London’s proposed Garden Bridge, which is to receive sixty million pounds in public subsidy, will serve “no practical purpose”, will not permit cyclists, and will have no public right of way, as taxpayers fund what appears to be an enormous,
The heir to the throne of the United Kingdom, and plenty of other countries besides, will break away from the Queen’s style of silent monarchy and continue a lifetime of interest and activism in political and social issues when he
A new report has called for the government to impose a punitive tax on unhealthy food, and to subsidise fruit for the poor after it found the cost of obesity, which it claims will affect half of all humans on
The extent of inappropriate relationships between Asian men and young girls in Britain’s second city, Birmingham, has been highlighted again as the High Court decides to reveal the names of six men given anti-grooming orders after they were found in
The prevalence of IP-enabled cameras on digital devices, such as web cams on laptops, modern baby-monitors and home security kits are handing easy access to bored computer-savvy teenagers, internet perverts and criminals as users fail to change the default passwords.
The controversial novelty Hawaiian shirt worn by British scientist Dr. Matt Taylor which ‘broke the internet’ after a furious ‘shirtstorm’ whipped up by enraged feminists has proven surprisingly popular, selling out on American shirt supplier Alohaland.com. Although Dr. Taylor’s favourite shirt
An NHS hospital which last week failed a surprise inspection has taken the unusual step of reporting 563 of its own “serious failings” in the past two years, an admission of potential avoidable deaths, abuse, and infectious outbreaks, in the
Another English city has been implicated in the growing child abuse scandal, as the nation’s ‘Second City’ has been accused by the author of a “ground-breaking” 1991 child sex grooming report of destroying all copies after she tried to reveal
Last minute attempts to avert defeat in this week’s by-election in Rochester have taken a curiously middle-class turn, as the Conservatives have claimed voting UKIP will cause house prices to fall. Tory spin doctors are appealing to Rochester and Strood’s
A government minister in Ebola-stricken Liberia has blasted aid workers living the high life in the poor West African nation, spending thousands of dollars on stays in top hotels, driving round in expensive cars and routinely earning more than even
The Conservatives have announced plans to keep violent drinkers off the booze by fitting them with digital alcohol-sensing bracelets of the sort famously modelled by actress Lindsay Lohan after a drink-driving incident in 2007. The tags, worn in a similar
Islamic State murderer and propagandist ‘Jihadi John’ has issued a graphic warning of coming slaughter on the streets of the West in the new YouTube video that features the beheading of at least nineteen men, including former American soldier Peter
The disappointed father of Nasser Muthana identified his son in the new ISIS killing video released yesterday as one of a group of men in army-style fatigues beheading a party of Syrian army and air force officers. Muthana, 20, had
You can shoot them, but poisoning is illegal! In response to a surge in foxes terrorising residents, a London council has re-issued its advice leaflet on how to deal with the urban menace, and it’s remarkably strident compared to the
The UK Prime Minister has announced a new scheme to make it easier for members of the public to report extremist internet material to Scotland Yard’s dedicated censorship unit, with an online panic-button hosted by major internet service providers (ISP).
UKIP deputy chairman Suzanne Evans has hit back at Labour shadow health secretary Andy Burnham after he called their NHS policy “opportunistic”, in a scathing letter which calls out “Labour’s noted failure to improve” health in the UK, and their
The Church of England has hit back at the government for imposing a “narrowly focussed” set of ‘British Values’ on schools in the wake of the Trojan horse scandal. The measures are designed to combat Islamic extremism but could instead
Dozens of armed police and soldiers are paroling eastern Paris, France tonight as they react to sightings of a rogue ‘tiger’ prowling the area, which is only five miles from the popular Euro-Disney theme park. Police were initially alerted after
Despite not having been passed through rigorous clinical trials, or in some cases not having been tested on humans at all, three experimental Ebola treatments are going to be deployed in West Africa in coming weeks as part of an
Britain’s foreign secretary has dismissed as ‘bizarre’ the Lib Dem plan to enshrine the foreign aid budget in law by passing a bill fixing the amount of money the country gives away abroad at almost one percent of the gross
The Conservative pledge to slow immigration appears to be on the rocks, and those who warned of a flood of economic migrants after work restrictions for new members was lifted at the start of the year have been vindicated after
A key terror suspect has skipped bail and fled to join the Islamic State in Syria after British police failed to confiscate his passport, merely asking him to hand it over instead. Siddhartha Dhar, 31, was arrested with eight other
Britain’s National Health Service is going to start the largest ever patient recall today, after the discovery of a dentist who hadn’t cleaned his instruments properly in 32 years, exposing thousands to blood-borne diseases like HIV and Hepatitis-C. The Nottingham
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has admitted that he would be willing to do a deal with Labour after the next election, adding “I’d be very comfortable supporting anybody that gave me an opportunity to get my country back”. Farage spoke
