Author: James Carter

A Green Party councillor has sparked widespread outrage after appearing to express sympathy for an Afghan asylum seeker who was convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl in her own council borough. Michele Kondakor, who represents the Weddington ward on Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council, made the remarks in a video that was widely shared on social media on 6 May 2026. In the clip, the councillor referred to the rape as “the rape and what have you,” before stating: “Lives are ruined all around, you know — the asylum seekers, these very young people, their lives are ruined.” The case…

A Green Party candidate campaigning for Britain to pay trillions of pounds in slavery reparations is herself descended from a Nigerian royal family with a documented history of slave trading, it has emerged. Antoinette Fernandez, who holds the role of reparations officer within the party’s Global Majority Greens group, is standing for election in the Lea Bridge ward in Hackney, east London. She has publicly called for British taxpayers to fund reparations for the transatlantic slave trade, arguing that politicians who oppose the idea “show an appalling arrogance.” Yet through her mother, Abiola Dosunmu — the Queen Mother of Lagos…

One of America’s most storied waterfront estates — originally built for saxophonist Kenny G and later owned by telecom mogul Bruce McCaw — has finally sold after more than three years on the market, closing at $38 million, a staggering $47 million below its original asking price of $85 million. The sale of the sprawling Hunts Point mansion, reported by the Seattle Times and the Puget Sound Business Journal, represents one of the most dramatic price collapses in American luxury real estate in recent memory. The property, which had held the record as the most expensive listing in the history…

Green Party leader Zack Polanski liked several social media posts suggesting Sir Keir Starmer is financially controlled by powerful Jewish figures, — deepening an antisemitism crisis engulfing the party just days before local elections. The posts, all published on the left-leaning social network Bluesky within the past six months, included messages asking “how much does Israel pay him?” and claiming the Prime Minister’s Cabinet receives “large sums of money from Zionist philanthropists.” Polanski’s verified account is recorded as having liked each of them. One post, liked by Polanski in November 2025 and written in response to an interview in which…

Sir Keir Starmer’s hopes of using Britain’s entry into a €90 billion Ukraine loan scheme as a bargaining chip in post-Brexit reset negotiations have been firmly rebuffed by Brussels, with EU sources making clear that goodwill gestures will not translate into concessions at the negotiating table. The Prime Minister was speaking at the European Political Community summit in Yerevan, Armenia, on Monday when he suggested that Britain’s involvement in the loan programme was “very good for UK-EU relations, which is very important as we go on to the various discussions we’re going to have today.” An EU diplomat was blunt…

The leader of the Scottish Family Party has been thrust back into the national spotlight after a video of him challenging Scottish education officials over explicit sex education materials — including school lessons on masturbation, anal sex and oral sex — went viral days before Thursday’s Scottish Parliament election. Richard Lucas confronted then-Education Secretary John Swinney at a National Parent Forum event in 2019, questioning him directly about the content of Scotland’s Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood programme, known as RSHP, which is delivered in Scottish schools. The footage, available on the Scottish Family Party’s YouTube channel, has been shared…

Zack Polanski has accused Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley of interfering in the local elections by issuing a public letter condemning the Green Party leader’s criticism of officers who detained the Golders Green terror suspect — reigniting a row that has dominated the final days of the campaign and drawn fierce condemnation from senior Cabinet ministers. The Green Party leader initially backed down last week, deleting his post and apologising after Sir Mark published an open letter warning that his criticism of officers would “inflame tensions” by amplifying “us and them rhetoric.” But on Sunday, Polanski reversed course again,…

Zack Polanski was confronted on a street in Hastings by a Jewish resident who challenged him directly over his earlier suggestion that Jewish fears of antisemitic attacks may amount to a “perception of unsafety” — a confrontation filmed days after two Jewish men were stabbed in a terrorist attack in Golders Green and which has since gone viral. The video shows a man approaching the Green Party leader and asking repeatedly: “Was yesterday’s attack on the Jewish community a perception of unsafety? I’m not going to cause any trouble. I’m just asking you, Zack.” As Polanski continues walking without responding,…

A Green Party candidate standing in next week’s local elections referred to Jewish people as “cockroaches” in a social media post made just two months after the Hamas terror attacks on Israel, it has emerged — as the party faces mounting pressure over what critics are calling a systemic antisemitism crisis within its ranks. Raja Ateeq, who is standing in the Rushall-Shelfield ward in Walsall, posted the slur on Facebook in December 2023, claiming that “Jewish cockroaches” would not want to return to Gaza and adding that “400K Jewish have flown out of Israel.” He signed off the post with…

Donald Trump’s approval rating has fallen to its lowest point of his second term, with a major new survey showing declining confidence in his personal qualities, decision-making and trustworthiness — and with the erosion now reaching into his own Republican base and 2024 voter coalition. The findings, published this week by the Pew Research Center and reported by Newsweek, paint a picture of a president whose political standing has weakened on almost every measurable dimension since his return to the White House, even as he continues to dismiss negative polling as inaccurate or irrelevant. The sharpest decline is on the…