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
Conservatives held Newark in Thursday’s by-election with 17,431 votes, UKIP were in second place with 10,028. The Liberal Democrats sank from second in the 2010 General Election to sixth, behind Labour, the Greens and an independent. Whilst the result was
1. You never appreciate what you’ve got until you lose it At school in Britain in the Eighties – a private school, full of kids with the kind of parents who ought to have been four-square behind the Reagan revolution
Why did the European Central Bank cut rates and introduce a negative overnight deposit rate which will essentially charge European Banks for the privilege of avoiding risk and depositing cash with the European Central Bank? This is best explained through
A hard line vegan who compared farming to the Holocaust has been defeated in her attempt to get onto the ruling council of animal welfare charity the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA). Peta Watson-Smith, whose
A former member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) has been appointed to the Conservative frontbench at Croydon Council. According to the Croydon Advertiser Cllr Maria Gatland was appointed as spokesman for children, families and learning despite having to quit the
Conservative MEPs have succeeded in poaching enough of Nigel Farage’s old Continental allies at the European Parliament to be able to brag that they are going to belong to a bigger group in the assembly than UKIP. But other than
Despite losses in Britain and Poland, the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) look set to become the third largest group at the European Parliament. Created by the British Conservative Party in the last parliamentary term it had been derided as
A Chechen Imam was arrested in the Austrian city of Graz on Monday under suspicion of terrorism. The 41-year old cleric, whose name has been withheld by police, is thought to have radicalised eight young Chechen men living in Styria,
The Australian government will no longer refer to Eastern Jerusalem as “occupied”, the Attorney General said in a statement on Thursday. The Times of Israel reports that Attorney General George Brandis said that Foreign Minister Julie Bishop believes that using
Britain’s Independent newspaper has become the latest victim of news satire after it published an article about Kinder Egg smugglers in the United States. Kinder Eggs have technically been banned in the United States on health and safety grounds since
(Reuters) – British satellite operator Inmarsat will roll out a new satellite and air-to-ground network to give passengers on European flights broadband internet access on seat back screens and on their own smartphones and tablets. The company said British Airways,
In a blow to Israel, British Foreign Secretary William Hague was the first EU foreign minister to welcome the unity government agreement signed on Monday between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Hague said
One of the biggest omissions in yesterday’s Queen’s Speech was plans for plain packaging for cigarettes. Although Westminster insiders told me Labour were keen for its inclusion, a more circumspect Coalition may have chosen to avoid the issue. Both the
Today is the Newark by-election and however well UKIP and its candidate Roger Helmer do in their attempts to overturn the Conservatives’ vast majority, one thing is clear: UKIP are now well past the stage when they can be dismissed
LONDON, June 5 (Reuters) – London’s tallest building, the Shard, was evacuated on Thursday morning as firefighters investigated smoke coming from the basement of the 87-storey skyscraper, a fire brigade spokesman said. Sky News reports that initial news says it
The Conservative Party Chairman Grant Shapps looks likely to stay on at the reshuffle after his plans for grassroots campaigning finally came good. Shapps had looked vulnerable because his Team2015 grassroots campaign had struggled to make an impact on the
Britain has offered to send an armoured battle group of 25 tanks to join NATO exercises in Poland as a show of force against Russian President Vladimir Putin. This deployment would see up to 1,000 British soldiers join NATO war
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been blamed for sabotaging a set of raids against illegal immigrants by passing intelligence about them to a left-wing campaign group. Whitehall sources told the Daily Mail that a meticulously planned operation had been potentially
The Daily Mirror, part of the left-wing Trinity Mirror newspaper group, has smeared UKIP leader Nigel Farage following a picture of him with a “blonde woman” in a Malta hotel. The Mirror story is clearly weighted so that readers will
Tonight eurosceptics at the European Parliament are in turmoil as reports circulate that Beppe Grillo, leader of the Italian Five Star Movement with 17 MEPs, may be back-peddling on a deal to join Nigel Farage and UKIP in a political
A drug dealer who was carrying a “football-sized block of cannabis” has won the right to sue the government because of a European Union law on motor insurance. Sean Delaney was seriously injured in a motoring accident but because drugs
A new poll suggests that weeks of negative headlines about UKIP from the establishment press did have some effect on the party’s ratings. Despite a barrage of scandals and smears on various candidates, the party still won the European elections
Members of right-wing Austria student fraternities known as Burschenschaften will march in Vienna this evening. Although they say they are politically neutral, the Burschenschaften have ties with the eurosceptic Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), which took almost 20 per cent of
