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Greta Thunberg bursts into laughter after hearing Fridays for Future demonstrations are still happening in Berlin – the climate protest movement she founded. "Really? They still do that?"

🇬🇧 Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe has tabled a parliamentary motion officially calling on the Government to recognise and protect English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish ethnicities as distinct historic identities.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Reform's Joe Martin has been banned from speaking in the Welsh Senedd for requesting a statement from the government on the "demographic replacement of White British people taking place in the UK". The house immediately ruled his question was "discriminatory".

🇫🇷 Michel Houellebecq, one of France's most renowned writers, is under a formal police investigation for allegedly inciting hate and violence against Muslims. The investigation relates to comments the author made in 2022, when he told an interviewer: “Most French people are not demanding that French Muslims assimilate. They just want them to stop raping, robbing and destroying things. Or, failing that, to leave our country.”

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Liberal Democrat MP Josh Babarinde releases video arguing "You don’t have to be White to be English".

🇩🇪 Rejecting the "remigration maximalism" of Martin Sellner, AfD MP Maximilian Krah stated his party will only deport the roughly 200,000 people already ordered to leave German, as well as revoking temporary residence titles on a large scale. Krah argues that denaturalising naturalised citizens is impossible in a liberal state and under the German constitution. The debate about remigration was ignited recently by AfD co-leader Tino Chrupalla blaming harsh ICE operations for the Republican midterm defeat, and promising to avoid "divisive" deportation operations.

🇫🇷 A relic of Saint Nicholas has been destroyed by a French Antifa activist. Police arrested the man in his home, where the 1,700 year-old relic he had stolen was burned and then crushed. Saint Nicholas, whose legend helped inspire Santa Claus, is a deeply revered figure in eastern France.

🇬🇧 David Walliams has been named as the celebrity seeking an injunction to stop publication of allegations of sexual abuse against him. Walliams is accused of using his celebrity status to pursue teenage girls as young as 15 for sex, a joint three-year investigation by ITV News and the Guardian released today has revealed.

🇺🇸 Trump says Biden let in 25 million illegal immigrants, including thousands of murderers, but again promises flexibility on the question of an amnesty: "Many of them have good jobs now. They’re productive."

🇺🇸 Mike Benz says that after Elon Musk left the Trump administration, there was no tolerance for anyone expressing dissent on policies like the Iran war, with many of the most talented people removed. "The room to express dissent came very close to zero".

🇺🇸 Ron DeSantis has attacked Donald Trump's suggestion that he will look at an amnesty for illegal immigrants: “This idea that unless you're an axe murderer you should be able to stay that is not consistent with our laws and it's also not good policy... Under some view it's like okay yeah you come illegally and then you stay until you commit a really violent crime. That just doesn't work."

🇬🇧 Russell Brand has been sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison for rape and sexual assault.

🇧🇪 A Moroccan youth worker in Belgium tasked with keeping children off the streets has been convicted of dealing cocaine. Afifa Benatmane worked for Kras Jeugdwerk, which receives 97% of its funding from public subsidies. She was the organisation's designated contact person for protecting vulnerable young people. Police caught her making cocaine deliveries in July 2025, discovering large quantities of drugs, cash and three mobile phones. In sentencing her, the judge noted the hypocrisy that her job was to steer young people away from drugs.

🇺🇸 Trump endorses negotiating an amnesty deal with Democrats, suggesting he now only wants to deport the illegal immigrants who have committed other crimes.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump on Iran: "This historically, for history, will go down as one of the best things we ever did." "If they had a nuclear bomb they would blow up the world."

🇺🇸 Randy Fine denounces JD Vance: "I thought his message that he put out the day after the election was abhorrent and frankly smacked of the kind of thing you would read in 1932 Germany." "He blamed the Jews for losing the election."

🇺🇸 In Donald Trump's first interview since the midterm elections, he suggests his deportation policy was partly to blame for the Republican defeat. Ross Douthat: “So you think your deportation policy went too far?” Trump: “Yeah, I think it was too tough”