Five teenagers 'wearing balaclavas' dead after 'stolen' BMW driven wrong way down M9.
Monday, August 17, 2026
Wouldn't It Be Nice If The Government Wasn't Wrong Such A Huge % of The Time?
‘Marriage-style’ rights for cohabiting couples could mean 75,000 fewer births a year.
Government plans to extend financial and property rights to unmarried couples could lead to fewer marriages and births in England and Wales, according to a new report drawing on the experience of Finland. CT.
Well Done Africa!
Twenty African countries back charter affirming traditional marriage and opposition to abortion.
(Photo: Getty/iStock)Twenty African countries have endorsed a new charter affirming national sovereignty over issues including abortion, marriage and family policy, amid an ongoing debate over the influence of Western governments and international organisations on social policy across the continent.
Formally backed at a conference in Accra, Ghana, ‘The African Charter on Family, Sovereignty and Values’ sets out a series of principles covering family life, national resources, agriculture, trade and participation in international agreements.
Supporters say the document is intended to give African countries greater freedom to determine their own laws and policies without external pressure, particularly where international aid, diplomacy and treaties are concerned.
The charter defines marriage as “the union between a man and a woman” and recognises people as male or female.
According to the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), it also rejects the establishment of an international right to abortion under Article 7, challenging claims that this falls under “sexual and reproductive health” commitments.
Elsewhere, Article 4 urges participating governments to review and remove laws considered detrimental to the family.
The document also opposes laws permitting prostitution and rejects policies promoting gender identity.
SPUC chief executive John Deighan welcomed the adoption of the charter in the face of what he sees as Western countries’ attempts to export liberal ideology to developing nations.
“For too long a perverse West has been trying to force their malthusian contraception, violent abortion, and modern sexual expression upon third world nations, with African ones hit hardest,” he said. “It is a joy to see twenty good and moral nations fighting back despite the likely financial punishments they’ll receive.”
Saying they were “nations with a good moral fibre”, he added that Western countries should take lessons from the charter’s emphasis on “life, family, and sovereignty”.
“Development will never be analogous with abortion liberalisation and the dismantling of traditional family structures,” Deighan said.
Among its economic and agricultural provisions are calls for countries to safeguard indigenous seeds and farmer-managed systems, exercise greater authority over their natural resources, and reduce their reliance on the export of unprocessed commodities.
It also advocates removing obstacles to trade between African nations and raises concerns about the way international agreements are negotiated, arguing that African representatives can be presented with complicated documents without sufficient time to examine their implications.
South Africa did not endorse the charter, reportedly citing conflicts between some of its provisions and the country’s constitutional protections, including its recognition of same-sex marriage.
The charter emerges amid a wider discussion about relations between Africa and Western institutions on social and ethical issues.
Robert Sarah, Guinean Catholic Cardinal, recently accused the European Union of adopting a neocolonial approach towards Africa by seeking to advance Western social values on the continent. CT.
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Yet More Murderous, Verminous Conduct From Fulanis.
- Africa Religious Freedom. 14 Aug, 2026 12:03 EDT.Fulani herdsmen have killed 15 Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria since Aug. 2, in addition to slaughters in two other states, sources said.
We want the best for all. Please pray for all those Fulanis who slaughter Christians that they may find The Lord - BUT pray for the destruction of all those who do not repent their evil.
Free Access To PSB Tests For Men To Be Stopped. Prostate Cancer Clearly Does Not Matter To Labour.
Thanks, Mr Burnham. Shame on you and your wretched goverment!
The Ebola Fight.
Churches in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are stepping up efforts to combat Ebola by equipping pastors and community leaders with lifesaving health information as the region battles one of the deadliest outbreaks in recent history. CD.
Sunday, August 16, 2026
Funny: The Scriptures Often Refer To Hell - So Has The Bible Gone As Well?
https://www.christiantoday.com/news/jen-hatmaker-says-she-no-longer-believes-in-hell
Well Done Mr Trump.
Trump's week in review: HHS halts funds for child sex changes; American released from Russia.
The past week saw the Trump administration taking steps to ensure that taxpayer-funded healthcare programs do not fund sex-change surgeries and cross-sex hormones for minors, while President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing the U.S. Department of Justice to prosecute states that do not honor religious exemptions to vaccine mandates. CP.
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Liberty Does Not ...
Marco Rubio: Liberty doesn't mean 'liberation from duty to family, nation and Go.
Liberty was never meant to be “liberation from man’s duty to family, nation and God,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, pointing to the Church as one of the institutions that's held the nation together for 250 years. CP.
Well Argued.
Simon Sebag Montefiore: Appeasing radical activists will make the West ungovernable.
Ahead of a new book about the Middle East, the historian reflects on the dangerous public discourse around terrorism, migration and gender.
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Published 15 August 2026 6:00am BST
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Montefiore pictured for The Telegraph in his Notting Hill home Credit: Andrew Crowley
The historian Simon Sebag Montefiore has always been a keen observer of British politicians. After all, this is the man who introduced his close friend King Charles, then the Prince of Wales, to David Cameron and Michael Gove over a cosy kitchen supper before Cameron became prime minister. As a 17-year-old schoolboy at Harrow, he took Margaret Thatcher to task in an interview for the school magazine. He often has the ear of party leaders, and frequently discussed the seemingly interminable quagmire between Israel and Gaza with Keir Starmer while he resided in No 10 – his principal suggestion being to avoid implying that there was a straightforward, legalistic solution.
So I’m keen to know what words of advice this genial man has for Britain’s new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham. “Burnham is the king of breezy affability, of middle-aged DJing and of crisp-eating clips,” he says, dryly. “But his challenges will come fast when he has to match all those promises and catchphrases with reality. Most of all, he needs to bear in mind that the foreign and domestic policy of a great power such as Britain should not be directed by small cadres of aggressive radical activists, but by a calm, long-term analysis of what our interests are.”
I meet Montefiore, or Sebag, as he likes to be known, in his five-storey Notting Hill town house – white wooden floors, carefully chosen art, extremely tidy bookshelves – where he lives with his wife, Santa, a romance novelist and sister of the late society girl and TV presenter Tara Palmer-Tomkinson. When Santa and Montefiore married in 1998 (they had a Jewish wedding: Montefiore is Jewish and Santa converted for him), they wrote at the same table together in a tiny flat in Battersea, dreaming of becoming writers. Now, they have separate studies – his cream, clean, almost monkish; hers adjacent but for a shallow flight of stairs. She has written around 35 books, many bestselling, and he, now 61, is one of the most acclaimed historians of our time. His books, which include biographies of Catherine the Great and the Romanovs, have won multiple prizes and are read by the political elite (Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and George W Bush are all fans).
Montefiore and Santa Palmer-Tomkinson married in 1998 in a Jewish ceremony: he is Jewish and Santa converted for him Credit: Ian Jones
Not for nothing, then, are they known as one of the best-connected couples in London. Politicians and aristocrats mingle at Montefiore’s launch parties. Charles and Camilla were guests at his and Santa’s wedding, and the four regularly go skiing together, thanks in part to a strong friendship forged on the slopes between Santa’s parents and Charles during his marriage to Diana. Montefiore and Charles reportedly go to the theatre together. Although, disappointingly, he points out that the King doesn’t exactly pop around for dinner. “It only happened the once!” he protests.
I try to dig further, though Montefiore pleasantly refuses to spill any more beans on his and the King’s 30-year friendship. “But I will say that the fact we’ve had seven prime ministers in the last 10 years has demonstrated how important the continuity and service of a constitutional monarchy can be. King Charles has known every leader since Churchill. We’re incredibly lucky to have a sovereign who has such a record of service, diligence, diplomacy and duty – all the things that we should associate with politicians. We saw that when he met Trump in America [during a state visit in April]. None of his predecessors could have done what he did there.”
Montefiore and King Charles pictured talking with Richard E Grant (centre). The King and Montefiore have been friends for three decades Credit: Jonathan Brady/WPA Pool/Getty
I’m here because Montefiore is about to publish another book, a 20th-century history of the Middle East. Aptly titled The Cauldron, it’s a companion piece to two of his previous books: 2011’s Jerusalem: The Biography, and 2022’s The World: A Family History of Humanity. “Obviously, books about Israel and Palestine are an ever expanding industry,” he says before I can. “But there’s so much misunderstanding. After the October 7 Hamas attacks against Israel, I felt there was a real necessity for a book that put [the entire region] all together.”
Certainly, The Cauldron is terrifically comprehensive. Stretching from 1900 to the present day, it both zips along and bulges with detail, offering a blockbuster narrative of old empires collapsing and new nations created, of playboy kings and Western imperialists, of deals struck, promises broken, blood spilt and everywhere volcanic upheaval and change.
Above all, Montefiore has taken immense care to depict highly charged events as neutrally as possible. “I’m not ideological. I’m not following either a Marxist imperialist or de-colonialist view of history,” he says. “Everyone has forgotten that the creation of Turkey and Israel happened against the will of Empire. Everyone says that it was the British who helped create Israel in 1948, but in fact Israel was an armed revolt against British imperial power… the history is essential for understanding what is happening now: if you want to understand why, for example, president ErdoÄŸan of Turkey keeps talking about wanting to rule Jerusalem, Beirut and Damascus [formerly part of the Ottoman Empire], then it’s all here.”
It’s telling that Montefiore feels the need to frame The Cauldron as a primer for the less-informed. Everyone has opinions on the conflict of Israel and Gaza, but many of us would be hard pressed to articulate the finer points of its torturous, millennia-old history. Subjective interpretations of the facts, let alone flat-out ignorance of them, is rampant in the febrile ideological climate that has sprung up with renewed toxicity in the wake of the Hamas attacks. “October 7 changed everything,” he says. “It was years in the planning that did what it was meant to do, which was to put the Palestinian issue at the centre of the world, unleash the ideology of anti-Zionism in Western universities, and nix the Saudis normalising agreements with Israel. The only thing it hasn’t succeeded in is helping the Palestinian people.”
The speed and intensity of anti-Israel sentiment that has spread like wildfire through Britain took Montefiore “by surprise”. “There’s nowhere better to live now than Britain or America or France than at any other point in the last 10,000 years,” he says. “Yet that unprecedented comfort, liberalism and freedom have permitted the hothouse of exciting but intolerant radicalisms such as ‘de-colonialisation’, ‘anti-Americanism’, ‘anti-Westernism’, ‘Third-World-ism’ – whatever you want to call it – particularly in many cultural, academic and media institutions in this country.”
The speed and intensity of anti-Israel sentiment that has spread through Britain took Montefiore ‘by surprise’ Credit: Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images DT.
Nick Ferrari.
But perhaps most troublingly for Andy Burnham is that after the first three weeks of being in office, the true number of arrivals is higher than it was under his predecessor. In Sir Keir Starmer’s time, the figure stood at 2,258, but for Mr. Burnham it is already over 3,000 – and we’ve another hot weekend to potentially lure more across.
Saturday, August 15, 2026
Tragic Death of Jason Arday.
Some organs of the press have claimed that this was a suicide - and they may well be correct. It is quite possible that his wrongdoing brought more ignominy than he could live with.
What sickens me, is that his level of wrongdoing certainly did not merit a death sentence!
However, I note that the finger of blame has hardly been pointed towards the real causers of all this - the wokeists and extreme leftists at the University of Cambridge who had wantonly abandoned the idea of pursuing a true meritocracy.
Praise God!
Jenna Jameson Marries Partner Mil R. Ocampo After Finding Jesus and Choosing Sobriety.
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Jenna Jameson and Mil R. Ocampo first went public with their relationship in March 2025.@jennacantlose/instagram
Jenna Jameson is a married woman!
The former adult star, 52, and her partner, Mil R. Ocampo, tied the knot on July 25 in Miami, Fla., per online marriage records obtained by TMZ.
Jameson hard-launched her relationship with Ocampo on Instagram back in March 2025 just weeks after filing for divorce from Jessi Lawless. AOL.
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