In 2007, British-Canadian historian Rafe Heydel-Mankoo — whose parents immigrated to the U.K. in the 1960s — warned that the English were suffering the “greatest identity crisis” in all of Europe.

BlazeTV host Nick Freitas tells Heydel-Mankoo that the state of Britain today — with all its sectarian “demonstrations” — proves that he was “correct.”

“What did you see in 2007 that so many people failed to see?” he asks the New Culture Forum senior fellow.

“I saw obviously the beginning of identity politics, and of course, within the United Kingdom, we have the Scots, the Welsh, the Northern Irish, and the English. And it seemed as if when the Scots and the Welsh waved their flags, it was called progressive nationalism, but when the English did it, it was somehow racist,” says Heydel-Mankoo.

He notes the deep irony of this dynamic.

“England made the modern world with the Industrial Revolution, the creation of America, Canada, Australia, the English language, common law, parliamentary democracy — and yet, despite having given the world so much, it seemed to be the one nation that wasn't able to celebrate its identity,” he tells Freitas.

At the same time, Heydel-Mankoo explains, “multiculturalism” exploded.

“Everybody was supposed to celebrate the fact that they were from a Muslim community or they were African or they were trans or gay. Every identity possible could be celebrated apart from what should be the one overarching identity that unites all of those other identities, and that is your national identity,” he says.

“And since then, of course, we've had this long march through the institutions by the left. All of our institutions have been captured, and our institutions shape our worldview, and it's got to the point now where I say that Britain, England, but also the United Kingdom is now a postrevolutionary society,” he adds.

According to Heydel-Mankoo, this “long, quiet revolution” was “instigated by Tony Blair” — who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and as leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007.

“It's a 25-year project, and it's basically complete now,” he says.

“All of our institutions look the same; the buildings are the same, but the people that built those institutions bear no comparison to the people who run them today, who are cuckoos in the nest,” he continues, “and these are the people who are essentially promulgating the idea that Britain's past is evil, that Britain was born into the state of original sin, which is racism.”

With Britain’s history and ancestors vilified and its culture and institutions broken down, the left has ushered the nation into a “zero year,” says Heydel-Mankoo, allowing it to “create new foundational myths” — like “diversity built Britain.”

He calls this “absolute nonsense.”

“There’s never been a great immigrant population in Britain. The Saxons were the last people to arrive there in the year 600. We have a 2,000-year history,” he tells Freitas.

“When I was born, Britain was 97% white British. Today, it's only 74% white British. It's declined 13% in the space of just 20 years.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.

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A female wearing a Muslim burqa stood in front of a microphone during the public comment period at a county commissioners' meeting Tuesday in Florida during which some residents spoke against the potential expansion of a local mosque amid concerns over language on zoning and agenda materials, WTVT-TV reported.

The station said the female was "covered head-to-toe in black, with only her left eye visible." She did not speak.

'We ask you to come here and make comments, and that was not a comment. That’s why she was asked to step out.'

Instead, the female played a recording of the Islamic call to prayer, the station said. It appeared on video of the incident that she was holding an audio device under her burqa.

The Islamic call to prayer played for nearly a minute before Dave Eggers — chair of the Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners — said over his microphone that county rules require public speakers to deliver verbal comments rather than play recordings, WTVT reported.

"Ma’am, you’re going to have to stop. Stop the music, stop the tape," Eggers said. "Ma'am, stop the tape."

After the female refused to comply, a Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office deputy approached the podium and escorted her out of the meeting room and the building, the station said.

WTVT said it's wasn't immediately clear if the gesture was a protest or a prank.

The station said the woman's removal sparked friction in the room, as several onlookers shouted and argued with Eggers over the decision.

"Please. Just please exercise some decorum and kindness of your own," Eggers told the crowd. "We’re all people living together here."

He further clarified the board’s rules to those assembled: "We don’t allow taped things. You can record the meeting, but we don’t allow taped activity like that. We ask you to come here and make comments, and that was not a comment. That’s why she was asked to step out."

Below is a clip showing most of the incident. You can view the full video here beginning at the 1:02:00 mark.

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WTVT said multiple residents during the public comment period blasted an Oct. 13 vote in which the board voted 4-3 to approve a land-use amendment for the expansion of the Masjid Al Rahman mosque, which was referred to in presentations and documents as a "community assembly facility."

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The vote changed the property's land use from residential rural to public and semi-public, which would allow the facility's owner to replace the building with a newer structure 1,000 feet larger.

During Tuesday's meeting, public speakers spoke out against the facility, some citing the treatment of women in Muslim-majority countries.

"It is about the big picture and the long term," one woman told the commission. "By allowing this mosque to expand in our area, you are participating in the expansion of a totalitarian ideology which is fundamentally opposed to Western American values. Expansion of the ideology of Islam is not good for women's rights."

However, WTVT said another woman supported the mosque: "They want to turn it to face Mecca, and they want it to look a little more like a mosque instead of a house. We have no problems with them. We've been their neighbors for many years."

According to Florida's Voice, the burqa-wearing female was listed under public comment speakers as Selene Al Jamal.

The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that the woman was escorted from the building without further incident and won't face any criminal charges, WTVT said.

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On this full episode of LARRY with Larry O’Connor, the New York Times drops a BOMBSHELL about Ilhan Omar! Federal agents investigated her controversial marriage during the OBAMA administration—and reportedly found evidence suggesting she and her ex-husband were SIBLINGS?! So why did Barack Obama just call Trump’s investigation of Omar “appalling”?! Larry breaks down the stunning revelations, Omar’s bizarre “not to my knowledge” response, the latest developments in the federal immigration investigation, and the escalating fight over the search warrant involving Judge James Boasberg. Did Obama’s defense of Omar just BACKFIRE in spectacular fashion?!

Alaska Division of Elections reports roughly 58,000 early ballots cast as Dan Sullivan faces a same-name independent challenger on the ballot.

Chinese state media outlets issued scathing condemnations of Sanrio, the Japanese company behind characters such as Hello Kitty, over a TV collaboration.

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War Department Secretary Pete Hegseth has added to the pile of terminations at the Pentagon with the firing of the military's top planner, according to sources to CBS News.

A Pentagon official told CBS News that Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia had failed three polygraph tests about providing information to the press. Sylvia spent 11 months as the director for strategy, plans, and policy of the Pentagon Joint Staff.

'Our commitment was not an empty promise. We vowed to find you, and we meant it.'

The official, who spoke to CBS on the condition of anonymity, claimed Sylvia leaked classified information related to the Iran conflict as well as the Russia-Ukraine War.

Sylvia's firing was first reported by the Atlantic.

CBS said two other Pentagon sources confirmed that Sylvia's firing was related to the polygraph tests, but both said the accusations against Sylvia were untrue.

Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell referred to the action in a post on social media without naming Sylvia.

"The Department of War has zero tolerance for the intentional, unauthorized disclosure of classified information. Anyone who compromises sensitive national security information puts the lives of our Warriors at risk and undermines every military operation that keeps our country safe," Parnell wrote.

He said the agency took "necessary personnel action" to protect sensitive information after an "extensive" investigation by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.

"To protect the integrity of the investigation, no further comment will be made regarding the individual or the circumstances of this action. This matter, along with others, have been referred to the Justice Department for potential further legal action," he added.

A spokesperson for the Joint Staff had initially released a statement praising Sylvia for his 32 years of service in the military, but the spokesperson later retracted that statement.

"Upon further review, we determined that the statement did not appropriately reflect the full circumstances," the spokesperson said. "Out of respect for the servicemember and the ongoing personnel process, we will not comment further."

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President Donald Trump responded to the development by telling reporters Sylvia has "big" problems.

"We’re very much looking for leakers," he added.

"Classified information is not personal property," Parnell continued. "Leaking it for personal, political, or professional gain is a betrayal of the trust placed in those responsible for keeping it. Our commitment was not an empty promise. We vowed to find you, and we meant it."

Sylvia did not respond to the AP's requests for comment. Blaze News' attempts to contact Sylvia were unsuccessful.

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Milwaukee Brewers star William Contreras joined an elite list of World Series MVP catchers while making history with his arm and his bat against the Tampa Bay Rays.

The Milwaukee Brewers won the 2026 World Series for the first time in franchise history, triumphing over the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 5.

A historic humanitarian mission organized by first lady Melania Trump to bring relief and evacuations to the devastated Ukrainian city of Oleshky officially got underway Thursday, as Russian and Ukrainian delegations met for the first time today.

Stone Romberg drowned after swimming out to untangle a seagull from his fishing line when an ocean current swept him away from the Florida shore.

Kaden Matsuda and Jackson Donlon left Colorado Mountain College's Leadville campus to hike near Ice Mountain before a heavy snowstorm struck the area.

Flávio Bolsonaro has fled Brazil after losing a presidential election he entered as the favorite. He finished ahead of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the first round, then — if the reporting is accurate — lost Sunday’s runoff by more than 4 million votes.

Within days, a Brazilian Supreme Court justice ordered Flávio to surrender his passports in connection with a money-laundering investigation. He denies wrongdoing. He instead reached Miami, where the Trump administration has agreed to admit him and his family. His father, Jair Bolsonaro, is serving a 27-year sentence under house arrest. The Brazilian right has lost an election and watched its most prominent family come under the power of a judiciary it rightly regards as openly hostile.

Republicans should prepare to defend the constitutional order while they still have the power to do so. Nobody is coming to save us.

The election itself was hardly free of controversy. As voting was supposed to end, Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin — who previously represented Lula — ordered polling times extended by two hours after complaints about “transportation problems.” Some polling places had already shut down. The order was then narrowed to those still open. Flávio challenged the result. The final margin was far larger than the number of votes cast after the ordinary closing time, so that extension alone cannot explain Lula’s victory. It does not follow that every concern about how Brazil conducted the election has been settled.

Jair Bolsonaro was a controversial president who openly rejected the fashionable positions of the global elite on abortion, affirmative action, drugs, and religion. He sought closer ties with America and Israel. After losing to Lula in 2022, he questioned the integrity of the electronic voting system, claiming voting machines had been hacked. Brazil’s Supreme Court subsequently convicted him of attempting a coup and sentenced him to 27 years and three months. Bolsonaro denies the charges. His supporters see the prosecution as political punishment; his opponents see it as the defense of constitutional order. The sentence carries the force of law. It does not oblige anyone to surrender his judgment about the court.

Without a thorough review of both elections by independent organizations, it is impossible to know whether the Brazilian races were fraudulent. Given the progressive political leanings of most of the organizations that conduct such reviews, it is unlikely they would declare the elections legitimate if blatant evidence was uncovered.

Even if an independent agency did claim that one or both Bolsonaros had been cheated out of a victory, it is unlikely that there is a government or international body willing to take action to pressure Brazil into removing Lula and installing Flávio. The results of the elections may appear highly suspect, but Lula remains in office and will be allowed to further consolidate power and punish his enemies. Without an outside authority to which they can appeal, Brazilian conservatives appear trapped in an increasingly dangerous political situation.

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American conservatives should recognize the danger. Donald Trump lost a bitterly contested election in 2020, fought the result in court, faced criminal prosecutions connected to efforts to overturn it, and eventually returned to the White House. The parallels are hard to miss. When judges and prosecutors become participants in an all-or-nothing political struggle, appeals to their neutrality will satisfy fewer and fewer Americans.

Meanwhile, American progressives are making plans for a new institutional crisis of their own.

Recordings released by DataRepublican show figures associated with the United Democracy Alliance discussing “red lines” for treating the federal government as illegitimate, an options memo for governors, and the possibility of a constitutional “refounding moment” — i.e., replacing the Constitution. One participant described the crisis as “a real window of opportunity”; another spoke of an “extra constitutional process.”

Contingency planning is one thing. Treating a breakdown as the opportunity to replace the constitutional order is quite another. Why are these people developing criteria for when elected national institutions may be discarded, and who authorized them to decide?

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Republicans respond as if the next constitutional crisis can be resolved with speeches. They have failed to turn much of Trump’s agenda into durable law. The House passed the SAVE America Act, but Republicans have failed to get it through the Senate. Party leaders who warn of election disorder have been unable to enact one of their own signature election bills.

To call congressional Republicans a total failure may be too generous. Failure assumes they were trying. Too many seem content to run out the clock on Trump and wait for MAGA to loosen its hold on the party. They would rather preserve their place in a failing political arrangement and throw the country into chaos than confront the possibility that the establishment itself needs to be replaced.

Conservatives had better understand what time it is. A stern lecture about civic responsibility will not stop a riot. Brilliant arguments about separation of powers will not restrain officials determined to bend the rules. A court’s seal does not make every political judgment impartial. If a constitutional crisis arrives, the right will need more than faith that its opponents will play fair.

The Bolsonaros can come to America. Americans have nowhere else to go. There will be no neutral power waiting offshore to repair our institutions, no foreign president to return the country to us. Republicans should prepare to defend the constitutional order while they still have the power to do so. Nobody is coming to save us.

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The United States and Hungary signed a memorandum of understanding Thursday to strengthen regional oil and natural gas infrastructure, expand access to American energy, and diversify supplies across Central and Eastern Europe.

Earlier this week, a story out of Helena, Montana, gained national attention for its sensational headline: "Helena man charged with felony for shouting at man to ‘go back to his country.’"

Many assumed that the headlines were exaggerating the case, or that there was at least more to the story.

The felony charge comes with a maximum punishment of five years in prison, a fine of up to $5,000, or both.

Blaze News obtained the court documents for the case, and the truth is almost as surprising as the headlines.

According to news reports, a man identified as Jaxton Collins was charged with a felony for allegedly shouting at an Indian man to "go back to his country."

According to the documents, that detail is apparently not an exaggeration.

Helena police officers responded to a report of assault on the evening of August 7 at the walking mall in Lewis and Clark County, the affidavit said.

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The complainant claimed that he and his friends, at least one of whom was Indian and wearing a head covering, were walking around the mall when a male "in an orange shirt wearing a large cross necklace" approached them.

The suspect approached the Indian man, "shoved him with both hands," and "told him to go back to his country," the affidavit said.

Police soon after identified and questioned the suspect, who told them that he had been drinking at Gold Bar. He admitted to shouting the phrase "because he was angry" but denied shoving the Indian man at any time, the affidavit said.

The defendant, Jaxton Collins, faces two charges: a felony malicious intimidation charge and a misdemeanor assault charge.

Under Montana law, a person is guilty of malicious intimidation or harassment relating to civil or human rights when the person, "because of another person's race, creed, religion, color, national origin, or involvement in civil rights or human rights activities, the person purposely or knowingly, with the intent to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy, or offend," either causes bodily harm, the apprehension of bodily harm, or the damage of property.

The felony charge comes with a maximum punishment of five years in prison, a fine of up to $5,000, or both.

Blaze News contacted the Lewis and Clark County attorney's office for comment relating to the charges but did not immediately receive a response.

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Alaska governor Mike Dunleavy (R) said he ordered an investigation into Democrat Mary Peltola's campaign for Senate as an alleged scheme to mislead voters in next week's election has been exposed.

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AT&T Stadium was crowned the most haunted sports venue in North America, beating Dodger Stadium and 112-year-old Wrigley Field for the top spot.