‘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
Silence is a funny old thing. As a mark of respect it is awesome. A stadium in silence is more impactful than the death wail of mourners, or very public tears of those wanting to be seen to be sad.
Omar Hallak, the principal at the Al-Taqwa College in Australia, banned girls from running in school, alleging that the activity could cause them to lose their virginity. The regulators have launched an investigation into the accusations.
Nigel Farage’s number one challenger in his bid to get to Westminster has been revealed as an entrepreneur who encourages migrant workers to come to England to take low paid jobs. Craig Mackinlay, who was an MEP candidate and former
The mayoral election in Tower Hamlets has been declared void and Mayor Lutfur Rahman labelled corrupt. A judge has ordered him to pay all the costs of court proceedings and make an immediate payment of £250,000 towards the final bill, which
It’s always dangerous to speculate on the outcome of claims relating to political corruption – civil or criminal. Evidence has to be tested and assertions measured before anyone rushes to judgement. The Guardian is learning that lesson today with the
The ordinary members of the public who petitioned the court to end the corruption in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets held a press conference on Thursday. They all faced financial ruin over the case, as legal fees hit £1 million,
Premiership footballer Adam Johnson has been charged with three counts of sex with a child under the age of 16 and one of grooming. The Sunderland player, 27, was arrested last month on suspicion of having a sexual relationship with
(Reuters) – European Union leaders will effectively reverse a cutback in rescue operations the Mediterranean on Thursday to try to prevent record numbers of people drowning as they try to flee war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa.
(Reuters) – Like millions of other British voters, Karl Wakeman supported Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives in the 1980s and then Tony Blair’s New Labour in the late 1990s. But now, as Britain heads towards a general election on May 7, the
France is to deploy soldiers and paramilitary police to defend Catholic churches following reports of a terrorist cell preparing an ISIS-style attack on congregations. Although already thinly spread and struggling with fatigue, the French deployment of 10,000 soldiers and many
James May has confirmed he has quit Top Gear just weeks after fellow presenter Jeremy Clarkson was sacked for hitting a producer. May left the long-running motor show when his contract expired last month, but has only now gone public
Yesterday evening UKIP leader Nigel Farage endured quite possibly the most brutal and malign encounter of his entire political career: an interview with a top BBC man so grotesquely unjust, so nakedly biased that I’m surprised Farage didn’t walk out
Here’s a reason to cheer if you’re one of those people plagued by mosquitoes. Scientists have discovered the chances of being bitten are down to genetic factors and a cure could be on its way. But immediate celebrations should be
Police in Northumbria are investigating threats made to a UKIP candidate by an angry voter. Newcastle East candidate David Robinson-Young said he had received a call from a man who had told him “you had better f**k off or you
Of the 150,000 migrants who came to Europe illegally by boat last year, just 5,000 could be granted asylum with the remainder being sent back, a document leaked ahead of today’s crisis talks on the state of the Mediterranean reveals.
Climate scientists and activists have accused the Green Party of ignoring its own core message by not talking about climate change in the general election campaign. Although the party’s manifesto discusses green policies and climate change at length, the party
Lutfur Rahman has been removed as mayor of Tower Hamlets after being found guilty of corruption, bribery and using “undue spiritual influence” over voters. He will be banned from standing for re-election to the vacant mayoralty. Judge Mawrey also said
The Conservative Party once claimed to stand for the defence of our green and pleasant land against the predations of environmental fanatics. How things change. Such is the current mania within the party for ‘modernisation’, the Conservative-led Malvern Hills District
On the back foot and with no rational arguments, Europhiles are increasingly turning to wishy-washy emotional reasons for staying within the EU. In light of this, it is unsurprising Brussels is now pushing for an integrated “European culture” programme to
Breitbart associate editor Milo Yiannopoulos, who was nominated by public vote as the leading candidate in the “journalist” category of the Shorty Awards this year, was scrubbed from the nominations roster after a whispering campaign by feminist agitators, say sources close to the Awards.
This is Earth Day’s 45th anniversary and it’s also – according to Earth Day Network’s somewhat optimistic website – “the year in which world leaders finally pass a binding climate treaty” and “the year in which citizens and organizations divest
Good news – today is Earth Day! That means the environmental movement – credited with such major successes as the spread of malaria across the Third World thanks to pesticide bans, preventing impoverished countries from developing, and driving manufacturing jobs
An academic whose son was injured while playing rugby has called for the sport to be banned at school. The government wants the sport, which was named after Rugby school in Warwickshire, to have increased participation to help curb rising
It’s Earth Day, that annual festival of self-important hand-wringing during which public sector employees are paid overtime to get the bus into work to turn the lights off for an hour and then back on again. Some of us, of
An ‘imminent’ terrorist plot to attack church services with machine guns while wearing fake police uniforms has been uncovered by French police… after the main suspect accidentally shot himself. After shooting himself in the leg with one of the weapons he was
