Starmer tells Andrew: Testify or you’re failing Epstein victims

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor will be failing victims if he con­tinues to refuse to testify about his relationship with the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Sir Keir Starmer has said.

The prime minister urged the former prince to give evidence before a US congressional committee that first requested his testimony in November. “Epstein’s victims have to be the first priority,” he said.

He may yet end the monarchy.

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The Conservative Party is overhauling its policy playbook. Here’s what’s changing

Party adopting a ‘stand your ground’-style policy, demands crackdown on criminal immigrants

Delegates at the Conservative Party’s national convention in Calgary voted overwhelmingly Saturday to enact a “stand your ground”-style law to allow someone to protect themselves with lethal force against an intruder in their home.

This was one of dozens of policies debated and adopted by delegates at this biannual gathering, many of which focused on crime, immigration and social policy.

After handing Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre a strong endorsement, party members renewed their policy playbook ahead of the next possible federal election.


“Demands crackdown on criminal migrants” as if that were a bad thing.

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Tower Hamlets councillor runs for election… 5,000 miles from London in Bangladesh

A London councillor has continued to earn £20,000 from the taxpayer despite campaigning for political office in Bangladesh.

Sabina Khan is seeking to represent the Bangladesh National Party in the Golapganj-Beanibazar constituency in national assembly elections in February.

Yet she continues to serve Tower Hamlets in east London as a councillor, earning £20,600 a year.

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Tom Flanagan: Too bad Harper isn’t the one dealing with Donald Trump

Stephen Harper’s ten years as prime minister began on Feb. 6, 2006. Twenty years later is a good time to assess his achievements in office and the legacy he left behind. I worked closely with Harper when he was leader of the Opposition, but not when he was in government, so this is a view from the outside.

The first thing to remember is the constraints under which he laboured. He led a minority government until he finally won a majority in 2011. Even then, he was still hemmed in by a Liberal Senate, a left-leaning judiciary, and a federal civil service that tends to tilt Liberal or NDP. Thus, it is not surprising that his greatest accomplishments were in areas where he could exercise his executive authority without impediment.

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German MPs Vote to Keep Law Criminalising Insults Against Politicians

The vote comes as prosecutions under the statute surge and critics warn the law is being used to shield those in power from public scrutiny.

The German parliament has rejected a proposal by the right-wing AfD to abolish Section 188 of the Criminal Code, a provision that gives public officials special protection from criminal insults, defamation, and slander.

The vote took place on Thursday evening, with all parliamentary groups except the AfD opposing the motion.


But the AfD are the fascists.

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They can’t be serious… Mary Simon To Run Up Tab While Saving Arctic Sovereignty

Arctic sovereignty: Gov. Gen. Mary Simon heading to Norway, Denmark and Greenland

Indian name means “Put it on the tab”

OTTAWA – Gov. Gen. Mary Simon is set to visit Greenland, Denmark and Norway next week.

On Monday, Simon will travel to Norway, where she will take part in the Arctic Frontiers Conference in Tromso and later meet with Norway’s King Harald in Oslo.

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BERNARDO: The messaging war driving Canada’s next gun ban

The Bondi Beach tragedy is the latest excuse Canadian gun confiscation advocate PolySeSouvient uses to tighten the noose on legal gun owners, especially hunters and sport shooters.

In the aftermath of the Australian terror attack, you can see the playbook in real time.

Something horrific happens overseas.

Activists sprint to the nearest microphone.

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Berlin Hospitals Struggle to Treat Hundreds of Falls During Winter Freeze Because Environmental Laws Forbid Use of Salt on Sidewalks

Repeated snowfall and freezing rain have coated the open-air insane asylum known as Berlin in a thin sheet of slippery ice since the beginning of January. To spare plants, city environmental laws have long forbidden using salt on pedestrian paths and stairways, and so residents have been falling and injuring themselves at such high rates that emergency rooms have had trouble keeping up…

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Do yourself a favour and give the King’s eco-propaganda film a miss

IF YOU are an Amazon Prime subscriber and are flicking through their meagre offerings on February 6, be sure to avoid Finding Harmony: A King’s Vision.

This documentary features our monarch wittering on about ‘harmony’ with nature.

The financial year ending 2025 was most harmonious for the Crown Estate. It made a profit of £1.1billion on offshore wind turbines licences and contracts, its biggest source of income. I imagine that His Majesty has rarely viewed the monstrosities that have desecrated our seascapes as they shred sea birds.

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Western University Explosives Case Broadens to “Multiple Cities and Provinces”: LPS

OTTAWA — A trespassing investigation that began at Western University and led to the discovery of what court documents describe as “numerous precursor substances and finished high explosives” has now broadened to include warrant executions in Ottawa and Gatineau, Quebec, London Police Service announced Friday.

They confirmed in an update today that additional warrants have been executed in the National Capital Region as part of the ongoing investigation, with assistance from the Ottawa Police Service, Gatineau Police Service, and the Sûreté du Québec.

Diversity Gang War?

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Wales: the unlikely epicentre of the woke revolution

It has been a longstanding gripe of the Welsh that they exist on the political as well as geographic fringe of the UK. A debate on BBC Radio Wales at the start of the year seemed to offer proof of this complaint: here were the senior figures from the major Welsh political parties (except Reform UK), having it out in the first formal, official debate before May’s Senedd election – theoretically one of the most significant domestic political events of the year. And not a soul in Westminster appeared to notice.

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