In the newspaper articles that we will present to you on Wednesday, we will discuss an article about the fears of the Homeland Security Service in Britain about the right’s shift from hostility to immigrants to terrorism, then we will move on to talk about diesel prices and the impact of the US President’s decision to conclude the controversial agreement with Russia, and finally an article that talks about the change in women’s lives over the course of 40 years.
We start with the British Guardian article written by journalists Dan Sabbagh and Dan Milmo, entitled “The British Internal Security Service (MI5) warns of the far-right’s shift from hostility to immigrants to terrorism.”
The article refers at the beginning to the warning of the head of the British Homeland Security Service, Ken McCallum, “that anti-immigrant extremists are increasingly likely to consider carrying out terrorist attacks targeting immigration centers and hotels housing asylum seekers in the United Kingdom.” Pointing out in his statement that "the shift from right-wing extremist ideas to violence represents the most prominent trend in the cases that the agency deals with during the past year, which contributed to raising the level of the general terrorist threat in the country."
McCallum's predictions mentioned in the article came "as part of a comprehensive annual threat assessment, in which he indicated that Iran - which has become adopting a more aggressive approach - has threatened other military bases, in addition to being behind an incident that occurred at the Royal Air Force's Fairford base late last month."
This was not limited to that, as he also warned of “the possibility of artificial intelligence being used by hostile countries and terrorist groups, including the possibility of developing a new biological weapon. Accordingly, the agency will establish a center to evaluate artificial intelligence threats, to distinguish between facts and allegations.”
The article also conveys McCallum's accusation of Russia of "interfering in the British exit referendum from the European Union (Brexit) in 2016...", and that he finds it to be "the primary aggressor", as "the Kremlin continues to launch hostile attacks against the West, including assassination plots, threats to use explosives, and cyberattacks whose intensity sometimes reaches levels very close to conventional war."
Returning to the development of the “far-right threat,” the article quotes McCallum as saying that there is an increase in cases in which “grievances of an extremist nature, linked to anti-immigration and anti-Muslim sentiment, slide toward adopting terrorist intentions,” such as planning attacks targeting immigrants and Muslims.
It is noteworthy that this fall witnessed “hostile anti-immigrant protests organized by the far-right Patriot Platform group in the cities of Portsmouth and Dover, while “racially and religiously motivated crimes are recording record levels.”
While McCallum stated that “young people are most likely to be attracted to far-right terrorism...”, according to the article.
In the newspaper USA Today, Daniel Di Vizi wrote an article entitled “Diesel is the engine of the economy, and consumers bear its costs through goods and services.”
Fizi says in his article, “The price of diesel fuel is currently reaching record high levels, to the point that the price of regular gasoline seems very cheap in comparison.”
He adds, "With crucial elections approaching, it has been reported that President Donald Trump has concluded a controversial agreement with Russia, a historic adversary of the United States since the Cold War, to supply additional quantities of diesel to the United States, in the hope of lowering prices."
But “this step may not bear fruit before the midterm congressional elections on November 3,” according to what the article quoted experts as saying.
Veezy points out that a large part of the American economy depends on diesel, starting “from large trucks (trailers) and delivery trucks to agricultural harvesters.” The high costs of diesel "ultimately reflect on commodity prices in supermarkets and wholesale warehouses, driving up prices for a wide range of goods and services."
He adds, "Oil is used to produce gasoline and diesel fuel, and oil supplies coming from the Middle East are also used to manufacture everyday products such as fertilizers, tires and plastic packaging." The war with Iran also led to a rise in fertilizer prices by 50 percent, according to the World Bank’s fertilizer price index. This is due to the fact that 30 percent of chemical fertilizers traded globally come from the Middle East.”
Although Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told Reuters that “Russia will be able to restore supplies to levels close to their previous levels, and even exceed the quantities indicated by Trump,” the writer draws to the opinion of oil experts who said that “the problem is that the quantities of diesel that Trump claimed that Russia had pledged to provide are no more than a drop in the bucket, when compared to the world’s actual diesel needs.”
In her article in The Independent, “What will women be allowed to do, say and want in 2026, compared to what they were not allowed to do in 1986?”, Radhika Sanghani reviews the changes in women’s lives over 40 years, from “issues of sex and career to money, marriage and motherhood” and “the fundamental transformations that have occurred in women’s rights in the United Kingdom over four decades.”
She begins her article by noting that “being a woman in 2026 is not easy,” and mentions women being exposed to sexual assault and domestic violence, in addition to the gender wage gap and gender-based discrimination in general.
The article is not limited to citing examples from the United Kingdom, as it points to discrimination against women in other countries, such as banning abortion in 13 American states. Poland also limited the permission for abortions, if “it is not accompanied by a pregnancy resulting from a criminal act or if the mother’s health is in danger.” "The return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan in 2021 has also led to increasing restrictions on the freedoms of women and girls in the country."
But the writer says that although it is easy to focus on everything that needs to change, she wants to present the achievements over 40 years in Britain, and begins with maternity leave, as the “legal maternity pay” system was approved in the United Kingdom in 1987 and the duration of leave increased from 18 weeks to 52 weeks in 2007.
