UK - I was at the Epping protest that descended into a riot - false claims are being made about who started it. Nigel Farage is wrong. This was a highly politicised episode and Mr Farage is a politician. He should be free to pass judgment on it. What should be a source of shame for Mr Farage is not his attempt to cash-in on the Epping riots, but rather that he’s got his facts wrong. Badly. Specifically, his claim that left-wing anti-racism activists and Essex Police were responsible for the disgusting violence seen around the Bell Hotel on July 17. I know he's wrong, because I was there.

UK - Yvette Cooper must act. There's one thing that we locals, politicians and councillors agree upon. We have seen deeply troubling events in Epping in recent days and weeks. Epping is a wonderful small town with a warm, caring and compassionate community that I feel blessed to be a part of. It has changed a little bit over the years. As a young veterinary student, I did my dairy farm work experience at a busy cattle farm on the edge of my home town of Epping, just a few hundred yards from the Bell Hotel, which used to be a hotel where families could come and stay and enjoy our wonderful town.

UK - Keir Starmer has been warned that Britain faces a “summer of riots” as protests over migrant hotels are spreading. And if that happens, Starmer and his Government will have only itself to blame. Because what’s happened at Epping in recent days – terrified parents protesting at a hotel in the town being taken over by young migrant men, one of whom it's alleged committed THREE sexual offences within a week of arriving in Britain – is what happens when a government ignores people’s perfectly rational fears about illegal and uncontrolled immigration. Britain currently feels like a tinderbox that’s set to explode. But the fact is, people are sick of uncontrolled migration. They’re sick of having to fork out money to put up the world’s poorest in four-star hotels and private apartments – while indigenous people here struggle.

GERMANY - The pretext for the raid was entirely rumor-based and driven by an organization funded by USAID, aligning it with foreign interests. Allegations against Bystron have already prompted a jaw-dropping 21 previous searches, none of which have yielded incriminating evidence. The raid conveniently occurred while Bystron was in Washington, DC, meeting with senior Republican representatives in the US Senate and Congress. “This is targeted terror against the opposition. There’s no other way to interpret the authorities’ absurd actions. As an opposition politician, I am apparently expected to abandon my resistance against deeply entrenched systemic corruption,” Bystron stated. He further explained, “Every single one of these 22 searches was illegal. Each one marks a step away from a democratic constitutional state and toward an authoritarian regime that seeks to silence dissent by any means necessary.”

RUSSIA - Russia bans international Satanism Movement, in defense of traditional spiritual and moral values. The vilification of Russia and the demonization of President Vladimir Putin is a full-time job by the Western media, neocons, and Globalists of all stripes. But despite any geopolitical considerations, Putin’s work to protect religious and family values is impossible to deny. Moscow has outlawed LGBT propaganda and practices in the country, as well as ‘gender reassignment’ surgeries and therapies – but Putin made sure to clarify that homosexual relations between consenting adults are not forbidden.

EUROPE - On July 17, Germany and the United Kingdom signed a historic defense agreement in London, known as a “friendship treaty.” This marks a fundamental shift in European security policy in the post-Brexit era. For the first time since World War II, these two countries have forged a direct bilateral defense pact, building on a 2024 partnership designed to counter Russia’s growing threat. This agreement also signals a renewed alignment of Europe’s core trio, Germany, France, and the UK, originally formed to address Iran’s nuclear ambitions but now expanding its reach into foreign policy, security, economic cooperation, and civil society.

UK - Sunday saw another night of protests outside the Bell Hotel in Epping. Essex police were eager to clamp down on the subsequent demonstrations, arresting a total of six people and describing the atmosphere as “angry and violent”. Locals had for years expressed frustration at the area being used to house asylum seekers, a feeling which overflowed last week. This is not the first time protesters have clashed with police over the Government’s decision to place those who cross the Channel in hotels. But the events of the past week should suggest to us that these disturbances will become more common. Epping is not like the largely Northern, post-industrial towns which protested last summer after the Southport attack. It is a leafy area, where you need a middle-class income to afford a mortgage.

UK - Britain is increasingly living like a junkie, struggling just to cover the interest on his tick. Debt is our drug, and the dealers want paying. Figures released on Tuesday by the Office for National Statistics show we borrowed nearly £21 billion in June alone. That’s despite tax revenues rising by almost £6 billion compared with the same month last year – thanks to fiscal drag boosting income tax by £1 billion, and the Chancellor’s National Insurance raid adding over £3 billion more. The habit is proving impossible to kick. State spending has ballooned, and the cost of servicing our debt addiction has soared. In June, debt interest hit £16.4 billion, nearly double what it was a year ago and the second-highest monthly bill on record. We now spend more feeding our debt in a single month than we do policing our borders in an entire year.

USA - Donald Trump has announced a “massive” trade deal with Japan that would earn the US economy $550 billion (£407 billion) in investment. The agreement, with one of the US’s largest trading partners, would lower tariffs for Japan and is the most significant of a string of trade deals the White House has negotiated before Mr Trump’s tariffs are due to kick in on August 1. Under the plan, the US president said Japan will pay a 15 per cent tariff on goods imported to the US – down from 25 per cent – and open its markets to American goods, including cars and rice. Two-way trade between Japan and the US reached nearly $230 billion in 2024, with Japan running a trade surplus of nearly $70 billion. Japan is the fifth-largest US trading partner in goods, and the largest investor in the US.

IRAN - Iran will not abandon its nuclear programme despite “severe” damage caused by US and Israeli air strikes, its foreign minister said. Abbas Araghchi conceded late on Monday that uranium enrichment had “stopped because, yes, damages are serious and severe”, ahead of renewed talks with European powers. But Mr Araghchi told Fox News: “Obviously, we cannot give up enrichment because it is an achievement of our own scientists.” He called the programme a source of “national pride”. Donald Trump quickly responded to Mr Araghchi’s comments, threatening on social media to “do it again, if necessary!”

USA - President Donald Trump is pulling the US out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) over its “anti-Israel bias”. In February, Mr Trump ordered a 90-day review of America’s membership of the heritage group, probing any “anti-Semitism or anti-Israel sentiment within the organisation”. Now Mr Trump is set to cut ties with the agency after the review uncovered alleged pro-China and anti-Israel bias, as well as the promotion of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, according to The New York Post. “President Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from Unesco – which supports woke, divisive cultural and social causes that are totally out-of-step with the common-sense policies that Americans voted for in November,” White House deputy spokeswoman Anna Kelly told the newspaper.

USA - When the average American is at the grocery store shopping for beef, you are likely to see labels that say, “MADE IN THE USA.” Sadly, and outrageously, these labels mean next to nothing: “Made in the USA” product labels might seem self-explanatory, but in the food world they’re anything but. Let’s take beef as an example. Under current rules, a cow could be born, raised and slaughtered outside the United States, but still have a “Made in the USA” or “Product of USA” label as long as the final product was packaged within US borders. Beef and pork are almost the only food products where country of origin labelling isn’t required.

UK - The Bank of England, in coordination with European supervisors, is now asking major banks to run internal stress tests for a once unthinkable scenario: a full scale US dollar funding shock. This includes modeling situations where access to dollar liquidity, even via swap lines could freeze entirely. These requests, made quietly through the BoE’s Prudential Regulation Authority, reflect growing concerns over the global system’s overreliance on the dollar and its exposure to US political volatility. Behind this shift is a deeper anxiety: that the US may no longer be a reliable or apolitical provider of emergency dollar liquidity during global crises. The trust that underpinned the dollar’s role as the lifeblood of global finance is eroding, not from economic weakness, but from geopolitical instability and policy unpredictability out of Washington. It’s a major turning point: when even the Bank of England starts war gaming a dollar shortage, it’s not about ideology, it’s about survival.

USA - Meat processors are buying machines that inject water into your dinner. It’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s a business model. Industrial emulsifiers and injectors are being sold to manufacturers across the US, Europe, and Asia to pump meat with plumping solutions: water, salts, phosphates, and preservatives. The goal is not nutrition. It’s weight. More weight means more profit. That’s the pitch. “Profitability guaranteed,” says one supplier. The practice is legal. The labeling is vague. The consumer pays for water at meat prices. Their machines are used by processors in over 60 countries. The emulsifiers homogenize the solution. The injectors distribute it. The result is heavier meat, longer shelf life, and higher margins.

CANADA - Someone Get Al Gore A Tissue. Of course, they'll still find SOME way to turn this into a 'scary story. They always do. Remember when National Geographic had everyone in a panic over that skinny polar bear story, where they invented a whole back-story and pinned it to… you know it without my even saying so. After a few months of panic, followed by a great deal of fundraising over the ‘endangered’ polar bears, and the predictable scolding the rest of us have for just living our lives, National Geographic retracted the story admitting that we really didn’t know what was wrong with that bear, or whether it was one sick bear or part of some larger story.