New York City’s newly elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani, rang in the New Year and his term at city hall by saying in his inauguration speech that his administration will “draw this city closer together” and “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” But “rugged individualism” is the characteristic trait of Americans, especially New Yorkers. It’s this nature of individualism that makes the United States the most innovative country in the world.
This needs to be a show or movie. Hilarious. pic.twitter.com/AOA4qnr9l1
— Wholesome Side of (@itsme_urstruly) January 3, 2026
Taxpayers are funding a music festival that bans white people from its leadership, The Telegraph can reveal.
The annual “Decolonise Fest” music event for “punx of colour” aims to undo the harms of colonialism and “dismantle white supremacy” in the punk music scene.
Grant funding from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has propped up Decolonise Fest, which informs prospective supporters that “white people cannot join the organising group” that leads it.
You had ONE JOB BUD!
SomeSingh just isn’t right?! Don’t you just FEEL SO SAFE??? pic.twitter.com/xqYu7iLai3
— JayGen er (@JayGenXer) January 3, 2026
In recent weeks, I have been both enthralled and perplexed by the over-the-top, literal call-to-arms from former NDP MP Charlie Angus.
As many of us might recall, Angus was once a serious contender for the NDP leadership. He is now a regular contributor on the popular anti-Trump American YouTube Channel Meidas Touch.
As a result, Angus is gaining popularity among impressionable anti-MAGA youth in the United States, many of whom now believe Canada under Carney is preparing to mobilize militarily against Donald Trump and the United States.
Despite UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s pledge to smash people smuggling gangs, small boat crossings to the UK remained at historically high levels last year with growing criticism from opposition figures that government measures have failed to deter illegal migration.
A total of 41,472 migrants arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel in 2025, up from 36,816 the previous year and 41% higher than the 29,437 recorded in 2023. Since Labour came to power in the summer of 2024, around 65,000 migrants have reached Britain via sea.
Many readers will have heard by now about Toronto’s latest public transit debacle: the Finch West light-rail line, on which the cars move slower than a person can run. What they might not know is that the debacle had its roots in a desire to serve the disadvantaged. Seldom has the road to hell been so well-paved.
To understand how this happened, we need to go back two decades to the mid-aughts. David Miller, a left-leaning former Bay Street lawyer, was mayor. Toronto was booming, spreading in all directions and adding throngs of new residents from every corner of the globe.
Canadian parliamentarians are taking a crack at squeezing out more government revenue from tax havens, and we wish them all the luck and stamina.
Tucked away from the Conservative-to-Liberal floor-crossings and the nail-biting confidence-vote drama that have dominated this Parliament, MPs on the House of Commons finance committee were contemplating all the places where corporations put their profits.
The United States’s highest-ranking military officer on Saturday briefed the country on the lightning attack Washington carried out on Venezuela overnight.
General Dan Caine, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, revealed details about the elite operation that successfully captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro during a press conference alongside President Donald Trump.
I’M WRITING this on Boxing Day 2025, an official holiday in the United Kingdom and many other countries, especially those such as Canada and Australia which once formed the British Empire, but it is not always called Boxing Day. In European countries, and those unfortunate parts of the world that remained untouched by the civilising hand of British imperialism, it is often known as ‘Second Christmas Day’, ‘Zweiter Weihnachtsfeiertag’ in German, or in French the more mellifluous ‘Le lendemain de Noël’.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier was one of Canada’s most successful political operators and served as the national Liberal leader from 1887 to 1919 (32 years), and about half that time as prime minister. He eventually took up the old Cartier-Macdonald mantle of Confederation, adding two new provinces, and even managed to play the imperial statesman, attending Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897, where he was knighted. In 1899, he reluctantly sent volunteers to participate in Canada’s first overseas expeditionary force, winning our first overseas military victory at Paardeberg in the Boer War in February 1900.
CNN isn’t a real news network, but on New Year’s Eve it can be pleasant to have it on while you’re doing other things – so that every hour, on the hour, you can look at the screen for a couple of minutes and see the arrival of the midnight hour celebrated with fireworks in one world capital after another.
To be sure, when the new year arrives in the Middle East, things on CNN start to get – well – a bit curious. This year, CNN’s coverage from the Gulf region was based in Abu Dhabi and hosted by CNN veteran Becky Anderson, who, during the several years she’s been living in that city, has been promoting it, and the United Arab Emirates generally, with a consistently fervid intensity. Her conduct on New Year’s Eve was no exception to the rule: even more than celebrating the New Year, Anderson’s assigned job for the evening seemed to be to celebrate the Gulf autocracies, especially the UAE.
This year’s New Year’s Eve ‘celebrations’ in London were a reminder of just how boring the city is becoming under its mayor, Sadiq Khan.
The first blow was the decision by Royal Parks to close Primrose Hill, from Tuesday evening (30 December) to Thursday morning (1 January). The small park in north London has always been the best place in the city to watch the annual firework display. Over the years, it has become more and more popular, particularly for young people.
A stunning U.S. raid to capture Venezuela’s president came after a group of amateur intelligence analysts argued that satellite images reveal a Venezuelan launch site that could send ballistic missiles as far north as Washington, D.C.
There was no indication that the American attack had anything to do with the subject of the group’s claims, which the U.S. military dismissed earlier as “speculative” and one top expert rated as plausible but unproven by the evidence.
Sounds a bit like Canada …
— Jd (@JdeJ555) January 3, 2026
h/t Clink9
A hero banker saved ten youngsters from the Swiss ski resort inferno by forcing open an emergency door after his teenage daughter rang him pleading for help.
Paolo Campolo, 55, raced from his home in Crans-Montana to Le Constellation bar, where he prised open a side door to allow panicked revellers to run for their lives as the building filled with roaring flames and smoke in seconds.
At least 40 clubbers were killed and another 119 injured, 80 of them critically, when a devastating blaze ripped through the basement of the packed club as it hosted New Year’s Eve celebrations.
