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The Hamas terrorist granted British citizenship
What do you call a country that harbours Islamic terrorists, that gives them citizenship, that lends them a base from which to plot jihad against infidels and Jews in other countries? Move over Afghanistan and Qatar – Britain might just be giving you a run for your money.
Meet Mr X – the anonymous Hamas operative who was arrested in central London last November over his alleged involvement in plotting to attack Jewish community centres, Israeli diplomats and pro-Israel demonstrations in Germany and Austria. He is awaiting trial and, if convicted, faces extradition to Germany.
X came to the UK more than a decade ago. He was granted asylum, then indefinite leave to remain, then full-blown citizenship – despite the fact he was a former bodyguard of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, was the son of another Hamas official, and had previously been arrested in Egypt for allegedly smuggling guns into Gaza. As The Sunday Times points out in its staggering exposé, this was all ‘public knowledge’ when he settled here.
Welcome to Britain, where a tweet about trans people could scupper your next DBS check, but a well-documented history of jihadism is no barrier to being granted citizenship. Whatever comes of X’s trial, the wilful, maddening naivete of the British state where Islamism is concerned is now plain for all to see.
Had it not been foiled, the Hamas-led plot in Germany and Austria could have been the worst attack inflicted on European Jewry since the war. After Israeli and German intelligence got wind of the plans, Berlin worked in tandem with Austria, Denmark and the UK to nab seven suspects and recover weapons, including an AK-47.
X stands accused of transporting handguns and ammunition to a storage depot in Vienna. Security sources told The Sunday Times he was an ‘essential’ part of the plot, which was being ‘overseen by senior figures in Hamas’. He even recorded a pre-massacre video, masked and armed, in front of a Hamas flag.
And he did all this while living in Britain, where he was posing as a humble suburban IT consultant when he wasn’t scuttling off to Turkey and Qatar – Hamas’s two main international bases. Damningly, The Sunday Times notes he was ‘not thought to have been a priority for the British security services as he began coordinating with Hamas terrorists on the continent [of Europe]’.
This obscene story speaks to officialdom’s remarkable complacency regarding Islamism in general and Hamas in particular. Hamas’s military wing was proscribed as a terrorist organisation in 2001, but this was not extended to its political wing until 2021, when the authorities finally realised this was a meaningless distinction. In that time, Britain became a destination of choice for leaders of Hamas and its parent party, the Muslim Brotherhood, with many of them citing persecution at the hands of the Egyptian state as grounds to claim asylum here.
X certainly wasn’t the only one to take advantage of our suicidal hospitality. Muhammad Sawalha, a leader of Hamas in the West Bank, arrived in the 1990s. The scumbag is still here, despite a US indictment in 2004 alleging he never stopped working for Hamas, was involved in ‘secret talks about “revitalising” terrorist acts’ in Israel, and helped to launder money for military operations.
There’s more. Sawalha was one of the founders of the Muslim Association of Britain, one of the groups behind the anti-Israel hate marches. And the chef’s kiss? He lives in a council house in Colindale, north London, which he bought at a tidy discount under the Right to Buy scheme. No doubt we’ll soon find out he’s been coining it in from PIP too, such is the ease with which Islamofascists have been taking this country for mugs.
Mere incompetence does not explain this. It wouldn’t have taken much intel to realise Sawalha or Mr X should never have been allowed into Britain at all, let alone to make a life here. The same goes, by the way, for the Abedis, a family of Libyan Islamists who claimed asylum in the UK in the 1990s, only for son Salman to say thank you by blowing up young girls at the Manchester Arena.
The British state struggles to take Islamist ideology at its word. Hamas’s founding charter committed it to the annihilation of Israel and the murder of Jews in 1988. And yet it took the UK another 30 years to proscribe the organisation fully. Meanwhile, Sawalha was allowed to settle in the London borough of Barnet, which has the highest Jewish population of any area in Britain.
For far too long, the establishment has been making these insane decisions and evading any scrutiny. Remarkably, Mr X was originally granted anonymity by a judge for 100 years, meaning journalists wouldn’t be able to name him until 2125, until The Sunday Times challenged it. (The public will now learn his name once legal proceedings are concluded.) Who would have benefitted from this, other than X and the cretins at the Home Office who let him into our country? Thank God for the free press.
Now, let’s have a reckoning. A Britain that rolls out the red carpet to barbarians who want to kill Jews and destroy Western civilisation cannot expect to survive. The people of Europe are being forced to pay the price – some of them, the ultimate price – for decades of Islamist appeasement. If the story of Mr X – with his British passport, his Hamas flag and his guns – doesn’t rouse our elites from their moral slumber, nothing will.
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VMAs 2026: Full List Of Winners As Madonna Leads The Way
After going into this year’s MTV Video Music Awards as the most-nominated artist, Madonna was also the top winner on the night.
During Sunday night’s ceremony, the Queen of Pop came out on top in a number of fan-voted VMAs categories, including Artist Of The Year, Best Dance Video for her Confessions II short film, Best Album for Confessions II and Best Collaboration for her Sabrina Carpenter link-up Bring Your Love.
Meanwhile, the top prize of the night, Video Of The Year, went to Taylor Swift for her self-directed The Fate Of Ophelia clip, extending her lead as the artist with the most wins in this category.

BTS also picked up three awards off the back of their hit Swim, and it was a big night for British singer-songwriter Sienna Spiro, who took home the coveted Best New Artist title, following in the footsteps of recent recipients Doja Cat, Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan.
Here’s the full list of all the artists who came out on top at the 2026 VMAs…
Who won all of the awards at the 2026 MTV VMAs?
Video Of The Year
Taylor Swift – The Fate Of Ophelia
Artist Of The Year
Best Group
Best New Artist
Best Collaboration
Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter – Bring Your Love
Best Pop
Lisa and Kentaro Sakaguchi – Dream
Best R&B
Bruno Mars – I Just Might
Best Alternative
Olivia Rodrigo – The Cure
Best Hip-Hop
Cardi B and Kehlani – Safe
Best Dance
Madonna – Confessions II: The Film
Best Country
Ella Langley – Choosin’ Texas
Best Latin
Best K-Pop
Best Long-Form Video
Madonna – Confessions II: The Film
Best Album
Madonna – Confessions II
Song Of The Year
Song Of The Summer
Ariana Grande – Hate That I Made You Love Me
Video Vanguard Award
MTV VMA Artist Director Honours
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Grow Up, Ireland | Iain Dale
Regular readers will know I’ve become very interested in the history and culture of Ireland. I listen to the Irish Times brilliant INSIDE POLITICS each week and am fascinated by the machinations of the country’s politics.
For a supposedly neutral country, it’s taken an interesting stance on Israel and Gaza. Interesting is perhaps not the word for it. Hypocritical and bizarre would be two other words.
For Ireland the mantra is simple. Gaza good, Israel bad. There is no attempt at nuance. No attempt to understand anything from either an Israel or Jewish viewpoint. And the vast majority of the Irish people are behind their government’s stance.
How many Jewish people are there in Ireland? Take a moment, take a guess? If Ireland had the same proportion of the population there would be around 25,000. In Ireland there are only 2,700 Jews. I wonder why.
James Joyce wrote in his epic Ulysses, which is probably Ireland’s most famous work of literature: “Ireland, they say, has the honour of being the only country which never persecuted the Jews – and do you know why? She never let them in.”
In the Second World War Ireland took in only a few hundred Jewish refugees. So neutral were they that the Irish Taoiseach, Eamon de Valera, delivered a personal message of condolence to the German Embassy on the day Hitler died.
This week, Ireland has been obsessed by a debate over whether their national football team should be playing Israel in a double header Nations League qualifier. The arguments have to be seen or heard to be believed. The Irish goalkeeper has refused to play. Indeed the FA asked UEFA to ensure they didn’t have to play Israel at all. UEFA told them where to stick their request. So the two matches are being played in Hungary and Serbia, with the first leg tonight. (Ireland won 3-0).
Last month, the Irish cricket team played five one day matches against Afghanistan, a country which reduces women to the status of slaves. Was there a peep of protest from anyone? No. No Jews involved, obviously.
Ireland’s attitude to Jews and Israel is a stain on its reputation. I don’t support the Israeli government. I don’t support many of its actions in Gaza. But I understand why it had to react after October 7th. That terrible day barely rates a mention in the debate about Gaza in Ireland.
The Irish team wore black armbands tonight in remembrance of those killed in Gaza. Perhaps they should have also worn black armbands on their other arms in remembrance of the kidnapped Bibas babies whom Hamas strangled. Also of course, of the hundreds of men, women and children raped, decapitated and murdered by Hamas on and following October 7th.
And is if this weren’t crazy enough, Ireland’s Classic Hits Radio station has banned its DJs from playing Ed Sheeran songs over the removal of a singer from his concert tour – a decision Sheeran himself had nothing to do with. Virtue signalling, performative dickheads.
You couldn’t make it up.
Grow up Ireland. You’re better than this.
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‘That ship has sailed’: Wes Streeting bids farewell to leadership ambitions
Wes Streeting has appeared to rule out ever standing to become leader of the Labour Party in the future, saying it is “quite a liberating position to be in.”
Speaking at a Fabian Society fringe event at Labour conference, the defence secretary said he was, for the first time in his political life, not angling for the top job.
“I am – for the first time since I was probably about 15 years old – not running to be leader of the Labour party, and it’s quite a liberating position to be in”, Streeting said in comments reported by Times journalist Aubrey Allegretti.
Asked whether that was the case “for now”, Streeting replied: “That ship has sailed.”
Sounds like Wes Streeting has ruled out another future leadership bid 👀
He tells a Fabian fringe event: “I am – for the first time since I was probably about 15 years old – not running to be leader of the Labour party, and it’s quite a liberating position to be in.”
Asked if…
— Aubrey Allegretti (@breeallegretti) September 27, 2026
Streeting resigned as secretary of state for health and social care in May 2026 after professedly losing confidence in Keir Starmer as prime minister.
Streeting held talks with Starmer in 10 Downing Street at the height of the May 2026 Labour leadership crisis, which followed the recent local elections and simultaneous elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Senedd Cymru. The health secretary was in the building for just 16 minutes before departing. Reports later indicated that Streeting, in the prime minister’s company, had privately stated his intention to resign and challenge Starmer for the Labour leadership.
Wes Streeting quits as health secretary and calls for Starmer to resign
Streeting, having delayed to avoid interrupting the state opening of parliament, formally submitted his resignation at 1:00 pm on 14 May.
In the days that followed his resignation, Streeting indicated he would stand in a future Labour leadership election. The comments came as part of an appearance at the annual Progress/Progressive Britain conference in London. Streeting was also highly critical of his party’s record since at least 2015.
He stated: “We haven’t had a debate in the Labour Party about who and what we’re for in more than a decade. The moral emergency of antisemitism in our party left little room for intellectual renewal or policy debate on the centre left.
“We then had a dishonest leadership contest, followed by an overcautiousness in opposition. Interesting policy ideas couldn’t be floated because we were too afraid of what the Tories might say, so we said nothing. Instead of a willingness to challenge ideas and kick the tyres, debate was viewed as division and shut down.”
However, following the sensational June 2026 Makerfield by-election, which returned Andy Burnham to parliament, Streeting endorsed Burnham and abandoned his own leadership bid. The former health secretary said he had spoken to Burnham “at length” in recent days.
In a post to social media, he stated: “We could spend the summer exaggerating small differences, or we can roll up our sleeves and help him to deliver the change our party and country needs. That is the choice I am making and I hope that everyone else will back Andy, too.”
Streeting was appointed as defence secretary after Burnham entered 10 Downing Street as prime minister.
Andy Burnham wins Makerfield by-election to seal parliamentary return
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Trump Claims Men Arrested At UK Air Base Planned Damage
Donald Trump has claimed the men arrested at a US air base in the UK were “looking to do big damage”.
British police arrested five people on suspicion of explosive and terrorism offences on Sunday.
It came after a tip-off that the three suspicious vans were heading towards the RAF Fairford, a military airfield which has previously been used to target Iran.
Britain previously gave the US approval to use its military bases to launch defensive strikes against Iran as part of the ongoing conflict.
A major incident was declared earlier today at the scene.
The five men were arrested and held on suspicion of preparation of a terrorist act, and police say they believe the incident is now contained.
British Counter Terrorism Policing said in a statement that they were in the early stages of an investigation and working with partners to understand the circumstances of the incident.
But Trump was much more open, telling reporters in the US: “It was fantastic. Working with Britain, it was an amazing job.
“We had them under investigation. They were looking to do big damage to our fort, and working with the British worked out great.
“It may have been Scotland Yard, I don’t know. We worked with a lot of them.
“We had them under view for a long time, and we got them. Thank you.”
UK defence secretary Wes Streeting responded to Trump’s remarks, telling reporters: “This is my first experience as defence secretary of responding live to President Trump and I’m sure it won’t be the only occasion.
“I’m sure you will understand that I’m not going to comment on a live operation and operational security matters.
“I don’t think it will come as a surprise to anyone that given the importance of Fairford – not just to the UK but to the US – we’ve been working closely with our American friends, and I’ve been in touch during the course of today with my counterpart, Pete Hegseth.”
Prime minister Andy Burnham thanked the police and armed forces on X, saying: “I know today’s incident near RAF Fairford will be deeply concerning for local residents and for many people following developments across the country.”
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards previously claimed any UK site which is used to target Iran would be a legitimate target.
The UK responded by insisting its armed forces were ready to protect the country from any attack.
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Lucy Letby is not a ‘scapegoat’
Joseph Dinnage – senior press officer the Prosperity Institute – joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the Thirlwall Inquiry and the new Lucy Letby documentary, Andy Burnham’s plan to lift the ban on drinking at football matches, and how Labour is failing young people.
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Joseph Dinnage – senior press officer the Prosperity Institute – joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the Thirlwall Inquiry and the new Lucy Letby documentary, Andy Burnham’s plan to lift the ban on drinking at football matches, and how Labour is failing young people.
Join us for Last Orders live at the Battle of Ideas on Sunday 18 October. Get 20 per cent off with the code SPIKED or by clicking here.
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ICE puts vulnerable Republicans in a bind weeks before midterms
Battleground Republicans across the country are on defense as ICE operations keep finding their way into local headlines.
A flurry of ICE activity in four rural Kansas towns this week prompted businesses to shutter and public schools to urge families to identify who could pick up children from schools in case their parents were detained. Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) — a normally staunch MAGA defender who finds himself in a tougher-than-expected election — took to social media to say he was “closely following” the situation, signaled his displeasure that ICE wasn’t working more closely with local law enforcement, and said he had phoned Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.
Later, he complained that ICE’s failure to communicate with local law enforcement caused “mass disruptions to local communities and businesses.”
“We must keep our communities safe, but it has to be done in a responsible and secure manner,” he said in a statement Thursday evening.
Mullin took over DHS in March with a mandate to keep immigration enforcement out of the news following a public outcry over the killing of two Americans by immigration agents during enforcement operations in Minneapolis. No subsequent incidents have generated the same type of national attention — but ICE’s recent record-high arrest rate is still landing hard in some communities.
“It does cause quite a disruption in the community,” said Scott Fischer, the GOP chair in Ford County, one of the counties where ICE activity was reported this week. “We don’t want our community disrupted.”
In Florida, local officials are warning about the impact of ICE raids on businesses, and a Republican incumbent is on air with a Spanish-language ad denouncing Trump’s crackdown. In Michigan, Democrats are calling for an investigation after a man crashed his car and died while fleeing ICE. In Maine, the fallout from a fatal ICE shooting of a 25-year-old from Colombia continues to loom over GOP Sen. Susan Collins’ reelection race. In Texas, last week’s nonfatal shooting of a Venezuelan in Austin is just the latest of several highly publicized ICE operations that have fueled wall-to-wall media coverage.
“There’s already been some blowback associated with what people feel is a little bit of a heavy hand when it comes to immigration enforcement,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). “Obviously, border security is critical, but I think the administration maybe has miscalculated a little bit. … It is going to be one of the factors people are weighing in the election.”
The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that the department “is focused on delivering the most HISTORIC mass deportation campaign in American history—exactly as President Trump promised.”“The men and women of ICE are enforcing the laws passed by Congress. We do not pick and choose which laws to enforce or where to enforce them,” the statement continued. “We will continue to enforce our nation’s laws and remove illegal aliens from American communities. Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, if you break the law, you will face the consequences. Illegal aliens are not welcome in the U.S.”
The Trump administration’s deportation spree is not widely popular. A new POLITICO Poll finds that a plurality of U.S. adults, 49%, think the mass deportations campaign is “too aggressive,” while 26% find it “about right” and just 14% think it is “not aggressive enough.” And in an election cycle where cost of living is atop voters’ list of concerns, ICE enforcement has become an economic issue too: Immigration raids are affecting workers, from construction sites in Texas to meatpacking plants in Kansas, frustrating business leaders.
In Kansas, where Democrats aim to win a U.S. Senate seat for the first time in nearly a century, ICE’s activity this week has provided another political opening.
“This is not how Washington should be treating Kansans,” Adam Hamilton, the Democratic nominee for Senate, said on social media Wednesday.
“It impacts these operations economically,” said Matt Teagarden, CEO of the Kansas Livestock Association, whose organization released a joint statement Thursday noting the “massive chilling effect” of ICE enforcement on “the legal, documented, skilled workers that put beef on the table and keep the cattle supply chain moving.”
“We’re all for getting the bad actors out of our communities,” Teagarden said. “The method by which they do that has an impact. We’ve seen it.”
Mullin said in a statement Friday that “ICE is not conducting worksite operations in Kansas” but “operations targeting heinous criminals including murderers, rapists, and drug traffickers and illegal aliens with final orders of removal.”
Some of Marshall’s allies downplayed the possibility that the immigration activity could have political ramifications.
“Senator Marshall has nothing to do with when ICE decides to do a surge, and I think most people understand that,” said Danedri Herbert, chair of the Kansas Republican Party.
But others winced at the way ICE conducted itself, even those who say enforcement is necessary to remove criminals.
“I’d sure ask that we go back to some of the concepts of working with local law enforcement who actually know the area better, and I think that might have improved things tremendously,” said Kansas State Rep. Jim Minnix, a Republican who represents Scott County, where some of the ICE activity occurred.
Texas has become the epicenter of ICE activity: One in five ICE arrests nationwide this year has occurred in the Lone Star State. Sunday’s Austin shooting came on the heels of a fatal ICE shooting in July. In South Texas, local news is consumed with a story of two teenagers who were stopped by ICE agents en route to a military recruiter’s office, one of whom was beaten on the side of the road. After17-year-old Luis Ochoa spoke out to say he was pepper sprayed and detained, his mother was quickly deported.
Bobby Pulido, the Democrat running in Texas’ 15th District, said his campaign has received more than 80 requests from South Texans asking for immigration help. The campaign passes those requests to pro bono attorneys, he said.
“Every single day we’re having people reach out. And it’s very frustrating, because we can’t help everybody,” Pulido said. “I’m not a congressman.”
His opponent, GOP Rep. Monica De La Cruz, has attempted to separate herself from the administration’s immigration crackdown: She hit the airwaves with an ad this month featuring a woman touting De La Cruz’s work getting her husband, who had legal status, released from immigration custody.
“I have been very direct with the White House, with leadership, that enforcement policy should be focused on the criminals and on the cartels that are terrorizing our communities,” De La Cruz said during an appearance on a conservative radio show Thursday. “They should not be on hardworking immigrants that are navigating the immigration process.”
Maine Democrat Troy Jackson has made Duran Guerrero’s death a key focus of his Senate campaign, hosting a town hall in the city where he was killed earlier this month and frequently criticizing Collins for voting to fund the Homeland Security Department. In response, Collins has emphasized she supports guardrails for ICE officers like body cameras and deescalation training.
In South Florida, public pressure is growing this week against policing partnerships with ICE as businesses report a dropoff in sales. GOP Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar released an ad — in both English and Spanish — that criticized the Trump administration for going “too far” on immigration. In the ad, she claims that half of the people detained in July “had no criminal record” and says Hispanics who backed Trump in 2024 feel “betrayed.”
Liliam López, president of the South Florida Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Hispanic Women’s Chamber of Commerce, said that her communities “are really, really hurting” from the ICE crackdown.
“All elected officials of the Republican Party that think that their constituents are being affected in an adverse manner should speak up, like Congresswoman Salazar did,” she said. “You can’t do what this administration is doing because it doesn’t work. It just doesn’t work.”
The concerns from vulnerable Republicans come as Mullin seeks to balance pressure from immigration hardliners with public backlash. When he took over the department in the spring, the administration moved to make its arrests of unauthorized immigrants more discreet, but the dip in visible deportation operations — coupled with messaging missteps wherein Mullin seemed to indicate an openness to some legal pathways for would-be immigrants — prompted considerable pushback from some of the loudest anti-immigration voices in Trump’s coalition.
DHS then recalibrated its messaging to highlight increased deportations and project continued operational toughness, in an effort to shore up support from that section of the president’s base.
The reported lack of body camera footage in the Austin shooting in particular has frustrated even some of Mullin’s defenders, given consistent pledges from DHS that the technology would be deployed and operational by the end of September.
“If the public report is accurate, that’s unacceptable,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said. “Markwayne needs to pull these folks in and say, every piece of equipment you have, whether it’s a camera, a handgun or a mace canister, you show up to work with it every day or you’re failing to do your job.”
Voters’ concern seems to be building again with the election looming.
“Obviously for Hispanics, but I think just all voters in general right now, their main issue is overreach. They feel that there’s been abuse of power from everywhere,” said Sofia Kinzinger, a former DHS deputy assistant secretary during the president’s first term, and the wife of Trump-critical former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.). “Either you speak firmly against it, or you try to justify, which right now is the opposite of what people need.”
Jessica Piper contributed reporting.
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Do Scientists Believe In Aliens?
However big you think the universe is, it’s almost certainly bigger.
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is 100,000 light-years across (one light-year is about six trillion miles).
And according to some estimates, there could be one to two billion galaxies in the universe. So perhaps it’s no wonder scientists have long wondered whether we can really be alone in that endlessness.
In fact, our intergalactic solitude seems so unlikely to some that a puzzle – the Fermi paradox – centres on its improbability. Given how statistically likely other life seems to be, it asks: where are all the aliens?
Of course, we’ve only been looking for other extraterrestrial beings since about the ’60s, and the very vastness that makes alien life so probable might also make our likelihood of meeting them next to impossible.
But a paper published in Nature Astronomy shows that most scientists agree they’re probably out there, somewhere.
What did the study show?
This research involved four surveys, all sent out to scientists like astrobiologists (those who study life outside our planet), biologists, and physicists.
These were all about “the likely existence of basic, complex, and intelligent extraterrestrial life”. That means they wanted to know whether experts thought anything from bacteria to plants or even conscious beings were probable.
When the results came back, 86.6% of astrobiologists said they “agree” or “strongly agree” that this was likely.
While 12% were more neutral on the topic, only 2% outright disagreed.
Among non-astrobiologists, meanwhile, the response was even more strongly positive. A whopping 88.4% reckoned there probably is life out there somewhere.
What about aliens, though?
“Extraterrestrial life” does not mean ET, or any other thinking, communicating being you might imagine when you hear the word “alien”. It could be as simple as a single-celled amoeba.
So it’s a good thing researchers also asked scientists how probable they thought “complex” and “intelligent” forms of life were, too.
67.4% of astrobiologists agreed this is likely, compared to 58.2% of other scientists.
Only 10.2% of astrobiologists outright disagreed that this was plausible.
These results, the study reads, “offer a snapshot of community opinion and reveal a significant degree of consensus that extraterrestrial life is likely to exist”.
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