified after Greek police scrutinised CCTV footage showing him carrying a large travel bag to the abandoned site in Kypseli where Ms Ross was later discovered.

Officers said the man had placed her body into the suitcase before transporting it to the derelict building at 7 Evelpidon Street.

When officers subsequently raided his residence, they recovered a replica firearm and a knife, leading to the additional weapons charge.

Greek investigators believe Ms Ross was killed in close proximity to the location where her body was found, with suffocation reportedly being seriously considered as the potential cause of death.

In the days following Ms Ross’s death, the suspect allegedly used her bank cards to make cash withdrawals in Athens.

Her mobile phone was also used to send messages to friends and family, purportedly from Ms Ross herself, until the discovery of her body became international news.

Her father, an Edinburgh-based lawyer, told Greek police he had received several such messages over a two-week period, including one stating that she “needed some time to herself” and “wanted to be alone for a while.”

An officer told The Sun: “It is clear whoever sent them was trying to buy time.”

The phone was switched off on the Wednesday morning after media coverage of the case spread globally.

Ms Ross was known as a regular visitor to Greece who volunteered with One Heart, a charity offering medical assistance to Afghan and Iranian refugees.

She had reportedly been seen befriending homeless people across the city.

The investigation into Ms Ross’s death was a collaborative effort between Greek police, the National Crime Agency, Police Scotland and law enforcement authorities in the US.

A Police Scotland spokesman said: “We are aware of the death of a Scottish woman in Athens and are liaising with authorities in Greece. Officers are providing support to her family in Scotland.”

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said: “Our thoughts are with Elisabeth’s family during this difficult time. We are providing consular support and are in contact with the local authorities.”

Those who knew Ms Ross paid tribute to her warmth and generosity. Her aunt said: “Lisa was my beautiful loving niece we can’t believe this has happened. We are absolutely devastated.”

Another acquaintance remembered her for her “beautiful smile, warmth, care and kindness.”

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A trans-identified male with a long and disturbing criminal history of sexual offenses against children has had his appeal to have his status as a “sexually violent predator” revoked. Joseph Matthew Smith, who now uses the name Josie Maria Dunham or Josie Smith, is currently serving a life sentence in the state of Iowa, and has previously attempted to claim he was no longer a sexual risk due to being on feminizing hormones.

In December 2023, Smith was deemed a Sexually Violent Person. In Illinois, being deemed a Sexually Violent Person (SVP), or colloquially referred to as a “sexually violent predator” allows the state to keep an individual in custody for specialized care and treatment beyond the completion of their criminal prison sentence, if they are determined to pose a severe ongoing risk to public safety. An SVP is defined as someone with a “mental abnormality” which makes the person “more likely than not to engage in predatory acts constituting sexually violent offenses, if not confined in a secure facility.”

Smith has been involved in an appeal process seeking to have the SVP designation removed, which would enable him to be released from specialized custody. However, on July 22, the Iowa District Court for Buena Vista County rejected Smith’s appeal to have his SVP status overturned.

In September 2023, Smith completed a sex offender treatment program, and the State petitioned to have him civilly committed as a sexually violent predator in December. In April 2025, the case went to trial, with the State calling on psychologists who work with sex offenders to present oral arguments.

Throughout the court documents, Smith is referred to with feminine pronouns.

A transgender pedophile who admitted to raping at least 15 children – including a baby – will be indefinitely confined to a facility in Iowa.

Josie Smith had previously been released after officials claimed that he "no longer had the sex drive of a man."https://t.co/1iY8mXMDH8

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While both psychologists had diagnosed Smith with pedophilic disorder and had categorized him in the “well above average” risk category for reoffending, Dr. Luis Rosell, testifying in defense of Smith, argued that his completion of a sex offender treatment program, coupled with his use of feminizing hormones, meant that Smith was not likely to engage in sexually violent offending in the future.

However, expert witness Dr. William Schmitt disagreed, saying that Smith “lacked insight” into his sexual offense history, which increased his risk of reoffending. “You have to look at the case as a whole. And again, what have they done? What have they learned about what they’ve done? How do they talk about it? What’s their concept of what their remaining risk is going forward, and how well does that map onto the risk measures?”

Dr. Schmitt pointed out that when questioned, Smith had denied offenses that he had previously admitted to. The serial pedophile had also said, “I’ve changed. I’m not interested in kids anymore.” He also stated that he believed he was now capable of babysitting children overnight, and, “while she wouldn’t go into a bathroom with a child, she could do so safely if needed.”

The jury, siding with Dr. Schmitt’s opinion, then agreed with the State’s 2023 decision to classify Smith as an SVP. Smith appealed the decision. Counsel for Smith claimed that Dr. Schmitt’s judgement was “flawed” and “ignore[d] significant mitigating factors.”

“The State’s case, built on speculative statistics, ignores overwhelming evidence of Ms. Smith’s amenability to treatment and profound personal change, creating a substantial reasonable doubt that she meets the narrow criteria for commitment,” the appeal argued.

Despite the appeal, district court judges have upheld the sexually violent predator status, while noting that “while in prison, Smith refused sex offender treatment, was disciplined for sexual misconduct, and engaged in more than one thousand consensual sexual interactions with other inmates.”

The decision similarly recounted details of his prolific history of preying on over a dozen children, with the youngest victim being a one-year old infant.

Smith’s history of sexual abusing children began in 2011, when he was just “fourteen or fifteen years old”. While a teen in Louisiana, Smith was charged with indecent exposure after he masturbated in front of two girls under the age of seven on a school bus. Smith was placed on probation until 2012, after which time he moved to Iowa to live with his father. Smith “almost immediately” began sexually abusing his three-and-a-half year old sister, and was placed in a residential treatment facility.

At the age of sixteen, while in the care of the treatment facility, Smith voluntarily recounted details surrounding another five victims he claimed to have sexually abused in the state of Louisiana. According to the recent appeal decision, “one of those victims was an eleven-year-old girl whose genitals Smith touched under a lunchroom table… Another was Smith’s one-year-old half-sister.”

In 2013, while Smith was still at the facility, he was charged with sexually abusing a ten-year-old boy who he had been mentoring there. Smith was convicted of lascivious acts with a child for that offense and sentenced to ten years in prison as a suspended sentence. Instead of being locked up, he was placed on probation, the terms of which he went on to violate thirteen times.

In 2015, the court finally revoked Smith’s probation and imposed the prison sentence. At the time, Assistant Attorney General Andrew Schoonhoven determined that Smith suffers from “at least one mental abnormality, specifically the mental abnormality of pedophilic disorder,” which predisposes Smith to “commit sexually violent offenses to a degree constituting a menace to the health and safety of others.”

After serving less than half of his sentence, Smith was released in 2020 and placed on lifetime parole.

A serial pedophile is back behind bars after being released following a 'gender transition' officials claimed would reduce the likelihood of recidivism.

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That year, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller had endorsed the move that saw Smith released from custody. Despite his record of sexual offending, on January 9, the Iowa Attorney General’s office filed a motion to dismiss a petition requesting that the serial pedophile be considered a sexually violent predator.

The petition, filed in December in Buena Vista County District Court, requested a civil trial in order to determine whether Smith should be re-classified as a sexually violent predator with a high chance of re-offending.

“[Smith]’s mental abnormality makes him more likely than not to engage in predatory acts constituting sexually violent offenses if not confined in a secure facility,” the petition reads. “[Smith] should be committed to the custody of the Department of Human Services to be held in a secure facility for control, care, and treatment until such time as his mental abnormality has so changed that he is safe to be at large in the community.”

The Iowa Attorney General office’s defended the decision to dismiss the motion by citing Smith’s reduced testosterone levels as a result of hormone treatments. Attorney general spokesman Lynn Hicks stated that “an offender’s hormone levels are an important part of substantiating an offender’s likelihood of recidivism.”

Officials claimed Smith was at a lower risk of re-offending due to an altered testosterone level, and that he “no longer had the sex drive of a man” as a result of the medical interventions associated with his transgender status.

Smith had been receiving hormones related to his self-declared gender identity while being held at Newton Correctional Facility, where, in January 2016, he began serving an indefinite sentence after being convicted of molesting a child. In October 2017, he first expressed a desire to “get started on transgender classification” and started using female pronouns.

Hicks also claimed that an expert had determined that Smith was not at a risk of re-offending due to his gender identity. An Iowa district court judge therefore granted the motion to dismiss “in the interests of justice.”

In January of 2020, Smith was released on parole; but by October of 2021, he had already violated the terms of his strict conditions by using an unauthorized electronic device and seeking out sex. Despite the violation, Smith was not remanded to custody, and was instead allowed to continue to live in the small city of Sloan, Iowa.

In January 2022, Christine Louis, administrative law judge for Iowa Correctional Services, sentenced Smith to two more years in prison, as he had again violated the terms of his parole. During an inspection in January, Smith’s parole officer discovered child pornography on his phone which depicted boys and girls aged between five and eight years old. Smith requested leniency, but was ultimately denied.

During the April 2025 civil trial, when the jury confirmed that Smith was a sexually violent predator, he was ordered to be commited to the Cherokee Civil Commitment Unit for Sex Offenders (CCUSO) for an indefinite period based on what he determined to be a high likelihood of sexual re-offending. A pre-sentence psychological report was prepared by the State’s expert, Dr. Jeffrey Davis, a psychologist from the University of California.

Davis recommended that Smith be confined at the CCUSO. The report noted that Smith had told a state forensic psychologist he had molested as many as 15 children under the age of 13, the youngest being a 1-year-old baby. He added that he believed Smith was more likely to commit a sexual assault than 92% of male sex offenders.

There has not been even one recorded case of a female patient having been committed to the CCUSO in the unit’s 25-year history, reports the Cherokee Chronicle Times. But there have been at least three trans-identified males in the civil commitment unit. One of those patients, a man named Christian Dane Schiebel who uses the feminine name Tina Keller, told the Storm Lake Times-Pilot he was advised by his attorney that a transgender identity would increase his chances of release.

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Tommy Robinson holds what used to be common-sense principles: the United Kingdom is historically a Christian, Anglo-Saxon-Celtic nation, with a liberty-based history, and it should be protected from a government-sanctioned invasion by people who hate Christianity, the UK’s Anglo-Saxon-Celtic heritage, and freedom. He also contends that people who violate the UK’s laws, even if they’re Britain’s hostile new citizens, should face legal consequences.

For espousing these views, Robinson faces endless government persecution and receives routine death threats. The most recent death threat, made openly and smugly, came from the “Palestinian,” Muslim head of the venerable Oxford Union Society (“OUS”), more colloquially known as the “Oxford debating society”.

The University of Oxford, a collection of 43 separate colleges, was established 930 years ago as an institution to further Catholic education in England. That remained its central purpose for several centuries. When the Protestant Reformation arrived, its raison d’être shifted to furthering the Church of England. Along the way, it added such Western cultural pursuits as science, literature, history, philosophy, etc.

The list of notable alumni, given its 900-plus-year history, is truly too long to recite, and the Wikipedia entry doesn’t even try. ChatGPT gave it a valiant effort, which you can check out here. It is not an understatement to say that Oxford played a significant role in creating the modern West.

It would be unfortunate if Oxford continued playing a significant role in the West. Myriad stories in recent years (which, again, I asked ChatGPT to collate) show Oxford waging an intellectual war against the West, all in the name of “decolonization.” What’s new is that the president of the OUS seems determined to take that war from an intellectual effort into a real war, complete with bloodshed.

The OUS was founded in 1823 as The United Debating Society, with its first debate examining whether the English Revolution under Cromwell resulted from Charles I’s tyranny or from “the democratic spirit of the times.” As the subject matter suggests, it was a British-oriented society, and so it remained for almost two centuries. Its officer lists, to the extent they’re available from 1950 onward, had decidedly British names. That’s no longer the case, but before I get there, you need to see what Arwa Hanin Elrayess, the most recent OUS president, said to Tommy Robinson in a newly released video recording this past spring:

Wow. After claiming the West, and not Islam, is more violent, Aisha Khan Aziz tells Tommy Robinson the mob outside would kill him if it weren't for security. The students applaud. pic.twitter.com/vQ97Khthze

— Libby Emmons (@libbyemmons) August 1, 2026

Perhaps tonight’s motion is less about the West’s relationship with Islam and more about yours. Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known to his hooligans as Tommy Robinson. Stephen, there is a crowd outside rioting against you tonight, and without the protection and generosity of a Muslim Palestinian president and a mostly South Asian executive committee, you would be quite literally cooked.

In other words, you, Tommy Robinson, a citizen of Great Britain, are currently alive at this moment only because I, your Muslim overlord, am allowing you to live. Lots of people have commented on this shocking statement, and you can see some of the comments here.

But what interested me is Elrayess’s statement about the people running the venerable OUS. Here’s what I learned, with thanks to ChatGPT for identifying the probable historic ethnic/national origins of these people’s last names. The officers are:

• Arwa Hanin Elrayess – Arab/Muslim
• Prajwal Pandey – Indian or Nepali
• Catherine Xu – Chinese
• Harry Aldridge – British

The standing committee members are:

• Dheeraj K. “DK” Singh – Indian
• Milo Donovan – Irish
• Vishnu Vadlamani – Indian
• Oliver Douglas – British
• Claire Yun Luo – Chinese
• Ben Ashworth – British

And the secretary’s committee members are:

• Henry Nicholls – British
• Fadel Semane – Arab/Muslim
• Saara Lunawat – Indian
• Matteo Brunel – French or Italian
• Toby Bowes Lyon – British
• Euan Willis – British
• Adil Rahoo – Pakistani
• Shahmir Aziz – Pakistani
• Ea Ventura Marty – French
• Daniel Ratajczyk – Polish
• Santiago Vazquez – Hispanic (Spain or Latin America)

Out of 21 people associated with the OUS, only seven have ethnic roots in the UK (counting the Irish man). Most, as Elrayess said, come from Southeast Asia and have no genetic or emotional connection to the UK. Moreover, as Elrayess explicitly stated, those who support a traditional Great Britain are there on sufferance, allowed to live only if they support the new ruling class.

Right before WWII, Vera Lynn sang that jaunty tune, “There’ll always be an England.”

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