The parents of 15 year old Lithuanian boy Arminas Pileckas have blasted Sweden and the Swedish media for cowardice in the face of the migrant threat, and for covering up the murder of their son. Arminas Pileckas, a native of northern
The mild-mannered Cambridge Classics professor Mary Beard has described how she was left “wanting to cry” after being bombarded by aggressive trolls on twitter for two full days – merely for signing a letter in support of free speech. As we reported earlier
Quick! Whip out your onions at once and shed a tear for the world’s most distinguished former railway engineer Dr Rajendra Pachauri. The jet-setting, cricket-loving, ice-shunning, meat-spurning, troll-impersonating chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has become accidentally
A schoolboy had his plastic gun confiscated this week after a city-wide manhunt was launched when a member of the public mistook his A-Team ‘Mr. T’ costume for a terrorist attack in Nice, France. The city has been on high
The Swedish cartoonist who is believed to have been the target of the deadly Copenhagen shoots has criticised the police, saying they “had not caught onto” the Modus Operandi of terrorists following last month’s Paris attacks. Lars Vilks, who has
The BBC refused to include UKIP Member of Parliament Mark Reckless in a debate on the European Union and the ongoing Greek crisis because he is not a woman. The party has said that it will not find a woman
Mohammed Ammer Ali, 31, tried to buy deadly ricin poison from an online marketplace, telling an undercover FBI agent he would be a “good repeat customer”, who would order enough poison to kill hundreds every month. Ammer was arrested at
A former Labour peer who repaid £125,000 in wrongly claimed expenses, was given an interest free loan of £124,000 partly funded by a businessman accused of being a part of the Muslim Brotherhood. Baroness Uddin made the £125,000 payment despite
Owen Paterson MP has attacked claims that three million British jobs depend on the European Union. The former cabinet minister instead said five million jobs were reliant on the Free Trade area the EEA, meaning that Britain could leave the
The Washington-based foreign affairs analyst and political commentator, Nile Gardiner has called for the British public to ignore both Downing Street and the White House by backing the UKs departure from the EU. The former aide to Margaret Thatcher made
A man who allegedly worked at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland during the Second World War is facing trial in Germany. The 93-year-old, who cannot be named because of privacy laws, stands accused of 170,000 counts of accessory to murder
As Islamic State militants establish a foothold in Libya, Britain has been warned to brace itself for ‘boats full of terrorists’ by Egypt’s Ambassador to the UK. Nasser Kamel made the comments after 2,163 migrants were rescued at sea in
David Cameron has backtracked on his opposition to grammar schools – state schools that select by ability – by indicating he would be in favour of allowing successful schools to expand. One Kent grammar has already put in an application
In a statement characteristic of the current political climate in the Church of England, the House of Bishops issued a letter ostensibly aimed at helping the faithful make up their mind on the imminent UK election. After some initial positive
A video has emerged of fans of Chelsea Football Club repeatedly pushing a black man out of a metro train in Paris. The fans are heard shouting: “We’re racist, we’re racist, and that’s the way we like it”. The footage was
An investigation into the finances of the Islamic State has shown one of its largest sources of funding is now a tax placed on artefacts stolen from museums in captured territory, which are then smuggled out of the country and
The controversial Channel 4 programme ‘UKIP: The First 100 Days’ appears to have spectacularly backfired on the broadcaster as regulator Ofcom reveals it has had over two thousand complaints since the programme was aired on Monday evening. The “mockumentary”, screened while the
A major international conference is taking place today in London which will explore for the first time what Britain’s alternatives to EU membership are. It is a cross party conference taking place at the former Conservative Party HQ, where Mrs
Bishop Giovanni Martinelli could well be the last Italian left in Tripoli and he has no intention of leaving, despite repeated death threats. “My faithful are here, I have to stay,” he says.
Another iconic, formerly respected, institution has joined the intolerant enforcement crusade of Political Correctness. The Red Cross – for more than a century a symbol of neutrality and even-handedness – has rejected the appeal of one of its leading volunteers
Two things have become inexplicably popular during the last year. One is the Green Party. The other is the inscrutable witterings of Russell Brand. Both have been taken seriously by many people who should know better. And despite how easy
Games journalism just levelled up, from self-harm to suicide. Having unsuccessfully tried to convince a generation of hardcore gamers that their hobby is misogynistic and racist, the games press has stepped up its campaign against the video games industry and begun to target
A Saudi cleric argues for geocentrism “at a university lecture in the United Arab Emirates,” because airplanes.
Labour’s most senior figure to date has switched her allegiance to UKIP, in a further blow to Ed Miliband as he faces a almost vertical climb to win the General Election in May. Harriet Yeo, who was chairman of Labour’s National Executive
The story so far: devastated by universally appalling reviews of its dreadful farrago of lefty nonsense UKIP: The First Hundred Days, Channel 4 has reluctantly agreed to make another, counterbalancing political mockumentary, a much more realistic one this time, called
Channel 4’s mockumentary Ukip: The First 100 Days, aired last night, has been widely panned by critics and the public alike as “agitprop” and a “hatchet job”. Channel 4 has not sought to deny the extreme political bias of the piece,
