🌍 European countries that added the most migrants (2000–2024) 1. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: +7.1M 2. 🇪🇸 Spain: +6.8M 3. 🇩🇪 Germany: +6.4M 4. 🇹🇷 Türkiye: +5.8M 5. 🇮🇹 Italy: +4.4M 6. 🇫🇷 France: +3.0M 7. 🇦🇹 Austria: +1.4M 8. 🇳🇱 Netherlands: +1.4M 9. 🇨🇭 Switzerland: +1.3M 10. 🇧🇪 Belgium: +1.3M 11. 🇸🇪 Sweden: +1.3M 12. 🇵🇱 Poland: +917K 13. 🇮🇪 Ireland: +840K 14. 🇳🇴 Norway: +720K 15. 🇷🇴 Romania: +521K 16. 🇵🇹 Portugal: +476K 17. 🇩🇰 Denmark: +475K 18. 🇭🇺 Hungary: +393K 19. 🇨🇿 Czechia: +386K 20. 🇫🇮 Finland: +378K Europe's migrant population grew by 40.8 million between 2000 and 2024, up 67%. The UK, Spain and Germany together account for almost half of that increase. Source: UN DESA

An excellent letter from the Gay Men’s Network that highlights the dangers Conversion Practices legislation represents to gay men, to lesbians and to the parents of gay teens.

BREAKING: Labour grandees Liam Byrne, Anneliese Dodds and Chris Bryant among MPs who asked inaccurate Parliamentary questions drafted by ex-MI6 inquiry agent Christopher Steele, who lobbied them using secret reports written by his own clients (@Telegraph) telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…

It’s official: a legal investigation has found engineers in Britain’s electricity grid control room are stressed because renewables make it so hard to keep the lights on. And when they raise concerns, managers won’t listen - they only want “good news” thetimes.com/article/413d547…

Bridget Phillipson's assurance that 'refusing to accept a child's identity' will not be prosecutable under conversion practices legislation is contradicted by the bill itself, which says that 'psychological or emotional pressure' with the intention of changing 'transgender identity' could qualify as a criminal offence. How can Phillipson know how a court will interpret 'refusing to accept a child's identity' given the vague and open-ended definitions in the bill? An op-ed by a politician will be scant consolation when a parent is facing a criminal claim or a protection order that will destroy their relationship with their child. And the question remains: what 'abuse' is the bill designed to tackle that is not already an offence in law? archive.ph/BDRJN

Not sure which part of the civil service but it looks like a manager somewhere is doing their job properly. Finally!

On the 2-year anniversary of Rhiannon Whyte’s attack, her mother Siobhan talks about the justice she seeks for her daughter. GB News National Reporter @_jack_carson reports. 📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604

'Because Japan doesn't want immigrants they're going to become extinct.' Author Camilla Cavendish, whose book Generation Maybe examines the reasons birth rates are falling, explains why there is a clock in a university in Japan that is counting down the years until the country runs out of children. Watch in full | youtu.be/_MqvEdSwKPw @CamCavendish

3/ This is misleading. The draft bill criminalises "any conduct" which after the fact the jury find to be "abusive". There is no requirement for physical force etc. at all the explanatory notes specifically say it would be words. There is no need to intend harm at all.

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Bridget Phillipson says the conversion practices bill won't target parents. There is nothing on the face of the bill that says parents are protected. She says the test is “serious physical or psychological harm”. In fact the bill sets the test much lower at “serious alarm or distress…which has a substantial adverse effect on their usual day-to-day activities”. This could easily capture parents who don't let their child wear a binder or go out dressed as the opposite sex.

The cuts are continuous and Labour have been in power considerably less than the Tories have.

One of the main suppliers of food aid to Gaza, the UN’s World Food Programme, says it’s being forced to “drastically reduce lifesaving assistance” because of a funding shortage. Acting exec director Carl Skau is asked if he is pushing the Israeli government hard enough.