A Scottish quango is handing out £2.4 million in subsidies to companies willing to try their hand at cracking the problem of wave power technology. The generous grants, of up to £300,000 per company, represent only the first round of spending
Britain is sexist because the government won’t pay for women to have spare bedrooms, a UN rapporteur has claimed. She also slammed the government’s austerity cuts as sexist because they perpetuated violence against women. Rashida Manjoo, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women
Climate change luminaries and green energy activists are among those awarded in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list this year, as recommended by the British government’s ‘Honours Committee’, it has been revealed. Honours are awarded to around 2,700 people each year, split across
Migrant workers living and working in Europe sent home $109 billion last year, with $17.1 billion (£10.9 billion) flowing out of Britain alone, a new report has found. The amount sent by migrant workers out of Britain roughly equals the total
The former Labour education secretary Charles Clarke has called for the abolition of Christian assemblies in British schools as part of a radical reform of the relationship between schools and religion. He would also like to see religious education replaced
A draft of the long-awaited Catholic Encyclical on Climate Change has been leaked four days early by an Italian magazine.
Professing basic Christian doctrine could be effectively “criminalised” in some circumstances under the UK government’s proposed Extremism Disruption Orders, a prominent Anglican theologian and former lawyer has warned. In the run up to the last general election, the Conservatives included
David T.C. Davies, the Member of Parliament for Monmouth, has told the House of Commons that government policies on climate change, which have massively increased the cost of energy for homeowners and businesses, are based on the assumption that all
Half a million migrants are thought to be amassing on the shores of Libya waiting to make the crossing to European ground. The Royal Naval ship NHS Bulwark rescued 1,300 migrants from overcrowded boats heading across the Mediterranean this weekend,
The United States and United Kingdom are leading the way in climate change scepticism, according to a recent survey which has found that one in three Americans and one in four Brits don’t believe climate change is a serious problem. By comparison, just four
Shocking video has emerged of the moment a women stubbed out her cigarette on a female reporters face outside Caboolture Magistrates Court in Queensland, Australia. Steeve Jane Kennedy was being charged for the murder of a young father – thought to be
The Guardian, spiritual home of middle-class right-on liberals has all but admitted that a British exit from the EU would be a jolly good thing. In a list of “ten ways in which life could change if the UK left
The parents of a French man left in a coma have vowed to fight a European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling that his life support machine should be turned off. The Catholic couple have insisted that their son Vincent
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) edited out all mention of Jewish people from a front-line report on the liberation of Belsen concentration camp in Germany at the end of World War II, it has emerged. The corporation had not wanted to air the
British police are currently in talks with a technology company regarding plans to introduce predictive software said to be capable of predicting when serious criminals will strike, despite the obvious ethical problems posed by such software. It sounds more like the
Prime Minister David Cameron plans to lift a ban on the European Commission spending millions of pounds of European tax payer money on pro-EU propaganda in the run up to an EU referendum. The government bill will have it’s second
British government officials are urging all low and medium security mental health units to go ‘smoke free’, effectively forcing patients off cigarettes. Clinical experts warn that making patients quit against their will is illegal, contravening the Mental Health Act and setting
Prime Minister David Cameron’s legal case for preventing migrants from claiming benefits rests on a mistranslation, Europe’s top court has heard. Britain is currently locked in battle with the European Union Commission at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg
A mother of five has been sentenced to six years in jail for keeping an AK47 with ammunition in an unlocked gym bag in her bedroom. Katrina Jordon of Hackney, London, said that she had been forced to hold the
Singer-turned-left-wing-luvvy Charlotte Church has claimed that she would be “absolutely fine” with paying a 70 per cent tax rate if it meant better public services. Her position appears to have shifted somewhat over the years, as in 2003 she was publicly indignant
Companies across Europe are growing increasingly sceptical of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) currently being thrashed out between the EU and the United States. A recent study has shown that most doubt the agreement will boost their financial
A Muslim father has been jailed for more than two years after he indulged in racist tirades at two schools, and physically assaulted a headteacher. Mohammed Liaqat, 34, was branded a “bully” and banned from going near four schools in the
An admission that Dutch taxpayers are unlikely to ever see the €12 billion they have lent to Greece returned has sparked a backlash against continued bailouts in the Netherlands. Kees Vendrik, chairman of the Dutch court of audit has provoked
In 1979 Margaret Thatcher told the BBC: “I can’t bear to see Britain in decline. I just can’t.” Just 36 years on and her political descendants may invoke her memory when it suits them, but it appears they have no such
A number of refugees sent to Norway under the UN’s quota system have links to terrorist organisations including Islamic State and the al-Nusra Front, it has emerged. The director of Norway’s Police Security Services (PTS) has said that he can
