Author: Darren Smith

A British anti-Zionist activist is under police investigation for alleged Holocaust denial after a fellow train passenger reported her to officers by text message — sparking a fierce debate about free speech, citizen surveillance and where the line falls between political criticism and hate speech in modern Britain. Fiona Rose Diamond was approached by British Transport Police at a train station after returning from an oncology appointment in London when officers informed her she was under investigation for a “racially aggravated public order” offence. The complaint had been triggered by a single text message from another passenger on the train…

The Sikh owner of a west London restaurant who says he was arrested for defending his family after an attack on his wife and daughter has been released without charge — and is now threatening legal action against the Metropolitan Police and Mayor Sadiq Khan, as a long-running dispute over his restaurant’s non-halal policy erupts once more. Harman Singh Kapoor, 44, who runs Rangrez Indian restaurant on Fulham Palace Road in Hammersmith, was detained for nearly 24 hours before being released on 10 May without any charges being brought against him. In a post on X that has since accumulated…

Two men have been arrested after a woman was raped on a high street in a South Yorkshire town centre in the early hours of the morning, police have confirmed. The incident took place on Bank Street in Mexborough, Doncaster, at 2.09am on 2 May. South Yorkshire Police were called to reports of a rape and launched an investigation, arresting two men the following day. A 48-year-old man was detained on suspicion of rape and a 45-year-old man on suspicion of sexual assault. Both have since been released on bail pending further enquiries. Police have released descriptions of the two…

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of Anthony Clemmings was discovered in a rooftop garden at a block of flats in Bristol earlier this week. Mr Clemmings, known as Tony, was found by a member of the public at the Redcliff Street development at around 8.20am on Tuesday. Avon and Somerset Police confirmed on Friday that a 50-year-old man had been arrested in the West Midlands in connection with the death and remains in custody. The force said forensic and CCTV enquiries had been carried out following the discovery, with additional patrols deployed in…

A Lidl security guard has been caught on camera attempting to remove a blind man and his guide dog from a London store, insisting the animal was “not allowed” — despite guide dogs having full legal protection to access all public premises under UK law. The approximately 40-second clip, posted on X by @OliLondonTV and filmed around three weeks ago, shows a guard in a high-visibility vest repeatedly telling the blind customer and his guide dog to leave the store. “Dog is not allowed,” the guard tells the man, who responds: “But it’s a guide dog.” The guard then says…

Spanish police are investigating the alleged sexual assault of up to ten schoolgirls, some as young as 15, after the pupils reported being plied with alcohol or drugs aboard a cruise ship before the vessel docked in Barcelona on 1 May. The girls, who all attend the same school in the Basque Country, were travelling on a privately organised four-day Mediterranean cruise when the alleged assaults took place. Eight victims made statements to police in Barcelona, with a further two filing complaints in the Basque Country. The name of the cruise liner has not been made public. A well-placed source…

North Korea has rewritten its constitution to require an automatic nuclear strike if Kim Jong Un is assassinated or loses command of the country’s armed forces — a move directly prompted by the killing of Iran’s supreme leader during US-Israeli strikes on Tehran, according to South Korea’s intelligence service. The constitutional revision was adopted during the first session of the 15th Supreme People’s Assembly, which opened in Pyongyang on 22 March. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service briefed that the changes formalise a nuclear response protocol under revised Article 3 of North Korea’s nuclear policy law, stipulating that a retaliatory nuclear…

A video of a man mocking Polish workers in fluent Polish while waving welfare payments at the camera has gone viral across Poland, igniting fierce debate about immigration and benefit entitlement in a country that has maintained one of Europe’s stricter approaches to non-EU migration. The clip, which began circulating widely on 8 May 2026, shows a man believed to be Ibrahim Pantera — a personal trainer based in the Brzeg area of Poland — speaking directly to camera in Polish. Waving Polish zloty banknotes, he taunts viewers: “Hey, you bastards, look — your welfare checks, your social benefits, and…

The Trump administration has released a trove of long-classified government files on UFOs and alleged extraterrestrial encounters, including photographs taken during the Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 space missions, in what the White House has described as an unprecedented act of transparency toward the American public. The disclosure forms part of a new initiative called the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon Encounters — known as PURSUE — and represents the first in a planned series of releases. According to Fox News, the materials bring together UAP videos, photographs and original source documents from across the entire…

AFC Bournemouth have launched an investigation into right-back Alex Jimenez and excluded him from Saturday’s Premier League squad after social media posts emerged appearing to show the 21-year-old sending inappropriate messages to a 15-year-old girl. The club confirmed the investigation on Friday in a statement that left no ambiguity about the seriousness with which they were treating the matter. “AFC Bournemouth are aware of posts circulating on social media involving right-back Álex Jiménez,” the statement read. “The club understand the seriousness of the matter and it is currently being investigated. As a result, Alex will not be included in the…