This is bad news for Leicester, which experienced weeks of rioting between its Indian and Pakistani communities in 2022 over a cricket match between their respective home countries. The city’s already-shaky reputation as a positive example of multiculturalism was blown to smithereens as subcontinental-style communalism spilt onto the streets. Progressives were faced with an uncomfortable wake-up call when footage of Hindu and Muslim youth gangs brawling across the Belgrave suburb exploded onto social media.

From the beginning, we have never had a debate about how the Ukraine crisis started. Did anyone in power ever tell you truthfully how, when or why this war began? No. Did anyone in power explain why Britain, crime-blighted, decrepit, rubbish-strewn, rat-infested, broke Britain, had to get involved in it? Never. You have just been fed propaganda rubbish about ‘democracy’, freedom and an invented Russian menace. Here are some of the lies you have repeatedly been told:

The war, they say, was not provoked. Seldom in history has a war been more provoked. These protests reached their peak in February 2007, when Putin made a dramatic speech in Munich. He said Nato expansion was ‘a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust. We have the right to ask: against whom is this expansion intended?’

Vladimir Putin, begged the West to stop trundling its military alliance, Nato, eastwards towards Russia. These protests reached their peak in February 2007. US President George W Bush deliberately raised the temperature the following year. Can it be that Bush likes wars?

In April 2008, Bush said that Ukraine should be placed on the path towards joining Nato. Even the Guardian, the Liberal Warmonger’s Gazette, conceded that this was ‘likely to infuriate the Kremlin’. And so it did. I suspect we were on the path to war from that moment. And then there is the claim that this is about democracy and freedom. It isn’t. The more the West claims to care for these things, the less it does to help them.

Some examples: Ukraine’s elected president was lawlessly overthrown by a mob in 2014. Britain and the USA condoned this shameful event because they preferred the illegal rebels to the elected government. You just can’t do that and pretend to be the guardian of democracy. But then, we aren’t anyway.

Calin Georgescu’s election was annulled by judges in December when he looked like winning the first round. And he has been banned from standing in the second round – all because he has the wrong kind of politics.

I won’t even try to explain how Germany recently recalled its old, dead parliament to push through laws the newly elected parliament would not pass. This was done to allow the spending of extra billions on the Ukraine war. Don’t be dragged into more stupidity, or we will end up with bomb craters as well as potholes.

About 78% of respondents agree that the internet has “never been worse” when it comes to differentiating between what’s real and what’s artificial. This skepticism has grown as AI-generated material becomes increasingly prevalent.

When asked where they most commonly notice artificial content, respondents identified:

Social media posts (48%)

News articles (34%)

Chatbot interactions (32%)

Those polled believe that 50% of the news stories and articles they come across online have some element of AI, whether in images or written content.

The research, commissioned by World.org, uncovered a troubling reality: when tested, only 30% of participants could correctly identify which business reviews were written by humans versus AI. Of the three options written by people, two ranked at the very bottom of the list, demonstrating how challenging it has become to recognize genuine human writing.

Hahn noted the urgency of finding solutions: “Being able to prove you’re human online is becoming as essential as having an email address was twenty years ago. Our survey shows Americans are desperate for tools that restore confidence in digital interactions. We’re pioneering a new paradigm where human verification becomes a foundational layer of the internet — simple, secure, and universally accessible. This isn’t just about solving today’s trust crisis; it’s about building tomorrow’s internet where human-to-human connection remains at the heart of everything we do.”

Alternating between victimhood and foul abuse, the leading activists are a bunch of cry bullies who boast of their supposed feminine instincts but who often act in the most crude macho way. Their hatred for women’s rights campaigners – whom they label TERFs (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists) – has shone through their ugly protests. “The only good TERF is a dead TERF”, read one slogan at a London demonstration last week.

The same misogyny could be found in the protestors’ vandalism of the statue in Parliament Square of Millicent Fawcett, the heroic advocate of votes for women and in the vicious personal attacks on the brilliant author and brave opponent of transgender dogma, JK Rowling, including barbaric calls for her to be burned at the stake as “a witch”.

The hysterical, undignified and brutish response to the Supreme Court ruling has fulfilled all the worst fears about the trans movement. The advance of its agenda fuels conflict, undermines women’s rights, exploits the vulnerable, makes a mockery of science, and destroys childhood innocence.

It is telling that “gender dysphoria” only took off after medical breakthroughs enabled doctors to undertake gender reassignments. But this involves a glaring contradiction. In the name of public health, the Government aims to stamp out tobacco, combat female genital mutilation, and lower obesity, yet at the same time our medical guardians take the knife to the healthy bodies of young people and pump them with toxic, life-altering drugs.

In the same vein, we are solemnly told by the trans-propagandists that a woman can have a penis and a man a cervix. Labour joined in this nonsense under the delusion the trans creed is progressive, but the party’s politicians ended up tying themselves in knots about the definition of womanhood and peddling absurdities such as the assertion that babies are born without sex.

True, some activists are still in denial. They are determined to pretend that nothing has changed, despite last week’s landmark Supreme Court ruling that trans women are not legally women under the stipulations of the Equality Act. The director of the London Marathon is insisting that trans women should be allowed to enter this weekend’s event as females. Some NHS managers have intimated their willingness to defy the judgment. Various institutions will try to misconstrue the law by, for example, wrongly insisting that transgender access to single-sex spaces must be decided on a case-by-case basis. Despite such defiance, the fact remains that everything has changed.

At a 2024 campaign rally in Waco, Texas, he said: “We are a nation whose leaders are demanding all electric cars, even though they can’t go far, cost too much, and whose batteries are produced in China with materials only available in China, when an unlimited amount of gasoline is available inexpensively in the United States of America, but is not available in China.”

He hasn’t wasted any time in putting in place a five-pronged approach to make his policy a reality.

First, on January 20, in an executive order entitled “Unleashing American Energy”, the president removed the requirement, put in place by Biden-era Transportation Department and Environmental Protection Agency regulations, for car companies to sell a certain share of vehicles that are battery-powered electric, effectively cancelling the mandate.

Second, Trump pledged in the same executive order to consider cancelling the $7,500 tax credit to buy EVs. The credit, signed into law by Joe Biden as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, would have cost $105.7 billion over the next 10 years.

Third, Trump paused producer tax credits for clean energy, including advanced battery technology, estimated to cost between $30 billion and $200 billion over the next decade.

Fourth, President Trump’s transportation department is suspending billions allocated to build electric charging stations all over the country. These charging stations were supposed to overcome the main disadvantage of EVs: that drivers might run out of range before they found somewhere to recharge their vehicle.

Fifth, President Trump pledged to end “state emissions waivers that function to limit sales of gasoline-powered automobiles,” such as California’s clean car regulations. The transportation department and the Environmental Protection Agency are working together to roll back state waivers.

Twenty years ago the political scientist Samuel P Huntington coined the term “Davos Man” to describe what he saw as an elite who “have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate the elite’s global operations”. That was a very accurate description.

The validity of these “corruption” claims will be established during investigations. But with Schwab’s departure amid a storm of allegations, “Davos Man” may finally have had his day. I doubt he will be missed.

With Donald Trump softening his stance on Chinese tariffs, and ruling out firing the chairman of the Federal Reserve, the financial markets were in an optimistic mood this morning. Even so, the news out of the UK was still deeply disappointing. The Office for National Statistics revealed that the UK borrowed £15 billion more than forecast in the year to March.

In total, we borrowed a shocking £151.9 billion over the last twelve months, £20 billion more than the previous year, and much more than the Office for Budget Responsibility had forecast. Last month alone, we racked up another £16.4 billion in debt, the third highest March figure since records began.

She has ruled out tax rises in the autumn, and may find that little more can be squeezed out of an exhausted economy even if she tries. Meanwhile, she is letting ministers and civil servants carry on spending as if budgets no longer mattered. The blunt truth is this: Reeves has completely lost control. The UK is heading for a full-blown financial crash – and nothing can stop it now.

Phew, thank goodness we sorted that one out! Or did we? Because radical lefty loonies are venting their spleen and this madness looks set to continue for the foreseeable future. One totally unfathomable aspect of this whole 'trans’ debate is the extent to which passions can become so inflamed over a matter that concerns half of one percent of the entire population.

The matter of trans and trans rights has become so emotionally politicized in this country that it defies basic logic. Identify as a traffic bollard for all I care, but don’t expect me to accept this as normal by ramming it down my throat, because I won’t! The invasion of women’s safe spaces has been a disgrace, as has allowing biological males to compete in sports against biological women.