Starmer short-changes defence in final act as Prime Minister..
Military spending will reach only 2.69 per cent of GDP by 2030, far behind Germany’s 3.7 per cent and Poland’s 4.48 per cent. DT.
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Isn't This Deplorable Attitude Called Racism?
‘You Lost!’ Leftist French Lawmaker Celebrates Demographic Decline of White Population.
Thomas SAMSON / AFP via Getty ImagesA far-left National Assembly member has sparked backlash after she gloated over the demographic decline of the native white French population in favour of immigrant groups, as the LFI continues to embrace Great Replacement ideology.
During a debate in the National Assembly this week on legislation intended to crack down on fraudulent or arranged marriages, MP Clémence Guetté of the radical leftist La France Insoumise (France in Rebellion/LFI) party, declared that alleged efforts to preserve the French ethnicity have failed.
“You have lost the racist ideological battle. Today, one in three French people is already linked to immigration,” she celebrated, according to Le Journal du Dimanche.
The deputy accused the populist National Rally party of Marine Le Pen and the conservative Union of the Right for the Republic (UDR) party of Éric Ciotti of seeking to protect the ” so-called native French” population, which she equated to “white French people”.
Guetté further claimed that the anti-fraud legislation was merely intended to “throw obstacles” in front of migrants who wish to “build their lives in our country, get married, start a family”, and take part in “today’s citizenship.”
It comes amid a broader move among La France Insoumise to openly embrace the concepts of “New France” and the “Great Replacement”, a term coined by French philosopher Renaud Camus, who accused Western elites of viewing citizens of their nations as interchangeable economic units that can be swapped out for less expensive, foreign alternatives with little consequence. Breitbart.
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A Great Captain Retires.
Every word from Ben Stokes’ retirement explanation.
England captain revealed thinking behind decision in lengthy interview with Sky Sports’ Ian Ward and former team-mate Stuart Broad.
Ben Stokes announced his retirement from international cricket midway through day four of England’s third Test decider against New Zealand.
The news left the Trent Bridge crowd – and English cricket’s wider fanbase – stunned, with a statement being published by the England and Wales Cricket Board 15 minutes before the tea break.
Afterwards, Stokes revealed his reasons for the sudden announcement in an interview with Sky Sports presenter Ian Ward and former team-mate-turned-pundit Stuart Broad, with Monday now due to be the final day of his 13-year international career. Here is every word he had to say.
On the decision and his emotions...
“It’s been an interesting four-five weeks, and six months generally. Emotions when this day comes to everyone there’s relief, happiness, excitement, sadness everything you go through. All of those words I use there.
“It’s been really tough. I am sure a lot of, not necessarily players but captains can understand this. Someone I’ve spoken to quite a lot about this kind of stuff is Joe [Root] about this, he gets it, he understands it. It’s the best thing I’ve ever been asked to do, to captain this team and my country. I never begrudge any moment I’ve captained this team – it’s been the greatest honour you can put on your shoulders as a player
“There’s another side to it that only those people close can understand and see – my family, and particularly wife, they see what you go through emotionally. As good as it is, it can drain you and affect you in negative ways. Overall, it’s been four or five years, and I’ve loved every moment of it – but some times, some moments have been harder than others.”
On Lord’s and how it made him feel...
“One of those to be honest, the whole Lord’s Test for me was something that I guess, it brought back some kind of negative feelings about where I was in my career. I worked so hard after getting back home [from the Ashes] and to try make things right. I put so much time and effort into it, I maybe possibly burnt out. Then the week at Lord’s was a very interesting and strange feeling to go into that game. Sometimes for me if I have too much time it’s not best for me.
“I gave myself enough time, spoke to people about it, I tried, I gave every opportunity to potentially conclude that, I don’t know, see if it was a blip or something wasn’t quite right. [But] everyone says about the day [they resign the captaincy] what’s it like, they say it hits you in the face. And I thought a few weeks ago it did. I was putting pads on yesterday getting ready to go out there and that was the final nail in the coffin.”
On the Lord’s Test and playing for Durham after the nightclub incident...
“The build up things were like that during that week for me. Then say to my mate Joe in the dressing room, then other scenario that added more to everything – nothing is ever easy or simple with me. One of the good things about me and my career is that we can have a laugh about it. It was as unfortunate a situation to be involved in the past two-and-a-half weeks. I love cricket, and being back at Durham I found a new lease of life with my connection towards cricket and I couldn’t get that feeling back here this week as much as I was trying.
“I have been through some rocky times, personally with having to push myself though to or do something because it’s the right thing to do. It might sound selfish, but this is the best thing for me right now and I hope it is the best thing for the team as well. [It is the best thing for me] when it comes down to what will allow me to still love this game that I’ve played since I was a kid. I am very excited about the next part, what I get to do going back to play for my boyhood club Durham really. I am comparing this week to last right now and buzzing because of it. There have been moments this week that have been really tough that just adds to everything and makes it in the back of your mind that you’re making the right decision.”
On having no fight left in him...
“There have been good times, [some] pretty bad times. Over the past five-six weeks it was something else I had to try and overcome and I’ve felt like I’ve been pretty good at doing that in my career, overcoming on-field disappointment, off-field disappointment. And then the emotional side of it since Australia, and I told my wife I don’t think I have any more fight in me. It hit me in the face. You go through that whole process and speak to people who are close to you and start to let more and more out, and the more I spoke to my wife about it...it’s brutal what we do – physically and mentally and stuff away from it, all the the hard work [to be able to play for England]. Even that is getting tiring now, I am 35 and I feel I have to do so much physical work to keep myself doing what I do out there, [I’ve been thinking] ‘do I have that in me do I have that fight in me to keep doing that’ because I know what it takes to go out there and play for your country. So many things have led me to know that this is the right decision – there’s the emotional side, the physical side and the mental side.”
On the announcement...
“I spoke to the team this morning. I spoke to Rooty and Brooky [Harry Brook] last night. I had a big job still to do out there today. The team we have up there, the comms and even Baz [Brendon McCullum], I asked the comms team, working Michael Lumb and with Neil Fairbrother who looks after me, you guys come up with a plan and whatever you think it best I’m fine with so I can concentrate on going out in the middle with the team. And we had a little plan that if it gets to seven or eight down it would be nice to do the message. It was always going to be a tactical decision for me to open the batting on that pitch because of the wicket and what we felt we needed to do against the new ball. So everything considered I was like ‘right, you do what you feel is best’, and everyone just had a laugh when we came off because as soon as it got announced everyone was like ‘what is going on?’ Then of course I had to take a wicket. Then when I walked off Baz was like ‘...we should have announced it an hour earlier!’. He just said ‘it’s typical of you that!’ Even the other boys were like ‘wow!’ It was absolutely electric. Yep, so give credit to the comms team for making that play out the way it did.” DT.
Andy Burnham. Oh Dear!
The Manchester Model. What It Actually Looks Like Up Close.
Andy Burnham is asking the country to trust him with Downing Street on the strength of what he calls the 'Manchester Model'. Eight years of integrated public services and progressive governance that he says Britain should adopt nationally. Before the country decides, it should know what that model actually produced.
Start with the money.
£578 million in public money was lent by Burnham's Greater Manchester Combined Authority to a single developer, Daren Whitaker of Renaker. A tribunal found that GMCA failed to obtain a statement of assets and liabilities from Whitaker before lending, exposing taxpayers to a risk the tribunal described as potentially wiping out the public funds. A meeting between a senior GMCA officer and Whitaker at which loan terms appear to have been agreed produced no minutes or notes. Court papers allege Renaker presented high profit figures to the GMCA when seeking loans and low profit figures to Manchester City Council when seeking exemption from affordable homes requirements. The Court of Appeal is considering judgment on whether the loans were even lawful.
Out of 11,000 homes built with that public money, 503 are classed as affordable, less than five percent. Whitaker's personal fortune grew from £140 million to £698 million during Burnham's mayoralty. The luxury towers were marketed to Chinese buy to let investors through Hong Kong estate agents. Hundreds of flats have been sold to Asian investors according to the Telegraph's analysis of Companies House filings.
Now the transparency.
Monday, June 29, 2026
Alarm Bells Sound A Warning In New York.
Alarm bells go off in New York.
Anti-Zionism is turning the Democratic Party into a mortal enemy of America.
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Extreme socialism is now on the march in America, with the demonisation of Israel as the principal weapon in its arsenal.
Claire Valdez, Brad Lander and Darializa Avila Chevalier, three extremists backed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, emerged victorious this week from their Democratic primaries in New York City’s 7th, 10th and 17th congressional districts.
Valdez and Chevalier are affiliated with the ultra-left, anti-American Democratic Socialists of America.
On social media, Chevalier has boasted of having “wiped my hand on the American flag”.
Chevalier, a convert to Islam, has called for the abolition of police, prisons and the country’s borders. She also co-founded Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a Muslim Brotherhood front group whose goals are the “full eradication of Western civilisation” and the cultivation of “unrest and violence in America”.
If elections to New York’s legislature are included, seven out of eight DSA-affiliated candidates won victory this week.
The support of Mamdani, who actively campaigned for these candidates, was critical to this alarming advance for extremism.
Yet the commentator and “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough declared that the person most responsible for this march of extremism in New York City wasn’t Mamdani but the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
What was shaping views now, he said, were images that Israel had brutalised children and women in Gaza “with bombing that looks indiscriminate on TV day in and day out for years” and would be “able to level half of Lebanon”.
Scarborough did not draw the reasonable conclusion that these images had persuaded millions of people to believe libellous falsehoods that had been propagated to delegitimise the State of Israel as a prelude to its destruction.
Instead, he suggested that these lies were true, and so he was holding Netanyahu responsible for the anti-Zionism which had powered those election campaigns.
A moment’s thought shows how ludicrous this is. Hatred of the Jewish homeland not only long predated Netanyahu’s first period as prime minister but predated the establishment of the State of Israel itself.
It’s true, however, that anti-Zionism was a driving force in these elections. All three House candidates ran campaigns that focused on ending US support for Israel.
All three of them used the “genocide” libel against the Jewish state. Chevalier doubled down on the support she had voiced for Hamas the day after the terrorist group led the attack against Israel on October 7, 2023.
A hijab-wearing Palestinian Arab, Aber Kawas, who won the primary for the New York State Senate, has written extensively on her blog about her support for “imprisoned heroes,” including the “Holy Land Five” (convicted of terrorism financing) and Ahmed Ferhani, an Algerian man who pleaded guilty in 2012 to planning a mass shooting at a Manhattan synagogue.
For his part, Mamdani referred last week to the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC and its supporters as “monsters,” channelling the key antisemitic conspiracy theory that accuses the Jews of controlling America in the pursuit of diabolical goals.
The true monsters are surely the Iranian regime, Hamas, Hezbollah — and Mamdani himself, who works for Israel’s destruction and hugely increases the physical danger to Jews in New York.
These New York election results have demonstrated that anti-Zionism has become the principal driver of Democratic Party politics, just as it has of progressive culture in general.
The elections demonstrated the menacing alliance between Islamism and ultra-leftism — embodied by Mamdani — that has the whole of America in its sights.
Islamists and leftists are united in the two things that drive them: their desire to end America and the West, and their deranged loathing of Israel and the Jewish people.
This loathing isn’t just the glue binding these two otherwise opposing groups together. It’s the Islamists’ key weapon against America itself.
The “Jewish question” is now turning into the driver of Democratic Party politics. Hatred of Israel is a Trojan horse for the agenda of Islamisation, the process of conquering America and the West for Islam.
Tragically, however, many American Jews whose support for the Democrats is tribal and unshakeable continue to back Mamdani even now.
Brad Lander, a former New York City comptroller who is Jewish and who defeated Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) in the primary for New York’s 10th Congressional District, is a close ally of the mayor. He declared that he would be “one of the Jewish members of Congress most willing to stand up for Palestinian human rights,” and that he would “stand firmly against bigotry aimed at Jews”.
This was humbug.
Last month, Lander went to the al Khoei Foundation, an Islamic centre in Queens, NY, identified by American security agencies as allied to the Iranian regime.
There, he accused Israel of a “desecration” of Judaism by committing genocide in Gaza and potentially also in Lebanon. He said he hoped to partner with Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) — two members of the Israel-hating “Squad” in the US House of Representatives —just as he had with Mamdani.
He even recited in Arabic a verse from the Quran that said: “He is Allah who is one, Allah the eternal refuge … nor is there to him any equivalent.” Following his remarks, the Imam at the mosque prayed to the Mahdi — the Shia Muslim messiah — to kill infidels with his sword.
The anti-Israel group IfNotNow celebrated Lander’s win as “a blueprint for the future for both the Jewish community and the Democratic Party”.
“He ran a bold, unapologetically Jewish campaign that rejected pro-war lobbies like AIPAC and the endless flow of U.S. weapons to Israel,” stated the group’s executive director, Morriah Kaplan.
But Lander is actively running interference for Islamists determined to kill Jews, exterminate Israel and conquer the West.
Defaming and delegitimising Israel and Zionism is not only deeply unjust. It’s a direct onslaught on Judaism and leads inexorably to attacks on Jews.
After Lander’s opponent, Goldman, visited a coffee shop in Brooklyn, NY, with his seven year-old daughter, the cafe subsequently posted the message: “We don’t serve racists fascists homophobes genocide enablers or anyone in between. Too bad we didn’t recognise you right away, or we would have turned you away.”
A journalist on Fox & Friends had reported that people in line for a food bank in New York City had been talking to her, too, about AIPAC. As a studio presenter said, “They believe that the United States is taking the money that could go to them and is donating it to Israel.”
Many wonder why the interests of so many Americans have become identified with events taking place thousands of miles away. Back in 2023, a Harvard-Harris poll found that two-thirds of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 agreed that “Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors.”
Most New York voters, who may assume that all the libels they are fed about Israel are true, nevertheless almost certainly don’t put Israel at the top of their concerns above the cost of living.
But Israel now stands proxy for something else: a nation state that’s supposedly grinding the faces of the poor and disadvantaged. So a vote for those who hate “oppressor” Israel is a vote for the “oppressed” everywhere.
Tragically, many liberal American Jews sign up to this warped, perverse and hateful mindset because this is now the dominant thinking in the Democratic Party.
Anti-Zionism, which shockingly has now framed the demonisation of Israel as conscience itself, has driven liberals off their moral compass. As a result, they are pawns in a far bigger game being played: to conquer America and the West for Islam.
The Democrats are turning into an extremist party posing an increasingly acute danger to America. And Jews who still support it are debauching Judaism, betraying the Jewish people and aiding the mortal enemies of the West.
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Without Comment.
Muslim in Pakistan kills Christian co-worker
A Muslim in Pakistan killed a Christian co-worker on Monday (June 22) after telling him he could not drink water from a cooler used by other labourers, sources said. CD.
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The Way To Go.
Evangelical Alliance urges Christians to engage Muslims with truth, love and gospel confidence.
The Evangelical Alliance has encouraged Christians across the UK to engage more confidently with Islam, warning against both fear and indifference while highlighting growing opportunities to share the gospel with Muslim neighbours, colleagues and communities. CT.
Most Northerly Cathedral.
Britain’s most northerly cathedral was built in 1137 by the Norsemen of Norway who ruled Orkney until 1468. Although one of Britain’s smaller cathedrals, St Magnus is a match for any of England’s Norman giants, a magnificent structure of red and yellow sandstone that effortlessly dominates Orkney’s bustling capital. When you enter by the west door, the ruddy-hued vista of sturdy round pillars marching away to the glorious east window is breathtaking. DT.
Good On You.
Turkey edged the Americans 3-2 in the closing seconds of a back-and-forth game that put a blemish on the team’s record but didn’t alter its path to the knockout round. The Americans (2-1) already had clinched first place in their group and now will face Bosnia and Herzegovina Wednesday night in the single-elimination Round of 32.
After Thursday’s loss, the players, coaches, and staff gathered in a circle around defender Mark McKenzie, who knelt in the middle and offered a prayer of gratitude. His words could not be heard, but the moment nevertheless resonated on social media among soccer fans who had seen the same team pray after its two victories.
Crosswalk.
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Excellent.
Blind Christian in Pakistan acquitted of blasphemy
- 25 Jun, 2026 11:56 EDT
A court in Pakistan has acquitted a blind Catholic man who spent 10 months in prison on a blasphemy charge carrying a mandatory death sentence, ruling that prosecutors failed to present sufficient evidence to prove the allegation, his lawyer said. CD.
Blame Rancid 'Critical Theory'.
How critical theory silenced the quarter million girls abused by Pakistani grooming gangs in UK.
Last week, a group called Restore Britain released a summary report of an inquiry into the widespread and systematic sexual exploitation of vulnerable working-class women and children across the nation. At least a quarter of a million girls were sexually assaulted, trafficked, tortured, and even killed, mostly by gangs of Pakistani Muslims. The details in the report are so horrifying that it is difficult to believe they are true.
As shocking as the reports of abuse are, the descriptions of the response by British authorities, including police, teachers, social workers, doctors, and politicians. Evidence of the abuse and reports by victims were downplayed and ignored. When Prime Minister Kier Starmer, who resigned Monday, was Director of Public Prosecutions and the head of the Crown Prosecution Service, he dismissed 13,000 cases of suspected child sexual offenders with a warning letter rather than attempting to prosecute.
According to the report, the fear of being labeled racist, the fear of losing votes, the fear of rioting if prosecutions happened, and the fear of accusations of classism all contributed to a culture in which “community cohesion” became more important than protecting women and children.
British citizens who spoke out about the abuse or expressed criticism of mass migration were often prosecuted, especially if the criticisms were directed at Pakistani or Muslim communities. In some cases, fathers attempting to rescue their daughters from abusers were even arrested. Last year alone in Great Britain, approximately 12,000 people were prosecuted for social media posts, some for longer periods than those who committed the crimes they were protesting.
Underlying the British response and the silence by media outlets both in Britain and in the U.S. is a cultural mood common among elites and shaped by Critical Theory. Western culture is assumed to be oppressive, and minorities, especially immigrants, are assumed to be victims of Western oppression. Thus, minorities cannot be expected to be held to the same standards. Their behavior results from their oppression, and identifying criminals within a minority group, it is assumed, will foster even deeper racism and Islamophobia — a term coined by the Muslim Brotherhood to shut down criticism of Islam. In this morally upside-down world, racism and Islamophobia are worse crimes than the sexual exploitation of children.
The gangs that have been operating in Britain have deep ideological and cultural roots shaped by Islam, including Sharia law. While most Muslims are law-abiding and many imams have condemned these gangs, the scale of abuse is so widespread that it must have been known. And yet, it was allowed and even enabled in some communities.
Many Muslims believe that, under Sharia, the same behavior is permitted with children today, and that Muslims are permitted to take non-Muslim women, married or not, as slaves. They are also permitted to abuse and humiliate them, including prostituting them for the benefit of their owners. All this is part of Sharia.
What these gangs have done to at least 250,000 women and children in Britain is allowed by these extreme interpretations of Sharia. Many of the young men responsible for these atrocities believe they are answerable to Sharia, rather than to British law. They believe what they are doing is approved by Allah, especially when done to an enemy who is oppressing them. This is something radical Islam has in common with Critical Theory.
This terrible story reveals why it is foolish to suggest that all cultures and religions are morally equal. They are not. Though every person is made in the image of God and has fallen into sin, some cultures and religions encourage sin and fallenness, including the abuse of other image bearers.
Ideas have consequences. Bad ideas have victims. In Great Britain alone, the victims of Islam and Critical Theory number in the hundreds of thousands.
Originally published at BreakPoint.
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