Human beings urgently need to wipe themselves out to avoid ecological catastrophe, the leader of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement has claimed. In an interview with the Big Issue magazine, Les U Knight (pseudonym assumed) said that the extinction of
Migrants living in a makeshift camp in Paris were driven out by police on Monday after hard-left activists formed a human chain around them. Police used tear gas to move the activists before putting the undocumented migrants onto a bus
Teachers in Britain are scared of reporting suspected Islamist extremism among their students out of fear of being labelled ‘Islamophobic’, the head of an anti-radicalisation group has said. From July this year, British teachers will have a legal requirement to
Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond faces losing his seat if David Cameron succeeds in pushing through his planned reforms of parliamentary boundaries. Other big beasts facing the axe include Cameron’s former leadership rival David Davis as well former cabinet
Anti-Islamisation movement Pegida has performed better than expected in the first election it has ever contested. The group contested the mayoral election in its eastern stronghold of Dresden, finishing fourth with 9.6 per cent of the vote. PEGIDA roses to fame late last year
France has cut bullfighting from its cultural heritage list after pressure from animal rights activists. Although bullfighting is better associated with neighbouring Spain, certain towns in southern France also have a tradition of the sport, known as “La Corrida” in French.
The grave of famous Danish writer Hans Christian Anderson was vandalised this weekend less than 24 hours after a Muslim cemetery was also desecrated in Copenhagen. Police have so far refused to link the incidents, but the nature of the
Muslims should not vote in this month’s Danish election because democracy is incompatible with Islam, two radical groups have said. Controversial Islamic organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir urged Danish Muslims to boycott June 18’s general election to protest the “anti-Islamic” democratic system.
One of Britain’s most prestigious schools is considering banning homework to combat depression among its students. Cheltenham Ladies’ College is set to consider dropping homework – known at the school as “prep” – in response to an “anxiety epidemic” among
Aborted babies accounted for more than a quarter of all deaths in England and Wales in 2013, official figures reveal. According to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), there were 506,790 recorded deaths in England and Wales in
Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow has been criticised after describing former Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz as a “nice guy”. Aziz, close ally of dictator Saddam Hussein, died yesterday in hospital in the city of Nasiriyah after suffering a heart
Four Polish lorry drivers were arrested yesterday after 68 migrants, including two pregnant women and 15 children, were discovered hiding at Harwich Port in Essex. The drivers have been held on suspicion of smuggling the immigrants on board lorries “full
Two more suspects have appeared in court in connection with the “bank of terror” plot to con vulnerable pensioners out of their money in order to fund Islamic State. Fahim Islam, 20, and Achmed Ahmed, 22, have been remanded in
A youth worker has outed herself as the whistleblower who exposed the Rotherham child grooming scandal, in the hope that more people will come forward. Jayne Senior handed two cardboard boxes full of documents to Times journalist Andrew Norfolk that
Five men from Oxford have been charged by police investigating child sexual exploitation in the city stretching back 16 years. More than 100 officers took part in dawn raids across the city on Tuesday morning, arresting nine men of Asian
The King of Spain’s nephew is alleged to have racially abused a student at a Madrid theme park. Felipe Juan Froilán, who is 17-years-old, is alleged to have hurled abuse at the student after trying to jump the queue for one
Oxford alumni associations in New York are furious at the university’s new vice-chancellor after she said America had “overreacted” to 9/11. Louise Richardson, who awarded an honorary doctorate to Hillary Clinton in 2013, said the population of Northern Ireland had
The number of Romanians given the right to enter the UK job market shot up by over 200 per cent in the year since entry restrictions on them were lifted. The number of Bulgarians granted the same right also rose
The crisis at Fifa has deepened after Sepp Blatter’s right-hand man has been linked to a $10 million payment that the FBI allege was a bribe paid by the South African Football Association. Jerome Valcke is accused of authorising the
A BBC boss has threatened to axe TV shows unless the corporation gets its way in forthcoming negotiations over the future of the TV licence fee. Danny Cohen, the BBC’s director of television, said they may have to cut entire
Police removed a cyclist from a naked bike ride in Canterbury, England after he become “aroused” and “overexcited”. The man was ordered to put his jeans on before being led away from the World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) event, which
A two-year-old boy from Hull, in East Riding of Yorkshire, has been taken from his parents after a government health visitor said they smoked too much. Julie Allen, a health visitor from a local authority, told a family court that
A group of women in the Church of England want to start referring to God by the feminine pronoun ‘She’ in a bid to combat alleged sexism. The Sunday Times reports that liberal pressure group Women and the Church (Watch),
UKIP has overcome its post-election difficulties and maintained the support it won last month, a new poll has revealed. The YouGov poll for the Sun, the first since last month’s election, puts the party on 13 percent, the same amount
The British government has spent £185 million on foreign police forces while reducing spending on police at home. Figures obtained by the Sun show that the Department for International Development has spent the money over the past four years on
