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David Cameron’s former chief of staff has admitted that he voted UKIP in last month’s European Elections. Speaking at the Freedom Dinner, organised by pro-smoking group Forest, Alex Deane said that he voted UKIP at the European Elections as “any

The wife of a hedge fund manager at the centre of London’s most expensive divorce case has told how she and her former husband realised they had the “same values” when he took her to see the film ‘Malcolm X’.

The BBC should air the views of sceptics of man-made global warming after all, according to the editor of Radio 4’s flagship ‘Today’ programme. Jamie Angus, who edits the radio station’s morning current affairs show, said that sceptics like Lord

An opinion poll by YouGov for the Sunday Times found that supports of the Conservative Party, Labour Party and Liberal Democrats all wanted Germany to win last night’s World Cup final, with UKIP supporters saying they would support neither side.

Taliban fighters in Afghanistan have told ISIS militants in Iraq to “avoid extremism”. The Mail on Sunday reports that the Afghani fundamentalists have told ISIS, which is predominantly Sunni, to avoid ‘disturbing’ other sectors of Islam. Taliban commanders also told

A Muslim father warned the Prime Minister about attempts to impose hard line Islamist practices at one the Birmingham schools involved in the Trojan Horse scandal. Mohammed Zabar told the Mail on Sunday that he had emailed the Prime Minister’s

The privatisation of Britain’s Royal Mail was blighted by a fear of failure and poor advice from banks, a committee of MPs has said. The UK’s formerly state-run postal service was sold for £2bn in October last year, priced at

Christians should marry Muslims to tackle Islamophobia, a senior former judge has said. Lord Scott, who formerly served in the Supreme Court, said that his own family, in which two of his children married Muslims, is an example of how

Extreme Islamist group ISIS have seized 90lb (40kg) of radioactive uranium in Iraq which could be used to make a dirty bomb. The Times reports that the militants seized the material after overrunning a university in the city of Mosul,

The UK Independence Party has one the best ‘brands’ in Britain, ranking them alongside companies such as Apple and Coca Cola, and charities such as the Red Cross, according to a major marketing survey. The ‘Storytelling Survey’ by firm Aesop

Rumours were swirling today that London Mayor Boris Johnson may stand for Parliament in the seat of Uxbridge at next year’s General Election. The London Evening Standard reports that current MP Sir John Russell announced earlier that he intends to

The head of an inquiry into historic sex abuse by politicians and other powerful figures has said she will not quit, despite her brother being linked to an Establishment cover-up of the same paedophile ring she will be investigating. Baroness

Two British schoolgirls who ran away to join jihadis in Syria were model students who scored top marks in their school leaving exams. The Mail reports that Zahra and Salma Halane, both aged 16, were among the best students at

European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has said that Britain will be able to claw back certain powers from Brussels ahead of an in-out referendum on the country’s continued EU membership, the Telegraph reports. British Prime Minister David Cameron failed last

The BBC has admitted that pictures of alleged Israeli airstrikes on Gaza and their aftermath may be inaccurate. A little-known division of the corporation called BBC Trending says that many of images being shared on social media under the #GazaUnderAttack

Climate change is not to blame for the disappearance of the Caribbean coral reef, an environmental group has admitted. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has issued a report saying that the blame instead lies in the

Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond has been accused of personally pressuring the chairman of Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE), the body that represents the country’s financial services, to drop a report on independence. The Daily Telegraph says that Mr Salmond telephoned

More than half the British public think the television licence fee should be scrapped, and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) forced to find new ways to subsidise itself. According to a poll by ComRes, 51 of the British public would

The memorial commemorating the victims of the July 7 bombings in London was defaced just hours before a memorial service was due to be held on the ninth anniversary of the attacks. The memorial, which consists of stainless steel columns

An academic conference at the University of Cambridge last July was told that paedophilic interest is “natural and normal for males”, and that “at least a sizeable minority of normal males would like to have sex with children… Normal males

Former UK foreign secretary, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, has said that Britain is under threat from Islamist terrorists who have “devilish technical skills.” Sir Malcolm, who now chairs the Commons Intelligence and Security Committee, said he has “no doubt” that extra

A top environmentalist in the United States has been exposed as a hypocrite after it emerged that he has invested in fossil fuels. Tom Steyer, a billionaire hedge fund manager who has pledged $100m to defeat Republican candidates who are

British Prime Minister David Cameron has ordered an investigation into what happened to a dossier that contained allegations of paedophile activity within parliament in the 1980s. Sky News reports that Cameron has ordered Mark Sedwill, permanent secretary to the Home

A British-born jihadi who claims to be fighting in Syria has branded his former country “pure evil” and said he will only return to the UK when the “black flag of Islam” is hanging outside Buckingham Palace. According to the

Fracking has led to a greater reduction in carbon emissions than all the world’s wind turbines and solar panels put together, the Council of Europe heard last week. Speaking at a meeting of the council, which promotes co-operation between all

More than 100 British imams have signed an open letter urging UK Muslims not to join jihadi fighters in Iraq and Syria, according to Sky News. The letter comes during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, and against the backdrop

Patients on Britain’s National Health Service are facing increasing delays while waiting for common operations, despite a government pledge to keep waiting list times low. The Guardian reports that patients are now waiting an average of 15 days longer now

A man claiming to be Nasser Muthana, the British-born Jihadist who appeared in alongside two others in an ISIS propaganda video two weeks ago, has posted new pictures of over a dozen homemade bombs, with the caption: “So the UK

Two major political parties in Norway have stated they would consider advocating a ban on the burqa following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that a similar ban in France does not violate the fundamental rights

Security at British airports is being stepped up after the U.S. received intelligence that jihadists plan to target flight with so-called “stealth bombs”. Passengers at London Heathrow will now face extra checks on footwear and electronic devices before they can

A hard-hitting new campaign claims that if the Syrian Civil War was taking place in Britain, London would be abandoned while everyone in the town of Reading, which has a population of over 150,000, would be dead. The online international