UK right-wing populist leader Nigel Farage won Friday’s by-election in Clacton, regaining the parliamentary seat he resigned a month earlier to trigger the vote.
He took about 63% of the vote, while his main challenger, comedian Jon Harvey running as trash-can-costumed “Count Binface,” secured roughly 27% — his best result yet in eight election attempts. The turnout was 44%.
CALGARY — Former Conservative minister Edwina Currie has drawn attention after suggesting that a brothel would be needed near a rural English village where about 1,200 young male asylum seekers are expected to be accommodated.
Currie made the remark during a discussion on Times Radio about asylum accommodation at a former military site near Little Piddington, Buckinghamshire.
I love this
A couple of boatfuls of hookers might do the trick
Presumably taxpayers will provide the payments ? https://t.co/t3SO2wlaNH
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) August 13, 2026
Residents of Piddington, a tiny Oxfordshire village of around 350 people, have held a protest picnic and voted 96% in favour of a symbolic referendum to secede from the UK in opposition to Government plans to house 1,250 single adult male asylum seekers at a nearby former MoD depot. Women in the village say they are frightened to walk alone at night, with one 73-year-old resident saying: “I’m scared really – it breaks my heart.”
A decade after the Brexit vote, YouGov has conducted a large-scale survey of the nation’s attitudes towards migration. Their work shows that the British people are significantly more negative about the subject than they were in 2016. On each occasion, people were asked ‘do you think the level of immigration over the past ten years has been good or bad for Britain?’ In 2016, a third of us thought it had been ‘mostly bad’, and 38 per cent said it was ‘both good and bad’. Now, 43 per cent of us said ‘mostly bad’, and just 29 per cent said ‘both good and bad’. Notably, the opinions of 2016 Remain voters have shifted the most: almost twice as many of them now say that migration has been bad for Britain.
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham thinks it is a “point of principle” that the effects of mass migration be spread to rural and middle-class areas, as critics wake up to the potential social consequences of planting “asylum seekers” around the country.
I’m looking forward to the civil war.
There is one line in the Home Office fact sheet on this year’s figures for Prevent – the UK’s counter-radicalisation referral scheme – that is more informative than the rest of the report combined: referrals for ‘fascination with extreme violence or mass-casualty attacks’ peaked at 286 between April and June, before falling to 183 over the summer. The Home Office’s explanation? The schools broke up.
It looks like Andy Burnham has achieved what his predecessors could not. He has found a solution to the small-boats crisis…
In the early hours of Monday morning, a 49-foot dinghy carrying 230 illegal immigrants arrived on British shores from France. It is by some margin the largest number of migrants to have arrived in a single vessel. It surpasses by far the previous record of 165, a feat of human trafficking achieved late last month. As many people have already pointed out, the ‘small boats crisis’ may now technically be over, as we enter the era of migrant cruise-liners.
A student police officer ‘bundled’ a woman into his car before raping her and then driving off at 125mph with her still inside, a court heard today.
Mohammad Hassan, 23, was arrested on the M62 motorway in West Yorkshire on Saturday after a police pursuit which followed a 999 call from the Manchester area.
A woman who could allegedly be heard in distress in the VW Golf during the call was ‘safeguarded at the scene’, police say.
Wherever you find Islam you find diversity!
Royal Navy spy drones used by Britain’s elite special forces secretly sent data to China, The Telegraph can reveal.
The cameras on the K3 Scout surveillance drones had components made in China which were secretly transmitting information to a device in the country.
The Royal Marines have been using the £12m fleet since March and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) was forced to remove all internet connectivity from the cameras after discovering the breach.
Imagine what one of Carney’s ChiCom EV’s can do.
There have never been so many referrals to Prevent, the Government’s counter-radicalization program. According to Home Office figures published this week, there were 10,293 referrals in the year to September 2025, up 39% on the previous year. Extremism, it seems, is surging. There is just one problem with that neat conclusion: referrals are not diagnoses. They are concerns passed on to the system.
The US embassy in London is offering grants of up to half a million dollars for new “public education” programmes in what has been criticised as interference in British domestic politics.
Using language that the pro-Trump Maga movement has sought to appropriate, a funding notice identifies a goal of fostering a “national conversation” about “shared civilizational values” underpinning US-UK ties. Priority will go to applicants aiming to celebrate “freedom of speech” and “limited government”.
It comes after senior Trump officials voiced sharp criticism of British authorities and repeated misinformation on a range of fronts including abortion and digital regulation, and allied with European far-right movements in attacks on hate speech and immigration policies.
Great Britain needs foreign interference.
Police pepper-sprayed a woman in a wheelchair during the violent anti-migrant protests in Thetford, locals have claimed.
The woman is said to have been among a largely ‘peaceful’ protest when the crowd became ‘rowdy’ and officers used the device.
Norfolk Police have been defending their handling of the violence and disorder in the market town, which began on Tuesday.
Police have detained six people following several nights of unrest in Thetford that led to officers having to evacuate asylum seekers from their homes.
The protests come amid plans to house more asylum seekers in former military barracks – including at RAF Barnham near Thetford. pic.twitter.com/NLbPTGyF0B
— Channel 5 News (@5_News) August 7, 2026
A market town has been engulfed by violence and disorder on two nights this week after angry residents stormed houses rumoured to be used by asylum seekers.
Frustration exploded into fury at three properties on Tuesday in Thetford, Norfolk, following weeks of protests at a nearby former military barracks which has already been earmarked to take 1,250 male migrants.
It continued last night, when two officers needed hospital treatment – one who was hit by a rock and another who was ‘seriously bitten’ during another protest. Three arrests have been made.
Thetford finally forced their hand.
Locals stood outside the HMO last night and refused to accept undocumented military-age men on their streets. Police turned up, and this time they actually started removing them.
That’s what happens when a community stops asking politely and… pic.twitter.com/GfSAQxqUxg— Retard Radar (@FullRetardRadar) August 5, 2026
According to a glowing report on NBC’s Today program last week, thousands of well-heeled American visitors are flocking to spend vacations in the English countryside this summer, seeking to commune with the parent country of their ancestors, in what NBC said transatlantic visitors fondly imagine to be the “land of Downton Abbey and Jane Austen.”
Readers will be aware of the shenanigans after the World Cup football match when England lost to Argentina. A group of Argentine footballers held up a banner claiming the Malvinas are Argentinian. It would seem that our Argentine friends are still rather keen to snaffle the Falkland Islands from us. They tried this in 1982 and were pushed out. But much has changed since then and it seems that politically, diplomatically and, above all, militarily those changes have been in the Argentinians’ favour.
