‘Unaccompanied minors’ who came to Europe from Syria and Afghanistan embarked on a campaign of sexual abuse and terror after they were put into classes with Austrian children who may have been too scared to report the attacks. Four boys aged
Roger Harrabin is the BBC’s in-house green activist-in-chief. He gets very upset when you mention this (journalists at the Beeb being obliged to be strictly impartial) – despite the fact that he has form a mile long – but just
Hundreds of political activists are set to strip down and ride naked through London tomorrow to protest against fossil fuels. The cyclists are due to ride in from six areas of London to a central meeting point at Hyde Park
In mid-April the Met Office, the UK’s national weather service, briefed the government, councils and emergency services to plan for hotter than average temperatures. Optimistic predictions of “gloriously warm weather” based on the Met Office’s models failed to materialise, however, as
Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott is no fan of wind turbines. Far from it. In the past he has called them “ugly” and “noisy”. Now he has slammed them as “visually awful” after coming face-to-face with the Green left’s favourite source
Following EU President Jean-Claude Juncker’s call for an EU army, the European Parliament voted to implement the Common Security and Defence Policy last week. As Get Britain Out reported back in March, this confirms the worst fears of deeper integration
A Malaysia Airlines flight returned safely to Melbourne airport on Friday, having turned back within minutes of take-off after an engine fire alert went off, airport and airline officials said. The Airbus A330 aircraft MH148 was carrying 300 passengers and
LILLE, France (AP) — Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been cleared of pimping charges in a French trial that hinged on sex parties that took place in the midst of the global financial crisis. Friday’s verdict closes
They’re now being called ‘Britain’s Dumbest Criminals’, but perhaps the two men who stole a Mercedes and tried to stash it in a police station had just come across the phrase “hiding in plain sight”. Manchester Evening News reports that a
Muslims living in the Arctic Circle have been forced to come up with new rules for Ramadan when they are expected for fast from sunrise to sunset – as the region has 24-hour sunshine. Ramadan begins on 18 June this
Labour candidate John Biggs has won the Tower Hamlets mayoral election. He beat the corrupt ex-mayor Lutfur Rahman-backed candidate Rabina Khan into second place. Biggs was defeated by Rahman in the 2014 mayoral election in the borough, but the result was
Charlotte Church has spoken out about her new-found interest in politics, describing a sudden desire to become a social justice warrior. The Welsh singer also wants to undermine the Conservative government using dancing, fun “and a little bit of hedonism”.
The father of an English girl in arrested in Malaysia after a nude mountain-top stunt has blamed a ‘half-wit’ Canadian for her predicament. Timothy Hawkins said his daughter Eleanor was “very scared, very upset” after the man used social media
Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June. Regular readers of this column will recall that the author bravely came out of the closet as trans-black in April, following years of misery in which my innate blackness felt like a
The Council of Europe’s ‘European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance‘ (ECRI) published critical reports this week calling for action in Hungary and Poland to fight prejudice within their borders. Although often cited as victims of intolerance in the UK it has been shown that
Nearly 20 per cent of students currently studying at primary schools in England do not have English as a first language, new figures reveal. Statistics published by the Department for Education show that out of 3,572,108 students in state primary
Clambering to the crest of a ridge named Mont Saint-Jean on the early morning of June 18, 1815, the solitary figure who raised a looking glass to his eye probably was not thinking about the future of western civilization. For that British commander, victory on the rain sodden fields below him only represented what he hoped would be the final check on the territorial ambitions of the French adventurer who had convulsed Europe in war for over 15 years.
TOWER HAMLETS, London, United Kingdom – Riot vans cruise menacingly through the streets and uniformed officers guard the entrances to polling booths. These are familiar sights at elections in any politically turbulent third world country, but they were quite alien
Jurassic World. While lumpen folk concern themselves with trivial questions like “Is it any good?”, Britain’s premier mediator of correct thinking – the Guardian – has today asked the only question that really matters: “Is it sexist?”
French air-force chief Mercier has blasted US forces for going after soft targets in Syria and failing to engage the Islamic State’s “centres of gravity”. In an interview this week, Général d’armée aérienne Denis Mercier, chief of staff of the French
Her Majesty visited Cardiff this week, but what happened as she left was perhaps not the best advertisement for constitutional monarchy. Six-year-old Maisie Gregory was minding her own business, curtseying after meeting The Queen, as you are supposed to, when
Islamist terror group Al-Qaeda has been left unable to function and on the brink of collapse by the meteoric rise of the Islamic State, claims a new report. The clear sense of purpose, establishment of a Caliphate and accessible propaganda
In over 16 years as an MEP, I’ve never seen such a vast amount of emails, correspondence, even members of the public phoning my office in Strasbourg as I have recently over the issue of the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment
Mumsnet, the popular online forum for mothers, has been accused of openly promoting the use of illegal abortion pills ordered by post. The site’s annual charity appeal is supporting The Abortion Support Network, a group that encourages women in Ireland
At the end of last month the NUS hosted its Black Students’ Conference, which was much ridiculed by the right on Twitter for its hatred of white people that frankly made the dislike of men on show at the NUS
A Muslim teacher who claims to have changed his name from Hamid Mahmood to Harry Mason in order to get more job interviews spent years at a terror-linked mega mosque in Dewsbury, in West Yorkshire. Mahmood took to the BBC, Buzzfeed,
