A doctor who skipped bail in New York to avoid trial on charges of child rape has been allowed to stay in Britain after judges ruled that locking him up for a long time would contravene his human rights. 48
In a decision which UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage called “incomprehensible”, the Mayor of Paris is to sue Fox News for telling its audience that there are parts of France which are no-go areas for non-Muslims. Following the deadly attacks
‘No-go’ areas online, impenetrable to security services, are a danger to national security, the the former head of MI6 has said. Speaking for the first time since standing down as “C”, Sir John Sawers drew comparisons between no-go areas in
Twelve years after being made illegal, the UK’s first female genital mutilation (FGM) trial is under way with the suspects appearing in court yesterday. Dr Dhanuson Dharmasena stands accused of carrying out FGM at a London hospital after the delivery
Britain’s most senior doctor has cast doubts on the sustainability of a healthcare service that is free for all. His comments come at the same time as UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage called for a debate on the idea
For the last forty years it’s been as much a part of British culture as fish and chips or an evening at the dogs, but The Sun’s page 3 feature, in which young bare chested women pose provocatively, has been
A former anti-cuts campaigner who railed for years against the British government’s efforts to get disabled people back into the workplace has experienced a damascene conversion and accepted a job with the company overseeing the work capability assessment process. She
A Christian woman is taking her employer, an NHS Trust, to an employment tribunal after they disciplined her for misconduct because she prayed for a Muslim colleague who was unwell. She is accusing the trust of discrimination, and wants them
The singer James Blunt has hit back at Labour MP Chris Bryant, calling him a “classist gimp” and a “prejudiced wazzock” for comments suggesting that Blunt only made it in the music industry because he was from a privileged background.
Health, immigration and the economy far outstrip other issues in terms of importance to voters, a new poll by YouGov for the Times Red Box has found. However, the pollsters yesterday discovered that issues come second in voters’ minds to
Eric Pickles, the communities secretary, and Lord Ahmed, the communities minister, have written to every mosque in Britain urging British Muslims to help purge the country of hate preachers and radicals. The letter states “British values are Muslim values”, and
Nearly a year on from the exposure of the ‘Trojan Horse’ scandal in which hard-line Islamists were found to have taken over a number of schools in Birmingham, children at those schools are still at risk of radicalisation, the chief
A convicted al-Qaida fundraiser with links to the Charlie Hebdo attacks is using Britain’s Human Rights Act to avoid deportation to his homeland of Algeria, the Telegraph has disclosed. Baghdad Meziane was a close associate of Djamel Beghal, a convicted
France has been hit with a wave of cyber-attacks following the Charlie Hebdo killings, with many websites altered to show a message reading “The Islamic State Stay Inchallah. Free Palestine. Death To France. Death To Charlie.” Major media sites such
Mere weeks after Miliband was accused of wanting to ‘weaponise’ the NHS – a phrase which he has not denied using – patients and doctors working in Labour-run NHS Wales have called on him to stop being hypocritical, and to
Ed Miliband and Ed Balls knew about the financial crash a year before it happened – and urged then Prime Minister Gordon Brown to call a snap election knowing it was the only way Labour could hold on to power,
The flogging of liberal blogger Raif Badawi has been postponed on medical grounds, according to latest reports. He had been due to receive the second instalment of 50 lashings in front of a mosque in Jeddeh this afternoon. His punishment,
A youth group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) children has announced controversial plans to open up the UK’s first school for gay pupils in Manchester. The campaigners behind the project claim it will offer a safe haven for
In the wake of an Ofcom ruling granting the UK Independence Party “major party status”, the BBC has revised its guidelines on inclusion of UKIP within political features. The changes will give the party similar levels of coverage to that
Thousands of French Jews are fleeing to Britain in search of a more welcoming climate, according to Jewish community leaders, despite a report published just days ago revealing that British Jews are questioning their own future in Europe. As many
The myth that one in five American college students experiences sexual assault has been widely promulgated – and widely discredited. But now the Telegraph has gone even further, claiming that one in three British female students are “sexually assaulted or
A leading publisher of schoolbooks has banned its authors from mentioning pigs, sausages, and anything pork related in their books, lest the words offend Muslims and Jews. The ban was criticised as “utter nonsense” by a Muslim Member of Parliament,
The majority of Britain’s Jews believe that Jewish people have no long term future in Europe, and a quarter have considered moving away from Britain recently thanks to rising anti-Semitism, a new report has found. The study, by the Campaign
A controversial French comedian, Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala, has been arrested after posting apparent support for Amedy Coulibaly, the terrorist who killed four in a Paris kosher supermarket last week. Dieudonné attended the Parisian rally in support of the Charlie Hebdo
Just days after an American terrorism expert was widely ridiculed for calling Birmingham a “Muslim only city”, UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage has told Fox News that there are indeed areas of the UK that have been transformed into
