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 Polanski investigated over failure to pay council tax

Green leader admits ‘unintentional mistake’ after living on houseboat for three years without paying tax.

I Would Never Say That Islam IS Evil But It Certainly Contains An Awful Lot of Evil.

Christian man's hands chopped off by Muslim relatives: 'That's what Sharia instructs us to do.'

By Morning Star NewsSaturday, May 09, 2026

NAIROBI, Kenya — Relatives of a man in eastern Uganda chopped off his hands after he converted from Islam to Christianity. 

Kalegeya Faruku, 40, has been recovering from severe injuries after being maimed in the attack at his family home in Jinja. 

“I gave my life to Jesus in early March, and my family members were not happy,” Faruku told a Morning Star News contact. “They became very angry and started sending me threatening messages about taking my life.”

Faruku said he returned home briefly on the evening of April 17 to collect personal belongings before relocating to a safer place. He had intended to travel to Busembatia Town Council in Bugweri District, where a friend who had shared the Gospel with him resides. But relatives ambushed him upon his arrival, he said.

“I found my brothers waiting for me, as if they had been informed,” Faruku said. “My elder brother approached me and pretended to ask about my whereabouts. Suddenly, he grabbed me, and others surrounded me.”

They took him into the house and cut off his hands while reciting Islamic scripture, he said. Morning Star News has seen photos of his severed limbs. The relatives later transported him about 5 kilometers (just over 3 miles) away and abandoned him near a crossroads, severely injured, Faruku said.

“I thank God that a stranger found me and raised an alarm,” he added. “People came and rushed me to a nearby clinic for medical attention.”

He was receiving medical treatment at a medical facility whose name is being withheld for security reasons.

An assistant pastor at an Evangelical church in the district said Faruku had been attending worship services there. The names of the church and assistant pastor are also being withheld for security reasons.

Faruku is still undergoing treatment at the medical facility.

His father, Lubega Issa, justified the attack by saying, “That is what Sharia [Islamic law] instructs us to do to those who deny the religion of Allah,” according to the assistant pastor.

Police had not released a statement about the incident as of this report, and it remained unclear whether any arrests had been made.

Christian community members and leaders have called for a thorough investigation and renewed emphasis on peaceful coexistence and freedom of belief.

The attack was the latest of many instances of persecution of Christians in Uganda that Morning Star News has documented.

Uganda Archives - Morningstar News

Uganda’s constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to propagate one’s faith and convert from one faith to another. Muslims make up no more than 12% of Uganda’s population, with high concentrations in the country's eastern regions.

This article was originally published at Morning Star News 

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• Fulani terrorists kill 13 Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria

  By Christian Daily International / Morning Star News

  Slaughters of Christians continued in Plateau state, Nigeria on Friday (May 8) as Fulani herdsmen killed 13 Christians in Bassa County, Nigeria, sources said.

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Will you help persecuted Christians? Persecution can have a devastating long-term impact on Christians—which is why so many who have suffered need the loving support of the wider body of Christ. Kidan* is one example. Kidan spent more than seven years in a barbaric and remote prison in Eritrea for her faith in Christ. She had been incarcerated to break her spirit. By the time she was released, her husband, Dawit*, had already been deported to neighbouring Ethiopia and she was left with nothing. By the grace of God she had remained faithful to Christ in her suffering. By the generosity of Christians she and her family now have a means of living. Will you, at this time, consider giving to Release International’s ministry, as we seek to support those who have suffered for Christ? Kidan was one of 40 people arrested in her church, in western Eritrea. The authoritarian regime in Eritrea has, for years, banned all religious activity that does not come under the umbrella of Sunni Islam, or the Orthodox, Lutheran or Catholic churches. For more than two decades, evangelical Christians have suffered harsh clampdowns for their witness. Kidan was held in a police station for four months, before being transferred to a remote military site, encircled by mountains. There she was harassed and regularly goaded to sign a renunciation of her faith. She didn’t. ‘When they brought us there they wanted us to experience this mental torture. They were saying, “We brought you here in order to break your spirit.”’ Instead, by the grace of God, Kidan and other Christians were able to patiently show the love of God to their guards. Looking back on that time, Kidan says, ‘It was long, but there was always hope in our heart. The Spirit of God was always giving us hope when we read the Scriptures. We were ready to be faithful unto death.’ To make matters worse, in the whole of her time in prison she had just one brief visit from her son—and never saw her husband. By the time she was released, Dawit, who is half Ethiopian, had also been arrested for his Christian faith and had been deported to Ethiopia. Kidan arrived home to an empty house. Her church was able, in the short term, to help her. Eventually Kidan and her son were able to move to Ethiopia to be reunited with her husband. Through our partner for Eritrea Release International had been able to offer some support to Kidan while in prison, and, after her move to Ethiopia, our partner bought the family a tuk-tuk, a three-wheeled motorised vehicle used in many parts of the world for short-distance taxi transport or food delivery. ‘That’s how we’re supporting our family now,’ said Kidan. ‘It’s paying for our house, our rent, our food. It is also supporting our son’s education. It is everything to us.’ Could you send a gift of £35 or more to Release International, to help us support persecuted Christians like Kidan and her family? Kidan continues to live out her Christian faith. She is active in an Eritrean refugee church in Ethiopia where she is heavily involved in a women’s group. Life continues to be difficult, and rising petrol prices are a strain on their modest but life-sustaining tuk-tuk business. Your gift of £35, £60, £100, £250—or whatever amount you are able to give at this time—can make a real difference in the lives of so many Christians who have suffered, and who, very often, continue to suffer persecution for their faith and witness. Thank you for your concern for persecuted Christians around the world. * Name changed and image disguised to protect identity DONATE

Kemi - Doing Better Than The Tory Party Itself?

The revolutionary creed of Kemi Badenoch.

She's a Conservative leader who actually believes in conserving what's most valuable

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Tory leader Kemi Badenoch setting a heckler right about the threat to British Jews

This is an expanded version of my column in today’s Times (£).

British politics is currently convulsed by the struggle going on inside the Labour party to defenestrate the party’s leader and prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer.

The catastrophic local government election results last week have brought to a head the mutinous alarm among Labour MPs that Starmer is leading them to annihilation at the next general election. Rejecting their mounting pleas to resign, Starmer has provoked widespread ridicule by producing no fresh initiatives to back to his claim of a governmental reset.

At this morning’s Cabinet meeting, he dared rebels to oust him. At time of writing, four government ministers have resigned in order to force him out.

If they succeed, however, his replacement won’t save the party. The three candidates who are considered the main contenders for the post of party leader, and therefore prime minister, will all take the party further to the left. Since it is left-wing fixations that have mired the Starmer government in serial incompetence, economic illiteracy and administrative paralysis, voters are hardly likely to be impressed if a new prime minster dives even further down this ideological rabbit hole.

The Starmer government, let us not forget, was hardly elected two years ago on a wave of enthusiasm. On the contrary, Starmer was already disliked and distrusted. He came to power entirely on the back of unbridled fury at the Tories, after successive Conservative governments had themselves exhibited such serial incompetence that the voters decided the party should never hold power again.

As a result of this mass disillusionment with both main parties, the British political scene has fractured along the fault lines of British patriotism, Islamic sectarianism and youthful nihilism.

Nigel Farage’s Reform has overtaken the Tories in popular support, and is also attracting disenchanted Labour voters who want to “put Britain first”. The Greens have reinvented themselves as a hard-left, anti-capitalist, Israel-hating and Jew-baiting party, and have allied themselves with Islamists out to destroy Israel, hound out the Jews and then conquer Britain and the west for Islam.

Scottish and Welsh nationalists are also having their day in the sun as a result of the implosion of both Labour and the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats are gaining support from the non-metropolitan middle classes who also sign up to liberal universalism, Israel demonisation and the climate apocalypse but find the various left-wing insurgencies a bit too much for their delicate sensibilities.

Despite Labour’s travails, this new, fractured political reality might well mean that the next government ends up as a nightmare coalition of Labour, Greens, “Gaza First” Islamists and LibDems. This is because the Conservatives, the main opposition party, are still held to be unelectable.

With Reform triumphant in the local elections, and the political world transfixed by Labour’s fratricidal psychodrama over which leader would lose less support to the Greens, the insurgents of Reform and assorted sectarians, conventional wisdom has it that the Tories don’t have a prayer.

Well, conventional wisdom may just be wrong. There’s the Conservative party, which is indeed on life support; and then there’s its leader, Kemi Badenoch. And she most certainly should not be written off, because she’s actually doing rather well...

NO Hypocrisy Here!

Green councillor drives petrol-guzzling Lamborghini.

Baggy Khan, 25, posted footage of arriving at a wedding in a bright orange Huracán Spyder days after winning Bolton seat

Albert TaitNews Reporter

Albert Tait is a general News Reporter for The Telegraph, covering a range of topics including crime, defence and social affairs. See more 

Published 11 May 2026 6:41pm BST

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          A Green Party councillor has been criticised after posting a video of himself driving a Lamborghini supercar just days after he was elected.Baggy Khan, 25, who was elected to Bolton council on Thursday, shared footage of himself arriving at a wedding in a bright orange Lamborghini Huracán Spyder at the weekend.Critics said it was “ironic” he was driving the vehicle, which consumes more than twice the amount of fuel as an average car, considering the Greens’ plans to remove petrol and diesel cars from the roads.