UK Government on Verge of Making It Illegal to Tell the Truth

 

Nov 26, 2025 7:00 am By Robert Spencer6 Comments

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The UK’s far-left government has been working for quite some time on trying to define the concept of “Islamophobia.” This is urgently needed, Labour Party wonks are telling British citizens, because of a rise in “hate crimes” against Muslims. Who says there has been such a rise? The same Muslim groups that are pushing for the criminalization of “Islamophobia,” as well as the Labour government itself. Could Labour really be trying to solidify its hold on the Muslim vote by destroying the freedom of speech and imposing Sharia blasphemy laws through the back door, designed as efforts to stamp out “hate”? Why, of course they could. In fact, that is exactly what they’re doing.

As is the usual practice in such cases, leftists are obscuring the real issues with false premises and straw men. The Telegraph reported Monday that “stereotyping grooming gangs as Muslim could fall foul of a definition of Islamophobia being considered by the Government.” Now, no one who is informed about the rampant problem of rape gangs in the U.K. that victimized and destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands of British girls could maintain that they are all Muslim down to the last man. However, as Holy Hell: Islam’s Abuse of Women and the Infidels Who Enable It shows, not only have the vast majority of the perpetrators been Muslims, but most of the victims were non-Muslim British girls.

In fact, for decades, British officials passed up numerous opportunities to do something to stop the rape gangs and protect British girls. They did so precisely because they feared the professional and even personal ruin that would almost certainly follow being accused of “Islamophobia” and “racism.”

Instead of correcting this suicidal myopia and acting to save the British nation before it’s too late, the Labour government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer is working to codify this massive cowardice into law. The Telegraph states that “‘prejudicial’ stereotyping or racialization of Muslims which is designed to stir up racial hatred is said to be one strand of a definition [of Islamophobia] drawn up by a working group for ministers.”

This is red meat for leftists who think they can use the force of the state to stamp out “hate” and enforce the multicultural paradise of their dreams. All they’ll end up doing, as is always the case under leftist governments, is terrifying the populace into submission and moving Britain ever closer to becoming an authoritarian state.

If this understanding of Islamophobia is adopted and is criminalized in British law, how will British authorities react when citizens repeat what has been known for years about these rape gangs? As far back as 2014, the Jay Report, an independent inquiry into child sexual exploitation in the British town of Rotherham, found that the rape gangs had victimized over 1,400 girls, and that the perpetrators were overwhelmingly Pakistani Muslims.

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Politics in Europe > Starmer's approval rating sets new record low; Samantha Power admits USAID interference in Moldova; Will Moldova join the war in Ukraine? Is that the EU's aim?

 

Like Germany's Chancellor Merz, Starmer is out of touch with the very people he represents.

Starmer hits record low in UK opinion poll

Only 13% of Britons approve of their prime minister’s performance, according to a recent Ipsos survey

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. ©  Ben Stansall/Getty Images

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s popularity has hit a record low, with nearly 80% of Britons disapproving of his performance, according to an Ipsos poll published on Sunday.

Starmer’s rating has been battered following dissatisfaction with his handling of immigration, a surge in arrests related to comments made online, the cost of living crisis, and the resurgence of the Pakistani rape gang scandal.

Only 13% of Britons are satisfied with the UK prime minister’s performance, while 79% are dissatisfied, Ipsos said. According to the survey, in which 1,157 British adults were asked their opinions, Starmer’s approval had slipped 6% since June, while disapproval rose by the same margin.

“Keir Starmer’s personal satisfaction ratings are the worst for any prime minister polled by Ipsos since we first started asking the question in 1977,” Ipsos Senior Director of UK Politics Gideon Skinner said in the report.

Conservatives and Labour alike are losing voters to Reform UK, the polling firm reported.

READ MORE: UK teeters on economic collapse – Telegraph

Nearly 40% of 2024 Conservative voters and 13% of former Labour supporters have said they would vote for Reform, it said.

Mass protests against the migrant influx, as well as demonstrations against the crackdown on free speech in the UK have wracked the country in recent months.

Earlier this month in London, the “Unite the Kingdom” rally was held by right-wing Britons dissatisfied with their current government. While the Metropolitan Police contend that around 110,000 to 150,000 were in attendance, the event’s organizers have claimed that as many as three million were there.

READ MORE: Starmer claims protesters have no right to use ‘diverse’ UK flag

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, whose role as an influential Eurosceptic helped lead to Brexit in the 2010s, has addressed immigration concerns and promised to scrap the scheme that allows migrants to apply for indefinite stay after five years, saying he would replace it with a visa system.

According to a YouGov survey from Friday, Reform would win 311 seats if a general election were held now, just 15 short of an absolute majority in the British House of Commons. The next vote is set for 2029.

When Trump turned off the USAID tap, did the EU step in to replace its interference in Moldovan politics?  Certainly, NATO countries have long forgotten their promise not to seduce Russia's neighbours.

Ex-USAID chief brags about funding ‘democratic brightspot’ in Moldova

American money helped President Maia Sandu to “narrowly squeak by” at the ballot box, Samantha Power has said in a prank call

Former US Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power, Quito, Ecuador, November 8, 2023. ©  Franklin Jacome / Agencia Press South / Getty Images

American taxpayer money played a crucial role in keeping Moldovan President Maia Sandu in power, former USAID chief Samantha Power has claimed in a prank call with Russian comedians Vovan and Lexus.

Power, who led the US Agency for International Development under President Joe Biden, was recorded speaking to the pranksters as they posed as former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko. In the video, released Wednesday, she reflected on her time overseeing an agency with 15,000 staff and a multibillion-dollar budget, and cited expanded aid to Moldova as one of her successes.

“This was not a country that USAID had really had much of a presence in, very small,” Power said. “We expanded it massively, both for the sake of Ukraine, but of course also for Moldova. And it was a democratic brightspot with President Sandu, a Kennedy School graduate and a real reformer.”

According to Power, Sandu “narrowly squeaked by the last time,” though she did not specify whether she was referring to last year’s presidential election or the recent parliamentary vote in Moldova. Sandu and her party secured both contests with strong support from Moldovan expatriates in Western nations, while failing to secure a majority in the popular vote at home. Opposition figures argue the process was skewed to limit turnout in anti-government areas.

Sandu, a Romanian citizen, has faced criticism for what opponents describe as authoritarian tactics, including shutting down opposition media and branding rivals as Moscow-backed criminals. She has maintained that Moldova’s path to the European Union depends on her leadership.

Power said the Biden administration folded tens of millions of dollars for Moldova into broader Ukraine aid appropriation requests. “That money went much, much further in Moldova than it did in Ukraine because it’s such a small country,” she noted.

READ MORE: Moldova’s election marred by fraud – Lavrov

She also suggested people tend to associate Washington’s support with “arms, and maybe with Tori Nuland and interference,” but they overlook “forms of more subtle support.” Former US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland is widely described as a key architect of the 2014 coup in Kiev and the subsequent escalation of tensions with Russia.

Moscow reiterated criticisms of Sandu after her latest victory, which Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov branded a blatant example of “electoral fraud.”

West aims to turn Moldova into ‘anti-Russia project’ like Ukraine – ex-president

Western manipulation was the sole thing that allowed the ruling party to win Sunday’s election, Igor Dodon has said

FILE PHOTO: Former Moldovan President Igor Dodon, Chisinau, Moldova, September 28, 2025. ©  Rodion Proka/RIA Novosti

The EU and NATO kept Moldova’s ruling party in power through electoral fraud and aims to turn the country into an “anti-Russian project” like Ukraine, former Moldovan President Igor Dodon told TASS in an interview on Wednesday.

The pro-Western Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) kept its parliamentary majority in Sunday’s election, beating the Patriotic Electoral Bloc (BEP) and other opposition parties.

“The ruling Party of Action and Solidarity has claimed victory in the election exclusively by manipulation with support from the EU and NATO,” Dodon, who heads the BEP, said.

This support was provided for the purpose of converting our country, which has neutrality enshrined in its Constitution, into another anti-Russia project following the example of neighboring Ukraine.

The opposition leader added that “this may trigger major trouble if society gets split.”

Pro-Western officials have lauded the PAS win as another step towards EU accession, while critics said the vote was marred by bans on several opposition parties and election observers having been obstructed. They have also accused the authorities of creating hurdles to prevent people from casting votes both inside the country and abroad.

READ MORE: Moldova convicts opposition politician

Dozens of people were arrested following opposition rallies protesting the vote after the BEP publicly announced it would seek to overturn the election result. 

READ MORE: US spent ‘tens of millions’ in Moldova – former USAID chief

Former Moldovan lawmaker Marina Tauber has also been sentenced in absentia to seven and a half years in prison on charges of financing the banned SOR Party.

US foreign aid money helped prop up pro-Western President Maia Sandu’s administration, former US Agency for International Development (USAID) chief Samantha Power admitted to Russian comedians Vovan and Lexus in a prank call fully released on Wednesday.

Moldova had received “tens of millions of dollars,” folded into so-called USAID “Ukraine supplementals” under the administration of former US President Joe Biden, she said.

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Antisemitism > in the highest levels of the British Labour government - Melanie Phillips

 

It was in 2008 when I first mentioned to a Men's group at my church that America and Europe would abandon Israel in its hour of greatest need. The evidence that such madness will happen is obvious to anyone who is watching.

The Falsehoods and Culpable Demonisation Office

Under Israel-bashing Labour, bigotry at the Foreign Commonwealth

and Development Office is out of control

Melanie Phillips

Sep 15, 2024

The UK government’s partial arms embargo against Israel has caused considerable blowback. People have been appalled that, when the Jewish state is fighting for its life, the Starmer administration is punishing it on the basis of demonstrable falsehoods put out by Hamas and its echo chamber of international courts and NGOs, waging lawfare against Israel’s existence.

British Jews who believed that Sir Keir Starmer had rid Labour of its hard-left animus against Israel are now being forced to confront what they so unwisely chose to deny: that anti-Zionism and antisemitism remain hardwired into the Labour Party and the left in general.

Others have pointed to the increasing importance to Labour of the Muslim vote, and the emergence in the Commons of a sectarian bloc of five independent MPs who campaigned in the general election “for Gaza”.

These factors have certainly played a large part in the new government’s hostility to Israel. However, we shouldn’t downplay the stupefying ignorance and institutionalised malice of the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office.

Last week, I set out in The Times Israel’s excruciating dilemma over the need both to rescue the hostages and defeat Hamas. In a subsequent letter to the paper claiming that I was “on another planet”, Edward Chaplin, Britain’s former ambassador to Jordan and Iraq, wrote that Israeli leaders needed the “moral courage” to persuade the country that peace could only be achieved “via negotiations that give the Palestinians a state they can call their own”.

This is the kind of boilerplate ignorance that might be expected from the “globalise the intifada” mob who don’t know from which river or to which sea “Palestine” must be free. But from a former senior diplomat? Does the former ambassador to Jordan and Iraq really not know that the Palestinian Arabs were offered a state of their own (to which the Jews agreed) in 1937, 1939, 1947, 2000 and 2008, but rejected it on every occasion in favour of war or terror?

Apparently not. Nor do his current equivalents in the US State Department, who insist that the way to stop the seven-front genocidal war being waged by Iran and its proxies to destroy Israel and the west is to establish a Palestinian state run by more Iranian proxies intent upon destroying Israel.

In both Britain and America, the foreign policy establishment similarly regurgitates as truth murderous Hamas lies.

The Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, intoned: “Israel’s actions in Gaza continue to lead to immense loss of civilian life, widespread destruction to civilian infrastructure, and immense suffering”.

An American diplomatic official complained to The Times about the “relentlessness and ferocity” of Israel’s war and said it was a “head-scratcher” why Israel thought “this scorched-earth policy” was the best way to fight its enemies.

This was all drivel. If Israel’s war had really been “ferocious” and “scorched- earth”, the population of Gaza would have been decimated. Instead, the IDF has been regularly moving the entire population out of harm’s way — while Hamas has been using those civilians as cannon fodder and human shields.

The only people claiming “immense loss of civilian life” are Hamas, its UN patsies and other fellow-travellers. The number of civilians killed in Gaza according to Hamas statistics is ludicrous, since not one terrorist is acknowledged among the total. Given the number of terrorists whom Israel says it has killed in this war, the ratio of civilians to combatants killed in Gaza is unprecedentedly low and a fraction of the proportion of civilians killed in British and American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Of course, this hallucinatory anti-Israel derangement is now widespread. But how does one explain its grip amongst officials in government departments that actually deal daily with foreign affairs?

The British foreign service has a history of vicious opposition to the Jewish homeland, going back to the Palestine Mandate in the 1920s. Foreign Office diplomats were entranced by an entirely romantic view of the Arab world combined with an entirely cynical estimation of its value to British interests.

This older “camel corps” has been superseded by a new breed of Israel-hating officials, the “progressive” leftists who subscribe to the brain-dead myth that Israel is a colonialist interloper that has oppressed the “indigenous” Palestinians and deprived them of a state of their own.

Precisely because they specialise in world affairs, western diplomats are the supreme worshippers at the shrine of universalism, the doctrine that fetishises transnational courts where international law has been turned into a weapon of Israel’s destruction.

In addition, the one-time intellectual powerhouse of the Foreign Office has become dismayingly dumbed down. In the London Review of Books in 2016, a despairing letter from a former Foreign Office official lamented that, from 2007 onwards, it had become a “hollowed-out shell”, with “a cult of managerialism that seemed to regard foreign policy as an inconvenient side-issue” — and was now known to the general public only for its travel advice.

It was bad enough under the (mostly) Israel-friendly Conservatives. Now that Israel-bashing Labour is in the government stables, Foreign Office bigotry is free to gallop out of control.

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