UK - On Sunday 9 November, the National Service of Remembrance will be held at the Cenotaph on Whitehall, London. Starting at 11am, the service will commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women involved in the two world wars and later conflicts.

UK - If there has been a more shameful day in recent British history, I’m struggling to recall it tonight. As unrest flared around the Aston Villa stadium, with pro-Israel protesters herded into a caged basketball court by police for their own safety, we witnessed nothing less than the forces of Islamism exerting a stranglehold on our police, our government and our country. How must Sir Keir Starmer have felt after vowing to do all he could to reverse the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, only to have been humiliated at the hands of the mob? Last month, the Prime Minister declared that the chant “from the river to the sea” was unequivocally antisemitic. What would he say about “death, death to the IDF” as it rang off the pavements of Birmingham?

ISRAEL - Mamdani’s [election as New York mayor] victory is comparable to Salah ad-Din’s Battle of Hattin. In 1187, the Muslim commander defeated the Crusader army, marking a turning point on the road to the Muslim conquest of Israel. Does Mamdani’s election portend the fall of the West? To realize this vision, these forces allied with internal partners, including the progressive and Woke movement. This extreme left ideology seeks to disconnect the West from the roots from which it grew, to defame its heritage, and to pour into it a consciousness of guilt and self-annihilation to the point of internal disintegration.

USA - President Trump has escalated his attacks on Nigeria as he threatened to invade Africa’s most populous country and “wipe out” Islamist groups killing Christians. In a video posted on Truth Social, Trump reiterated his threat to use military force against Nigeria. “If the Nigerian government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the USA will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria,” Trump said. “We’re going to do things to Nigeria that Nigeria is not going to be happy about and may very well go into that now disgraced country, guns a-blazing, to completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible, horrible atrocities.” There was some confusion over whether the video was AI-generated, with White House denying claims it was. Trump “just looks that good”, a spokesperson told Newsweek.

MIDDLE EAST - By allowing Houthi propaganda to air from its satellites, Europe betrays the values it claims to defend and becomes complicit in spreading extremist hate. In an era when democratic nations claim to champion human rights and counter violent extremism, it is both astonishing and profoundly troubling that Europe’s satellites continue to beam the propaganda of an armed group designated by many as a terrorist organization. Through channels such as Al-Masirah TV and its affiliates (Eutelsat and ARCOM), the Iran-backed Houthis armed group broadcasts daily messages of hate, violence, and jihad, glorifying bloodshed, indoctrinating children, and spreading sectarian hostility across Yemen and beyond.

BRAZIL - Flying 5,700 miles to lament the ‘climate crisis’ perfectly captures our elites’ nauseating hypocrisy. Politicians’ carbon footprints are growing – but fear not, they’ll offset them with a PowerPoint at Cop30. It may only be the first week of November, but I believe the award for Headline of the Year 2025 is already as good as won. It will surely be impossible to beat the following contender from BBC News, published in March. It read: “Amazon Forest Felled to Build Road for Climate Summit”.

UK - British people feel the nation is more divided than ever and a majority say they do not feel proud of their country, research has found. The study by the Policy Institute at King’s College London also revealed a country where tensions around immigration are rising, people are uneasy with the pace of cultural change and increasingly nostalgic for the past. Part of a long-term research programme into “culture wars”, the study also found that attitudes towards transgender rights had hardened and there is a growing rejection of the concept of being “woke”. Separately, the survey discovered that tensions over Brexit have eased and divisions over climate change are now worse. Professor Bobby Duffy, director of the Policy Institute at KCL, said the study showed a “frightening increase” in the sense of “national division” and decline in the UK. He said: “We’ve seen steep rises in the beliefs that the UK is divided, that ‘culture wars’ are real and that things were better in the past."

MIDDLE EAST - If there is going to be “peace in the Middle East”, why are Israel, Iran and Hezbollah feverishly preparing for war? I am watching the Middle East very closely, because I expect something really big to happen. In fact, just hours ago the IDF conducted major airstrikes in Lebanon. Meanwhile, the Iranians are stockpiling missiles like never before. The clock is ticking, and the Middle East could potentially erupt in flames at any moment. A lot of people out there seem to think that Hezbollah has been totally defeated. But of course that is not the case at all. It is still very formidable, and it is being reported that Hezbollah is “working on rebuilding the Radwan Force and retrieving weapons from its bunkers”… Sadly, I expect war to continue to be a major theme in 2026, and that is not good news for any of us.

EUROPE - These are the visible consequences of a society that refuses to speak plainly about what threatens it. This morning a man shouting “Allahu Akbar” drove a car into a crowd on the French holiday island of Île d’Oléron, leaving at least 10 people injured. It was the latest example of something that has become commonplace across Europe, something that our leaders refuse to deal with. Instead we must learn to live behind barriers, with concrete blocks and assault rifle-toting police becoming a kind of set dressing for leisure. The security is to a certain degree theatre. It’s there to reassure us and it’s better than nothing, but it is also a reminder that things were not always this way and that governments are too ideologically-bound to actually tackle the issue.

UK - Our national broadcaster has promulgated a pernicious Leftist orthodoxy that has taken hold of our institutions. Britain is a decaying, dysfunctional society, and the BBC is complicit in our decline. Our national broadcaster is not merely dishonest, biased and prone to cover-ups, as a Telegraph investigation reveals; it has also been wrong about almost everything that matters. Fuelled by billions of pounds extracted via the licence fee, the BBC has spent forty years shrinking the Overton window, waging war against centre-Right dissidents, bullying politicians into following destructive orthodoxies and promoting an anti-Western, anti-capitalist, anti-conservative worldview.

UK - This paper’s revelations about the corporation’s bias will be the last straw for many, and should spell curtains for the licence fee. The BBC has been a cornerstone of our national life. For as long as I can remember, a Britain without the BBC was unimaginable. Well, that is changing. A growing number would now be glad to see the back of this once globally admired institution, or at least they no longer want to pay the TV tax only to be insulted. The corporation may well have signed its own death warrant with a shockingly partisan Panorama report in which two clips from a Donald Trump speech were soldered together to make Mr Trump appear to say, “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol, and we fight” when he actually called for a peaceful march.As we know, the president is perfectly capable of damning himself out of his own mouth without any help from Leftie BBC editors who played right into his hands with this outrageous display of what the Donald calls, with good reason, “fake news”.We have become accustomed to BBC journalists lying by omission and the prioritisation of pet subjects – I swear there isn’t a spark caused by two sticks rubbed together in southern Europe that hasn’t been seized on by climate editor Justin Rowlatt as evidence of man-made global warming. But here we have a flagship factual programme deliberately misrepresenting the words of the most powerful man in the world. There can be no defence for inventing criminal speech – for that is how incitement to riot would be seen in a court of law.

USA - The US president has reiterated a nuclear testing threat while calling for global denuclearization. US President Donald Trump has defended his push to resume nuclear weapon testing, boasting that America’s arsenal is powerful enough “to blow up the world 150 times” and should be maintained through active trials. In a CBS interview aired on Sunday, Trump was asked why the US needs to test its nuclear weapons again after more than three decades of a Congress-mandated moratorium. The US last conducted a full-scale nuclear test in 1992, and resuming testing would likely take years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the Washington Post. Energy Secretary Chris Wright clarified on Sunday that the testing ordered by Trump would not involve actual nuclear detonations.

USA - The Banks needed $29.4 Billion in Cash last night; they pledged Securities they hold to the Federal Reserve, to get instant cash against those Securities. I do not yet know WHICH or HOW MANY banks suddenly found themselves needing cash, but I do know that this is a larger Overnight REPO injection than occurred even during the Dot Com Bubble collapse. Someone, or several someones, needed a ton of cash last night – and no one is saying who or why. This doesn’t seem good to me. What is the Fed not telling us? The numbers clearly indicate that big trouble is brewing in the banking system.

USA - The Trump administration said Monday it plans to partially fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) after judges ruled in November that contingency funds must be used to pay for the benefits. One major issue with SNAP has been the widespread fraud that erupted under the Biden-Harris regime. US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins revealed Sunday that the USDA has purged 700,000 fraudulent recipients so far this year. Trump made it clear to radical leftist lawmakers that keeping the government closed - now on its 35th day, a record - by refusing to vote on a clean resolution would mean the SNAP program would only resume once the government reopens. "It will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government, which they can easily do, and not before!" the president emphasized.

USA - Steve Bannon on Mamdani’s Win: More than a few Republicans are celebrating Zohran Mamdani’s victory, seeing the 34-year-old democratic socialist as a political gift and an albatross for the Democratic Party. Steve Bannon is not among them. The former White House chief strategist has long preached the idea that populism is the engine of modern politics. And he sees Mamdani’s election as mayor of New York City as proof of its staying power — and a sign of the growing anti-establishment force on the left that Republicans would be foolish to ignore. “Tonight should be a wake up call to the populist nationalist movement under President Trump,” he said in an interview with POLITICO Magazine just after midnight on Wednesday. “These are very serious people, and they need to be addressed seriously.”