‘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
The M74 motorway in Scotland suffered delays following reports of a dog “taking control of a tractor”. It emerged that a sheepdog called Don had leaned on the controls of a tractor, sending it onto the road. Police later recovered
Boris Johnson has joined a campaign mounted by a group of senior politicians who want to see Lord Janner prosecuted for alleged sex abuse after the case was dropped for the second time. The Labour Peer was first accused of
The release of the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war has been delayed until next year due to arguments about controversial content and the behaviour of leading individuals. The report was initially delayed due to a three year dispute between
Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has joked that he will write Labour’s first budget if the party comes to power after next month’s election. Salmond, who will almost certainly be elected as an MP and may end up leading
Every once in a while – okay, every few hours – I get a text, email or Twitter message from someone threatening to kill me, saying they’d be happy if I died or even instructing me to commit suicide. Tweets such
A mysterious army of ‘teenage girls’ has been causing waves by releasing ingeniously photo-shopped images of Ed Miliband’s face on the bodies of notable figures from fact and fiction. Mildly entertaining though they are, they don’t seem to have had
Police have released the first images from inside the vault raided in the Hatton Garden jewel heist, showing the chaotic scenes left behind. Thieves raided the vault over the Easter weekend earlier this month and broke into 72 deposit boxes,
A British trader operating out of his parents’ West London semi is facing extradition to the US following allegations that he in part caused a stock market ‘flash crash’. Almost £570billion was wiped off the value of America’s biggest companies
Equity feminist and former philosophy professor Christina Hoff Sommers is not a particularly threatening figure. But student activists at Oberlin and Georgetown colleges, where Sommers recently spoke, were insistent that her presence on their campuses posed a threat to the student
The Communist Party has launched its manifesto for the general election, where it is fielding only nine candidates in a political field full of splinter left wing, ‘anti austerity’ groups. Criticising the Labour Party for ‘being dominated by its right
The University of London, Goldsmiths is holding a racially and gender segregated event today, all in the sacred name of diversity. It’s not the first time such a self contradiction in right-on undergraduate thinking has taken hold at this public
Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps has been accused of secretly editing Wikipedia to promote himself and add unflattering details about his rivals. Shapps is alleged to have been behind the account Contribsx, which has continually deleted embarrassing information about the
The BBC should be “cut back to the bone”, Nigel Farage has told reporters during a walkabout in Kent. The UKIP leader said the license fee should be roughly a third of its current level, bringing it down from £145.50
Big government always makes absurd decisions, as mandarins are forced to shoehorn real life into their regulations. But two immigration rulings made within the last few days exemplify everything that is wrong with the immigration system in this country today. Both
Supermarket giant Tesco has announced record losses of £6.4 billion, rounding off a disastrous financial year dominated by an accounting scandal and ferocious price wars with cut price chains. The company called the figures a “horror show” with an annual
A Dutch-German ‘Sharia compliant’ sex aid company is to establish a shop in Mecca, the Saudi Arabian city considered holy in Islam as it is believed to be the birth place of Mohammed. Despite the outwardly controversial nature of the planned
With Labour’s fortunes improving, odds on Ed Miliband being Prime Minister as Hillary Clinton is sworn in as the next US President on 20th January 2017 are 3/1. A Labour minority government after the General Election is favourite at 17/10,
(Reuters) – Tesco plunged to an annual loss of 6.4 billion pounds on Wednesday, the worst in its 96-year history, after shoppers deserted Britain’s biggest retailer and forced it to write down the value of its stores. Hurt by an
There are currently two general elections taking place. The first and more advertised is the fantasy election being conducted within the imagination of the political class, the BBC, the dead-tree press and the vast array of public bodies, quangos and
Madonna has landed herself in trouble on social media again.
Men make better chess players. They have what psychopathology professor Simon Baron Cohen calls “systematising” brains, whereas women have “empathetic” brains. But Nigel Short, a UK grandmaster player, got into trouble this week for pointing out this biological reality. Short joins chess
A UKIP candidate has had his challenge for a wager on UKIP’s success in the General Election turned down.Mark Hughes, the prospective candidate for Harwich and North Essex, took to twitter to offer the challenge to his rival, Bernard Jenkin
Italian police have arrested the captain and first mate of the ship which foundered in the Mediterranean over the weekend, causing catastrophic loss of life. Both have been charged with people trafficking; the captain has also been charged with reckless
Midnight Monday was the last chance voters had to register to vote for this year’s general election. One of the most unpredictable general elections for decades has seen all parties striving to get all the voters they can on the electoral
A large fire occurred yesterday at Hove Town Hall caused by a faulty solar panel on the roof of the building. No-one was hurt. Locals have been quick to take aim at the Green party with jibes over their record in office
