A secondary school has been criticised over plans to stage a drag artist performance to children as young as 11.
Fareham Academy, in Hampshire, said the display would form part of its annual Pride event on June 27.
But Suella Braverman, the former Tory home secretary, has urged the school, which is in her constituency, to rethink the “morally reprehensible” plans.
Canada’s cybersecurity agency said Chinese-backed hackers were likely behind recent malicious activity targeting domestic telecommunications infrastructure, warning that three network devices registered to a Canadian company were compromised in the attacks.
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation urged Canadian organizations to take steps to harden their networks against the threat posed by Salt Typhoon, a group linked to the Chinese government, in a bulletin issued late on Friday.
NATO countries agreed a statement on Sunday for their upcoming summit that sets a goal of 5 per cent of GDP for annual defence and security-related spending by 2035, overcoming objections from Spain, diplomats said.
The statement has the green light from all 32 NATO members, diplomats said, but will only become official when it is approved by leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump at their summit in The Hague on Wednesday.
… Under a plan by NATO boss Mark Rutte, countries would reach 5 per cent of GDP by boosting their core defence spending goal from 2 per cent to 3.5 per cent and spending a further 1.5 per cent on related items like adapting roads and bridges for military vehicles and cyber security.
It would appear Canada has agreed to the increase in principle but there’s no word and it won’t be official till Wednesday.
I wonder if Carney will pull a Spain.
Perhaps a frothy bubble bath, a spot of tea, and a cushy robe would help poor Michelle Obama work through her past traumas, like being married to former president Barack Obama and having to pay for food while living at the White House.
Instead, she has been working out her imagined hardships in public interviews and podcasts, like a public therapy session nobody asked for.
In the early hours of Friday, activists from the protest group Palestine Action infiltrated RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire. Using electric scooters, they navigated the vast airbase under the noses of unsuspecting security personnel. Brize Norton is a critical part of Britain’s defence infrastructure: a military Heathrow, used for trooping flights, freight and refuelling. The activists, who uploaded video footage of their raid to social media, subsequently vandalised two Voyager air-to-air refuelling tankers, damaging them with crowbars and spraying paint into the engine’s turbofans using adapted fire extinguishers. They claimed, nebulously, that their intention was to disrupt British military support for Israel.
Matt Gurney: Let’s open with something of a confession. Or maybe a strategic repositioning of the shield I use to cover my bottom from being called out for bad predictions. In the immediate aftermath of the election, I would have said, with no reservations, that I thought Pierre Poilievre was safe as Conservative leader. I still think that, but now only on balance — I think he is very likely to remain as leader, but small doubts have entered my mind. We can talk about why in a minute, but first, what do you think of the big question — is he safe?
During my law enforcement career, I never saw what one might reasonably describe as an obvious act of courage on the part of any attorney, prosecutor, or public defender. Their lives and jobs were insulated from the gritty reality of day-to-day police work. It was a reality they experienced from the comfort of office chairs and argued in climate-controlled, guarded courtrooms. Such was not the case for US Attorney John A Sarcone III of the Northern District of New York on June 17, 2025 in Albany, NY.
What is the purpose of the state? Increasingly, it appears to be to secure something called ‘equality’. But we long ago moved past the point at which this was achieved through formal equality in the sense of everybody being equal before the law. What we now seem to expect is to experience equality in what I have previously called the ‘sibling’ sense: everybody loved equally by the benign parent, yet at the same time rivalrous with one another, seeking to be the one who is ever-so-slightly more loved than the rest.
The result of this is a grotesquely fake, cloying and sentimental governing style which apes a simpering maternalism while achieving something more like bad therapy. It coaxes, it reassures, it purports to nurture and support, in a manner that is transparently false and patronisingly obvious. And there is I think nowhere in the Western world where this style is more finessed or pronounced than Scotland, land of my fathers, where I spent the last two days speaking at an event.
No pipeline is coming. Not under Prime Minister Mark Carney. Not under any federal leader. But the promise of a pipeline—the vague, lingering maybe—is too useful to kill. That promise allows Ottawa to discipline the West, delay their demands, and extract cooperation without ever offering reciprocity. A built pipeline delivers oil. An unbuilt pipeline delivers obedience.
Western provinces that believe a Carney government might succeed where Trudeau failed misunderstand the nature of the offer. Carney won’t say yes—but, more importantly, he won’t say no. He will keep the dream just alive enough to remain useful: a chip, a valve, a leash.
The Pentagon man gathered top technology executives from the six largest defense contractors in 2022 to ask an unusual question: Have any of your companies ever gained access to alien technology?
“It would just make my job easier if one of you would ’fess up, give me the UFO, or help me find them,” said Sean Kirkpatrick, who had been tapped by the Defense Department to investigate whether Washington had ever had a secret alien program.
The comment was made half jokingly, but for one company, Lockheed Martin, the answer was…complicated.
The WSJ has become the disinfo journal but their glaring omissions leave a massive credibility gap. Citing Sean Kirkpatrick is just the beginning.
The European Parliament has decided that all dogs and cats must be registered with a microchip to make them easier to track. Because of course, in a continent where it’s impossible to know how many people enter through its external borders each day—let alone where they come from—it seems only logical that the real issue of security and welfare lies in finding out whether your pet was purchased five or ten years ago, or which other animal it has mated with.
Statistics Canada is rejecting claims that a recent study on internet misinformation was politically motivated or intended to support the government’s push to regulate online content.
“The report was not requested by any public authority,” said agency spokesperson Annick Irakoze, who explained the findings were based on public questionnaires.
It’s June: the western world’s Holy Month of Pride, and, as such, we must all be on our best behaviour so as not to offend the delicate sensibilities of gender activists — you know, the ones that occupy the latter half of the expanding LGBTQ2S+ acronym.
Unfortunately, the United Kingdom’s Carrot Cottage Rabbit Rescue somehow missed this memo. The registered charity drew the ire of Irish comedian and transgender rights activist Aidan Comerford this week, following an online attack by anonymous activists whose work caught Comerford’s attention. Comerford, whose X bio notes that he “generally tweets about what transphobia looks like,” astutely observed that the charity was committing the cardinal sin of following unapproved social media accounts on X.
It happened: Operation Midnight Hammer was executed and took out Iranian nuclear facilities in Natanz, Isfahan, and Fordow last night. B-2 bombers took off from the continental United States to make the 18-hour journey to deliver their packages. It was glorious. The funny part at home is that Democrats likely know this was the right decision. It’s why the outcry, while loud with some folks, hasn’t been in unison, especially with top Democrats. As of now, I don’t believe Chuck Schumer has said anything.
TheGunBlog.ca — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said she is exploring with Saskatchewan how to create their own provincial firearm licences, their newest effort to undermine and exit the Liberal Party of Canada’s anti-gun regime.
“Any guns purchased legally as of January 1, 2000, you can own, keep and use in the province of Alberta” ️
Danielle Smith speaks to Albertans about the gun bans and what an Alberta firearms license would look like. pic.twitter.com/k5DniDkRn9
— Tracey Wilson (@TWilsonOttawa) June 21, 2025
h/t Mauser
