The author of the report into the failings of Rotherham Council and the police, Prof Alexis Jay, has been named by the Home Secretary as a member of the panel looking into historic child sex abuse. The experienced social worker
The government is under fire from its own MPs for being ‘blind’ to the threats Britain faces from abroad and refusing to commit to spend two per cent of GDP on defence. MPs including former Army captain John Baron accused
Scandal-hit Rotherham has been rocked by new accusations as a councillor has claimed Roma migrants are illegally marrying underage girls. Former deputy leader Emma Hoddinott alleged that the town’s large Roma community will include girls married before they are sixteen,
Undercover policing in the UK will come under the spotlight, the Home Secretary has announced, as it is revealed that a file detailing investigations by the SDS police unit has gone missing. Theresa May today announced that there would be
The Labour Party has been accused of “scaremongering” and being “unaware of the international situation” as it claims Britain leaving the EU would please Vladimir Putin. And leader Ed Miliband was also accused of “running scared” of an referendum on
Equalities legislation has let down Christians as an investigation has revealed they are too frightened to reveal their religious beliefs to colleagues. The admission was made by equalities chiefs as Christians reported that when they do declare their faith, whether it be
The Liberal Democrats are facing a possible investigation by the Electoral Commission over allegations of illegal donations organised by one of the party’s ‘rising stars’. The Daily Telegraph reported Ibrahim Taguri telling an undercover reporter posing as a rich Indian
The number of non native-German speakers in Austria’s schools has risen, despite a decline in the total student numbers, official statistics have revealed. According to The Local, almost a quarter of a million students, or 21 per cent of the
Britain may need to brace itself against a new wave of migration as Germany is set to allow Bulgaria and Romania to join the passport-free Schengen area, the Express reports. The move essentially moves the border of the EU to
The BBC have come under fire after a sixth of it’s main evening news programme was a soft PR feature on Ed Miliband and his family ahead of the General Election campaign. The interview was pitched as ‘the first interview
It’s the most successful magazine programme the BBC has produced, making millions for BBC Worldwide, it’s commercial arm. So when the BBC announced that Top Gear’s lead presenter Jeremy Clarkson had been suspended and forthcoming programmes wiped from the schedule,
The persistent myth about jobs in Britain being dependent on membership of the European Union has been debunked by a new report, with its author saying its “high time” that pro EU voices stopped “scaremongering”. The Institute of Economic Affairs
A former French interior minister has said that dangerous jihadis should not be kept in prisons on France’s mainland but shipped off to islands to “isolate” them and prevent prisons becoming a breeding ground for radicals. Charles Pasqua, 88, made
Judges have ruled that a drug dealer who was injured when his friend crashed the car they were driving in at high speed should be entitled to compensation as existing UK laws breach an EU directive. Sean Delaney and friend
A 19 year old German communist has become the first woman to die fighting against Isis in the Middle East. Ivana Hoffman died on Saturday while defending the Syrian town of Tel Tamr alongside the Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG)
Another Labour council is facing accusations of negligence as information emerges of hundreds of vulnerable children being ignored by social workers. Leicester City Council has fired its assistant mayor for children and young people, along with a senior officer, as
French police are questioning a female gendarmerie officer and her boyfriend over possible links to the Islamic fundamentalist Amedy Coulibaly who held up a Jewish supermarket in Paris. Four people were arrested in the swoop including a woman only known so
David Cameron has been accused by Ed Miliband of “running scared” as the stand-off over the election debate between broadcasters and Number 10 continues.
The Director of Muslim rights group CAGE has refused to condemn the sickening practise of stoning women as a punishment for adultery. On the BBC’s This Week programme, Asim Qureshi was asked about the views advocated by an Islamic scholar
Birmingham City Council has made the astonishing decision to recruit the former director of safeguarding children and families from scandal hit Rotherham council, where he was linked to the closure of a group rescuing sexually exploited young girls. Howard Woolfenden
The failure of EU open borders has once again been demonstrated as a charity have revealed that a group of Romanians have been living in a camp under the north circular. Thames Reach call the clump of tents under a
Labour MEP Julie Ward, who boasts a Masters degree in education, has revealed she can’t spell the plural of ‘library’. In a tweet to mark World Book Day, the politician who represents Labour on the European Parliament’s Culture and Education
A tax loophole is denying British youth and unemployed workers the chance to earn a living or to be trained in a new career. The sneaky technicality, which is fully supported by the European Union, is predominantly used when projects
A journalist who took inspiration from Israeli Kvika Klein who walked areas of Paris wearing items that identified him as a Jew said he ‘encountered anti-Semitism for nothing but walking in a street’ as he repeated the experiment across Britain. Jonathan Kalmus wore
An independent body which scrutinises the UK’s international aid payments has concluded that they are ‘a waste of money’. The report by the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) criticised the Department for International Development’s “weak management” and “poor supervision”
