UK - Nick Miller paints a disturbing picture of the state of race relations in British schools. 'The 'anti-racism' movement started off very small and no one heard about it for a couple of years,' he told the Mail this week. 'But now they've upped the ante. If they start offering classes to black children only, then soon we could be looking at black-only days out, black-only lunch sittings or white children standing up in class to admit their 'guilt'. All of this stuff is already happening in the US, Australia and Canada — and that's what we're heading for.' Racial segregation in British schools might sound unthinkable. Yet as Mr Miller knows, it has already begun.

USA - Trans surgery nightmares revealed: 81% endure pain in the five years after gender-change procedures. One of the first studies into the side effects of transgender surgeries has revealed alarmingly high rates of post-op pain, aching during intercourse, and bladder problems, raising troubling questions for this new frontier of medicine. A huge majority - 81 percent - of those who had surgery on their genitals in the past five years said they endured pain simply from moving around in the weeks and months after going under the knife. Researchers from the University of Florida and Brooks Rehabilitation, a health non-profit, showed that more than half of trans surgery patients endured pain during sex, and nearly a third could not control their bladders.

USA - Many people know that more than 70% of the Earth’s surface is water. That’s 326 million trillion gallons of water, yet humanity still faces a tight supply. Why is that? It’s because 97% of this water is saline and unfit for consumption. Of the remaining 3% of freshwater, about two-thirds are locked away in the form of snow, glaciers, and polar ice caps. Meanwhile, just under a third of freshwater is found in fast-depleting groundwater resources. That leaves just 1% of global freshwater as “easily” sourced supply from rainfall as well as freshwater reservoirs including rivers and lakes.

USA - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) hints that countries will soon be able to repay debt using Chinese YUAN currency. Following Argentina’s recent debt repayment in the Chinese yuan, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has hinted that it may soon accept the yuan from all countries that need to settle their debt obligations.

USA - The United States Air Force is investigating a company that's purchased $800 million of land near Travis Air Force Base, one of the most critical military bases in the US. But after eight months of investigation, government officials have been unable to identify who's behind it nor rule out any threat to national security. "We're very, very concerned about this," said Representative John Garamendi, a Democrat who represents portions of the Bay Area. "It's so extensive and so secret and it's impossible to get any information about what's happening here." Congressman Garamendi raised the alarm to the US Air Force - prompting a federal investigation.

UK - Hurrah for former Bank of England chief Mervyn King, who has condemned the ‘Left-wing’ policy on inflation of his successors. The collapse in the value of money is quite obviously the result of the mad spending of mountains of non-existent cash during the Covid Panic. Once this had happened, our wages and savings were simply bound to shrivel. That is why I warned against it at the time, for all the good that did. Inflation is described as prices going up, but it is not. It is money shrinking. It has happened.

USA - A disturbing new report has revealed that math scores have now plunged to their lowest-ever levels. The latest data reveals that math test scores for 13-year-old students saw the largest drop ever recorded in 50 years of testing. Between 2020 and 2023, 13-year-old students’ math scores dropped nine points, according to test data from the National Center for Education Statistics, better known as the “Nation’s Report Card.” The same students’ reading scores, meanwhile, dropped four points. The latest set of data demonstrates the learning loss students have suffered as a result of education disruptions, such as school closures during the Covid pandemic.

USA - The film “Oppenheimer” is in theaters. It’s the story of American scientist J Robert Oppenheimer, who is credited as the father of the atomic bomb. Here’s a look at the history and current US nuclear arsenal. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, the US nuclear arsenal includes over 3,800 weapons. About 1,740 deployed nuclear weapons are available for use. The Hiroshima bomb, nicknamed Little Boy, was air burst 1,900 feet above the city to maximize destruction; it was later estimated to yield 15 kilotons. Two-thirds of the city area was destroyed. The population present at the time was estimated at 350,000, and 140,000 died by the explosion and its radiation. In the current US nuclear arsenal, the W88 warheads deployed on Trident II submarine-launched missiles have an estimated yield of 475 kilotons. The atomic bomb was tested only once — an event Robert Oppenheimer said brought to mind words from Hindu scripture: “Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds.”

UK - The boss of NatWest apologised to Nigel Farage tonight for a 'deeply inappropriate' internal report that found he was not 'inclusive' enough to be a Coutts customer. In a letter to the former Ukip leader, Dame Alison Rose insisted the assessment of Mr Farage 'does not reflect the views of the bank'. She stressed that 'freedom of expression' and access to banking were fundamental to society, saying she has ordered a review of Coutts' processes. However, she stopped short of offering to restore Mr Farage's relationship with the exclusive private bank, instead repeating the offer of an account with NatWest. The letter emerged as the Treasury announced that UK banks will be subject to stricter rules over closing customers' accounts, in an effort to protect freedom of speech.

UK - But the prophets of doom ignore some very inconvenient truths... Was there anything more ludicrous during last week's European heatwave and worries about global warming than the BBC's climate editor travelling from London to Spain (and back again) to report on the high temperatures? It is not unusual in the summer for the Mediterranean to be hot and Britain a lot cooler. That is, after all, why millions go there on holiday every year. Yet it seems we are no longer allowed to enjoy the prospect of a hot summer's day, whether in Britain or the Med. Sun-kissed beaches, for Rowlatt and his ilk, are a portent of doom and a symptom of the fast-gathering 'climate emergency'. What's more, we are encouraged to feel guilty – partly because of all those carbon emissions spewed out by holiday jets.

SPAIN - When super-fit cyclist Andrea Sechi collapsed and died from a heart attack in Sardinia last weekend, it was instantly blamed on global warming despite it being 8.30 am and just 22C. Within hours of his death, Andrea Sechi was being held up as the latest climate change martyr. While riding his racing bike along the southern coast of Sardinia with friends last Saturday, the keen amateur scientist had collapsed and, though efforts were made to revive him, he died at the roadside. First to report the incident was a popular local news website. Since Mr Sechi was only 48 years old and seemingly super fit, and as the island was in the grip of a heatwave, they declared that his fatal heart attack was 'probably linked' with the freakishly high temperatures.

EUROPE - A major climate deception spread like wildfire last week after the world’s major media outlets falsely reported that southern Europe experienced its warmest temperatures on record. It turns out that the temperatures measured were ground temperatures as opposed to air temperatures, meaning they measured the temperature of the dirt or asphalt rather than the air two meters above ground, as is usually the norm. The claim is that southern Europe saw temperatures as high as 48 degrees Celsius, or 118.4 degrees Fahrenheit, in places like Italy, Spain, France, Germany, and Poland. But again, this was ground temperature in some spots rather than air temperature, which was conveniently unspecified in most media reports.

SPAIN - Every June for years, a rainbow-striped banner celebrating Pride Week had been draped over the long balcony of the magnificent city hall in Valladolid, northern Spain. But last month it was nowhere to be seen. Instead, flying from flagpoles on the baroque-style building overlooking one of Europe's most exquisite squares was the national yellow-and-red flag of Spain, alongside those of the city itself and the surrounding province of Castile and Leon. The reason for the banner's disappearance was that, a month earlier, the Right wing swept to power here in local elections, dethroning the ruling Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). 'It was the same all over Spain. Socialists were thrown out almost everywhere in this May's local elections …in Seville, Andalusia, Oviedo. And down came the rainbow flags or banners.'

UK - At least one teenager realizes that body dysmorphia is a mental illness that requires treatment, not transitioning. Too bad he realized it too late. Kobe, the young man facing facts actually said, “I was expecting it to help me help my mental health, and it didn’t do anything. I just wasted so much time and all I did really was become a medical patient for life.” Sadly, Kobe was actually CASTRATED as part of his “gender-affirming care” when he identified as a trans woman. Now, he wants to be a voice of reason in the cloud of leftist-haze. Of course ‘Kobe’ isn’t his real name; it is being purposely masked to avoid some of the backlash his public outcry will undoubtedly create.

UK - There has been a lot of media hype about today’s three by-elections, but almost no one has mentioned the extraordinary fact that the Labour candidate, and quite likely winner, in Selby and Ainsty is only 25. We are ruled by people who are either young or have limited (and sometimes no) previous ministerial experience. Very often they use the knowledge and contacts they acquire in office to become extremely rich when they leave it. This is hardly an ideal template for good government. It is also at odds with the way we used to be governed. Previous experience outside politics was once thought an advantage, while it was assumed one couldn’t reach the highest office without a lengthy and painstaking climb up the greasy pole.