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2026-09-06 · Daily Mail

Ketamine overtakes 'speed' in popularity as an illegal party drug as police seizures soar

🔮 By comparison amphetamine possession has more than halved over the same five years, falling from 2,576 offences to 1,209. The data will intensify concerns over ketamine becoming a dominant drug among young people despite grave risks – with a single 'hit' costing as little as £2, far less than a pint of beer. assertive

2026-09-15 · Daily Mail

Labour's new immigration laws will not deter small boat migrants and only 'tinkers with the edges', top lawyers warn

🔮 ‘There's a failure to recognise the protections we have as a country under the Refugee Convention, and to take action that would not place persons in danger and be removed to safe third states. assertive

2026-09-17 · Daily Mail

Prison Service plans to double-up inmates in prefab 'pods' to ease overcrowding crisis, leaked documents show

🔮 Prison officers’ leaders warned the plan to ‘double up’ inmates in so-called ‘rapid deployment cells’ (RDCs) could lead to staff walking out over health and safety concerns. assertive

2026-09-20 · Daily Mail

Some 700 sex offenders held indefinitely 'to be freed' under Labour's prison reforms, Tories warn

🔮 The Conservatives warned that 700 sex criminals will be 'let loose on the streets' as Labour abolishes so-called imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentences. assertive

2026-09-21 · Daily Mail

Fears legal blunder dating back more than a decade has helped thousands of migrants stay in Britain

🔮 A judge has raised concerns that a large number of immigration appeals heard in the UK courts may have been illegitimate. mixed

2026-09-24 · Daily Mail

Courts backlog soars by nearly 100,000 since Labour came to power, as ministers urged to drop controversial jury trial reforms

🔮 Labour has been pursuing controversial changes to the courts system which will see the historic right to jury trial scrapped for thousands of cases a year. assertive

2026-09-28 · Daily Mail

New Channel chaos: Investigation launched after 18 migrants disappear from quiet Cornish harbour after arriving by yacht in middle of the night

🔮 A medical team was transported to the rescue boat by helicopter to help the survivors, but the child and two women could not be saved. assertive

2026-09-28 · Daily Mail

Small boat migrants expecting to be housed in hotels left 'anxious' when they end up in detention centre, says official report

🔮 In his inspection of the centre, near Gatwick airport, Mr Taylor said: ‘Detainees were anxious about their cases with many having arrived at the centre having expected to be placed in a hotel. assertive

2026-09-29 · Daily Mail

Channel migrant who said 'death to all Jews' is now living at taxpayers' expense in a Northamptonshire semi

🔮 Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said it was a 'joke' that Wadee was living at public expense and called for him to be sent back to Hamas-controlled territory where he would 'fit right in'. assertive

2026-09-30 · Daily Mail

Small boat 'one in, one out' deal with France scrapped after just over a year

🔮 Its failure will be a blow to Labour’s attempts to tackle the Channel crisis, and could risk an up-tick in small boat arrivals after recent falls. Cases that are already in the system will continue, the Home Office said, including bringing migrants to Britain from France if they are accepted under the reciprocal terms of the deal. The first removal under the scheme took place on September 18 last year. assertive

2026-09-30 · Daily Mail

Victims of crime will be left in fear by Labour's 'shameful' prison early release scheme, watchdog warns, just hours before soft justice bonanza kicks off

🔮 Labour’s ‘shameful’ prison early release scheme will leave victims ‘living in fear’ when it begins releasing thousands of inmates on Thursday, the domestic abuse commissioner has warned. assertive

2026-09-30 · Daily Mail

Trans rape suspects may be called men, Crown Prosecution Service decides in wake of legal challenge

🔮 Lexi Secker, who later identified as a woman, was been jailed for more than six years for rape - and was referred to as 'she' during his sentencing in court Its previous advice said only witnesses ‘such as a victim of a sexual assault by a trans person’ could be referred to by ‘pronouns matching their birth sex’. The updated version, however, allows prosecutors to use male pronouns for transgender women defendants if doing otherwise could lead to unfairness. assertive

2026-10-01 · Daily Mail

UK population hits new peak of 69.5million but growth slows as net migration and birth rates drop

🔮 Projections published earlier this year by the ONS suggested the UK’s population will peak more than 40 years earlier than previously thought. assertive

2026-10-06 · Daily Mail

Tories pledge to 'immediately' scrap Labour's new asylum routes for Afghans and Palestinians

🔮 New asylum routes being set up by Labour for Afghans and Palestinians will be ‘immediately’ shut down if the Conservatives win the next General Election. assertive

2026-10-13 · Daily Mail

Labour blasted over 'nonsense' claims on prisoner early release scheme, as soft justice bonanza sees another 650 criminals freed

🔮 Mr Timothy said: ‘The Justice Secretary told the country that proper safeguards would be put in place, with the presumption that all released prisoners would be tagged. assertive

2026-10-15 · Daily Mail

Mother of Henry Nowak's killer is to be freed from prison under Labour's early release scheme - after she was locked up for removing murder weapon

🔮 Kaur will be one of the most high-profile criminals to benefit from Labour's soft justice programme so far. assertive

2026-10-19 · Daily Mail

Now Energy Secretary attacks her own Government's plan to make migrants wait longer to win permanent status in Britain

🔮 She warned that leaving ILR rules untouched would result in ‘a £10 billion drain on our public finances’ as migrants qualify for full access to benefits and social housing after winning permanent status here. assertive

2026-10-20 · Daily Mail

What prison crisis? £2million a year is wasted on 'finding ways to say jails are racist' - as thousands of criminals are let out due to lack of space

🔮 Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Timothy, who uncovered the £1.7million annual spending, said the cash would be better spent on new prison places as Labour frees tens of thousands of criminals a year early from jail. assertive

2026-10-21 · Daily Mail

Cowardly killers who refuse to come to dock for sentencing face being locked in cell for three weeks and month-long ban on visits under new powers

🔮 Cowardly killers who refuse to come into court to be sentenced will face extra punishment – but only for a few weeks. assertive

2026-10-26 · Daily Mail

Record 6,000 children are referred to Prevent as obsession with violence and extremism surges

🔮 Labour announced in the summer that a social media ban for under-16s will come into force in March next year, although there is widespread concern that tech-savvy kids will circumvent the new rules. assertive

2026-10-27 · Daily Mail

Labour refuses to reveal how many new crimes have been committed by prisoners freed under 'chaotic' new early release scheme

🔮 The scheme was launched at the beginning of the month and is set to see up to 50,000 prisoners let out early each year. assertive

2026-10-28 · Daily Mail

Home Office gets £150million for more large-scale asylum centres, as Tories warn it shows Labour has 'no intention whatsoever' of stopping and deporting illegal immigrants

🔮 Labour will spend another £150million on new large-scale asylum accommodation centres, Budget documents revealed. assertive

2026-11-01 · Daily Mail

Shabana Mahmood poised to massively cut back immigration crackdown in wake of demands from Labour Left-wing

🔮 Plans to toughen immigration rules are expected to be massively watered down on Monday after a highly damaging battle within the Labour party. assertive

2026-11-02 · Daily Mail

Labour U-turns on immigration crackdown: Home Secretary retreats over crackdown on settlement rights after Left-wing revolt

🔮 Huge concessions to Labour MPs who opposed the original plan mean that out of 1.9million foreign nationals due to become eligible for settlement by 2030 only 500,000 will end up waiting longer. assertive

2026-11-03 · Daily Mail

Migrants handed settled status thanks to Labour's immigration U-turn will face having it cancelled, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch vows

🔮 Migrants handed permanent leave to live in Britain under Labour’s botched reforms will face being stripped of the status by a future Tory Government, Kemi Badenoch has revealed. assertive

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