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
No tuition fees and generous grants give young Danes an opportunity that would make most green with envy — a university education without a massive debt yoke. But many, in both industry and politics, feel it’s become a free lunch
Half a million Scottish people have fallen out with friends and family over how they will vote in the independence referendum, according to YouGov poll for the Sun. The poll finds that 10 percent of Scots, amounting to around 500,000
Bloodbath at the Telegraph, formerly house journal of the Tory voting shires. Victims of the latest carnage include its former deputy editor Ben Brogan, its blogs editor Damian Thompson and two of its star feature writers Jenny McCartney and Cole
Former prime minister Sir John Major, the Tory politician who surrendered significant parts of the British Constitution to the European Union in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty and turned Her Majesty’s subjects into “citizens of the EU,” yesterday lectured the Scots
Ben Brogan, the Deputy Editor of the Telegraph who is rumoured to have been sacked in today’s mass clear out at the paper, has cancelled a lunchtime speaking engagement. Brogan was due to chair a session at the Margaret Thatcher Conference on
A wind turbine near Ruthton, Minnesota suffered substantial damage after being hit by lightning. A photograph by a group of storm chasers from Tea, South Dakota, who call themselves the ‘Tea Storm Chasers’, shows how one the blades has been
(Reuters) – It takes a British American Tobacco factory machine three minutes to load 4 million cigarettes onto a truck in northern Bavaria – but it can take a lot longer to figure out whether those cigarettes end up where they should.
CITY OF LONDON, United Kingdom – Historian and author Niall Ferguson today delivered a speech at the Centre for Policy Studies’ inaugural Margaret Thatcher Liberty Conference, discussing the “wobbliness” of U.S. President Barack Obama, and noting how former British Prime
WASHINGTON (AP) — Here’s a look at the who, what, when and where of the 2016 presidential contest at the cusp of summer. Why? Because more is going on than you might think two years from the event. To those
Wednesday 18th June 2014 will be burned into the brains of the Daily Telegraph’s journalists and management for some time. Today it is being reported that both Blogs Editor Damian Thompson and Deputy Editor Benedict Brogan have parted ways with
The Berlin Regional court has heard the bizarre case of a 45-year-old sales agent who cut up a 37-year-old man and cooked his head. Prosecutors demanded that the man be sentenced to 6 years and 9 months for manslaughter, but
The British government is allowed to perform mass surveillance of Britons’ social media and email accounts because the servers are based abroad, a security tribunal has heard. The Daily Mirror reports that Security and Counter-Terrorism chief Charles Farr said the
Since news broke of the kidnapping of three Israeli teens, Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have been handing out sweets in the streets to passersby and rejoicing at the IDF’s unsuccessful efforts to find the boys, reports the Jerusalem
The Italian parliament will debate civil unions for gays — “unioni gay”– in September, with Prime Minister Matteo Renzi promising that homosexual couples will have the same rights as married heterosexual couples, including pensions and inheritance guarantees. The only differences
An Israel Defense Forces Spokesman said Wednesday morning that, as part of the large-scale intelligence and operational activities undertaken in order to locate three abducted teens, security forces have arrested about 65 wanted men. Of these, 51 were among those
Video footage has emerged of a man who bravely stopped a bank robbery and chased the robber out of the bank. James Rowley started shouting abuse at the robber when he realised his gun was fake, before chasing him down
The European Commission has borrowed €500m (£400m) in the capital markets to lend on to Ukraine, part of a €1.6bn (£1.3bn) programme of so-called Macro-Financial Assistance (MFA) which is meant to draw the former Soviet bloc country closer into the
A Dutch Calvinist political party which denies the equality of women and which until 2006 banned women from party membership has now become a member of the British Conservative’s group (the European Conservatives and Reformists) at the European Parliament. In
Police in the Cheddar Valley in Somerset are hunting for a black and white dog that may, bizarrely, be an accomplice in the theft of UK Independence Party election material that went missing on the run up to the European
The Imam of Oslo’s largest mosque is recuperating in hospital after being attacked with an axe by a masked assailant. The Local reports that the man attacked Nemat Ali Shah as left home to lead prayers at the Central Jamaat
LONDON, United Kingdom – Labour Party leader Ed Miliband today addressed activists and donors at the annual Labour Friends of Israel luncheon in London. Miliband, who identifies as Jewish though not religious, used the opportunity to express his support for
White working-class Britons are “marginalised” due to immigration and badly paid jobs, according to a study by the Open Society Foundations (OSF). The group, set up by billionaire George Soros, spent a year talking to residents of the Higher Blackley
As fallout from the continuing crisis regarding the three kidnapped Israeli teens, which Israel has blamed on Islamic terror group Hamas, the Times of Israel reports that the Palestinian Authority has stopped taking steps in the reconciliation process with Hamas
