Richard Eldred: Thousands Shut Down London As Protesters Chant “Free Tommy”

Tommy Robinson supporters and Stand Up To Racism activists have staged rival protests in Central London. The Mail has the details.

The Met police have confirmed that six people have been arrested as Tommy Robinson supporters invade the Stand Up To Racism counter-demo area.

Ross Meurant: Civil War

After a week of escalating violence (1), UK is on the brink of an enduring civil war.

Latent as it may have been, since German Chancellor Angela Merkle and other paragons of virtue (Sweden another standout), adopted a “woke” approach to not just thousands but millions of Muslims and non-Muslims, fleeing the various “Spring Revolutions” in the Middle East, the cauldron of racial and religious conflict in UK, has simmered.

Frédéric Grare: New Caledonia in turmoil

For France, the stakes are high. The reputational damage is already palpable in the region.

Last week, riots erupted in New Caledonia as France’s National Assembly debated a constitutional amendment aimed at enlarging electoral lists on the archipelago. The amendment proposal led to vast movements of protest in Noumea and further division within the population. On the day of the vote, it degenerated into violence. Shops, businesses and public infrastructure were damaged or destroyed and cars burned. Several people – six at the time of writing – were killed and many more wounded. France announced a state of emergency and dispatched extra security forces to New Caledonia, where operations to re-establish law and order are still going on.