
Just three years after France’s upper house Senate made history with its first ever swing to the left, the right is expected to claw back a majority Sunday in a new setback for Socialist President Francois Hollande. The far-right National
by Breitbart News28 Sep 2014, 1:13 AM PST0

The men and women picked to run the EU for the next five years face a grilling by the European Parliament this week which could claim the scalp of at least one of them. France’s Pierre Moscovici, the incoming economic
by Breitbart News28 Sep 2014, 12:57 AM PST0

Labour leader Ed Miliband may seriously harm his party’s election chances after seemingly becoming more and more sympathetic to changing Britain’s law on euthanasia or “assisted dying” if he becomes Prime Minister next year. The Sunday Express reports that Miliband
by Breitbart London28 Sep 2014, 12:53 AM PST0

It turns out that while David Cameron was dispatching the full might of his imperial outreach – six aircraft – to bomb ISIS, Nigel Farage was launching his own blitz on the Tories. The defection of Mark Reckless was not
by Gerald Warner28 Sep 2014, 12:30 AM PST0

BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom — The Conservative Party conference has begun with a bang as, moments after Member of Parliament Mark Reckless resigned and defected to UKIP, another Tory MP has resigned, this time over allegedly lewd social media pictures. Sky
by Breitbart London27 Sep 2014, 11:42 AM PST0

Conservative Member of Parliament Mark Reckless has this afternoon defected to the UK Independence Party in another surprise move by Nigel Farage’s political party. Reckless will “resign” his seat at the House of Commons and force another by-election, he has
by Breitbart London27 Sep 2014, 7:06 AM PST0

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran’s president on Friday urged faster progress at nuclear talks between his country and six world powers, joining other top international officials who say the current round has failed to make substantial headway toward sealing a
by Breitbart News27 Sep 2014, 5:51 AM PST0

More than 100 protesters broke through the gates of Hong Kong’s government headquarters as a student demonstration against Beijing’s refusal to grant the city unfettered democracy turned angry. Six people were arrested for offences ranging from forcibly entering government property
by Breitbart News27 Sep 2014, 5:48 AM PST0

LONDON (AP) — Britain, Belgium and Denmark on Friday joined the U.S.-led coalition of nations that are launching airstrikes on the Islamic State group in Iraq, committing warplanes to the struggle against the extremists. The European lawmakers flatly described the
by Breitbart News27 Sep 2014, 5:42 AM PST0

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The president of Spain’s powerful northeastern region of Catalonia on Saturday formally called an independence referendum, the latest secession push in Europe and one of the most serious challenges to the Spanish state in recent years.
by Breitbart News27 Sep 2014, 5:36 AM PST0

Dr Brooke Magnanti, a journalist and former scientist, has been accused of creating a fake pseudonymous Twitter account with which to ridicule, criticise and insult other female journalists and promote her own articles and opinions. Magnanti, a former regular for
by Milo Yiannopoulos27 Sep 2014, 2:55 AM PST0

A group of Muslim mothers, horrified at the prospect of their daughters running off to marry jihadi fighters, have launched a campaign to stop radicalisation via what they name as the real culprit: “Sheikh Google”. The Make a Stand campaign,
by Donna Rachel Edmunds26 Sep 2014, 9:32 AM PST0

After UKIP economics spokesman Patrick O’Flynn unveiled what Ukip sources are dubbing the ‘Theresa May tax’ on luxury goods in a speech today, other senior party members immediately moved to alternately confirm and deny whether the policy would be in
by Breitbart London26 Sep 2014, 9:30 AM PST0

The Parliament of the United Kingdom has voted to commence military strikes against ISIS forces in Iraq today, by 524 votes to 43 votes. The Royal Air Force’s six Tornado fighter-bomber aircraft presently stationed in Cyrpus will now be armed
by Oliver Lane26 Sep 2014, 9:20 AM PST0

DONCASTER, United Kingdom – Nigel Farage has “parked his tanks on Labour’s lawn” in a speech that threatened the “entire political class”. The Ukip leader took to his feet on the second day of the party’s annual conference in Doncaster.
by Andre Walker26 Sep 2014, 8:40 AM PST0

DONCASTER, United Kingdom – Steven Wolfe, UKIP Euro MP for North-West England, has claimed the party will win six seats at the general election next year. The former solicitor told Breitbart London that the party’s aspiration to take three or
by Andre Walker26 Sep 2014, 8:22 AM PST0

DONCASTER, United Kingdom — UKIP leader Nigel Farage has delivered his keynote speech in Doncaster today on the second day of UKIP’s annual conference. Over thousand people packed into the Doncaster Race Course, a stone’s throw from Labour leader Ed
by Raheem Kassam26 Sep 2014, 7:53 AM PST0

The British House of Commons is today sitting in an mammoth seven hour debate to discuss strikes against ISIS in Iraq. The Prime Minister and Leader of the opposition have made their statements and now other members of the house
by Breitbart London26 Sep 2014, 7:35 AM PST0

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has divested from fossil fuels. We know this because it has been splashed all over the media – it got much prominence, for example, on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme – for all the world as
by James Delingpole26 Sep 2014, 6:29 AM PST0

As we head into Ukip conference, the party has put out on its website a manifesto statement by Policy chief Tim Aker MEP in which he reiterates that “We’re beyond left-right, authoritarian-libertarian–those arguments are for university common rooms.” This was
by Donna Rachel Edmunds26 Sep 2014, 6:28 AM PST0

Actor Stephen Fry has admitted to taking cocaine in Buckingham Palace in his new autobiography, More Fool Me, due to be published this Thursday. Fry also admits to taking the class A drug in a variety of other notable locations
by Donna Rachel Edmunds26 Sep 2014, 6:08 AM PST0

A new study by an Oxford academic has found a greater concentration of poverty in schools has a negative effect on pupils there, both rich and poor. Professor Steve Strand discovered a difference in GCSE results of 25 percent between
by Russell Taylor26 Sep 2014, 5:09 AM PST0

Conference season is in full swing. For a few days each through September and early October, the four main British political parties and their accompanying army of press, lobbyists and the occasional delegate embark en masse to far-flung English cities
by Alexandra Swann26 Sep 2014, 4:13 AM PST0

by Breitbart London26 Sep 2014, 3:59 AM PST0

DONCASTER, United Kingdom — There’s a phrase that many southern, English, usually London-types proffer when discussing trips to places like Sheffield, Rotherham, Manchester – even sometimes Birmingham. “It’s grim up north,” they say, usually in a tongue-in-cheek manner, but with
by Raheem Kassam26 Sep 2014, 3:06 AM PST0