Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has strongly criticised his successor’s handling of the migrant crisis, accusing Angela Merkel of having “no plan” in dealing with the influx. In an interview with Handelsblatt, the former Social Democrat chancellor accused Ms Merkel
Ousted Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovitch has resurfaced five days after being ousted as president of the beleaguered East European country. He issued a detailed statement released by the Russian Itar-Tass news agency claiming he is still the legitimate elected President
Held at gunpoint by an al-Qaeda offshoot in the northern Syrian town of Raqa, up to 20 regional Christian leaders on Sunday were forced to publicly chose between converting to Islam, signing an Islamist document formally submitting themselves and their
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s pledge to cut annual net migration to below 100,000 was undermined on Thursday after figures showed the net flow of migrants coming into Britain rose by 37 percent to 212,000 people in the year to
Deposed Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych said on Thursday said he still considers himself to be Ukraine’s head of state but asked Russia to ensure his personal security. “I still consider myself to be the legal head of the Ukrainian state,”
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reports that since the July 2013 removal of Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood (MB) government in Egypt, both supporters of Morsi and his opponent have used stark antisemitic propaganda. “Each camp accuses
Ed Miliband could announce within the next two weeks that the Labour Party are preparing to do a u-turn on Europe by pledging to hold a referendum on Britain’s continued EU membership if they win the next election, according to
A group of experts appointed by the German Bundestag (parliament) has slammed the country’s Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), saying it is neither cost effective nor has any measurable impact on innovation. The Expert Commission on Research and Innovation gives
Just five weeks after Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher oversaw the British victory in the Falklands, London was coming out of an out of an unseasonal cold spell. Olivia Newton-John was number one in the UK single charts and the talk
Irish comedian Dara Ó Briain has criticised the BBC’s politically correct decision to impose gender quotas on its comedy panel shows. Among the reasons he gives is that, like all quota systems, it harms the very people it is supposed to
A long-standing billionaire donor to the Conservative Party was yesterday confirmed to have ceased his backing for David Cameron’s party after the Tories championed the same-sex marriage bill in July last year. Hedge fund owner Sir Michael Hintze is said
A Member of Parliament has called for the threshold for strike action to be raised after a strike by tube workers caused two days of chaos in London. The RMT and TSSA unions held 48 hours of industrial action on
Nothing illustrates the utter delusion of the Conservative Party more than their recent bid to re-brand as the “workers’ party”. Having finally realised that chasing green-loving hipsters in the name of Cameroonism wasn’t a winner, the Tories have launched a
The murderers who hacked British soldier Lee Rigby to death were both Londoners from devout Christian Nigerian families who became self-styled “soldiers of Islam” intent on martyrdom. Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale butchered Rigby in order to generate maximum media
After three years of tortuous debate, the European Parliament voted and passed the Tobacco Product Directive by 514 votes to 66. Certainly, the sacking by Manuel Barroso of Maltese Health Commissioner John Dalli for allegedly soliciting a bribe of €60
Two Muslim converts found guilty of brutally murdering British soldier Lee Rigby in broad daylight in a London street have been sentenced today. Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale were found guilty on 19th December 2013 of killing 25-year-old soldier Lee
Who hasn’t been stumped with a question, quickly banged in a Google search query, and received an answer in a split second? It’s a modern wonder. How did we ever live without it? Google’s official mission statement, “to organize the world’s information
The Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee is currently receiving oral evidence in its inquiry into the future of the BBC. Quite often, in the debate on the BBC licence fee, radio is forgotten, and in terms of the overall
Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe has been given an extravagant one-ton “royal throne” for his 90th birthday. State media report that the throne is gold and diamond-studded and covered with lion furs, crocodile and leopard skins, and has two huge claws
The Prime Minister admitted today that the Police made a “dreadful mistake” in issuing a letter to an IRA suspect guaranteeing him immunity from prosecution for any part he may have played in Northern Irish Terrorism. John Downey, 62, walked
In May 2012, major Conservative donor and LGBT activist Ivan Massow wrote an article making the case that the Conservative Party had nothing to fear in discarding social conservatism, because its advocates in the party had nowhere else to go.
New figures show that more than a quarter of rough-sleepers on London’s streets are from Eastern European countries that joined the EU in the past ten years. Figures reported by the Daily Mail state that 28 percent of the capital’s
The British public opposes further European Union (EU) expansionism, as a YouGov poll reveals today how Brits are wary of EU membership bids from Ukraine, Turkey, and Israel. A large majority of Brits polled agree that Iceland should become a
