SCOTLAND - An equalities officer who advised that a transgender doctor should be allowed to use a hospital’s female changing room has said she cannot be sure of her own biological sex. Isla Bumba told an employment tribunal that the definition of biological sex was “far more complex” than whether someone had a male or female body. She said she would “hazard a guess” that she was female, but she had not had her chromosomes tested to find out “what my own body is made of biologically.”

UK - There are scandals, there are conspiracies, and then there is the great Afghan cover-up. It is the ultimate in betrayals, a heinous abuse of power by a self-righteous caste blinded by its own stupidity, an explosive concoction of every pathology, every lie, every error, every cross-party ideological perversion that has brought down our great nation. The country I thought I knew, characterised by a love of fair play, free expression and accountability, is no more. Labour and Tories alike, with a small number of exceptions, believe that they have the right, the duty even, to wield the abominations that are super-injunctions to control information and conceal their blunders. Like Platonic philosopher-kings, they are convinced they know better what is good for us, that their untruths are somehow noble. Watergate was nothing in comparison, a small, parochial contretemps. The Afghan data breach is the scandal to end all scandals, the encapsulation of all that is wrong about Britain, the logical end-point of the implosion of our democracy.

UK - As few as one in 16 Afghans identified in a data breach had genuine claims for asylum, defence sources have said, raising fresh questions about how many claimants who were not genuine might have slipped through the net. More than 100,000 people were trying to get to Britain in 2022 on the grounds that they had fought alongside or helped British forces, or were related to someone who had, before the Allied withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Multiple sources have told The Telegraph that the “vast majority” of them had no right to come to the UK because they had no connection to the Armed Forces. The disclosure that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) believed that only a tiny proportion of those claiming asylum were genuine helps to explain why the Home Office raised concerns on national security grounds about the scheme to bring them to the UK.

USA - The fake hit pieces by the Murdoch Family tabloids never seem to stop. As Cristina Laila reported earlier, The Wall Street Journal published a hit piece on President Trump on Thursday night involving Jeffrey Epstein. President Trump responded to the disgusting hit piece moments ago on Truth Social. President Trump: The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch, personally, were warned directly by President Donald J Trump that the supposed letter they printed by President Trump to Epstein was a FAKE and, if they print it, they will be sued. Mr Murdoch stated that he would take care of it but, obviously, did not have the power to do so. The Editor of The Wall Street Journal, Emma Tucker, was told directly by Karoline Leavitt, and by President Trump, that the letter was a FAKE, but Emma Tucker didn’t want to hear that. Instead, they are going with a false, malicious, and defamatory story anyway. President Trump will be suing The Wall Street Journal, NewsCorp, and Mr Murdoch, shortly.

USA - "President Donald J Trump took office promising to confront the chronic health crisis plaguing Americans — and six months later, he is delivering on that promise by removing harmful chemicals from our food supply," the White House wrote in a statement. What's becoming undeniable is that this nation's food supply was hijacked by globalist mega-corporations pumping it full of toxic ingredients. If that wasn't the case, why are they now scrambling to remove synthetic dyes and other harmful chemicals?

UK - Sent home from school for celebrating her own culture, what was the poor girl supposed to wear – a sari? A burka? A grass skirt? For me, however, the real mystery is this: if this girl wasn’t supposed to wear an outfit celebrating her own country’s culture, what should she have worn instead? After all, the event was supposed to foster “inclusion”. Refusing to let her join in the dressing-up, therefore, would have constituted “exclusion”. And that wouldn’t have been fair, would it? But in that case, what else could she have worn? An outfit celebrating some other country’s culture? Say, a sari? A grass skirt? A burka? I hardly think so. Because that would have constituted “cultural appropriation”.

USA - BlackRock rocked by $52 billion client exit in Q2 shock, massive outflow signals cracks in confidence around dollar assets. When a firm like BlackRock takes a hit of this size, it raises deeper questions: Who pulled the capital, and why? Was this a sovereign wealth fund reallocating for political or liquidity reasons? A pension plan de-risking into cash or private markets? Or a strategic exit tied to a shift in dollar exposure? In an environment where central banks are losing predictive control, rate policy is uncertain, and public markets are being hollowed out by private alternatives, this kind of capital flight may become more common, not because of underperformance, but because institutional players are reshuffling their exposure to duration, dollar assets, and US centric platforms. BlackRock’s size used to insulate it from idiosyncratic shocks. But in a fragmented, multipolar financial world, scale is no longer immunity, it’s concentration risk in disguise.

UK - Britain’s cancel culture is a purposely designed social credit system. Say the wrong thing, and you’re done for. One ‘offensive’ tweet? Straight to prison. Say a silent prayer? You’re nicked. Point out that men don’t have wombs, or that climate change hysteria is exaggerated? You’re sacked and shunned. Post a meme that contradicts a government orthodoxy or expresses concerns about illegal immigration? Congrats, you’re now persona non grata and at risk of being given a holiday at His Majesty’s pleasure. Welcome to the land of the free… until you express an opinion.

UK - There are cover-ups, and then there’s whatever the British Government just pulled. Imagine torching £7 ($9.4) billion of public money, risking 100,000 lives, creating an immigration scandal, and then, when the inevitable outrage starts to bubble, slapping a gag order on the entire country and pretending it never happened. This is banana-republic behavior with better tailoring. Because for nearly two years, a superinjunction was used to silence journalists and the free press, gag Parliament, and stop the public from learning that the Ministry of Defence had done something catastrophically inept.

USA - US President Donald Trump blasted his own supporters and "stupid" Republicans Wednesday as he went on the attack against anyone questioning his administration's handling of the case of dead sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. Trump took his most combative tone yet to try and shut down the issue, after days of struggling to brush off a conspiracy theory that his base has long embraced, but which he now claims is a Democratic hoax. Trump, 79, began on Wednesday by saying that "my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullshit’, hook, line and sinker", in a post on his Truth Social network, and calling them "weaklings." He later took aim at his own party. "It's all been a big hoax, it's perpetrated by the Democrats. And some stupid Republicans and foolish Republicans fall into the net and so they try and do the Democrats' work," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. Trump is facing the most serious split in his loyal right-wing base since he returned to power, over claims that his administration is covering up lurid details of disgraced financier Epstein's crimes to protect rich and powerful figures.

USA - Right-wing activist Laura Loomer warned that President Donald Trump’s handling of the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein threatens to “consume his presidency” in an interview on Wednesday, a dramatic rebuke from a presidential confidante that illustrates the growing rupture in the MAGA coalition. She likened it to the intense media interest in ties between Trump’s first White House campaign and Russia, saying “I don’t want it to consume his presidency.” “Obviously, this is not a complete hoax given the fact that Ghislaine Maxwell is currently serving 20 years in prison in Florida for her crimes and activities with Jeffrey Epstein, who we know is a convicted sexual predator,” Loomer told POLITICO. “This is why I said, and I’ll reiterate it again, the best thing that the president can do is appoint a special counsel to handle the Epstein files investigation.” The debacle over a new government review of evidence relating to Epstein, the notorious sex offender, has blown up in recent days, causing a schism within Trump’s MAGA movement over his administration’s approach to the case.

UK - Revelations about the state of Britain’s asylum and welfare system are the stuff of nightmares. Can it really get worse than discovering that more than one million non-British migrants are claiming Universal Credit at the expense of the British taxpayer? New figures show that 1.26 million non-UK citizens are currently claiming Universal Credit. That’s nearly one in six of all claimants. Worse still, 3.6 million people receiving the benefit are under no obligation to work at all. They’ve effectively been written off as economically inactive, many of them for life. Clearly Britain has become the benefits office of the world. This is not about lacking heart. It’s about having a spine. We cannot keep pretending that Britain can carry the world on its shoulders while millions here face housing shortages, NHS waiting lists, and crumbling public services. The fantasy must end.

UK - Eight healthy “three-parent” babies have been born via a “pioneering” IVF technique, British scientists have said. The world-first research reported that four girls and four boys — including one set of identical twins — were born to seven women at a high risk of transmitting mutations causing mitochondrial disease. One further woman is pregnant. Three of the children are under six months, two between six and twelve months, and two are between one and two years old. All are healthy and hitting their developmental milestones, according to the team from Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle University and Newcastle Fertility Centre. The babies would all have had a mitochondrial mutation, which could have been fatal or had a devastating impact on their quality of life.

CHINA - China’s military posture in the Pacific is no longer a regional affair. It’s a full-spectrum expansion. In June 2025, Beijing deployed both the Liaoning and Shandong aircraft carriers beyond the first island chain for the first time. That’s not symbolic. That’s operational reach. The PLA Navy now fields over 370 vessels, including more than 60 submarines. The Fujian carrier, still in sea trials, is expected to feature electromagnetic catapults. That’s a leap in launch capability. The PLA Rocket Force continues to expand its missile arsenal, while the Strategic Support Force is quietly building out cyber and space warfare infrastructure.

USA - 'Crowds on Demand' CEO Adam Swart revealed in an interview this week that his company was offered a $20 million contract for an astroturfed nationwide anti-Trump demonstration scheduled for Thursday. 'Crowds on Demand' is the “largest protest company in the country,” Swart said, noting that they specialize in corporate publicity and celebrity publicity. “We’re probably best known for political advocacy group publicity, that is, creating crowds of peaceful, enthusiastic demonstrators to turn out in favor of a particular cause or in opposition to one." As The Gateway Pundit reported, leftist groups have planned over 400 protests across the nation on the anniversary of the death of Democrat activist and congressman John Lewis. Like many other recent nationwide days of protest, including the now-infamous “No Kings” day, the “Good Trouble Lives On” protests are being organized by the 50501 Movement.