A flagship eco-village backed by King Charles’s charity now resembles an ‘apocalyptic film’ after being abandoned for more than a decade.
Almost 300 houses were built on a former oil refinery site in Llandarcy, near Neath, South Wales under plans to turn industrial land into a thriving new village.
The King visited the site in 2013 – when he was the Prince of Wales – after the first phase was completed but construction was abandoned soon after.
Just how schtoopid are we Canadians? 🤔🤨🙄@fancypants_s https://t.co/TiEFra44W5
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) February 6, 2026
h/t Auntie Polly
OTTAWA — For the fifth year in a row, Canada’s vice-regal will notice a nice bump on her pay stub.
The Privy Council Office (PCO) confirmed to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) that the Governor General will get a $15,800 pay raise this year — current GG Mary Simon’s fifth automatic pay raise since entering Rideau Hall in 2021.
I still laugh at her attempt to justify the outrageous expenses she ran up on one jaunt – she said they were discussing important matters such as World Peace.
Police in Britain have arrested a Syrian asylum seeker who assaulted and injured two security guards at a migrant facility located at the former RAF Wethersfield air base in Essex, following a nationwide manhunt.
Lancashire Police confirmed the arrest of Adnani Mohammad after he was found guilty in his absence of two counts of assault at Colchester Magistrates’ Court. Mohammad had failed to appear for sentencing after the hearing, prompting an arrest warrant and a joint operation between police and the Home Office to locate him.
This may be old news to Torontonians, but it’s worth sharing because I’ll bet you’ve never heard this one, and it’s a prime example of so much we see from the left these days.
First off, some of the nice things about the new Woodsy Park in Toronto were its amenities, which included a field, a playground, a firepit, a skate trail, a splash pad, and, with a hat tip to those Canadians, it’s well-maintained and very clean. Another nice thing about it was its name – “Woodsy.” That was easy to remember, and it just sounded nice, you know, woodsy, even though there weren’t a lot of trees.
Toronto City councilor Shelley Carroll announces they have renamed a park
‘Ethennonnhawahstihnen’ park
She says residents must learn to pronounce the new park name to be “held accountable” with “first peoples”
This is not satire pic.twitter.com/cqf9D07vXQ
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) February 6, 2026
h/t Mauser
There’s an old, satirical saying that goes, ‘The king can do no wrong. He can only be led astray by his counsellors.’ Well, I wouldn’t go so far as to say that Prime Minister Mark Carney can do no wrong on his own, but I think his counsellors are giving him particularly bad advice right now.
I say that because Carney’s much-heralded speech in Davos, as well as his recent headline-making trips to China and Qatar, bear the fingerprints of our echo-chambered elite.
I LIVE in an idyllic village just a 15-minute drive from the wondrous (under-appreciated, if racist) Yorkshire Wolds. Another 15 minutes gets me into the wild North York Moors or lovely Howardian Hills (both also white supremacist/racist).
It’s a tad further to the racist Yorkshire Dales, but well before then I’d be in Britain’s greatest historic city, York, and who can bypass an afternoon (or a day, a weekend) in York?
Canada’s former antisemitism envoy Irwin Cotler is warning that the abolition of the position by Prime Minister Mark Carney is ill-advised and could make Jews less safe at a time of rising antisemitism and Holocaust denial.
Mr. Cotler, also a former Liberal justice minister and attorney general, is urging the federal government to revisit the decision to abolish the post of Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, a role he held for three years after it was created in 2020 by former prime minister Justin Trudeau.
I’m sure Elghawaby will land on her feet, well she’ll land on our tax dollars in truth.
Islamophobia rep’s fired with year left in contract as feds close her $5M office. It follows disclosures @AmiraElghawaby lobbied for “Palestinian narratives” & Muslim prayer rooms in fed bldgs. https://t.co/g5OqGbQthL #cdnpoli @MarcMillerVM pic.twitter.com/M4BclfQQPy
— Blacklock’s Reporter (@mindingottawa) February 5, 2026
With the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars less than four years away now, there remains one seemingly insurmountable obstacle: nobody wants to buy electric cars.
Last year, sales of EVs achieved a market share of just 23.43%. Newly released figures for last month show this fell to 20.6%. The Government has set a target this year of 33%, rising to 66% in 2029.
Once petrol and diesel cars (known as ICE vehicles, short for Internal Combustion Engine) are banned in 2030, zero emission cars must make up at least 80% of the market, with the rest filled with hybrids. However, the latter will also be gradually phased out by 2035. Zero emission essentially means battery-electric, although hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles would also qualify.
Canadians are not short on warnings.
Over the last several years, the country has been presented with a growing library of books, investigations, and front-page reporting outlining a pattern that should alarm any democracy: foreign interference, transnational organized crime, illicit finance, and institutional fragility converging inside Canada.
Carney just sees corruption as a cost of doing business.
Brexit marked the point at which the real political cleavage in the country could no longer be denied. The UK was split not by left and right but between what author David Goodhart described as the ‘Somewheres’ – the predominantly Leave-voting cohort whose identity is rooted in place – and ‘Anywheres’ – the largely urban, mobile, socially liberal and university-educated class who voted Remain.
In 2023, we published Grave Error, a book of essays that candidly discusses the “unmarked-graves” social panic that swept Canada four and a half years ago. In May 2021, it was announced that ground-penetrating radar (GPR) had identified the formerly unknown resting places of 215 Indigenous children who’d attended the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. The announcement sent shock waves through Canadian society, and led to months of self-lacerating commentary about our country’s colonial sins. Journalists and politicians alike acted as though these 215 victims—children who’d presumably been dispatched by murderous Residential School staff—had been identified and unearthed. It was only once this initial period of national hysteria ended that observers noted that, outside of the GPR reports, there existed no proof of graves, bodies, or human remains. And since GPR technology cannot detect bodies, but only soil dislocations that may equally indicate tree roots, drainage ditches, rocks, or other artefacts that have nothing to do with graves, the claim that these GPR-identified soil anomalies corresponded to graves remained unproven.
A Bradford NHS Trust sought to recruit a nurse to help relatives who are having children together.
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust released an advertisement for ‘Close Relative Marriage Nurse/Midwife’ for its neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
The role explained the successful candidate would provide ‘comprehensive care and support to families who have recently had a baby and are close relatives’.
