‘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
An estimated 5,900 children in England and Wales are living on as little as £1 a day because Europe’s open borders and an influx of economic migrants from further afield has allowed parents to travel to the United Kingdom without due care
Prime Minister David Cameron’s former communications chief Andy Coulson has been formally acquitted of lying under oath by the High Court in Edinburgh, three years after being charged with perjury. Lord Burns threw the case against David Cameron’s former director of communications out
One of the oft-touted leaders of the eurosceptic ‘out’ campaign has come out in favour of staying inside the European Union, if David Cameron’s renegotiation leads to a ‘two tier’ Europe. Matthew Elliott, who led the successful No2AV campaign against electoral
FIFA is the EU on turf. The indignation being expressed by Outraged of Brussels over the idiosyncratic practices of the newly resigned Sepp Blatter and his merry men is a classic exercise in hypocrisy by the European elites. It is as if
Twitter’s transgender police were out in force this morning after the BBC’s James Naughtie referred to Bruce Jenner as “he” and “he/she” on the flagship Radio 4 Today programme. Speaking to a colleague from the ‘BBC Trending’ website, which Naughtie also
Australians are facing the prospect of having to visit sex shops to buy cigarettes, in a bid by lobbying groups who say ‘adult only’ premises should get a monopoly on selling tobacco products. The Australian Sex Party, which has one member
In April, I challenged Feminist Frequency host Anita Sarkeesian to debate me some time around the E3 conference in Los Angeles this month.
The newly appointed Vice Chancellor of Oxford University, Prof Louise Richardson, has told a conference in London that the United States “overreacted” to the terrorist attacks of 9/11. She said the population of Northern Ireland, in contrast, lived with sectarian
FIFA President Sepp Blatter resigned on Tuesday. The resignation comes just four days after Blatter won reelection to a fifth term and less than a week after a raid led to police taking away more than a half dozen of
As David Cameron continues his tour of European capitals, the EU cannot help but send out terrible signals to the British electorate. Since the general election result, you might assume Brussels would try to smother us with positive visions of
Despite the rhetoric surrounding cuts and austerity, councils countrywide are hoarding assets as diverse as restaurants, golf courses, shopping centres, and even nightclubs and fish stands, according to new research by the Taxpayers’ Alliance. Over the course of the last
Both political friends and foes have paid tribute to Charles Kennedy, the former Liberal Democrat leader who died yesterday. He was a larger than life figure in Westminster known for his flair for witty, intelligent and incisive public speaking. Douglas Alexander,
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) spent more than £26 million on maintaining grounds and gardening services in 2013-14 despite a huge budgetary black hole. The figures were calculated by the Tax Payers’ Alliance (TPA) who said that 43 hospital trusts in
Two carriages have crashed into one another on the ‘Smiler’ ride at top UK theme park Alton Towers, leaving four people injured. Eye witnesses reported seeing “blood everywhere” as ambulance crews and rescue services raced to the scene at the
Has Twitter turned on its userbase? Desperate to develop a viable revenue model as investors start to lose confidence, the microblogging giant has begun to exert greater control over its users’ timelines. Originally presented as a means to tackle “trolling” and “abuse”, new
The UK wind farm industry has threatened the government with legal action if subsidies for renewable energy are pulled. Yesterday, a prominent renewables lawyer took to the Guardian to warn against the “wilful destruction” of the wind farm industry. His
The Danish People’s Party, which is expected to hold the balance of power after next month’s general election, is calling for a referendum on Denmark’s membership of the EU. Party leader Kristian Thulesen Dahl said his aims for reform were
A report by pollster ICMUnlimited has called into question the neutrality of the proposed European Union referendum question, suggesting ‘acquiesence bias’ could hand victory to the Europhiles. Claiming the chosen question for next year’s planned referendum, “Should the United Kingdom remain a
Good news: the Sahara desert is getting greener because of “climate change.” Climate change has achieved what Bob Geldof and Live Aid failed to do by ending the drought in the Sahel region of Africa that killed more than 100,000
The shamed child protection chief who failed to speak out about British Pakistani gangs grooming young white girls has been forced out of her consultancy role after the Department of Education ruled her employment breached guidelines. Sue Berelowitz, who was the
The crisis at Fifa has deepened after Sepp Blatter’s right-hand man has been linked to a $10 million payment that the FBI allege was a bribe paid by the South African Football Association. Jerome Valcke is accused of authorising the
Paris police started evicting hundreds of migrants Tuesday from a tent camp near a major train station and tourist area — a patch of increasingly crowded pavement that has become a symbol of Europe’s struggle in facing a surge of migrants.
Two men have been arrested in New York for ‘man-spreading’ – the act of taking up too much space on the underground or metro system. The arrests have come to light in a report on the efficacy of ‘broken window’s
After a Danish research institute noted the protein content of wheat had dropped to the lowest ever, international buyers have shunned the grains, insisting on importing wheat from other European countries instead. Denmark instituted strict nitrate limits in 1991 to
One of the most senior British diplomats has claimed that the Islamic State is “not Islamic and they are not a state” – in a major policy speech to the United Nations Security Council on Friday. Mark Sedwill, the Permanent
