The Church of England has announced that its first female Bishop will be Rev Libby Lane, a parish priest from Hale, Greater Manchester and mother of two. She has been appointed as the new Bishop of Stockport just one month
The Green party has polled two points ahead of the Liberal Democrats in a national poll on general election voting intentions. The latest YouGov poll for The Sun puts the Green party on 8 percent, and the Liberal Democrats on
Scottish teachers are being encouraged to report any concerns over the sexual wellbeing of their pupils to the child’s ‘Named Person’, or state guardian, but not to the child’s parents under new government guidelines. The advice has deepened concerns by
A German S&M film maker has been forced to go into hiding, thanks to the animal welfare organisation PETA who is prosecuting her for animal cruelty after she used her pet cat in a scene in one of her films.
A small victory in the battle against the promotion of liberal values has been won, as the British government has backed away from Ofsted’s persecution of faith schools in the face of legal challenges and a letter writing campaign. According
Supporters of a new tax on sugary drinks in London are promoting it on the grounds that it will save the NHS in London £39 million over the next twenty years. But their own figures show that it would cost
In a moment of supreme irony, Michael Mann, the climatologist who constructed the now debunked hockey stick graph designed to make the case for global warming, has today delivered a lecture on “professional ethics for climate scientists”, Watts Up With
Arguably Britain’s most electorally successful Prime Minister of the 20th Century, Margaret Thatcher was well loved by vast swathes of the British population. Tens of thousands flocked to line the route of her funeral procession less than two years ago.
The Catholic Education Service (CES) is demanding an apology from school of inspectors Ofsted after one of its schools was placed on a blacklist of schools which were failing to prepare students for “life in modern Britain”. The school remains
The BBC failed to “interrogate immigration rigorously enough” because it has become “a bit pleased with itself”, and is staffed predominantly by “liberal Oxbridge males”, veteran radio interviewer John Humphrys has said. His comments came in an interview with the
Labour party strategists are advising their activists to steer doorstep conversations away from immigration and on to healthcare and housing, in an attempt to win back Ukip waverers next May. The advice comes in a 33 page document, entitled Campaigning
The British Foreign Office is paying for 46 North Korean ‘journalists’ to take part in a media skills course. The FO claims that the money is being put to good use by trying to engage with North Korea, but critics
Hundreds of new cases involving allegations of torture of Iraqi citizens, including men, women and children, by British soldiers are set to be brought before the International Criminal Courts in The Hague. A new dossier, containing claims of torture and
A member of parliament has called for the chief executive of Britain’s National Air Traffic Service (NATS) to be stripped of his bonus after dozens of flights were cancelled and hundreds more delayed across the South of England on Friday
A shock poll has placed Ukip to the left of the Conservative Party for the first time. The results will make unwelcome reading at Conservative Party HQ, as they are banking on capturing the centre ground as a means to
Last year, the government created a new £148 million fund to improve cycling networks across Britain. With the intention of spending the money by 2015, it included £77 million to be split across some of the UK’s largest cities, and
The Guardian’s environmental blogger George Monbiot has written an article claiming that whales should be conserved because their poo helps to mitigate climate change. He takes this as “refutation of the idea that we can manipulate the living world with
Less than a week after police officers and armed forces personnel were told not to wear their uniforms whilst off duty, including on the way in to work, children in the army cadet forces have been issued with the same
Immigrants have been travelling hundreds of miles to take their ‘Life in the UK’ citizenship test – a requirement for gaining British citizenship – at a centre that was fixing the results, guaranteeing all applicants passes. The revelation comes a
Faith schools are dominating Britain’s league tables for primary schools, with six in ten of every ‘perfect’ scoring school being a faith school of some denomination. The Church of England has said that it is “delighted” that its schools, some
Yesterday Breitbart London reported on the anti-fracking group Frack Free Balcombe Residents Association (FFBRA), who had gone to the High Court in an attempt to overturn planning permission for exploratory drilling in Balcombe, Sussex. The case was thrown out and
A mother of three has been wrestled to the ground and arrested by an off-duty police officer, simply for swearing during casual conversation on the school playground. She and a friend who tried to tackle the man were both taken
Nearly 12,000 foreign criminals are currently being handled by the Home Office, including 775 murderers and 587 rapists – but the true figure of Britain’s foreign criminal population is potentially much higher, as the official figures don’t include convicted criminals
The quaint village of Iddesleigh in Devon is best known as the opening setting of War Horse, an acclaimed novel recounting the story of a thoroughbred horse caught up in World War I. But now Iddesleigh is the setting for
Environmental protestors have long made a purposeful nuisance of themselves in the hope that the cost of policing that activities will deter organisations from engaging in activities they don’t like – such as, for example, fracking. But a high court
