Montecito cools on Harry and Meghan amid royal book row

At Pierre Lafond Market in the West Coast town of Montecito, a smoked salmon and freshly baked bagel will set you back $17. The café and deli, said by staff to be a favourite spot for the Duchess of Sussex to pick up pastries and desserts, is a mainstay of the Californian celebrity enclave, 90 minutes’ drive from Los Angeles.

The upmarket eatery hints at Meghan’s easy life among the stars. She enjoys shopping trips to the Wendy Foster luxury boutique, where stud gold earrings sell for $750 a pair, and dinner with Harry, 39, at the Italian restaurant Tre Lune, where Kevin Costner and the singer Kenny Loggins are said to be patrons.

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Hunt for the royal letter leaker: King orders palace probe after only a ‘tiny handful’ of staff saw Meghan’s note naming two ‘royal racists’

The hunt for the leaker who provided biographer Omid Scobie with the names of two members of the Royal Family in a ‘racism’ row is underway – as both sides remain firm that they are not to blame.

King Charles III and Kate Middleton were named as the royals alleged to have made comments about the skin colour of Harry and Meghan’s son Archie prior to his birth in the Dutch edition of Scobie’s latest tome, Endgame.

The King is said to be taking the taking the furore over the book ‘very seriously’ and will consult senior advisers next week on the family’s next step, with ‘all options’ including legal action set to be considered.

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Susan Sarandon Apologizes for Comment about Jews ‘Getting a Taste of What It Feels Like to Be Muslim‘

Actress Susan Sarandon has apologized for her recent comment at a pro-Palestinian rally where she claimed that American Jews are now “getting a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country.”

In a statement issued Friday, Susan Sarandon said her phrasing was “a terrible mistake,” adding that she regretted belittling the history of Jewish persecution.

I’m going to forgive her. I can’t help myself.

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Illegal alien invaders land boat on Malibu beach close to home of whiny Barbra Streisand who lashed Trump’s wall

Astonishing footage captured a boat filled with migrants landing on the beach in ritzy Malibu – close to the home of famed bleeding-heart liberal Barbra Streisand.

Around 25 people were seen leaping out of the vessel around 1am November 28, near the $100 million compound of Streisand an arch critic of Donald Trump, who called his border wall a ‘monument to himself’.

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Indigo bookstore vandalism sparks debate over definition of antisemitism

For author and political activist Naomi Klein, red paint and posters plastered on an Indigo book store in Toronto, accusing the chain’s founder Heather Reisman of “funding genocide” for her support of Israel, had nothing to do with the fact that she’s Jewish.

“That’s an outrageous slander,” she said at a rally this week in front one of the bookstores in support of the 11 people charged in the incident.

Instead, Klein said, Reisman was targeted for her support of a program that provides free tuition for soldiers who serve in the Israel Defence Forces but which critics say is an inducement to get non-Israeli Jews to volunteer in the Israeli military.

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Families of prisoners of war massacred by Japanese captors demand apology

Descendants of British soldiers machine-gunned after leaping into sea from transport ship campaign for official acknowledgement of cover-up

Even amid the litany of horrors from the war in the Far East it still has the power to shock – hundreds of unarmed British and Allied prisoners shot in cold blood by their Japanese captors as they tried to save themselves from a sinking transport ship.

But the fate of the men – machine-gunned after leaping into the sea from the Suez Maru – was largely forgotten, other than by their grieving loved ones.

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Canada’s trans activism goes into overdrive

Canada has long prided itself as a bastion of LGBT rights, and over the last year it has been doubling down on its support for the transgender movement.

In the year since Canada announced its Federal 2SLGBTQI+ Action Plan, the country has poured tens of millions of dollars into gay and transgender initiatives at home and abroad. This includes a government-funded marketing project aimed at increasing public support for the LGBT community, numerous research projects, disease prevention efforts and funding for LGBT entrepreneurs.

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Double Standards on Hate Speech Follow Dublin Riots

A Limerick politician has called for the killing of participants in the November 23 Dublin riots. Abul Kalam Azad Talukder—celebrated as Limerick’s first-ever Muslim city councillor upon his election earlier this year—stated he wished to see the rioters shot in the head or beaten to death following last week’s violence, sparked by the stabbing of several children and a teaching assistant by a naturalised Algerian immigrant.

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Take a guess … ‘Canada’s letting me down’: Palestinian Canadians ask why Ottawa isn’t opening the doors it did for Ukraine

… As the death toll of the Israel-Hamas war — sparked by Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel — has grown, calls from Palestinian Canadians have increased for Ottawa to help bring their family and loved ones to safety. The federal government says it’s been helping Canadian citizens, permanent residents and their “eligible family members” leave Gaza, but there’s been confusion over who qualifies and questions raised about why Ottawa hasn’t brought in a specific plan to help Palestinians.


Pallies celebrate rape and murder.

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