
Brussels splashed more than half a billion pounds on directly promoting the EU last year, through publicity and communications spending, new research has found. In addition, a further £3.1 billion was awarded to budgets that include a provision for promotional spending,
by Donna Rachel Edmunds11 Aug 2015, 4:48 AM PST0

Two teachers at an Islamic school in Birmingham have changed their plea to guilty and confessed to beating a ten-year-old boy with a stick for making mistakes when reciting the Quran. Mohammed Siddique, 60, and his son Mohammed Waqar, 23,
by Liam Deacon11 Aug 2015, 4:32 AM PST0

Australia’s conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott is no fan of gay marriage. At a personal level he has described himself as “probably the last holdout for the traditional position” in his family – a reference to his outspoken lesbian sister.
by Simon Kent11 Aug 2015, 4:19 AM PST0

An Italian church is offering Christian parents a ‘baby bonus’ to have a third child in a bid to stem demographic collapse. Concerned by the small number of Christian Italians being born, Father Stefano Bimbi of the parish of Staggia in Tuscany
by Oliver Lane11 Aug 2015, 4:06 AM PST0

UKIP’s Mike Hookem was threatened with a gun in a migrant camp in Dunkirk yesterday afternoon. The incident happened in the same camp widely reported to be controlled by a brazen South London gangster turned people smuggler. “Just been threatened
by Liam Deacon11 Aug 2015, 3:11 AM PST0

Julian Assange’s Wikileaks organisation has issued a whopping €100,000 bounty for the release of the secretive Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) documents, with a further €100,000 aimed at securing the release of the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal. The deals –
by Raheem Kassam11 Aug 2015, 3:04 AM PST0

Former British Cabinet Minister Norman Baker has inadvertently admitted that the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is an organ of the country’s political left – an argument often made by right wingers, but traditionally denounced as “conspiracy” or “spin” by their opponents. In
by Raheem Kassam11 Aug 2015, 2:24 AM PST0

Germany is again agitating for other European countries to take what they believe to be their ‘fair’ share of refugees coming to the continent with a stark warning that failing to do so could see the collapse of the EU. Vice
by Oliver Lane11 Aug 2015, 12:50 AM PST0

Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn MP has stormed ahead of his rivals in the latest YouGov poll just days before the ballot papers go out to decide Britain’s new opposition leader. New research has found that Corbyn – the darling of
by Breitbart London10 Aug 2015, 3:11 PM PST0

A newly published book asks why double standards exist for people who identify as straight men or straight women experimenting with members of the same sex. Basically, when straight women hook up with each other no explanation is required; but
by Sarkis Zeronian10 Aug 2015, 10:35 AM PST0

Up to 700 hard-left activists are planning to travel en masse to Calais from London to deliver “support” to illegal migrants camped near the Channel Tunnel. The development follows reports last week that French Police are “convinced” that British anarchist
by Liam Deacon10 Aug 2015, 9:37 AM PST0

Losing Labour leadership candidate Liz Kendall has released a new video entitled “An Open Letter to the Labour Party,” asking for people to support her over the insurgent socialist Jeremy Corbyn. With ballot papers going out to Labour members this
by Raheem Kassam10 Aug 2015, 9:18 AM PST0

Sums totalling over £120,000 were paid as bonuses to senior officers in the South Yorkshire Police Force at the same time as the child grooming scandal was unfolding. One officer alone received over £50,000 in two years as the abuse of hundreds of
by Sarkis Zeronian10 Aug 2015, 9:12 AM PST0

The realisation that an Islamist gunman who attacked a free speech conference and a synagogue in Denmark last February had been radicalised in prison triggered a massive reassessment of the national approach to Islam in prisons. In just 10 weeks after the shootings
by Oliver Lane10 Aug 2015, 8:55 AM PST0

Genetically modified crops will be officially banned in Scotland under new plans by the Scottish Government. The policy is the latest ‘green’ initiative by the Scottish National Party (SNP), which has already committed the country to generating 100 per cent of
by Donna Rachel Edmunds10 Aug 2015, 8:37 AM PST0

The Eritrean priest in the Calais migrant camp who leads the makeshift church that is to be featured in a controversial episode of BBC’S Songs of Praise has refused to appear. Fears for his family’s safety back in north-east Africa, shared by
by Sarkis Zeronian10 Aug 2015, 7:36 AM PST0

In the Telegraph today there is an obituary of a splendid fellow named Lt-Col ‘Shufti’ Chaudhri who won an MC (Military Cross – Britain’s third highest gallantry award) fighting in the Italian Campaign in 1944. In the early hours of
by James Delingpole10 Aug 2015, 7:26 AM PST0

Peaceful, multi-cultural Sweden has been rocked by yet another grenade attack in Malmö, as well as a double murder in an IKEA store just outside Stockholm. Police were called to the Västerås branch of the Swedish furniture mega-business around lunch-time today after
by Oliver Lane10 Aug 2015, 7:00 AM PST0

The British government is determined to act against any and all rogue employers hiring illegal immigrants over bonafide local workers. Immigration minister James Brokenshire said businesses denying work to British nationals and driving down wages can expect to be targeted. His
by Simon Kent10 Aug 2015, 6:31 AM PST0

The threat from so-called ‘lone wolf’ Islamic terrorists in Ireland has surpassed that posed by indigenous republican and Irish Republican Army (IRA) militants, for the first time in the nation’s history, according to Irish Police and Defence forces. Sources inside
by Liam Deacon10 Aug 2015, 6:09 AM PST0

A former Hamas Health Minister of the Gaza Strip, Dr Basem Naim, has embarrassed himself with his failure to understand a cartoon. Dr Naim tweeted the picture (above) believing he was making an anti-Israel statement only to find he had
by Sarkis Zeronian10 Aug 2015, 5:24 AM PST0

Outspoken TV star Katie Hopkins has revealed plans to pursue a new career in politics, expressing hopes to campaign alongside Ukip leader Nigel Farage in the European Referendum campaign. Although she is a conservative at heart, Ms Hopkins believes that Britain
by Donna Rachel Edmunds10 Aug 2015, 5:14 AM PST0

Eighteen foreign nationals who were granted UK visas for the London 2012 Olympics have still not left the country, despite each being a failed asylum seeker, it has emerged. The athletes and coaches are mostly from African nations including Eritrea, Sudan
by Donna Rachel Edmunds10 Aug 2015, 5:06 AM PST0

A four-month-old story about a woman running the London Marathon while on her period is suddenly, and inexplicably, making headline news in the United Kingdom. Kiran Gandhi ran the London Marathon way back in April while on the first day of
by Oliver Lane10 Aug 2015, 4:57 AM PST0

A grandfather from Tyne and Wear with no military experience has flown to Iraq and joined a front line unit fighting Islamic State. He said he was inspired to go as an example to his two grandsons, and because no
by Donna Rachel Edmunds10 Aug 2015, 3:45 AM PST0