Don’t believe the spin. The European Union’s drive towards centralisation continues at break-neck speed. This was illustrated just last night when a report – an ultimate EU wish list – was discussed in the European Parliament by the federalist fanatics
Speaking of an EU coup in Greece, Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has warned Europe will no longer exist as a monetary union if it fails to reform. In a recent interview he also accused the architects of the new
Britain took a 1.1 billion pound loss on its first sale of shares in Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) (RBS.L) on Tuesday, sparking accusations from opposition politicians of an unnecessarily rushed and costly disposal. The UK government sold a 5.4
A complete overhaul of the strategic planning for Britain’s defence forces is needed, according to Britain’s oldest conservative think tank. In a new report, the Bow Group has called on the Government to implement a much more wide-ranging long term
Britain will continue to bomb the Islamic State (ISIS) into 2017, the government has signalled by further extending the life of RAF 12th Bomber Squadron by another year. Originally stood down and disbanded in March 2014 on the recommendation of
An extensive survey of EU bureaucrats at the European Commission has revealed they feel rather hard done by. Their trade union, the European Civil Service Federation, is now complaining that their members “feel misunderstood, guilty, despised and harassed.” The statement follows
BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) – The number of immigrants living in Germany rose by 3.7 percent last year to a record high of 11 million and a fifth of the population is of a migrant background, the Federal Statistics Office said
I have been familiar with the ways of the European Union for many years, and I thought myself impervious to surprise at the extraordinary way in which Brussels imposes its will, with plain defiance of democracy and utter contempt for
The Sun newspaper, hardly known for its ideological integrity, appears to have tacked left today, attacking Conservative Mayoral Candidate Zac Goldsmith for appealing to right wing activists who support the oldest Conservative think tank in Britain. The Bow Group, which
I’m a Londoner who supports Manchester United. Go on, have your fun in the comments section. But as a child, I wasn’t about to trade the roof over my head for a strained, localist attempt to support a competitor team
Ex-trader Tom Hayes was sentenced to 14 years in jail by a London court on Monday after being found guilty of conspiring to rig Libor benchmark interest rates following a seven-year global investigation. After a nine-week trial and seven days
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has been accused of peddling an “extreme agenda” and pro Palestinian “political propaganda” in schools. The group is Britain’s largest trade union of teachers, counting its membership as over 325,000. It has, according to the
Councils stretched to breaking point by the migrant crisis have been dipping into the public purse to pay the cab fares for newly arrived migrants to reach to temporary accommodation in London. Fares of £150 are not uncommon, with one
When I joined the National Secular Society (NSS), and was elected to serve on its governing council, I did so because I believed it was secular organisation. I believed its own claim that it was “Britain’s only national organisation working
Various outbreaks of tuberculosis (TB) in and around Bolton have been attributed to the city’s higher than average migrant population in an official report. Bolton has a “significantly higher” rate of the deadly and contagious disease, and every single new
A group of Chinese teachers has branded British kids ill disciplined and emotionally immature after being tasked with teaching at UK comprehensive schools. Traditional “chalk and talk” teaching methods favoured by the Chinese have been credited with sending their country
The summer is known as the “cutting season.” This means that infants as young as two or three months old are being taken out of the UK to be genitally mutilated in their countries of origin, such as Malaysia, whose customs, like those of Iran, have become increasingly Arabized.
Hollywood luvvies probably don’t know much about the European Union, but they’re sure about to. Whenever Hugh Jackman, or George Clooney, or whoever the kids like nowadays hear about the EU, it is likely in the context of some PR-effort. Something
The President of the Czech Republic has called on refugees to respect his country’s rules or leave, telling them: “Nobody invited you here.” In an interview with newspaper Blesk, Czech President Milos Zeman told the growing number of refugees in
A healthy woman has ended her life at a suicide clinic in Switzerland rather than face old age. A palliative care nurse during her working life, she had previously said that she thought old people were “a burden on society”
A key Hillary Clinton confidant told her that British Prime Minister David Cameron was “unsure, inexperienced, oblique and largely uncommitted” on foreign policy, new emails reveal. The messages from Sidney Blumenthal, a former White House aide to Bill Clinton, also
In his latest column for the Mail on Sunday, journalist and author Peter Hitchens continues his campaign to expose the mistakes of Prime Minister David Cameron. On this occasion he turned his guns on Cameron’s “Libya folly” explaining the current
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s police watchdog says it will investigate whether police failed to pursue an allegation of child sexual abuse against the late Prime Minister Edward Heath in the 1990s. The Independent Police Complaints Commission said Monday it had
The Spanish region of Catalonia is to call an election today which its government hopes will act as a proxy vote on independence. The Local reports that regional president Artur Mas will sign a decree that sets 27 September as
Dan Price, the “world’s nicest boss” who took a $930,000 salary cut earlier this year in order to pay even his lowliest staff members a minimum wage of $70,000, has reportedly hit hard times. Why does this story make me
A UKIP lord is writing a new guide to Islam, which he hopes will start a much-needed conversation about the religion and ideology, and help challenge commonly held misconceptions about it. To the anger of the liberal establishment, he has
