A former Green Party councillor who was exposed as having an unexpected hobby – trophy hunting – has rebuffed his critics, defending the sport and robustly backing Walter Palmer, the man who shot Cecil the lion. For a party that claims to represent
A rapper has been banned from entering the UK for provoking others to “terrorist acts” because Britain’s Home Secretary believes his work “encourages violence and intolerance of homosexuality.” Two members of the rapper’s collective, Odd Future, are gay. The Californian artist known
Over a quarter, 27 per cent, of the children born in the UK in 2014 were to mothers born outside of the UK, increasing half a per cent on 2013. The increase is part of a long-term trend: in 1969 the
The Guardian’s loathing for western civilisation is no secret; it defines the newspaper just as reliance on the British tax payer defines the BBC. But today the rag’s outright contempt for British culture has reached a new low, with a withering attack
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has purchased new air defence radars to upgrade and bolster systems on the Falkland Islands. The move comes amid continued aggressive rhetoric from Argentina and news they are attempting to upgrade their fighter jet fleet. Britain
The NHS will now pay for people at risk of developing diabetes to have free “motivational coaches” to held them with their diet and encourage them to exercise. The “one-to-one health trainers” will be offered as part of the Diabetes
Four members of the same family have appeared in court accused of keeping a woman as a domestic slave in their Stockton home. An interpreter was needed to translate proceedings into Punjabi. Sakina Bibi, 67, Rabia Mobin, 27, Tariq Mahmood Siddique,
The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has condemned protests that erupted on Friday near an asylum center in East Germany as “abhorrent” and “shameful.” Several police were injured in violent clashes later that evening, which are being blamed on the far
A Sinn Féin proposal to support gay marriage, submitted to one of Northern Ireland’s largest district councils, has been comprehensively defeated. The motion was rejected before any debate could take place. Sinn Féin members wanted the council to support same-sex marriage nationally.
The son of the previous French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has caused a stir on social media by saying he is “proud to be an American patriot and not French.” Louis Sarkozy, 18, is currently studying to become an officer at
A fun run organised by a children’s charity, where fathers dress in drag, has been reported to the police as a “hate crime” by a transgender group. The group describes the event as “dehumanising.” The five-kilometer “Dames on the Run”
The British Embassy in Iran has reopened after closing in 2011. Philip Hammond became the first British foreign minister to visit the building – still adorned with “death to England” graffiti – since 2003. The 14-acre Victorian compound, a legacy
Tommy Robinson has been released from jail after being recalled for the second time in a month. He has accused the police of detaining him in order to suppress his freedom of speech, and wanting him to “ultimately be killed.”
Thousands of people across the UK are set to protest this weekend against the “corporate stitch-up” Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the US and the European Union. The “day of action” will see hundreds of small protests held all over
A memorial to King Edward VII in Tower Hamlets, paid for by Jewish residents, has been desecrated with raw meat in what appears to be an anti-Semitic attack. The drinking fountain and statue in Whitechapel, East London was attacked with
Jeremy Corbyn – the hard-left Labour leadership favorite – has compared the actions of Islamic State (IS) and American forces, saying there is an “equivalence” and that a “political solution” must be found with the genocidal terror group. He made
Police and local government agencies in the United Kingdom are distributing a “pioneering” document for “empowering teachers to encourage and support” transgenderism in schools at the “earliest stages” after a four-year-old child identified as transgender. The “School Transgender Guidance” document has been distributed
Polish immigrants in the UK went on strike today; some also donated blood and others held a rally outside Parliament all in an effort to highlight their own perceived lack of value by fellow residents of their host nation. The
Tommy Robinson, the former leader of the English Defence League, has been arrested again, this time moments after returning from a holiday with his family. Robinson was only last released from prison on 25 July 2015, after being recalled two weeks prior.
Today’s GCSE results are set to show an increasing number of students sitting exams in “community languages” as an “easy” route to a top grade. This comes as schools and parents report there have been recent rises in students being
‘Diversity’ warriors are up in arms over the news that 80 per cent of businesses in the UK “fail” to single out transgendered persons for special treatment in their “diversity” policies. A review of British businesses with more that 1000 employees found that
Parents at a segregated-sex school in London have been angered by the news that genders will now mix. The school is about 90 per cent Muslim, but the principle says he will not have his reforms stopped by a “quite
Churches have called on the government to “recognise” that migrants in Calais cannot be turned away and to “accept the need for the UK to take its share.” They also branded the British “self interested” and condemned the “dehumanising” language used
A British Citizen has been arrested in Bangladesh, suspected of being the “main planner” and “financier” behind the gruesome murder of two prominent bloggers who dared to criticise religion in the Muslim majority country. Bangladesh’s elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)
Race relations in Scotland are under grave threat from the “perceived” disproportionate targeting of Muslim and Asian travelers in airport security checks, according to a new study. The study by Durham University’s sociology department found that Muslims in Scotland broadly
