In recent decades, and especially in recent weeks, we have heard much about the plight of victimised, marginalised minorities, and the belief that they ought to be afforded special treatment and extra privileges by way of recompense. The Jason Arday debacle is a reminder of this chronic state of affairs.
Outgoing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer had formerly headed the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) which had offered a pass to the Muslim sex grooming gangs who had trafficked and raped as many as 250,000 women and girls in the UK.
Starmer had initially refused to launch a national inquiry into the grooming gangs, claiming that they were merely a local matter, before finally giving in to political pressure.
Grainy videos hide more than they reveal. They smooth out the texture and contours of life in a single moment. We often look back on these relics as beautiful, simpler times.
But it’s hard to grasp what life felt like for the protagonists in the frame. The anxiety and excitement. The stack of bills collecting on the counter or the sick grandparents out of view. The optimism or dread of whether a child’s life will be more promising than a parent’s.
A good but long read.
A female Antifa rioter was exposed as a liar after claiming she had only grabbed on to another protester being arrested for support.
Catherine Esperanza, 30, was told her claims about grabbing onto the protester outside a Portland ICE facility in May were nonsense, The Oregonian reported.
Esperanza claimed to have suffered a broken leg and that she was trying to steady herself and that issues with her hearing meant she missed orders to back off.
The ongoing conflict in the Middle East has disrupted global markets for crude oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG), triggering worldwide price spikes and raising doubts about the reliability of the hydrocarbon-rich Middle East region as an energy supplier. These developments have also pushed up energy prices in Canada.
We’ll al be driving electric cars and living in homes heated by solar power!
Havana has been gearing up for the centenary of Fidel Castro’s birth on August 13, 2026. Fidel Castro died in 2016 after handing power over to his brother Raúl in 2006. Communists the world over claim him as one of their own, and international visitors are being hosted by the dictatorship to celebrate this anniversary. In 2006, Forbes magazine reported that Fidel Castro’s net worth was $900 million (€780 million). One of his bodyguards, Juan Reinaldo Sánchez, who defected, wrote a tell-all book, The Double Life of Fidel Castro: My 17 Years as Personal Bodyguard to El Lider Maximo, detailing Fidel’s 29 luxury homes, four yachts and private island (Cayo Piedra), not to mention other luxuries. This in a country where 89 per cent of the population lives in extreme poverty.
So, you post a comment online about Canada’s immigration policy. Someone – you’ll never know who – finds it offensive, reports it as “hate,” and a few days later the police are at your door.
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On Tuesday night, vote totals from the city of Milwaukee were delayed after election commission staff “erroneously” downloaded the wrong information onto USB drives. Instead of the vote totals, staff downloaded the audit logs, and it took more than an hour for staff to retrieve the correct information.
Hello @FBI, have I got a development for you… https://t.co/sacdCJtjmH
— Dan O'Donnell (@DanODonnellShow) August 13, 2026
On the 42nd anniversary of Ottawa trying to deport a man who police named as Toronto’s top Mafia boss, the government has again failed to prove he should be deported back to Italy.
The Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) rejected arguments that Vincenzo DeMaria, better known as Jimmy DeMaria, has been a member of the shadowy and powerful ’Ndrangheta, which is the proper name of the Mafia formed in Italy’s southern region of Calabria, and that he engaged in Mafia activities, including money laundering.
NY Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher:
"If you steal soap, it means you need it"
She wants to allow "crimes of poverty" pic.twitter.com/I47grF9WWw
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 14, 2026
The holiday season is not over yet, but it is time for some reflection. Those who have been travelling in Western Europe will undoubtedly have noticed how our continent is rapidly changing.
From Bergen, Norway, to Cork, Ireland, from Salzburg, Austria, to Florence, Italy, from Hamburg, Germany, to Perpignan, France, everywhere the number of djellabas, headscarves, even niqabs, has dramatically risen.
What a utopia it will be when the police are defunded and the prisons are open!
All we need to curb crime is more streetlights and some open hearts. 🕊️
(I have a chapter in my satire book on this very topic) pic.twitter.com/tfE64yNWxf
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) August 14, 2026
We lack a word in the English language for the emotion that floods the body of a parent who is the custodian of a screaming child on an airplane. It is some combination of humiliation, helplessness and a palpable sense of being judged. Your brain considers all sorts of scenarios in that moment: Can I order a rye for the baby? How long will it take me to die if I jump out the window? Maybe I’m already dying? Surely death would be less painful.
Three disturbing stories of children that were allegedly preyed upon by greedy hospitals and doctors — and encouraged as minors to undergo gender-care treatment — were outlined in the Department of Health and Human Services’ bombshell “Wolves in White Coats” report Thursday.
Here are their stories.
Jason Arday, the former University of Cambridge professor at the centre of a plagiarism row, has been found dead.
Emergency services said a man was found “unresponsive” at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon.
Arday resigned as a Cambridge professor of sociology of education last week after allegations of plagiarism and questions about some of his achievements. He had denied the claims.
