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Tommy Robinson jailed for contempt of court

Published 31 October 2024
– By Editorial Staff
Tommy Robinson is perhaps the most prominent critic of Islam in Britain.

Self-proclaimed Zionist, Islam critic and activist Tommy Robinson has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for contempt of court.

Despite a previous conviction for contempt, Mr Robinson repeated on several occasions claims that a named Syrian migrant had attacked British schoolgirls.

The story began back in October 2018 when a film clip was circulated showing Syrian Jamal Hijazi being attacked by another teenager at school.

Mr Robinson, or Stephen Yaxley-Lennon as he is known, waded into the debate, posting a picture on social media of the Syrian as a violent and dangerous individual who had repeatedly attacked other students at the school.

Robinson’s post went viral and reportedly led to death threats against the Syrian teenager and his family. According to British police, the claims that he had attacked fellow students were also false, and in 2021 the Islam critic was convicted of defamation and ordered to pay £100,000 (€120,000) in damages.

The court also ruled that Robinson was banned from making the allegations again, but in 2023 a new post and a self-produced film were released, again labelling the Syrian as violent and in which the British activist argued that he had been silenced by the British state – this film was also widely distributed and is estimated to have been viewed nearly 47 million times.

This summer, Robinson also screened the film in front of thousands of supporters in London’s Trafalgar Square, declaring that he would never be silenced.

“Regards himself as above the law”

By ignoring the court’s orders, the prosecution argued that Mr Robinson had “undermined the rule of law”, and the court decided that he should be sentenced to a year and a half in prison for his comments.

– Nobody is above the law. Nobody can pick or choose which laws or which injunctions they obey, or which they do not... They are not entitled to set themselves up as the judge in their own court. Otherwise the administration of justice and rule of law would break down, declared Judge Jeremy Johnson.

– The defendant has not shown any inclination to comply with the injunction in the future. All of his actions suggest that he regards himself as above the law, he continued.

Risking isolation

According to defence lawyer Sasha Wass, Robinson should be seen as a journalist simply following his principles and a passionate defender of free speech.

– This defendant has been neither sly nor dishonest nor seeking gain for himself, she argued.

She also pointed out that prison officials dislike Mr Robinson for purely political reasons and that he is at risk of being placed in solitary confinement – as happened when he was last imprisoned, causing trauma and recurring panic attacks and nightmares.

Robinson has admitted breaching the 2021 court order.

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Belarus President to British journalist: Your country is ruled by Indians

Population replacement in the West

Published 5 February 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Lukashenko is puzzled by developments in the UK.

When a Sky News reporter recently accused Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko of being an “undemocratic” leader who cannot tolerate criticism, he chose to counterattack harshly.

– You used to be an empire, but now your subjects have come in and are ruling you, the president said.

During the press conference, which took place in January, Lukashenko was very clear that he does not pay much attention to the accusations and criticism coming from the British establishment, and that they should focus more on reviewing developments in their own country.

– In your country, you are not only allowed to criticize the government but also to slander it as you please, and you have reached the point where you were recently ruled by an Indian.

– Why am I saying this? Is because when I met the English, I told them that you are doing a great job. You used to be an empire, but now your subjects have come in and are ruling you. Strange of Britain, and our oddity is that the government is not being criticized?

Indians own most property in London

Like many other countries in the Western world, the UK has been hit hard for decades by mass immigration and population exchange policies not least from former colonies in Africa and Asia.

Although Britons of European descent are still in the majority in the country as a whole, the situation is different in many parts of the UK, where cities and neighborhoods are now completely dominated by people with an immigrant background.

According to the BBC, white Britons now make up a minority of the population in the capital, London and in the second largest city, Birmingham, the situation is similar. Just last year, it was also reported that Indians now own a larger share of property in the capital than ethnic Britons and that there is no sign of this trend reversing.

Belgium forms new government after eight months of negotiations

Published 3 February 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Bart De Wever's Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie is the country's largest party.

After almost eight months of negotiations, Belgium has a new government. Bart De Wever of the conservative Flemish party N-VA will take office as prime minister on Monday and will lead a five-party coalition.

The new government, known as the Arizona coalition, is made up of conservative N-VA, Christian Democrat CD&V, liberal MR, social liberal Les Engagés and social democratic Vooruit. Together, the parties hold 82 of the 150 seats in parliament.

The outgoing Vivaldi government, which also included environmentalists, is now being replaced by a cross-bloc collaboration.

Bart De Wever, who founded the N-VA and has been mayor of Antwerp since 2013, has led the negotiations which, according to Le Soir, intensified in recent days. The formation of the government means that the liberal Open VLD, the party of outgoing Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, is not part of the new government.

It can also be noted that the nationalist party Vlaams Belang, which became the second largest party in the last elections, will be completely excluded from the new government.

Expected victory for Lukashenko

Published 27 January 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Alexander Lukashenko.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has won the election and will lead the country for a seventh term.

This extends his three-decade rule of the former Soviet republic for another five years, according to polls after Sunday’s election.

Lukashenko, according to national broadcaster Belta, received around 86.82% of the vote, according to Igor Karpenko, head of the Central Election Commission. According to the same sources, none of the other candidates received more than 5% of the vote.

The result means that Lukashenko will remain in power until 2030. He is Belarus’ first and so far only post-independence president, with a rule that began in 1994 and now spans seven consecutive terms.

Lukashenko faced widespread international criticism after the 2020 presidential election, when several Western governments accused him of electoral fraud – something he himself denied.

Described in the West as a “dictator”

Following the 2020 elections, widespread protests broke out in Belarus. Western-backed opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who lives in exile, still insists she was the rightful winner.

Western media often describe Lukashenko as a dictator and in November he himself admitted that there is a dictatorship in Belarus, but that it is “a dictatorship of stability, security, order, kindness, and hospitality. A dictatorship of justice”.

Lukashenko has previously stressed the importance of elections being conducted properly to avoid what he called “an American-style show”, referring to the violence in the US after the 2020 presidential election. Ahead of this year’s elections, he has stressed that a “correct electoral process” is crucial to avoid criticism from the outside world.

Belarus has been a strategic partner of Russia since 1999. After the conflict in Ukraine escalated in 2022, the relationship between the two countries has further strengthened. Last year, Moscow and Minsk signed a new security agreement in response to the US military build-up in Europe.

The agreement includes, among other things, plans to station the Russian Oreshnik medium-range hypersonic missile system in Belarus by 2025.

Orbán: Time for Europe’s patriots to occupy Brussels

Published 22 January 2025
– By Editorial Staff
According to the Hungarian Prime Minister, Brussels is today “occupied by a left-wing transatlantic oligarchy”.

Hungary’s prime minister argues that the rise of Donald Trump has created a unique opportunity for more nationalistic European movements to take control of their countries and the entire EU apparatus.

The rebellion against woke liberal democracy has entered a new stage. The time has come for patriotic forces to occupy Brussels, he declares.

Orbán has long argued that the EU needs a new, sounder leadership and shortly before Trump was sworn in in Washington DC, the conservative politician also promised during a speech that “the sun will shine differently over Brussels”.

Although Hungary’s leader is very positive about Trump, he is also saddened that Brussels is still “occupied by a left-wing transatlantic oligarchy”. He says the EU’s constant attacks and threats against Hungary are orchestrated “by the liberal united front financed by George Soros”, which is trying to influence Europe’s political direction.

Orbán notes that the global economic balance of power is increasingly tilted towards Asia and that it is necessary for European countries to adapt to this fact.

“The EU is the sick man of Europe”

According to the Prime Minister, those in power in Brussels have not only ignored these changes, but have actively undermined EU member states with a “woke capitalism” obsessed with ideological goals at the expense of European competitiveness.

The sick man of Europe today is the European Union, he continued, noting that Brussels seems unable to deal with mass immigration, security issues or the threats facing EU farmers.

I hereby launch the second phase of the operation to capture Brussels.

Orban’s political party Fidesz is part of the new Patriots for Europe coalition that challenged the centrist parties in last year’s European elections. The alliance became the third largest in the EU legislature, after the EPP group, led by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and the Socialist and Democrat S&D group.