Doubts are growing over the severity of Lord Janner’s dementia, after it emerged that he wrote and signed a letter to the House of Lords only two weeks ago. His poor mental health was cited by Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP)
Distress calls have been received from at least two more boats in the Mediterranean carrying migrants, with reports of 20 further fatalities, including children. The Italian coast guard is believed to be asking commercial vessels in the area to respond
Nearly one in four Britons will be non-white by 2051, thanks to the high birth rates amongst ethnic minorities, new research has revealed. The majority of the increase will take place within the Indian and Pakistani communities. Studies have previously
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has blamed the “fanaticism” of David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy for the boat death crisis currently taking place in the Mediterranean, saying that the bombing of Libya destabilized the country, allowing trafficking gangs to flourish. More
Climate science is suffering a dearth of recent graduates joining the field, as young physicists are instead turning to cosmology or astrophysics. Practicing climate researchers have suggested that younger people are being turned off as they think the science is already
Europol, the EU police agency, has launched a taskforce dedicated to rooting out the people traffickers who last year sent 170,000 illegal migrants in a perilous journey across the Mediterranean. 3,000 of those shipped across died as overloaded boats sank
Senior civil servants are drawing up possible plans to axe government ministries just days after UKIP published their manifesto, which includes pledges to cut government departments. The scoping exercise comes less than a week after the government announced plans to
A German rapper turned jihadist nicknamed the “Goebbels of ISIS” has released a video calling on sleeper cells across Europe to carry out terrorist attacks, claiming “time is running out.” Scotland Yard has confirmed that it is reviewing security arrangements ahead
Britain’s most senior judge has said that Muslim women should be allowed to wear the veil in court as it is important to show respect for other people’s cultures. Lord Neuberger, the President of the Supreme Court said that it
Bookmaker William Hill has stopped taking bets on whether Greece will exit the Euro during 2015, saying the country could “begin the process of departing very shortly”. But experts have said that a Grexit could be disastrous for the bloc,
A Polish man who has admitted to the rape and murder of a nine-year-old French girl was on his way to England at the time of the crime, a French court has heard. Zbigniew Huminski, 38, was on his way
Labour peer Lord Janner will not face charges of sexual abuse due to his poor mental health at the insistence of Alison Saunders, the director of public prosecutions, who has personally overruled senior lawyers investigating the historic allegations. This follows four
A huntress has been inundated with death threats after comedian Ricky Gervais posted a picture of her posing next to one of her kills. Rebecca Francis, who hunts with a bow and arrow, is one of America’s premiere hunters. She
It’s no secret that UKIP hopes for a major breakthrough at the general election, launching a professional, independently-costed manifesto this morning to that end. But as the party moves from being a right wing fringe group to take centre stage
The European Union will double the number of judges sitting at the Court of Justice in Luxembourg at a cost of €20 million a year. This is despite opposition from Britain and the court itself. The European Court of Justice,
Last November, during a TV altercation with Labour Leader Ed Miliband over his proposals for a Mansion Tax, former pop star Myleene Klass raged “You may as well just tax me on this glass of water. You can’t just point at
Iran has finally won a top seat on the governing board of the UN Agency For Women despite a woeful record of women’s rights abuses in the country, thanks to a failure by the US and the EU to oppose
Persecuted Christians in Lahore, Pakistan have been praying for election success in next month’s polls – for Nigel Farage and Ukip. Despite a British media narrative portraying Ukip as a party of bigots and racists, the congregation of Royal Disciple
Labour has put tackling climate change at the centre of its election manifesto, promising one million new green jobs, setting targets for Britain to have carbon free energy by 2030 and pushing for global net zero carbon emissions by the latter half
A bakery that has refused to bake a cake with an anti-gay wedding message has found itself at the centre of controversy. But unlike mirror image cases in which Christian bakers have been taken to court for refusing to bake
The government has introduced new guidelines to clamp down on health tourism just days after UKIP leader Nigel Farage was slammed by his political opponents for raising the subject. The new rules advise hospitals that they have a “legal obligation”
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has defended a member of his party who works in the porn industry, reasoning that no laws have been broken. John Langley, aka Jonny Rockard has been working in the industry for 30 years. He now refers
British school-children are taught to believe that global warming will be an unmitigated disaster: soaring temperatures will turn out green and pleasant land into an arid desert before it sinks beneath the waves of a rising sea. But for the
As much as a quarter of Britain’s £11.7 billion aid budget is squandered on unworkable projects and private contractors, the Mail on Sunday has found. The scale of wasteful spending with private companies is such that one charity has dubbed
Men called Nigel are twice as likely to vote for Nigel Farage’s UK Independence Party as members of the general public, a new survey has discovered. Men called Dave, Nick or Ed were, by contrast, showed no real deviation from
