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
Twitter accounts associated with the Islamic State (ISIS) and radical Islam mourned the deaths of brothers Said and Cherif Kouchai and Amedy Coulibaly in France. French officials killed the two brothers, the men who allegedly slaughtered twelve innocent people at Charlie Hebdo, on Friday after they hid in a printing press building in Dammartin-en-Goele, just north of Paris.
You’ve heard of “manspreading,” that odious expression of white male patriarchy in which men sit on the subway or Tube with their legs too far apart and use up all the space, making the delicate wallflowers of the feminist literati
The Taliban have been offered posts in the new Afghan government but have turned them down, the BBC understands.
A Birmingham police officer’s double life as a gangster, running brothels and dealing drugs, was uncovered after he drove a £170,000 Ferrari to work. Colleagues grew suspicious after he showed up in the car and investigated, uncovering brothels in London
The Agence France-Presse is reporting that Said and Cherif Kouachi, the brothers believed to be responsible for the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, have been killed. In a separate hostage standoff at a kosher deli in Paris, new reports are suggesting the gunman has also been killed.
The BBC has refused to interview a black history month campaigner because he would not remove a large golliwog doll from around his neck. A BBC spokesman said that they asked Chaka Artwell to remove the doll because it might
The mob has triumphed: Ched Evans will not be signed by Oldham Athletic Football Club. The club dropped their offer to sign Evans after staff and their families were threatened. Evans has released a statement in which he blames “mob
Computer chip company Intel has been in the news this week after it announced it will be “investing” $300 million to “improve workplace diversity”, having been pressured by activists. The money will go towards hiring and retaining more women, with
A lecturer at an Irish university has said he would consider legal action if a member of the country’s media published or retweeted a cartoon of Mohammed. Dr Ali Selim, who teaches at Trinity University and is a member of
A hospital which was privatised by Labour is facing unsustainable financial problems, the management company have said. Circle, the private healthcare provider which manages Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire, will pull out of its service contract having told investors it was
I want to talk to you about stereotypes. Stereotypes can be funny, sometimes they can be offensive – some are based on an element of truth and some are gross misrepresentations. As a Scouser, I know all about stereotypes –
Police stormed a Jewish supermarket in East Paris in a burst of explosions just minutes after colleagues ended another siege in North Paris, with three of four terrorists killed so far. New reports now indicate four hostages and one gunman
Just a twenty minute car ride from Marais, the chic quarter of Paris in which the Charlie Hebdo offices are located, lies Gennevilliers, a northern suburb home to 10,000 Muslims where the Kouachi brothers were raised. Seven miles separate the
Broadcaster and columnist Julia Hartley-Brewer gave an impassioned defence of freedom of expression on BBC Question Time last night. Criticising the decision by British newspapers not to print the Charlie Hebdo cartoons depicting Mohammed, she accused them of “bottling it”
On last night’s BBC Question Time, presenter David Dimbleby read out the BBC’s editorial guidelines on depicting Mohammed, which confirm the Muslim prophet should never be shown. Following a debate on the Paris shootings and whether media outlets should show
The two brothers accused of the Paris Massacre were already flagged as terrorists and placed on a U.S no-fly list – and the pair both have links to hate cleric and former Imam of Finsbury Park mosque in North London
For the first time since the 10 May 2010, the day before Gordon Brown relinquished Number 10 and the Tories jumped into bed with Nick Clegg, I agree with David Cameron. Following yesterday’s announcement by Ofcom, the British broadcasting regulator,
Will Self, the literary equivalent of a tattered Salvador Dali melting clock poster on the bedroom wall of a pretentious fifth-former, has spoken out in the wake of Charlie Hebdo. The bestselling author, who recently dismissed George Orwell as a
The Head of MI5 has warned of a Paris style atrocity by Islamic terrorist groups taking place in Britain. Speaking at the Royal United Services Institute, Andrew Parker, the Director General of the Security Services, said extremists were “trying to
House prices rose by almost 8 percent last year, the Halifax announced earlier today. Nationwide has the rises at 7.2 percent. Both agree that the market has slowed in recent months, but the Halifax is still predicting rises of 3-5
Women have it pretty bad in the West – but perhaps not for the reasons you imagine, if, say, you’re a regular reader of the Guardian or Jezebel. Because, although women in Asia and the Middle East have to navigate stonings for
The two brothers behind the Charlie Hebdo murders have been killed following a siege at a printing business in the town of Dammartin-en-Goele to the north of Paris. Said and Cherif Kouachi holed themselves up in the business premises following
A porn star from Lebanon has received death threats after wearing a hijab in an adult film. Mia Khalifa, who was born in Beirut, Lebanon, is featured in the video with another porn actress and a male co star on
A Welsh MP has called for hairdressers to be officially regulated, to avoid “unscrupulous” and “incompetent” traders. Nia Griffith, Labour MP for Llanelli, raised the issue in a debate in Parliament on Wednesday, saying she was “quite shocked” hairdressers do
Jonathan Laurence, and associate professor of political science at Boston College and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, writes in Slate that Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s National Front political party, is “ready to seize the moment” after Wednesday’s Islamist massacre at the offices of satire magazine Charlie Hebdo.
