Argentina is planning to hijack British oil rigs near the Falkland Islands to stop them drilling in the disputed territory, according to defence sources who say that the country has purchased four new super-tugs to intercept oil platforms. Writing for
The Anglican Church has banned its clergy from joining the British National Party and National Front, declaring that both groups are “un-Christian” and are guilty of the “sin of racism”. This is the first time that clergy in Britain’s established
The Home Office is flying illegal immigrants and foreign criminals out of Britain on half-empty planes at a cost of millions of pounds a year. Each chartered plane costs up to £250,000, even though some only have a handful of
British schools watchdog ‘Ofsted’ is planning to give teachers guidance on combating extremism and radicalism in the classroom following the recent ‘Trojan Horse’ scandal where radical Islamists have attempted to take over schools in Birmingham. A source at the Department
Labour will pledge to increase NHS spending dramatically if it wins the next election, despite previous failings in the policy of throwing money at the oversized institution. The Independent reports that Labour leader Ed Miliband and his Shadow Chancellor Ed
Police in London have launched an investigation into a sign telling dog owners to stay out of a park because it is “an Islamic area now” and “Muslims don’t like dogs”. The sign, which was posted in Bartlett Park in
BBC News presenter Peter Dobbie has said the corporation’s expensive new headquarters is a “toxic waste pit” that is making staff ill, after contracting a vomiting bug. The Mail on Sunday reports that staff at the new Broadcasting House in
Prime Minister David Cameron reportedly warned that Britain could leave the European Union if Jean-Claude Juncker becomes next president of the European Commission. Cameron is said to have issued the warning to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is backing Mr
One of the Conservative Party’s longest serving frontbenchers is expected to be sacked in a forthcoming government reshuffle. Kenneth Clarke is currently a Minister without Portfolio in the government and is one of the few remaining Conservative Europhiles. In his
Children and adults with disabilities are at risk of “sickening abuse” because the NHS has failed to transfer them to suitable accommodation. The Telegraph reports that ministers had pledged that around 3,000 people with autism and learning disabilities would have
A British woman is facing up to 20 years in an Iranian prison after criticising the country’s former supreme leader in a Facebook post. Roya Saberi Negad Nobakht, who is originally from Stockport, Greater Manchester, was visiting friends in the
The number of illegal immigrants crossing into Europe has risen sharply in the first four months of this year, meaning that this year’s figures could overtake those of the 2011 Arab Spring. EU border agency Frontex said that 42,000 illegal
Just under three quarters of people who voted UKIP in last week’s European Elections intend the stick with the party in next year’s General Election, according to a ComRes poll for ITV. The poll also reveals that a third of
After weeks of attempting to smear and undermine UKIP in the run-up to the European Elections, the British left is still coming to terms with the party’s sweeping victory last week. Young liberal-leftists have expressed their outrage on social media,
Footballer Joey Barton, who will appear on tonight’s BBC Question Time, has praised the UK Independence Party and said that its rise is due to the Conservative Party’s failure to “get its act together”. The Queens Park Rangers player who
Chancellor George Osborne, Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls and former Labour minister Peter Mandelson are among the attendees at this year’s Bilderberg conference, which kicks off today and runs until Sunday. Around 140 people from 22 countries have confirmed their attendance
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond was yesterday forced to admit that an independent Scotland could find itself deeper in debt than the rest of the UK after he had to ditch the oil revenue forecasts on which his plans for
A head teacher has claimed that he warned Britain’s Department for Education (DfE) four years ago about the ‘Trojan Horse’ plot by Islamists to take over schools. Tim Boyes said he told the department in 2010 about a ‘bloodless coup’
Racial prejudice among the British public is lower than five years ago, according to a new study. The British Social Attitudes Survey found that prejudice has dropped from 33 percent of the population in 2009 to 30 percent in 2013.
Britain is giving more than £30 million a year in benefits to families in other countries and, under European Union law, the government can do nothing about it. This means that families with hardly any connection to Britain can take
A pregnant Pakistani woman has been stoned to death by her own family in front of a high court after she married against their wishes. The Daily Mail reports that around 20 members of the woman’s family, including her own
Over 100,000 people have signed an online petition demanding the government bring forward a bill to allow voters to kick out an under-performing MP half way through a parliament. The petition, hosted on the 38 Degrees website, currently has 122,115 signatures and
A German has published photos of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge’s bottom, sparking a new royal privacy row. The pictures, which show her summer dress blowing up as she and Prince William walk away from a helicopter, were published in the
The leader of France’s conservative opposition UMP party, Jean-François Copé, resigned today after police raided his offices in an investigation over a massive fraud scandal involving former President Nicolas Sarkozy. France 24 reports that the entire UMP front bench now
A conceptual artist from Norway cooked his own hipbone “on a whim” and ate the flesh with potatoes and a glass of wine. Alexander Selvik Wengshoel made the claim at the opening of his graduation show, saying that the meat
The chairman of the inquiry into the Mid-Staffs hospital scandal has warned that Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is so unsafe they if it were an airline “planes would fall out of the sky all the time.” Robert Francis QC,
The UK Independence Party are on course to win the European Elections in the UK in what looks set to be a historic victory for the insurgent anti-EU party. With the majority of UK regions having declared their results, at
UKIP look set to come first in the European Elections following a series of encouraging results in the British regions that have already declared. The anti-EU party have so far finished first in the West Midlands, South West, South East,
UKIP have won the largest share of the vote in the Eastern region, with 542,812 votes and three seats. The Conservatives finished second with 446,569 votes, also winning three seats. Labour were in third place with 271,601 votes and one
North East England is the first region to declare its European Election results. Labour came first with 221,988 votes and two seats, with UKIP in second with 177,660 votes and one seat. All other parties failed to win any representation
A judge in Manchester has ruled that police cannot seize the £200,000 home of convicted terrorist Munir Farooqi as a criminal asset, according to BBC News. Police had wanted to take possession of the house and sell it in order
Labour Party leader Ed Miliband faced a series of humiliating attacks yesterday after members of his own party criticised his election strategy. Some critics also called him “weird” and suggested that his personality could alienate him from voters. The Daily
Energy Minister Michael Fallon has said that fracking should take place in Tory heartlands in south east England “in the national interest”, after a new report revealed 4.4 billion barrels of shale oil could lie beneath Kent, Sussex, Surrey and
Three Conservative MPs last night called for an electoral deal between their party and UKIP at the next General Election to prevent a split in the anti-EU right-wing vote. Douglas Carswell, Peter Bone and Jacob Rees-Mogg said that such a
Britain’s Labour Party has failed to take the key council of Swindon from the Conservatives, despite the Tories previously controlling the council with just a one-seat majority. Swindon is a key battleground between Labour and the Conservatives, with Labour holding
UKIP leader Nigel Farage yesterday hinted that he may be prepared to accept joint Conservative-UKIP candidates in next year’s General Election. The Daily Mail reports that he suggested that some sitting Conservative Eurosceptic MPs may support the idea in order
A leaked memo has revealed that the Liberal Democrats are planning to lose all their MEPs. Party figures have been told to react to a severe defeat in today’s European Elections by claiming they “expected” to lose all of their
A new poll for the Sun predicts that UKIP will shake off weeks of negative headlines and win today’s European Elections. The YouGov projection, based on a larger-than-usual sample of 6,124 voters over the past two days, gives the anti-EU
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused the BBC of hiring two actors to pose as relatives of miners killed in the Soma mining disaster. In a news report filed by BBC Turkey journalist Rengin Arslan, the two veiled
Several MPs have previously made remarks very similar to Nigel Farage on immigration from Romania, but have not been called racist by mainstream political parties or the media. Before immigration restrictions on Romanian and Bulgarian nationals were lifted at the
