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Facts:

• New Zealand's Justice Minister Kiri Allen resigned on Monday, after being charged with drunken driving and refusing to accompany a police officer after she crashed into a parked car.[1]
• Allen's small white car reportedly collided with a black coupé utility in an upmarket Wellington street on Sunday — she drove around a bend, hitting the vehicle and leaving dents, bumper damage, and two flat tires.[2]
• The member of Parliament was detained at a police station for roughly four hours, after failing an alcohol breath test following the incident. She was handed an infringement notice and has been summoned to appear in court at a later date.[3]
• Allan had returned to her full ministerial duties last week after taking a few days of mental health leave — partly due to a relationship break-up — and another two weeks off during Parliament's recess.[4]
• She is the fourth minister from PM Chris Hipkins' cabinet to leave since March, amid a string of missteps and scandals ahead of the October elections.[5]
• In the meantime, Police Minister Ginny Andersen has taken over the justice portfolio, while Cyclone Recovery Minister Grant Robertson is set to take up Allan's role overseeing the cyclone recovery of the Tairāwhiti region.[6]

Sources:

[1] FOX News
[2] Stuff
[3] Guardian[4] RNZ
[5] BBC News
[6] NZ Herald

Left narrative:

• While her actions are indefensible, one cannot analyze the rise and fall of Kiri Allan without highlighting that this latest incident wraps up a period of extreme emotional anguish for the Māori lawyer, who has had a meteoric rise to top-level posts since she first campaigned for Parliament in 2017. She has also courageously beat stage three cervical cancer, but is clearly still facing struggles in her personal life.
  The Spinoff

Right narrative:

• The unprecedented downfall of a Justice Minister cannot be fully understood in isolation from other recent scandals surrounding this government — a cabinet member has resigned every seven weeks since Hipkins took office. Hipkins has failed to do the right thing, even though red flags about Kiri Allan's integrity and mental health were raised multiple times in the past. There is no doubt these failings will be reflecting in the upcoming elections.
  Democracy Project

Nerd narrative:

• There's a 50% chance that the Labour Party will win at least 47 seats in the next New Zealand general election, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
  Metaculus

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• After British authorities arrested radical Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary in London last week, it was announced on
  Monday that he had been charged with three terrorism offenses over the weekend. Associated Press
• The charges against Choudary included membership of a proscribed organization, directing a terrorist organization, and encouraging support for a proscribed organization through his address of meetings. Choudary appeared in a London court on Monday. Reuters
• Prosecutors said that the charges relate to the radical Islamic group al-Muhajiroun, which the British government outlawed in 2010. It has since allegedly operated “under many names and guises,” including the Islamic Thinkers Society. ABC News
• Khaled Hussein, a 28-year-old from Canada, was also detained at Heathrow Airport after arriving on a flight the same
  day that Choudary was arrested — he appeared at the same court charged with membership of the same proscribed organization. Neither defendant entered pleas to any of the charges. Sky News
• The prosecution claims that Choudary spoke to small online groups on a weekly basis from June 2022 until his arrest,
  giving lectures on the establishment of an Islamic State in Britain and how to radicalize people. BBC News
• Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring said that Choudary and Hussein would next appear in court at the Old Bailey on August 4. BBC News

Pro-establishment narrative:

• Choudary represents a set of radical and violent views that have no place in British society. His hate-filled rhetoric, which has included support for the Islamic State (IS), is antithetical to a pluralistic Western democracy.
  Daily Mail

Establishment-critical narrative:

• The media has time after time platformed Choudary and his repugnant views, purposefully using him as a caricature of
  the average Muslim in Britain. Indeed, the British media has actually extended the reach of Choudary's radicalizing by
  giving him and his associates such a significant platform from which to spew hate-filled rhetoric. UK news outlets should be held to account for their irresponsible reporting on this case.
  Middle East Eye

Nerd narrative:

• There's a 50% chance that at least 25K deaths will be caused by terrorism globally in 2025, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
  Metaculus

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