
Ecuador President Rafael Correa on Wednesday confirmed his country’s decision to grant political asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Assange has been living at the Ecuadorian embassy in London for the past two years, according to an Itar-Tass report today.
by Breitbart London20 Aug 2014, 7:31 AM PST0

They’re not disabled. They don’t have learning difficulties. They’re not elderly or otherwise infirm. Nor are they even necessarily all that hard up. So why are 25,000 Brits about to get free computers from the government, in an act of charity
by Milo Yiannopoulos20 Aug 2014, 7:27 AM PST0

George Galloway MP, leader of the Respect party has been questioned by police under caution after he declared Bradford an “Israel free zone” and then claimed that the police had not contacted him. Breitbart London understand that the belligerent Galloway
by Oliver Lane20 Aug 2014, 7:22 AM PST0

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld part of a complaint by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) that adverts for clean coal being run by Peabody Energy were misleading and should not be used, EurActiv is reporting. The Peabody-backed Advanced
by Donna Rachel Edmunds20 Aug 2014, 6:15 AM PST0

UKIP leader Nigel Farage has called on Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron to take a stand on the Islamic State and strip UK nationals who are fighting abroad of their citizenship and cancel passports using the little-known Foreign Enlistment Act
by Breitbart London20 Aug 2014, 5:59 AM PST0

What exactly is a “moderate jihadist”? Is it someone who tweets photographs of severed heads but fights shy of getting his hands bloody? Someone who inclines towards enslaving captured women and children rather than burying them alive? One who only
by James Delingpole20 Aug 2014, 4:13 AM PST0

Britain’s Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has caused outrage this morning after referring to “moderate jihad” on the BBC’s Radio 4 Today Programme. Speaking about the ongoing security threats to Britain and the wider world emerging from the region, Hammond said:
by Raheem Kassam20 Aug 2014, 2:34 AM PST0

Questions are being asked over the wisdom of the decision by Belfast City Council to let divisive Member of Parliament George Galloway hire the city’s taxpayer-funded main hall to give a speech this weekend. Writing in an op-ed for the
by Donna Rachel Edmunds20 Aug 2014, 1:49 AM PST0

The Islamic State militant group operating in Iraq has released a video online allegedly showing the beheading of US journalist James Foley, missing since 2012, according to a BCC News report Wednesday. The group said they killed Foley to avenge
by Breitbart London20 Aug 2014, 1:37 AM PST0

Further questions have been raised over an independent Scotland’s place in the world after the Secretary-General of NATO said there would be no automatic membership for the would-be breakaway state. The announcement comes after news that Scotland would also not
by Oliver Lane20 Aug 2014, 1:21 AM PST0

Conservative Members of Parliament have today slammed the decision by British supermarket Sainsbury’s to remove kosher food from its shelves during an anti-Israel demonstration this weekend. As reported by Breitbart London, the Holborn branch of Sainsbury’s removed UK-made kosher goods
by Raheem Kassam19 Aug 2014, 9:11 AM PST0

The Conservatives could lose 500,000 votes at the 2015 General Election according to Philip Bowern, Rural Affairs Editor of the Western Morning Mail. Bowern argues that David Cameron is uniquely placed to understand how important the issue is in the
by Andre Walker19 Aug 2014, 8:57 AM PST0

A lorry containing 15 people reportedly suffering from dehydration was stopped and searched near a motorway service station earlier today, according to Avon and Somerset Police. Sky News reports that the people inside are currently receiving treatment, and immigration authorities
by Breitbart London19 Aug 2014, 8:45 AM PST0

An article in yesterday’s Financial Times (FT) claiming that American banks are planning to move some of their activities to Dublin in the event of a British exit from the EU has been dismissed as “poorly briefed rubbish” and “wholly
by Donna Rachel Edmunds19 Aug 2014, 8:38 AM PST0

Nigel Farage may be winning over the man in the street with his pub-loving image, but the sources of Ukip’s funds inhabit far more elevated circles, as Anne McElvoy discovers. The Right Moves The host is a generous party donor,
by Breitbart London19 Aug 2014, 8:31 AM PST0

The government has been ordered to compensate an IT firm after an immigration computer system spectacularly failed. The eBorder system was ordered by the Labour government and was supposed to log the passport details and credit card information of everyone
by Andre Walker19 Aug 2014, 8:27 AM PST0

Britain’s largest bakery chain has become the latest target of online pranksters after they figured out that Google search results were pulling a logo from the spoof ‘Uncyclopaedia’ website. Greggs, which is known for its piping hot sausage rolls and
by Breitbart London19 Aug 2014, 7:03 AM PST0

In an announcement guaranteed to astonish everyone, Members of Parliament have revealed that government is really bad at managing big projects. The Public Accounts Committee today published a report into the Major Projects Authority (MPA), reports the BBC, in which Margaret
by Donna Rachel Edmunds19 Aug 2014, 6:41 AM PST0

A council worker in Manchester has discovered severed cat’s heads close to the ‘Curry Mile’ area of Manchester, according to the Manchester Evening News. The area around Wilmslow Road, Rusholme is known as the ‘Curry Mile’ as it is home
by Andre Walker19 Aug 2014, 6:35 AM PST0

Concerns have been raised after federal wildlife investigators in the United States observed a solar-thermal plant immolating passing birds mid-flight. According to the Associated Press the workers at the 392MW plant have a nickname for the birds, ‘streamers’, given for
by Oliver Lane19 Aug 2014, 6:33 AM PST0

A hapless American groom desperate to avoid walking down the aisle has blown off his West Midlands bride to be by faking his own death, reports Yahoo News. Connecticuter Tucker Blandford impersonated his own father when phoning jilted bride Alex
by Oliver Lane19 Aug 2014, 6:24 AM PST0

Jack Dorsey, the billionaire co-founder of Twitter and chief executive of payments startup Square, is tweeting, Vining and marching in Ferguson this week, where a young black man was shot by a police officer, sparking riots, looting and protests. It’s
by Milo Yiannopoulos19 Aug 2014, 5:42 AM PST0

by Iain Dale19 Aug 2014, 5:24 AM PST0

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. 18 (UPI) – Iceland’s Bardarbunga volcano is at increased risk of eruption, Iceland’s meteorological agency warned Monday. Citing “intense seismic activity that started on 16 of August” and “evidence of magma movement shallower than 10km,” the Met
by Breitbart London19 Aug 2014, 4:56 AM PST0

The European Union is using £100m of public money in order to keep food prices artificially high across the continent – with British taxpayers funding the move which means consumers are effectively paying for food three times over. Earlier this month
by Oliver Lane19 Aug 2014, 4:09 AM PST0