In the UK:

“Only the Conservatives and Reform can be relied upon to uphold women’s rights.”

There is a danger that we draw the wrong conclusions from the Liberal Democrats’ decision to champion trans demands over women’s rights on the very first full day of their conference.

On the face of it, it feels like an own goal, made even worse by a clear misunderstanding on the part of delegates about the guidelines issued by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in the wake of the ruling by the Supreme Court on how the Equality Act should be interpreted.

Those gathering in Brighton have stated that the EHRC code is “discriminatory and unworkable” and should be overwritten with more “inclusive” rules. But the EHRC is bound by law to issue guidance entirely in line with the Equality Act.

It would be absurd – not to mention illegal – for the EHRC to issue guidance that didn’t reflect their lordships’ ruling on what the Equality Act meant by “women.”

This detail seems to have escaped the trans activists among the Lib Dem delegates, who are also calling for the actual law to be changed but haven’t made their minds up as to what change is needed.

Ultimately, their aim, as is the aim of trans rights activists across the political spectrum, is to deny women the right to exclude from their spaces – changing rooms, toilets and even prisons – men who identify as women. Such men, after all, are women if they say so.

This motion will dominate today’s debate at the conference, and it is understandable that thoughtful observers predict difficult times ahead for a party that places the demands of trans-identified men above the hard-fought-for sex-based rights of women.

But they miss a key factor in all of this.

The “AI Apocalypse” scare campaign looks suspiciously like the climate hoax.

How convenient that it’s come to a head right as the midterm election season kicks off this week.

The campaign launch was when Jacob Coxon, a low-level 27-year-old AI researcher, trumpeted his resignation from AI company Anthropic in a Wall Street Journal exclusive last week followed by a viral X thread warning AI will “kill us all.”

“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade . . . They are gambling with our lives,” he claimed.

His boss, the Democrat-aligned Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei, amplified Coxon’s apocalyptic message with a 3,800-word essay on Saturday, followed by a giddy interview CBS aired Sunday in which he essentially called for a one-world government to regulate AI.

He wants “the right combination of governments” to provide “some kind of joint governance [to] control the technology.

“I’m uncomfortable government didn’t build this technology.”

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney now believes he is more than just the Western foil to Donald Trump and his MAGA movement — he is the global one.

Accordingly, he seems determined to demonstrate to the world how to stand up to Donald Trump, to force Trump to lose the midterms, and to hurt the U.S. economy to such a degree that Trump will never again bully other nations.

How he believes he has such awesome power is altogether unclear.

So, at the eleventh hour, Carney stormed out of an apparently completed tariff deal with the United States that would have privileged Canada over almost all of America’s other trading partners.

Canada, we recall, has enjoyed a $50 billion goods trade surplus with the United States for years in a supposedly free and equitable North American trade zone.

Carney claimed that American proposals stripped away Canadian sovereignty and quashed Canadian culture, particularly French-Canadian culture. Yet he has not released the documents detailing the bilateral offers he rejected.

Nor has he allowed his representatives to explain to the media why Canada blew up the negotiations at the last minute. Carney’s ever-changing excuses, explanations, and invectives about what happened are incoherent and contradictory.

A village fightback against migrant camps is set to spread across the country.

Piddington in Oxfordshire will on Tuesday hold a symbolic referendum on leaving the UK in protest against plans to move up to 1,250 male asylum seekers into a former army barracks close to the village of 350 people.

The parish has been approached by hundreds of other villages and towns nationwide for advice on replicating the campaign, which has won the backing of the Conservatives and Reform.

As well as the vote, Piddington’s villagers have drawn up plans to install a network of wireless CCTV cameras, an emergency alert system and security patrol teams over fears of being outnumbered by a ratio of nearly four to one.

Speaking to The Telegraph on the eve of the vote, which is expected to pass unanimously, women who live in the village said they planned to take up self-defence classes because of fears about the influx of migrants.

Tim McNally, the chairman of Piddington parish council, said that hundreds of other areas wanted to follow his blueprint to fight back against migrant camps.

He said: “We have been working in the background with other areas who feel the same as us, who feel they have not been represented and been run over roughshod. What has happened to our politics to allow this to happen?

“When I first published the blueprint, I had over 500 inquiries from across the UK, from parish and town councillors. The aim of our referendum is for them to go and do it themselves.”

Nigel Farage’s party has pledged to support any other areas that want to hold votes.