Nick Hallett

Hundreds of migrants are now camped at a makeshift site near the port of Calais in northern France in a desperate bid to reach the UK. The camp, which has been dubbed “The Jungle”, sprawls over 50 acres and sits

A police officer has been accused of homophobia after telling a gay colleague he “screamed like a little girl” when he had a spider flicked at him. Sergeant Mark Goodenough of London’s Metropolitan Police teased junior colleague PC Aaron Prayter

The French port of Calais, where thousands of migrants have been storming a freight terminal in the hope of entering the UK, descended even further into chaos today as striking workers blocked a road with burning tyres. The protest took

Dramatic new images show two immigrants entering the UK clinging to the top of a freight lorry last night as hundreds of migrants once against tried to storm the fences at the French port of Calais. The migrants were pictured

Darling of the left, political talking head Owen Jones has been accused of lying after denying backing the IRA “militarily”. Jones, who has become the go-to left-winger for BBC political programmes, caused controversy earlier this week after it was reported he

French police have again been overwhelmed by hundreds of migrants attempting to storm the Channel Tunnel terminal near Calais in a desperate attempt to smuggle themselves aboard trucks to reach Britain. Yesterday, one person died when they tried to climb

Users on social networking site Facebook can now proclaim themselves “allosexuelle”, “transkvinde” and “lesboflexible” as the site rolls out a vast array of alternative ‘genders’ across eight different languages, with more likely to follow. Breitbart London has already reported that

A Sudanese migrant has been crushed to death by a truck in a second night of chaos at the French end of the Channel Tunnel as 2,000 migrants attempted to stowaway on vehicles travelling to Britain. Local police and tunnel

Greece’s outspoken former finance minister could be about to face treason charges after he revealed details of a plot to hack taxpayer accounts in preparation for the country’s exit from the euro. The country’s Supreme Court has referred Yanis Varoufakis

Facebook has announced a new gender-neutral pronoun for its Swedish language version to coincide with the start of the biggest gay pride festival in Scandinavia. English-language users can already select a “custom” gender, giving them up to 71 options including

British foreign aid money is helping fund executions in Pakistan, a human rights group has claimed. Legal charity Reprieve, which campaigns against the death penalty, says that nearly £13 million has been used to fund anti-drugs operations in the country,

Norway’s newest bishop has said he would refuse to officiate at gay weddings, but would support a service blessing couples who have already wed in civil ceremonies. The Local reports that Per Arne Dahl, Bishop of Tunsberg in the Lutheran

For the past two years, Argentina’s state broadcaster has been trying to broadcast English-language propaganda to the residents of the Falkland Islands, the British South Atlantic Territory claimed by the Latin American nation, but its efforts have not exactly been

Former Chancellor Ken Clarke has denied ever meeting a former actor who claimed he groped him when he was a teenager, describing the allegation as so ridiculous it was “rather like Martians landing.” Mr Clarke – who is still a

Police have been accused of covering up a serial killer who murdered 18 people by pushing them in front of trains on the London Underground. Former detective Geoff Platt alleges in his book The London Underground Serial Killer that officers

Britain has wasted a fortune on funding schemes for foreign police forces that have increased crime, corruption and political repression. Over the past four years, Diana Good, who was appointed to scrutinise Britain’s foreign aid funding, found numerous examples of

France looks set to pass a new law that could lead to jail sentences for people who insult or discriminate against the poor. Under the proposals, offenders guilty of insulting the poor or refusing them jobs, healthcare or housing would face

Nearly 100,000 people have signed an official petition calling for the British government to legalise the production, sale and use of cannabis. The petition, which is the second most popular on UK Parliament website, claims that legalising the drug could

Spain’s King Felipe yesterday warned the region of Catalonia to respect the law as separatists threaten to unilaterally declare independence if they win upcoming elections. Regional president Artur Mas has called elections for 27 September, which he wants to turn

Britain must outlaw parents smacking their children, a UN human rights report has demanded. The organisation’s human rights committee – which includes countries such as Egypt, Uganda and Algeria – urged the government to ban all forms of corporal punishment

Children in their early teens are less likely to have smoked, consumed alcohol or taken drugs than ever before, new figures reveal. The annual Health and Social Care Information Centre survey of 6,000 pupils aged 11 to 15 found that record

The cultural left in Sweden is in a state of confusion after a right wing nationalist group organised a gay pride march through a Muslim neighbourhood. Jan Sjunnesson, former editor-in-chief of Samtiden, the newspaper of the right wing Sweden Democrats,

The Greek parliament last night comfortably passed a second set of reforms in order to continue talks on a new bailout, although the governing Syriza is now deeply divided. Dozens of hardliners with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s party rebelled, effectively