News and Views 13th August 2026 

Society and Politics

• Scotland's 'conversion practice' Helpline logged only 4 calls. A disturbing freedom of information disclosure has revealed that the Scottish Government spent nearly £72,000 of taxpayers' money on an ‘anti-conversion practices’ helpline that was used just four times over a three-month period. The service, operated by the radical activist group LGBT Health and Wellbeing, essentially cost taxpayers a staggering £18,000 per phone call - with records indicating the few calls may have all come from the exact same individual! The revelation highlights a glaring disconnect between the priorities of ordinary citizens and an aggressive ideological agenda funded by the state. The literature of LGBT Health and Wellbeing explicitly claims that standard pastoral counseling, "being prayed over," or ordinary parental warnings to a child—such as saying "you're too young” or “you're confused"—should be classified as harmful conversion therapy.

World News

• The Mega-Mosque explosion in America. We hear much about the spread of Islam in Europe. But a shocking report by renowned author and former Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali warns that a rapid surge in ‘mega-mosques’ across the US is serving as a stealth front for foreign state influence and radical political Islam. The report highlights the massive, newly opened $20 million Imamain Al-Hasnain Mosque in Dearborn Heights, Michigan - one of the largest Islamic complexes in America. Rather than being financed by local worshipers, the mega-complex was funded directly by an Iraqi government notorious for tyrannical rule.
• Building isolated parallel societies across the US. Other major expansive mega mosques and prominent Islamic complexes are situated in places like Lanham, Maryland, and Garden Grove, California. Alarmingly, over 70% of the nearly 4,000 mosques now operating in the United States have been erected since the September 11 terrorist attacks. Intelligence analysts warn that authoritarian Middle Eastern regimes (Iraq, Turkey, Qatar, etc) are weaponising these mega-mosques to build isolated "parallel societies" that actively reject Western constitutional liberties, domestic laws, and Judeo-Christian heritage.

Persecuted Church

• Algeria’s underground Church defies radical State crackdown. A sobering new report reveals that the evangelical Christian community in Algeria has been forced into strict secrecy following a systematic, ongoing government campaign that has shut down nearly every Protestant church in the country since 2017. Operating in a nation that is 99% Muslim, local believers are now forced to gather discreetly inside private homes, hidden garages, and rural olive groves to evade the eyes of radical state authorities. Compounding the spiritual warfare, Algerian customs officials are systematically confiscating Bibles and Christian literature arriving from the West, leaving underground pastors desperately starved of scriptural resources.
• Persecution is building courage and maturity. While ignored by mainstream Western media, local Algerian Christians are displaying tremendous courage, using small family units to secretly conduct baptisms and celebrate Communion. Despite facing severe isolation, legal threats, and a rise in digital false teachings, underground church leaders report that this period of intense persecution is serving as a divine spiritual refinement, building a highly mature, resilient body of believers who refuse to allow the advance of the Gospel to be stopped.

Islam

• Oxford Union debate sparks global outrage over Islam’s incompatibility with the West. A fiery debate hosted by the Oxford Union has triggered an explosive, ongoing media firestorm over the motion: "The West is right to be suspicious of Islam." Defending the motion, Reclaim Party founder Laurence Fox and Times of Israel journalist Jonathan Sacerdoti argued passionately that orthodox Islamic doctrines represent a political system inherently incompatible with Western liberal democracy. Fox noted that 43% of British Muslims support the implementation of domestic Sharia law over British law, while a quarter sympathised with faith-motivated violence – and and 35% believe Jewish people hold too much power in the UK. Tommy Robinson exposed global human rights failures under Islamic jurisprudence, citing severe text-based laws regarding child marriage, apostasy, and the violent subjugation of religious minorities and women across the Middle East.
• The broadcast leads to intense online backlash. Behind the scenes, the Oxford Union sparked widespread anger after delaying the full 2-and-a-half hour debate footage for weeks. The controversy escalated further, with left-wing critics fiercely condemning the Oxford Union for granting a prestigious platform to what they termed "Islamophobic clowns" like Robinson and Fox. Tommy subsequently issued a public apology to a Muslim student speaker who was targeted by aggressive online harassment. The digital storm proves that Western populations are increasingly eager to confront the civilisational challenges of radical Islam, despite the political class trying to silence the discussion. Read much more in these pertinent follow-up articles here, here and here.

Climate Change

• Met Office drops declining wind speed chapter to protect Net Zero narrative. In a seeming act of scientific data manipulation, the UK Met Office has officially scrubbed the dedicated wind and storm chapter from its latest annual State of the UK Climate report - but failed to publish this inconvenient fact. For decades, climate alarmists and mainstream media outlets have claimed that global warming is triggering more intense and frequent natural disasters. However, actual recorded climate metrics spanning over 50 years reveal a distinct, long-term decline in both average UK wind speeds and severe storm frequency. Admitting that natural wind patterns are declining would completely destroy the economic justification for the radical green energy transition. Read also this expose by The Heritage Foundation.
• Met Office fabricated temperature records. In a case of further manipulation by the Met Office, a devastating expose by climate analyst Paul Homewood reveals how the tax-funded agency is manipulating raw weather data to fuel aggressive Net Zero propaganda. The first major scandal centers on a newly declared June temperature "record" of 37.7°C at Lingwood in Norfolk. The station used is a "junk" Class 5 site—a category explicitly barred by international meteorological standards due to an inherent error margin of up to 5°C. The site is entirely enclosed by private residential hedges and thick tree lines, creating an artificial heat trap. Instead of discarding the compromised reading, the Met Office doubled down on the narrative and officially increased the record to 38.0°C under the unverified claim that the local operator had simply misread the thermometer. Read more here.

Archaeology

• Possible site of historic Council of Nicaea uncovered. Archaeologists in Turkey say new evidence has strengthened the possibility that they have identified the remains of a church associated with the First Council of Nicaea, one of the most significant gatherings in Christian history.  4th-century floor paving beneath the remains of the Church of St Neophytos in Lake İznik have been uncovered, which is being seen as a likely site for the First Council of Nicaea in AD 325. This discovery matches historical descriptions of the location where the Nicene Creed was established, thus providing significant physical evidence regarding the landmark Christian gathering. 

Good News

• Answered prayer and freedom from debt slavery. In a moving testament to the moving of the Holy Spirit, a Christian family trapped in brutal generation-bound debt slavery has been miraculously set free. Working under exhausting conditions in a Pakistani brick kiln, Sarwar and his family spent years praying for divine intervention despite their bleak circumstances. Their prayers were answered this month when a local ministry, acting as the hands and feet of Christ, stepped forward to fully pay off the family’s outstanding debts. The family is now legally free.