Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei is probably still alive and hiding in a bunker, Binyamin Netanyahu has said amid speculation over the new Iranian supreme leader’s health.
“I think he is alive. What his condition is, it’s hard to say, you know? He’s holed up in some bunker or in some secret place,” the Israeli prime minister told 60 Minutes. He added, however: “I don’t think he has the same authority that his father [had].”
“Mom, how long am I going to be here?” asks Jonathan Muir Burgos, a 16-year-old Cuban Christian and one of the regime’s youngest political prisoners, during early-morning phone calls from Canaleta prison in Ciego de Ávila.
In that question lies the anguish of a generation protesting blackouts, shortages, and the absence of freedom in Cuba. Jonathan’s imprisonment starkly contradicts the repeated claims by Cuba’s unelected president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, that political prisoners do not exist on the island.
Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world, and yet the greatest threat to the faith is arguably not external but internal: the woke infiltration of Christian churches by subversive clergy in sheep’s clothing.
Examples abound. Most recently, at Georgia’s Vinings Lake Church, which describes itself as a “progressive, fully inclusive, diverse,” “ever-evolving spiritual collective,” pastor Cody Deese declared in a sermon that he doesn’t believe Christ died for our sins, which is the central claim of the faith. He says people in the first century AD might have believed that, but we don’t live in that culture anymore. He casually dismissed accusations that he is a heretic.
On May 4, the organizers of the Alberta Independence Movement announced they had accrued a massive number of signatures, well in excess of the required number to submit their petition to trigger an independence referendum.
They needed 177,732.
Interesting pro-separation numbers from the aboriginals.
In the run-up to the local elections, the silence finally shattered: suddenly it was acceptable to talk about the problem of men without proper vetting crossing international borders. That v-word that working-class communities are so severely reprimanded for using was on the lips of every Westminster hack. Across SW1, manicured hands were wrung over the scandal of an unscreened bloke getting a cushy house and government money in a country that isn’t his own. Of course, none of this chatter was about the men from distant, regressive lands who rock up on England’s shores every day – it was about Peter Mandelson.
Canada’s proposed Afghanistan war memorial is having trouble connecting with the people it’s designed to honour: The Canadians who fought in the 12-year war.
Ground was officially broken on the future site of the National Monument to Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan in Lebreton Flats, near Ottawa’s Canadian War Museum, last Monday. But some vets felt overlooked in a ceremony that focused on the project and not the onetime warriors, and showcased an Indigenous-inspired “Medicine Wheel” design.
Spanish police have warned that Islamist terrorists could exploit the government’s mass migrant legalisation programme, as reports of lost passports and identity documents surge among applicants.
Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez approved a major initiative last month to grant legal status to half a million undocumented individuals, causing significant political backlash and triggering a ‘collapse’ in social services across the country.
And now, an internal memo from the National Police’s General Commissariat for Immigration and Borders revealed that complaints over missing documents have continued to rise sharply among migrants seeking to benefit from the scheme.
In recent weeks, right-wing commentators have suggested Donald Trump, their once saviour, may be the Antichrist instead. Pundits have offered competing readings of this shift: is it a joke? A schism in Trump’s base? Good news for America’s midterms? But Trump’s transfiguration is no cause for celebration. Whatever else this new rhetoric portends, it reveals a spreading apocalyptic world view that endangers democracy.
Students of politics have long understood that the stories people tell themselves have at least as much power as the facts. In America, now, one story gaining traction is that of a coming apocalypse: there are signs, this story goes, of a final battle between good and evil, before the world ends. A 2022 Pew poll found 39 per cent of Americans believe they are living in the end-times, and this population overlaps substantially with Trump supporters.
European intelligence agencies are investigating a growing wave of attacks on Jewish and Israeli-linked sites believed to be connected to a shadowy organisation known as Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya (HAYI), which security officials suspect may operate as a proxy for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The group, which emerged shortly after the start of the Iran war in late February, has claimed responsibility for a series of low-level attacks across at least seven European countries, including Britain, Belgium, Germany, France, and the Netherlands.
The incidents have largely involved arson, vandalism, and small improvised explosive devices targeting synagogues, Jewish charities, and Iranian opposition organisations.
Staff inside Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Privy Council Office took part in a confidential federal meeting to discuss which reporters should receive government accreditation and which could be denied access, according to Access To Information records released this week.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the March 10 meeting, involving officials from the Privy Council Office, Global Affairs Canada, Treasury Board, Canada Revenue Agency and the immigration department, focused on creating a more unified federal media accreditation system amid growing concerns over independent journalism and alternative media outlets.
The European Commission is being ridiculed for a meme portraying people critical of the European Union’s development as conspiracy theorists.
On May 7, the EC’s official account on social network X posted a picture contrasting the supposed reality in Europe – symbolised by an orderly a street in central Paris – with the perspective through the goggles of a tinfoil-hat wearing conspiracy nut.
Carney luvs the EU!
Keep this in mind, when you’re arguing with someone online about politics, this is who you’re fighting with. pic.twitter.com/zNYIxZmurn
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) May 9, 2026
Last month, it wasn’t just a judge who excused a Ghanaian work permit holder for beating a woman in the street over an unpaid loan. It was also the Crown prosecutor.
The 34-year-old, known only as E.A. due to a publication ban, admitted to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice that he lured a woman who owed him money into a basement to demand repayment. The victim’s account was that, at this point, he put her in a choke hold, tried to rape her and took her phone as collateral, but in court only the phone theft was established to have occurred. (E.A. had countered that there was no attempted raping or choking, that the woman had a motive to fabricate such a story, and that the woman chased him out).
Muslim immigrant Walmart employees started harassing an American shopper who was simply recording her own shopping trip.
One cursed at her, and the other made a cut-throat gesture across her neck, threatening her not to post the video.
All while wearing the official “Happy to… pic.twitter.com/ecMmDl9Q6w
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) May 11, 2026
The late great author Michael Crichton gave Hollywood one of its biggest franchises, Jurassic Park — still going strong — and the television monster hit ER. Most of his novels became major films, including The Terminal Man, The Great Train Robbery, Rising Sun, and Timeline. Yet today, were Crichton a live white male instead of a dead one (he died in 2008), producers would ban him for having opposed their woke mind virus before it metastasized.
No one is wondering that it will be a woke mess. It just is.
