UK - This paper’s revelations about the corporation’s bias will be the last straw for many, and should spell curtains for the licence fee. The BBC has been a cornerstone of our national life. For as long as I can remember, a Britain without the BBC was unimaginable. Well, that is changing. A growing number would now be glad to see the back of this once globally admired institution, or at least they no longer want to pay the TV tax only to be insulted. The corporation may well have signed its own death warrant with a shockingly partisan Panorama report in which two clips from a Donald Trump speech were soldered together to make Mr Trump appear to say, “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol, and we fight” when he actually called for a peaceful march.As we know, the president is perfectly capable of damning himself out of his own mouth without any help from Leftie BBC editors who played right into his hands with this outrageous display of what the Donald calls, with good reason, “fake news”.We have become accustomed to BBC journalists lying by omission and the prioritisation of pet subjects – I swear there isn’t a spark caused by two sticks rubbed together in southern Europe that hasn’t been seized on by climate editor Justin Rowlatt as evidence of man-made global warming. But here we have a flagship factual programme deliberately misrepresenting the words of the most powerful man in the world. There can be no defence for inventing criminal speech – for that is how incitement to riot would be seen in a court of law.

USA - The US president has reiterated a nuclear testing threat while calling for global denuclearization. US President Donald Trump has defended his push to resume nuclear weapon testing, boasting that America’s arsenal is powerful enough “to blow up the world 150 times” and should be maintained through active trials. In a CBS interview aired on Sunday, Trump was asked why the US needs to test its nuclear weapons again after more than three decades of a Congress-mandated moratorium. The US last conducted a full-scale nuclear test in 1992, and resuming testing would likely take years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the Washington Post. Energy Secretary Chris Wright clarified on Sunday that the testing ordered by Trump would not involve actual nuclear detonations.

USA - The Banks needed $29.4 Billion in Cash last night; they pledged Securities they hold to the Federal Reserve, to get instant cash against those Securities. I do not yet know WHICH or HOW MANY banks suddenly found themselves needing cash, but I do know that this is a larger Overnight REPO injection than occurred even during the Dot Com Bubble collapse. Someone, or several someones, needed a ton of cash last night – and no one is saying who or why. This doesn’t seem good to me. What is the Fed not telling us? The numbers clearly indicate that big trouble is brewing in the banking system.

USA - The Trump administration said Monday it plans to partially fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) after judges ruled in November that contingency funds must be used to pay for the benefits. One major issue with SNAP has been the widespread fraud that erupted under the Biden-Harris regime. US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins revealed Sunday that the USDA has purged 700,000 fraudulent recipients so far this year. Trump made it clear to radical leftist lawmakers that keeping the government closed - now on its 35th day, a record - by refusing to vote on a clean resolution would mean the SNAP program would only resume once the government reopens. "It will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government, which they can easily do, and not before!" the president emphasized.

USA - Steve Bannon on Mamdani’s Win: More than a few Republicans are celebrating Zohran Mamdani’s victory, seeing the 34-year-old democratic socialist as a political gift and an albatross for the Democratic Party. Steve Bannon is not among them. The former White House chief strategist has long preached the idea that populism is the engine of modern politics. And he sees Mamdani’s election as mayor of New York City as proof of its staying power — and a sign of the growing anti-establishment force on the left that Republicans would be foolish to ignore. “Tonight should be a wake up call to the populist nationalist movement under President Trump,” he said in an interview with POLITICO Magazine just after midnight on Wednesday. “These are very serious people, and they need to be addressed seriously.”

USA - Zohran Mamdani’s ‘socialism in one city’ will crush the metropolis he has promised to save. The trouble is, he will have to make a success of running New York, and that will prove far harder than his supporters imagine. To start with, his brand of socialist economics has been tried and failed repeatedly in the past. Back in the 1970s, the Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck memorably described rent controls as “the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city – except for bombing”, and endless attempts since then have simply proved the truth of that observation.

UK - The Left is using bad data to normalise unprecedented levels of savagery on Britain’s streets. Last year, a mere 6.3 per cent of “victim-based offences” resulted in someone being charged. This means that the vast majority of crimes are not punished. The police do a little better with firearms and knife offences, but in both cases only one in nine crimes result in a charge. What this means in practice is that much crime is functionally legalised. Naturally, this emboldens criminals and contributes to a growing sense of lawlessness in Britain.

USA - Stock markets plunged in South Korea and around the world as concerns deepened over AI company valuations. The global rout in stock markets deepened as more than $500 billion (£384 billion) was wiped off the value of artificial intelligence (AI) chip makers. The bosses of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley both suggested a correction was imminent over the next one to two years. Chris Weston, head of research at Pepperstone Group, said: “It’s a sea of red across broad markets, and one that offers a gloomy and damp portrayal of risk. We need to remain open-minded to the possibility that this could still further build. Simplistically, there aren’t many reasons to buy here.”

UK - Now we have the evidence. The BBC knowingly helped spread Hamas lies and hate. The leaked Prescott Report is a devastating document. It is an insider’s account of serious and widespread failings of impartiality, systemic bias and activist journalism spanning years of BBC news coverage. It lays bare for the first time how senior BBC executives repeatedly tried to dismiss, downplay or excuse these failings in a total abdication of their responsibilities. In doing so, they failed to uphold the highest standards of public service journalism we must expect of the BBC.

FRANCE - The country has no stable government, no coherent strategy and a president whose approval rating has plunged to a record low. The aviation metaphor was apt given that 24 hours earlier Michael O’Leary, the chief executive of Ryanair, had said France, particularly its air traffic controllers, was “the byword for inefficiency and incompetence”. Why would anyone wish to invest in France right now? The country is on its fourth prime minister in a year and the National Assembly resembles what one MP described recently as a “psychiatric hospital”. France’s business leaders are in despair. Dozens signed an open letter at the weekend begging the political class to show some leadership, and not just simply impose more taxes. Robberies against commercial targets have increased by 15 per cent in the last four years. Most crimes are on the up in France, including assault, rape and attempted murder. There is a power vacuum in France. The country has no stable government, no coherent strategy and a president whose approval rating has plunged to a record low of 11 per cent. France’s criminal fraternity knows that there is no pilot in the cockpit.