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Immigration

Pakistan Draws the Line: Islamabad Threatens to Halt Migrant Returns in Escalating Row Over Rochdale Grooming Gang Ringleader

Pakistan has threatened to stop accepting illegal migrants returned from Britain after the UK pressed Islamabad to take back Shabir Ahmed, the convicted ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang. Senior officials in Islamabad warned that forcing the case upon Pakistan could undermine "gold standard" cooperation on returns, intelligence sharing, and security, as ministers move to change a 55 year old law blocking his deportation.

Vicky Richter · 18 August 2026

Announcement

THETFORD, WE’LL BE THERE. WILL YOU?

This Sunday, 23 August, the Great British PAC will stand with local people in Thetford against government plans to use RAF Barnham for asylum accommodation. Meet us at Thetford Guildhall from 1pm, the march leaves at 1.30pm. Turn up, stand up, be counted.

Vicky Richter · 18 August 2026

Opinion

Beyond the Smear: What Britain's Demographic Data Actually Shows, and Why the Debate Has Gone Wrong

Britain's immigration debate has collapsed into a shouting match between two falsehoods, the conspiracy theorists who blame a hidden Jewish hand, and an establishment that brands all concern as extremism. Yet the official record tells its own story. Census data from the ONS shows White Britons down from 87.5 per cent in 2001 to 74.4 per cent in 2021, London's White British population at 36.8 per cent, and net migration peaking at 906,000 in a single year. This analysis separates documented fact from antisemitic poison, examines the moral distinction between opposing people and questioning policy, and asks why the establishment polices conservative vocabulary while record antisemitic incidents from other constituencies receive a fraction of the scrutiny.

Vicky Richter · 17 August 2026

Opinion

£400m Super Prison Sits Half Empty While Killers Walk Free

A £400 million flagship jail near York is running with almost 350 cells empty because it cannot recruit enough prison officers, at the very moment the government is preparing to free 470 convicted manslaughter offenders, including two of Pc Andrew Harper's killers, under its controversial early release scheme. As police chiefs, campaigners and former governors demand action, the empty beds at HMP Millsike have become the most damning symbol of a prison system that has space it cannot use and prisoners it chooses to release.

Vicky Richter · 17 August 2026

Sovereignty

When Foreign Money Marches Through London

A US congressional investigation alleges that Chinese linked money, channelled through a tech tycoon's sprawling donor network, reached a UK company tied to Code Pink, the far left protest group organising demonstrations outside RAF bases and the Ministry of Defence. Whatever your view on Gaza, this is no longer a left or right question. It is a sovereignty question. When a hostile one party state helps bankroll dissent on British streets, the march stops being an expression of democratic will and becomes an instrument of someone else's foreign policy.

Vicky Richter · 17 August 2026

Opinion

The Night British Democracy Wore a Bin on Its Head

On a sweltering August night in Essex, Nigel Farage won back the parliamentary seat he had vacated only six weeks earlier, defeating a field of thirty-three fringe candidates in which the runner-up was a comedian wearing a bin on his head. The result was a personal triumph for Farage, and a quiet, unsettling verdict on the seriousness of British democracy.

Vicky Richter · 14 August 2026

Immigration

Burnham's Migrant Plan Is Going to Blow Up in His Face

Andy Burnham wants leafy, middle-class England to "play its part" by housing asylum seekers. The Great British PAC says no. With Channel crossings at their second-highest level on record, a refused-asylum backlog swollen by 72 per cent, and the Prime Minister refusing to commit to stopping the boats, this is not a policy, it is a redistribution of failure, and it will blow up in his face.

Vicky Richter · 14 August 2026

Opinion

Britain's £80 Billion Pylon Gamble

By the time the last steel giant is bolted into place, more than 160,000 British households will wake to a horizon reshaped by Westminster's net zero ambitions. Ministers have offered £250 a year in compensation, yet research suggests homes within 250 metres of a pylon can lose up to 21 per cent of their value. The maths, and the morality, do not add up.

Vicky Richter · 13 August 2026

Opinion

Great British PAC Investigates: Rotherham's Rotten Badge, and the Testimony Britain Was Never Meant to Hear

A fourth former South Yorkshire Police officer has been arrested on suspicion of non-recent child sexual exploitation in Rotherham, bringing to ten the number of victims who have come forward. In an interview with Great British PAC, survivor Sammy Woodhouse alleges that officers organised "holding cop nights", taking it in turns to rape trafficked children before handing them back to the gangs. The recently published Rape Gang Inquiry Report chaired by Rupert Lowe MP formally finds that serving officers were "active members of the rape gangs", and estimates at least 250,000 victims across 149 local authority districts. Great British PAC asks the question British institutions have refused to answer for thirty years: whom were the police actually protecting?

Vicky Richter · 13 August 2026

Opinion

Burnham Fails First Test of Leadership

There comes a point in every premiership when the folksy gestures stop mattering, and the country watches instead what a leader does with power under pressure. Andy Burnham has reached that point on Pc Andrew Harper's case, and by any honest measure, he has failed the test. Here is what he must now do, and how the public can force his hand.

Vicky Richter · 13 August 2026

Campaign

The Child Maintenance Service Is Broken. Sign the Petition. Force Westminster to Fix It.

Britain’s Child Maintenance Service covers 1.1 million children, yet unpaid maintenance has reached £791.2 million, nearly half of parents on both sides call their assessments very unfair, and the standard formula ignores one parent’s entire income. With the government actively reviewing the calculation, this opinion piece argues the public must seize the moment, sign the Great British PAC petition, and demand a system that counts both parents, respects shared care, and shows its working.

Vicky Richter · 12 August 2026

Legal

Great British PAC says no to Labour’s legal drift on single-sex spaces

Great British PAC says no to Labour’s quiet tolerance of six Left-wing London councils, Hackney, Haringey, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Waltham Forest, that have declared they will keep services “inclusive” in defiance of new EHRC statutory guidance on single-sex spaces. With the Supreme Court already clear that “sex” means biological sex, who is Labour really protecting?

Vicky Richter · 12 August 2026

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