Will Knocker

Watch: Katie Lam challenges Angela Rayner after her department were found to have ‘funnelled’ taxpayer money to ‘explicitly partisan groups’ The money was used to ‘train activists’ in how to ‘influence the public’ to be ‘pro-migration’

From forest users to conservation champions. Rhino Ark’s Joint Surveillance Unit brings local communities, @KWSKenya and @KeForestService together to protect the 60,000-hectare South-Western Mau while creating alternative livelihoods. #RhinoArk #CommunityConservation

Diwali in Nairobi is a sight to behold, isn't it? The vibrant celebrations contrast beautifully with the tranquility of Nairobi National Park. I hope the wildlife retreated to safe places; they're used to the park's peaceful ambiance!

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As the world emerges from the chaos wrought by the trans movement, the monstrous incongruity between what well-meaning people thought they were supporting and the reality of what has occurred is becoming clear. Every day, more people wake up to the fact that trans rights was never an ordinary civil rights cause. It was never about equal rights or an end to the discrimination of a long-marginalized group. It was a total rewrite of reality—a movement intent on bending the world around the false belief held by a tiny number of people who didn’t recognise themselves as mentally ill. What was sold as medically necessary, life-saving care has turned out to be an atrocious medical crime committed by true believers blind to the brutality of the procedures they perform. And what the unsuspecting masses thought was a progressive quest for equal rights has instead resulted in the obliteration of women’s rights, the suppression of scientific scrutiny, the erosion of free speech, and the dismantling of child safeguarding. Read my latest essay in @genspect’s REPATH series on the madness of how we got here.

Malaria is spreading around the world, reversing progress against the curse, thanks to climate change and aid cuts, says this medical scientist and expert in monitoring the disease. She expects it to get worse, partly through the super El Niño . theconversation.com/climate-…

The ANC has suffered its worst-ever local election result, securing just 30.76% of the vote. South Africa is noticing the rot and the repeated cycle of lies and failure. From 64.9% in 2006. To 45.6% in 2021. To 40.2% nationally in 2024. To 30.76% now. This is not a dip. This is a collapse. This is a freefall. For 30 years the ANC told South Africans the same story: Vote for us because of liberation. Vote for us because of Mandela. Vote for us because the other side is racist. And for 30 years South Africans got the opposite: No water. No electricity. No jobs. 34% unemployment. Crime. Corruption. Broken roads. Uncollected refuse. A country with everything, run into the ground by a party with nothing left but excuses. Now even their own Secretary-General, Fikile Mbalula, calls it what it is: "catastrophic." He is right. But he is wrong about why. It is not catastrophic for South Africa. It is catastrophic for the ANC. South Africa is finally waking up. Voter turnout went UP to 52%. People didn't stay home. They showed up to reject the lie. The lie that liberation means you get to loot forever. The lie that failure is someone else's fault. The lie that another 5 years will fix 30 years of rot. No majority in a single metro. Majority in only one province, Limpopo. Down from six provinces in 2021. Down from six of eight cities to just two. The people have spoken, and the message is clear: People are done being governed by history. People want to be governed by competence.

🚨 Iran | Retirees Protest Across Multiple Cities, Call for End to Executions November 8 — Retirees protested across several Iranian cities over worsening economic conditions and social and political grievances. In Rasht, protesters were heard chanting: “By the blood of our comrades, we will stand firm until the death penalty is abolished!” Footage shows the protesters chanting against executions.