The International Trademark Association (INTA) has joined the legal battle against plain packaging for tobacco products in order to champion property rights. In doing so it stands alongside the governments of the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Indonesia and Ukraine. Those countries
In casting around for who to blame for losing last week’s UK general election other than themselves, Labour supporters in Britain have found a new target for their anger – American Republicans. The in-house journal of the liberal left, the
For the third time this year a secular blogger critical of Islam has been murdered on the streets of Bangladesh. Four masked men attacked Ananta Bijoy Das as he left his home on Tuesday morning to work at a bank,
Gay-themed traffic lights have been introduced to Austria’s capital city, host of next week’s Eurovision Song Contest. Reuters reports that pedestrian crossings in central Vienna have been altered to show male or female couples with hearts replacing the usual single, gender-neutral
LONDON, England – Hollywood star George Clooney’s wife, celebrity human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, 37, is a prodigiously busy lady. No sooner has the “breathtakingly beautiful and formidably successful” lawyer accompanied her husband to the premiere of his latest movie
Less than a week since the Conservative Party’s general election victory and with the ink still drying on the Prime Minister’s Cabinet appointments list, the opening salvos have been fired in the EU renegotiation battle. EU ministers from Hungary, Poland and
Hungary, Slovakia and Estonia have rejected EU plans to introduce a quota system that would oblige countries to share the burden of refugees, reports the Associated Press. The countries are objecting publicly to the proposed quota system which requires the
In the wake of Labour’s general election defeat Breitbart Associate Editor Milo Yiannopoulos poses an important question: How does it make you feel, lefties, that me, @JamesDelingpole and @KTHopkins actually speak for the majority? — Milo Yiannopoulos (@Nero) May 8,
After the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) confirmed earlier this week that the German government is expecting the number of asylum applications it processes to double from nearly 173,000 first-time applications in 2014 to 400,000 in 2015, Federal
Research by psychologists at the University of Bradford appears to show that large numbers of social media users are traumatised by the violent and disturbing photographs available on Twitter and Facebook. There is a need, according to the researchers, for
The parents of Sheffield toddler Ollie Wray were surprised to find that their two-year-old is likely to be the UK’s youngest registered voter at today’s general election. The Sheffield Star reports that Ollie brought his polling card to his father, Andy
Britain’s active participation in an upcoming EU summit is at risk if Thursday’s election fails to yield a decisive result, reports The Times . If no party wins the election outright or alternatively wins the ability quickly to secure the
A banned terror group took part in last week’s May Day rally in central London, unhindered by police. Despite having been designated a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK since March 2001 the Turkish Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) was
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner, Dr Alan Billings, admitted nothing was done about the “very entrenched” child sex exploitation in his region following the first warnings over 10 years ago because
Protecting the global position of the City of London and the financial services industry which it feeds has always been a shared concern for senior British politicians. Now the leftward move of the Labour Party under Ed Miliband has driven
George Galloway, Ken Livingstone and Len McCluskey gave their public backing to Lutfur Rahman, ousted mayor of Tower Hamlets, during a rally of supporters held last night in east London, reports The Evening Standard. The event came soon after Secretary
An assortment of radical leftists have marched in London this afternoon on their annual May Day rally. Banners included messages supportive of Stalin and Lenin, with the Turkish communists particularly well-represented this year. All photographs by Sarkis Zeronian.
Allies of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán have been forced to declare that the country has no plans to reintroduce the death penalty, following the outraged reaction of European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and European Parliament President Martin Schulz to
In the wake of last week’s Election Court judgement Eric Pickles, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has taken a series of urgent steps to protect potentially damning documents and emails held by Tower Hamlets Council from being
Wikipedia has indefinitely banned the Scots UKIP MEP David Coburn for a breach of the website’s editorial guidelines, reports the Daily Record. A Wikipedia administrator blocked Coburn, UKIP’s parliamentary candidate for Falkirk in next week’s general election, after the page
The Council of Europe’s latest analysis of democracy, human rights and the rule of law reveals many European governments failing to safeguard against corrupt judiciaries while also suppressing dissent in the media. The report, “State of Democracy, Human Rights and
Tuesday night saw the premiere of the latest British party political broadcast filmed by established Hollywood talent. Ed Miliband – A Portrait , described by the Guardian film critic as “a rather generic piece of journeyman work for Paul Greengrass”,
The future career of Margaret Hodge, the prominent Labour Party politician and parliamentary candidate for Barking in next week’s election, is today uncertain as critics accuse her of “hypocrisy” over allegations relating to her personal tax affairs published in The
Consider yourself warned. AFP is reporting that ahead of next week’s British general election the government of Ireland has initiated an unprecedented campaign to caution their nearest neighbour and biggest trading partner against leaving the European Union. The move is
Leading trade unionist Len McCluskey, general secretary of Unite, has said that the Labour Party and the Scottish National Party could work together if Ed Miliband is Prime Minister after the general election. In doing so he contradicted the Labour
