RUSSIA - Any NATO member state that shoots down a Russian warplane would trigger a “war” with Russia, Moscow’s envoy to Paris, Aleksey Meshkov, has warned. Last Friday, Estonia claimed that Russian military aircraft had briefly violated its airspace, due to which Tallinn requested urgent consultations with fellow NATO members. Earlier this month, Poland alleged that multiple Russian decoy drones entered its territory. Moscow has denied both sets of allegations. According to the Russian diplomat, “quite a lot of [NATO military] planes accidentally or not accidentally violate our airspace. And no one shoots them down.” He also insisted that NATO member states have failed to produce “material” evidence to back up their accusations.

EUROPE - Putin is a pound-shop Stalin who could easily be defeated if only the West had the will. But our leaders lack all self-belief. Europe, the continent that gave the world democracy, Pax Romana, the Renaissance, the Great Explorers, the libertarian ideals of the Scottish enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution and the emancipation of slavery, is now the world’s laughing stock. Our leaders are non-player characters in the story of our spiral into oblivion, standing by as we rush towards civilisational seppuku. Sir Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, Ursula von der Leyen: all are political pygmies, interchangeable in their incompetence, cowardice and lack of vision. Even Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, the only semi-decent major Western European leader, hasn’t reversed her country’s own hara-kiri. Friedrich Merz, hardly Germany’s Thatcher, won’t save his country. Their once great nations are sliding ever faster into irrelevance and impotence, and failing on every count: economic, military, moral, demographic, technological and geopolitical. They have lost the world’s respect, except as a shopping destination, theme park or finishing school. This is how great civilisations finally die.

USA - The shooting of Charlie Kirk has led to a wave of Christian fervour across social media. Even atheists claim to have been converted. In the two weeks since Kirk’s killing, pastors across the country have reported a spike in attendance usually reserved for Christmas or Easter. Social media has been filled with testimonies from young people turning to Christianity for the first time, with even atheists saying they are reconsidering their position on religion. Pastors have coined a term for the religious revival galvanised by Kirk’s death: the Charlie effect. At State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, 200,000 gathered for his memorial on Sunday, where President Trump and four members of his cabinet delivered eulogies.

UNITED NATIONS - To UN delegates who say recognition is about “reviving hope,” the answer is simple: tie hope to behavior. “As if to encourage continued conflict, some of this body is seeking to unilaterally recognize the Palestinian state. The rewards would be too great for Hamas terrorists, for their atrocities,” US President Donald Trump told the UN General Assembly. That is the brutal core of this week in New York: a feel-good rush to recognize Palestine, while Hamas still holds hostages and fires at Israeli cities. Western leaders insist their move does not whitewash October 7. “Recognizing Palestine does not diminish the gravity of the October 7 attack,” French President Emmanuel Macron said, defending recognition as part of a broader political track. The United Kingdom framed its decision as a bid to “keep alive the possibility of peace,” with Prime Minister Keir Starmer adding, “This is not a reward for Hamas because it means Hamas can have no future, no role in government, no role in security.”

UK - Compassion that takes imprudent risks with the lives of the vulnerable is not a virtue at all. When Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults Bill to legalise assisted suicide for the dying reached the House of Lords, peers faced a dilemma. On the one hand, they heard the persistent concern of advocates for the disabled and several Royal Colleges about the risks of abuse and corrosion of humane social norms that legalisation threatens. On the other hand, their compassion was aroused by stories of individuals suffering grievously, whose plight couldn’t be assuaged by palliative care, and of those helping them find relief through suicide having to endure police investigation. The bill, urged Lord Falconer of Thoroton, would resolve this intolerably cruel situation. Except it wouldn’t. By limiting assisted suicide to the terminally ill, the bill excludes those who aren’t dying but are still suffering grievously. And it would still bring the police to the door of those assisting them commit suicide.

UNITED NATIONS - Donald Trump accused the United Nations of 'funding an assault' on the West through immigration and warned Europe is 'going to hell' in an astonishing address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. The US President called for an end to 'the failed experiment of open borders' as he lauded the success of his own hard line immigration crackdown. He called recognition by a slate of Washington's allies of a Palestinian state a 'reward' to armed group Hamas for 'horrible atrocities' and urged the group to release hostages to reach peace. He went on to champion the decision to bring the National Guard into Washington DC to crack down on crime - a move derided by critics as echoing authoritarianism. Trump also branded climate change a 'scam', against the dominant scientific view. There were audible gasps and several delegates shook their heads, the BBC reported.

MIDDLE EAST - Mosab Hassan Yousef was once a Shin Bet spy embedded in the terror organisation his father founded. Mosab Hassan Yousef is an unlikely Israeli hero. As the oldest son of Hassan Yousef, a co-founder of Hamas and its spiritual leader in the West Bank, Mr Yousef rose through the ranks of the terror group as a child and saw the militants’ atrocities first-hand. But after a stint in Israeli jails as a teenager for smuggling arms, he changed sides, secretly emerging as a Shin Bet spy embedded in the terrorist organisation his father helped run – a position he held for almost 10 years. Just as the UK, France, Canada, Portugal and other Western democracies stand poised to formally recognise Palestine as a state at the UN in New York on Monday, Mr Yousef says no such country exists.

UK - The recognition of a Palestinian state is one of the gravest errors in our nation’s foreign policy in decades. Tomorrow Sir Keir Starmer will formally announce that Britain will recognise Palestinian statehood. While symbolic in most respects – Britain ceased to be the colonial power in the region in 1948 – there will be at least one real world impact: Hamas will be able to point to a tangible outcome of its terror campaign against Israel, and claim its tactics work.

UK - This is a decision that will come back to haunt the prime minister and one that will reverberate globally for years. It’s not often I see a story of Hamas celebrating, at least not since the delirious joy that greeted the attack on October 7 when operatives stormed over the border, raped and murdered, seemingly with the kind of glee that most ordinary people reserve for family occasions. Afterwards, Hamas leaders helpfully came on to the airwaves to explain that they would commit mass murder again and again, if they had half a chance, not so they could kill some Jews, but all Jews, as proclaimed in their charter.

ISRAEL - "I have a clear message to those leaders who are recognizing a Palestinian state after the horrendous October 7 massacre: You are rewarding terror with an enormous prize. And I have another message for you: It’s not going to happen. There will be no Palestinian state to the west of the Jordan River. For years I have prevented the creation of that terror state, against tremendous pressure, both domestic and from abroad. We have done this with determination, and with astute statesmanship. Moreover, we have doubled the Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria, and we will continue on this path. The response to the latest attempt to force upon us a terror state in the heart of our land will be given after my return from the United States. Stand by."

UK - Labour sparked fresh fury for wishing millions of Jews Happy New Year - just hours after it confirmed the Government was formally recognising the State of Palestine. The extraordinary message came after Sir Keir Starmer sparked fury for officially recognising the State of Palestine in the hope of reviving the prospects of a peace and two-state solution. “The message could not be clearer: murder, rape, kidnapping and indoctrination are legitimate paths to diplomatic gain — Hamas leaders have called this moment ‘the fruit of 7th October’.

USA - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (Republican for Kentucky) invited the Chief Executive Officers of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit to testify at a full committee hearing on October 8, 2025. The hearing will examine the radicalization of online forum users, including instances of open incitement to commit politically motivated acts. Congress has a duty to oversee the online platforms that radicals have used to advance political violence.

USA - Renowned attorney Larry Klayman predicted early on that the Left would resort to violence when they lose in court to try to stop the Trump Administration agenda. Back in July, Klayman said, “Violence is what they are left with, and we see it happening. We are now seeing calls to violence repeatedly.” In April, Klayman predicted, “If violence breaks out in a bigger way, Trump can declare martial law.” They did not succeed the way they wanted to succeed with their court cases. They won some, but they saw they could not use lawfare anymore to take control of this country - Now, they have gone to violence.

USA - On Wednesday night, during his historic second state visit to the United Kingdom, President Donald Trump officially declared Antifa a “major terrorist organization.” For years, Antifa has been terrorizing communities across the United States with their brute violence and threats against innocent Americans. In 2020, Antifa and BLM set a record in the United States for causing over $2 billion in property damage. In Minneapolis alone, Antifa-BLM mobs damaged or destroyed over 1,500 businesses or buildings. Over 700 police officers were injured in the 2020 riots! Antifa-BLM mobs were linked to conservatively 91% of the riots that resulted in the most expensive property damage in US insurance history.

UK - Chaos at Heathrow after cyber attack at several European airports causes disruption: Hackers hit firm whose check-in and boarding systems are used by airlines across the world. Heathrow has warned of delays and advised customers to check their flight status with their airline before travelling.