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
It’s the last day of the year, and like Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and traditions, we should take the opportunity not only to look back on the past year, but look forward to 2015. Next year brings us a
Serious questions have been raised after the healthcare worker who became Britain’s first diagnosed case of Ebola was allowed to fly on from Heathrow despite expressing concerns about having contracted the virus, and being tested repeatedly. The nurse who has now
Former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, has claimed the Labour leader Ed Miliband is leading a “traditional left-wing party” that will likely lose to the Conservatives at the next election. Blair told the Economist that May’s poll could become one
There’s no doubt about it, between the miserable weather and the Christmas raid on your wallet, it’s easy to feel pessimistic at this time of year. Between the spiralling public debt, the ever more frequent attacks on liberty and freedom
While pundits and politicians strive to persuade themselves and anyone else who will listen of the probable outcome of the General Election of 2015, voters may find themselves baffled by the vast amounts of misinformation put out by the mainstream
A lecturer at London’s left-wing School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) has drawn ridicule after delivering a “fictionalised”, hour-long talk about the UK Independence Party, in which he used spoof posters that stated UKIP claimed EU migrants would eat
Papers released under the ‘thirty year rule’ show Margaret Thatcher pushed ahead with the implementation of the new GCSE school examinations despite opposition from teaching unions. Even though she hated the new system for 16-year-old’s, she still went ahead with
A University of London lecturer has compared Nigel Farage and UKIP to the regime of Hugo Chavez, the late Venezuelan communist dictator. However, Dr Ryan Brading – a teaching fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) –
Over £1billion worth of property will be allowed to fall into the sea, the Environment Agency has decided, with no compensation paid to the properties owners as it has been deemed too expensive to protect them. However, some councils have
A controversial report on the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in Britain, which is already six months late, will be finally released in heavily redacted form next month amid accusations that it has been the subject of political pressure to
A documentary on the British Royal Family has been “spiked” according to senior schedulers. The programme, called “Reinventing The Royals” was pulled from the state broadcaster’s schedule at the last minute, allegedly over pressure from Buckingham Palace, Variety Magazine reports.
The pilot of a Virgin Atlantic flight from Gatwick to Las Vegas has been applauded for his actions when the aircraft he was flying experienced serious technical faults in the landing gear. The Boeing 747 was packed with more than
Tensions have been flaring in the Austrian capital over the Christmas period as disparate communities clash over religious differences, with religious icons and building vandalised, and pigs entrails being smeared over a mosque in the north of the city. The
MPs on the Commons Defence Committee have woken up to the huge mistake of scrapping Nimrod, the UK’s excellent Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) system. As China and Russia develop their underwater technologies to try to track foreign submarines, including Britain’s with the Trident
Concern is growing for the Christian populations of Kenya and Tanzania, as jihadists are widening their sphere of influence across East Africa, a leading charity for persecuted Christians has warned. Release International has identified Iraq as the worst place to
And up until now now Pope Francis had been doing so well: pious, popular, a scourge of incompetence and corruption, a champion of the poor…. But unfortunately, 2015 looks like the year he’s going to blow it all by casting
Two women from the United Arab Emirates are on trial after falling foul of the repressive rules which women in Saudi Arabia are governed by. Lujain al-Hathlool, 25, and Maysa al-Amoudi, 33, have been detained for nearly a month after
… and Good Riddance to 2014 You may still be enjoying the splendour of time-off between Christmas and the New Year (like most of the deadbeats in Occupied Europe), but James went to work for your enjoyment today and he has
Britain’s youths have more opportunity than any generation before them to be innovative with technology, and yet are becoming a “lost generation”, unable to fix the simplest of gadgets, Professor Danielle George, presenter of this year’s Christmas lectures, has warned.
The British nurse diagnosed with Ebola after she flew back into the country on Sunday evening has been airlifted by military aircraft from Glasgow to London to receive treatment at the Royal Free Hospital, as other suspected cases are assessed
Eurosceptic cabinet ministers are clamouring for David Cameron to let them join the NO side in a referendum on Britain’s continued membership of the European Union, and are concerned that the strategy of negotiations followed by a vote will effectively
MILO: “manspreading” Proof positive of the tragic–well, sort of tragic–demise of feminism in 2014 was the “manspreading” debacle at the end of the year, in which feminists claimed that men sitting with their legs too far apart on public transport
Dozens of bodies, along with aircraft wreckage and oxygen tanks, have been found floating the Java Sea, about six miles from where AirAsia flight QZ8501 last communicated with air traffic control. Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Director SB Surpriyadi said
“We are all Thatcherites now,” David Cameron said as he paid tribute to Margaret Thatcher following her death last year. Around that time Nigel Farage was describing UKIP as “the true inheritors of Thatcher”, arguing a young Maggie “would get
A female healthcare worker in Glasgow, Scotland has been diagnosed with Ebola after returning from Sierra Leone last night. The worker arrived at Glasgow Airport at 11.30 last night on a British Airways flight from Casablanca. She was taken to
