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Tommy Robinson talks to Black Lives Matter and makes his various points. The Cancel Culture mob need stopped in their tracks. End of.

The UK has secured a trade deal with Australia eliminating tariffs on all UK goods and boosting jobs and businesses across the country, in the first major trade deal negotiated from scratch by the Government since we left the EU.

Flight Lieutenant John Nichol was shot down on 17 January 1991 on the first low-level daylight raid of Operation Desert Storm. He was captured, tortured and paraded on television by the Iraqis.

Ms Begum is one of three east London schoolgirls who travelled to Syria in February 2015 and supported the Islamic State group (IS). She was born in the UK to parents of Bangladeshi heritage and was 15 when she left. Ms Begum travelled via Turkey to IS headquarters in Raqqa, where she married a Dutch recruit who is the father of her children. She has made her bed, she has to lie in it for God’s sake, and for ours.

How things have changed. Today, many lesbian, gay and bisexual people feel bitterly let down by the charity they once trusted. Stonewall stands accused of campaigning against women’s rights as defined in the Equality Act, and of bullying those with whom it disagrees out of jobs. More troubling still, many homosexual and bisexual people feel that it has ceased to represent them; that, in the words of one columnist, it has ‘lost its way’. After a proud history, standing strong against the wind and rain of discrimination, it seems this particular Stonewall is beginning to crumble.

Andrew Neil has lashed out at the "insidious" cancel culture and said it is not about social justice anymore. “Cancel culture is insidious, it stands against everything we have stood for since the enlightenment onwards and that is why it is serious. The original meaning of woke was somebody who was aware of social justice issues and who can complain about that?”

The coronavirus vaccine rollout in the UK has been hailed a success so far, but as the Covid jab priority groups are given their doses, researchers are also looking into giving children and kids the Covid-19 vaccine in the future. As it stands, only those aged 18 and over are entitled to get the immunisation from any of the approved vaccine companies including Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca, but experts are carrying out new trials to see how impactful they might be for those under that age bracket.

England manager Gareth Southgate says the act of taking a knee is still hugely powerful and called on players to continue making the gesture to keep the fight against racial inequality and injustice at the forefront of people's minds.

Convicted war criminal and former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic has lost his appeal against his genocide conviction. UN (United Nations) judges decided to uphold Mladic's convictions and life sentence for masterminding genocide and other atrocities throughout Bosnia's 1992-95 war. The ruling will be the final verdict in the case against the man dubbed the "Butcher of the Balkans" - who was sentenced to life imprisonment by a UN war crimes tribunal in 2017.

It’s an illegal trade in human organs which preys on people so desperate for money they’re willing to take the risk. In Afghanistan, the sick are so desperate for a life-saving transplant, they’re willing to pay the cost. And in the hospitals which carry out the operations, no-one is asking too many questions.

The Home Office made repeated errors that caused a man who had lived in the UK for more than 50 years to be classified as an illegal immigrant and threatened with arrest, prison and forcible removal, the parliamentary ombudsman has found. The latest critical official report on the department’s handling of the Windrush scandal detailed how former HGV driver Rupert Everett died in 2019, aged 74, without having received an apology or compensation from the government.

The Oliver Robinson controversy has snowballed out of proportion and created a social media storm that has the potential to derail England cricket. Several former players and pundits and even the British Prime Minister has joined the controversy which does not seem to end as more historical tweets with a racist slur involving other big players make headlines all over social media.

The Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has said he will fly to space with his brother on the first human flight launched by his space company, Blue Origin. In an Instagram post, Mr Bezos said space flight was something he had wanted to do "all my life". Blue Origin is also auctioning off a seat in the capsule, for someone who will join the pair on the inaugural crewed flight. Jeff Bezos is one of the world's richest people.

President Biden has expressed concern that a dispute over the Northern Ireland Protocol - the Brexit deal that prevents checks along the Irish border - could threaten the peace process. He's thought to have raised the subject during face-to-face talks with Boris Johnson, ahead of this weekend's G7 summit.

A council is taking the Home Office to court after struggling to care for an increasing number of unaccompanied child asylum seekers. Kent County Council (KCC) could launch a judicial review next week to get the government to make other councils take some children after warning it was at ‘breaking point’. Officials are concerned the area, which contains Dover, where most migrants land from the continent, will not be able to provide adequate care for traumatised children, including those who have fled war zones.

A collision involving two passenger trains in southern Pakistan has killed at least 40 people and injured dozens. A train travelling in Sindh province derailed and landed on another track, officials said. A second train packed with passengers then collided with it and overturned. Rescue teams took the injured to nearby hospitals and it is thought that several are in a critical condition. Pakistan has seen a string of deadly train accidents over the past years.

A double child killer who was the first murderer to be convicted using DNA evidence can be released, the Parole Board has confirmed. Colin Pitchfork, 61, was jailed for life for raping and murdering 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in Leicestershire in the 1980s. Pitchfork has spent 33 years in prison - he was last denied parole in 2018. The Parole Board said it was satisfied Pitchfork was suitable for release, which is subject to condition

The first new treatment for Alzheimer's disease for nearly 20 years has been approved by regulators in the United States, paving the way for its use in the UK. Aducanumab targets the underlying cause of Alzheimer's, the most common form of dementia, rather than its symptoms. Charities have welcomed the news of a new therapy for the condition.

A memorial honouring soldiers who died under British command on D-Day - and in the fighting that followed - has been unveiled in France on the 77th anniversary of the Normandy landings. The British Normandy Memorial records the names of the 22,442 people who were killed on D-Day and at the Battle of Normandy. It cost £30m and was designed by British architect Liam O'Connor.

In Ardfern on the Craignish peninsula, one rural community is fighting to save a small part of the ocean one oyster at a time.

The final step out of lockdown in England is set for 21 June, when the government will remove “all legal limits on social contact” – although some social distancing and mask-wearing rules will remain. However, a senior government minister has said that it is too early to speculate about whether this will go ahead as planned, amid concern about increasing cases of the Delta variant, first detected in India and known as B.1.617.2.

There was a time when a report by Ethiopia’s human rights commission was a staid affair, its findings offering window-dressing for hand-wringing donors and legal cover to the government. Between 2013 and 2017 the commission systematically “whitewashed human rights violations through compromised methodologies, dismissing credible allegations”, according to a 2019 Amnesty International study that accused it of “brazen bias against victims”.

Facebook on June 5 welcomed the historic G7 pledge to commit to a global minimum corporate tax rate despite the social media giant risking paying more. The G7 nations and Central Bank Governors Communiqué reached a landmark agreement to seek higher global taxation on multinational businesses including Google, Apple and Amazon. In a massive development that could raise hundreds of billions of dollars for governments to cope up with economic distress caused by COVID-19, G7 nations consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US, decided to back a minimum global corporate rate of at least 15% and for firms to pay more tax in the markets they choose to sell goods and services in.

Andrew Neil’s new “anti-woke” news channel, GB News, is set to launch on 13 June. It is the first major news channel to launch in the UK in 30 years and in a statement, Neil said the channel would “champion robust, balanced debate and a range of perspectives on the issues that affect everyone in the UK, not just those living in the London area”. Cannot come soon enough!

A company leading work on a pioneering carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Scotland has won a fresh vote of confidence after an energy industry heavy-hitter joined its board. Alistair Buchanan, former chief executive of energy regulator Ofgem, has been appointed chairman of Storrega Geotechnologies at what he said was an exciting time in its development.