All suspects should remain anonymous unless and until they are officially charged with a crime, the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee has recommended. The group of MPs says the media should be banned from naming suspects until charged, thanks to
A tidal gauge at Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu, has shown that sea levels on the island are not rising. Following the immense destruction wrought by Cyclone Pam last week, in which up to 11 people lost their lives,
The Scottish government is riding roughshod over planning regulations and scientific evidence by pursuing plans to “build a huge wind farm” across Scotland, Kate Mavor, the outgoing chief executive of the National Trust for Scotland has said. She criticised the
The solar eclipse promised to be a spectacular cosmic light show of the kind rarely seen, but for most of Britain the event was a damp squib, thanks to March’s characteristic cloud cover. For some amongst the millions of Britons who
One of the would-be jihadists apprehended in Turkey over the weekend en-route to Syria has been told that he may return to school as soon as “things settle down”. The youths from Brent, London, none of whom have yet been
There may be a far darker secret lurking at the heart of Westminster than previously suspected, Simon Danczuk has warned. The Labour MP, who first blew the lid on the Cyril Smith scandal, alleges that a paedophile ring involving senior
A Conservative climate change minister has racked up a £22,000 bill on taxpayer-funded plane tickets in just three months. Greg Barker visited Tanzania, Kenya, the UAE, China, Hong Kong, Seoul and Stockholm between April and June 2014, weeks before standing down
Britain’s energy policy is on course to be “the most expensive domestic policy disaster in modern British history,” the Centre for Policy Studies has found. In a new report, author Rupert Darwell warns that Britain can either have renewable energy or
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has denied that he gave the middle finger to Germany, claiming that video evidence of him doing so was doctored. The person who originally uploaded the disputed video to YouTube has insisted that it is
Climate change deniers should be punished, Al Gore has said, adding that politicians in particular should be made to pay a price for rejecting “accepted science”. He stopped short of suggesting what that punishment might be. Speaking at the South by
The Royal Society has misrepresented current thinking on climate change by presenting new theories as established facts and leaving out evidence that doesn’t support man made global warming dogma, a group of climate scientists has claimed. In December, the Royal Society
Ukip has accused Prime Minister David Cameron of breaking “another” promise on immigration, after the EU’s Foreign Ministers, including Britain’s Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, gave the go-ahead to Bosnia and Herzegovina to apply for EU membership. Mr Cameron had previously
British luvvies have been lining up to star in a film which points the finger of blame for atrocities in Syria on the British government, but the production has been forced to distance itself from one of the co-writers after
Britain needs to be vigilant as many more young Muslims are travelling to Syria to join ISIS than previously realised, a senior politician has said. Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, made his comments last night following the
Renegotiation of the EU treaties is “mission impossible”, according to the man tasked with brokering the negotiations. But he has promised to help Prime Minister David Cameron during the talks as Cameron is “obviously pro-European”. Donald Tusk, the President of
The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, has vetoed plans to ban extremist preachers from university campuses citing concerns that doing so would erode free speech. He put his foot down, blocking the Tory plans, after what has been described as
A former NHS doctor turned extremist fighter has been killed in Afghanistan alongside three other jihadists by Pakistani intelligence officers working under cover. The extremist preacher Anjem Choudary has written an obituary for Tariq Ali, as they got to know
Lord Carey, a former Archbishop of Canterbury, has called on Christians to regain confidence in their faith and to speak about it. “It is simply a matter of freedom of speech,” he has said. His comments were prompted by a recent report
The Royal Society has jeopardised both its purpose and integrity by becoming a lobbyist for the climate change industry, a Fellow of the Society has said. Writing for the Mail on Sunday, Professor Michael Kelly has said that the Society has become
Merchants of Doubt, a new documentary film designed to paint climate change sceptics as “pundits for hire” in the pay of big business, has tanked at the box office. Based on a book of the same name by Naomi Oreskes
Foreign nurses recruited to work in East Lancashire are quitting the NHS because the north is nothing like London. A quarter of the first wave of recruits have left, in part as they are unable to understand the regional accent.
Civil liberties groups have called for reform of the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), the watchdog for the security services, after they were smeared as having suggested that terrorism is a price worth paying for freedom. They accuse the ISC
‘Warmism’ – the belief that human activities are fuelling catastrophic climate change – has long been slammed as a “neo-fascist quasi-religion”. Those who take a more sceptical view point to the way that warmists cling to statistics, such as the long
Whilst the vast majority of Europe is looking forward to watching next week’s solar eclipse in wonder and delight, for the people in charge of Germany’s power grid, the celestial event poses a major problem. Seven percent of Germany’s electricity comes
An interview designed to paint Ed Miliband as a man-of-the-people has hugely backfired, as it emerged that a BBC interview featuring the Milibands sipping tea was filmed in the smaller of two kitchens in their London mansion. Valiant attempts by friends
