UK - The view that Islam is problematic and should be criticised is a protected belief under equalities law, a judge has ruled. Patrick Lee, 61, was found guilty of misconduct by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) last April over posts on X. After a four-year disciplinary process, he was banned from the professional body and ordered to pay nearly £23,000 in costs. But following an employment tribunal hearing, the actuary has won legal protection for his beliefs. It is the first time a court has ruled that “Islam-critical” beliefs are protected under the Equality Act 2010.

USA - America must wake up. This is about more than one upstart revolutionary. The victory of New York state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral election was long heralded by the opinion polls. Yet its effect upon America threatens to be nothing less than seismic. It’s not just that Mamdani may wreck the city through the expected multiple failures of his infantile magic money-tree wish list. It’s not just that his antisemitism and hatred of Israel make him a potential threat to the city’s Jewish community.More importantly, what’s happened is a major strategic victory for the Islamic world in its war against the West. Muslim activists are ecstatic that Mamdani has conquered New York — the city with the largest number of Jews outside Israel — for Islam. Mamdani’s victory has put rocket fuel behind the already delirious feeling among Muslim radicals that they are now on the cusp of conquering the West for Islam.

USA - New York City’s political shift took a dramatic turn as Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani, a self-described socialist from Queens, delivered a post-election speech at a Brooklyn mosque where the crowd chanted “Allahu Akbar.” The 34-year-old Democrat Socialist, now the first Muslim mayor in city history, used his platform to promote redistribution of wealth and socialist-style governance under the banner of faith and community service. He spoke about economic justice, collective ownership, and moral duty to share resources, while the crowd’s chants created an atmosphere that blended religion and politics in a way many found deeply unsettling. The chants of “Allahu Akbar” at the Brooklyn mosque captured a city surrendering to a movement that confuses activism with leadership and ideology with governance.

GERMANY - Chancellor Friedrich Merz declared Germany will restart deporting migrants back to Syria. “The civil war in Syria is over. There are now absolutely no grounds for asylum in Germany, and therefore we can begin deportations,” Chancellor Merz said on Monday evening, according to Die Welt. The longstanding open borders policy pushed by the Berlin establishment, particularly under the government of former Chancellor Angela Merkel, which opened the gates of Europe to mass migration in 2015, has incentivised nearly a million Syrians to migrate to Germany. Their presence in the country has become increasingly controversial in the wake of terror attacks committed by supposed asylum seekers from Syria, such as the mass stabbing at a “diversity festival” in Solingen last year that left three dead and six injured.

NIGERIA - A shocking new report reveals that Nigerian authorities are threatening to arrest the victims of jihadist violence if they publicly denounce Islamic terrorism. In a country where Christians are being slaughtered, kidnapped, and burned out of their villages by extremist militias, the government’s posture has shifted from negligence to outright complicity. This is not merely political cowardice — it’s spiritual blindness. According to Breitbart News, Nigeria’s security agencies have issued warnings to residents in northern and central regions, telling them to remain silent or face arrest for “inciting religious tension.” In other words, the victims of mass murder are being treated as criminals for naming their persecutors.

HUNGARY - US President Donald Trump has claimed immigrants are "flooding" into Europe as he hailed Hungary's far-right Viktor Orban. Mr Trump made the comments while hosting the Hungarian Prime Minister at the White House in an apparent bid by Mr Orban to broker another summit between the US and Russia on the conflict in Ukraine. "If you look at [Mr Orban's] stance on immigration and other things, you know, if you look at Europe, they made tremendous mistakes in immigration," the US President said. "It's really hurting them very badly. He has not made a mistake on immigration. They have people flooding Europe all over the place and it's hurting it. The crime rates are way up, bad things are happening." Hungary has refused to follow the orders of the European Court of Justice on admitting immigrants and has been forced to pay fines as a result.

JAPAN - Japan has issued a tsunami advisory for Iwate Prefecture following a magnitude 6.7 earthquake that struck off the coast on Sunday evening (November 9), measuring a 4 on Japan’s own seismic intensity scale. Waves of up to one metre (3ft) are possible along the Iwate coast, the Japan Meteorological Agency has warned. Between November 8 and 9, at least five earthquakes measuring over magnitude 5.0 struck the North Pacific Ocean near Iwate. Seismologists have attributed the swarm to tectonic stress in the Japan Trench, an area affected by the 2011 Tohoku disaster.

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.