The government has been asked to stop giving foreign aid to countries where Christian persecution is rife without ensuring that the money reaches Christians in need. Britain currently gives £12 billion in aid abroad, but little of that reaches Christians
Up to 200,000 households with people in work in Britain will be pushed into poverty by the government’s latest welfare reforms, according to a report published a day after Prime Minister David Cameron promised an “all-out assault on poverty”. The
Europe is bracing itself for a second migrant wave from Syria as up to three million people begin to flee the country in the wake of the Russian military intervention. Russian warships fired 26 cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea
Same horse, different rider. The election of new leaders for UK and Scottish Labour has had no impact on the standing of the party in Scotland, where it remains 35 percentage points behind the SNP, according to the latest research from pollster
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is under fire again today, this time for apparently snubbing Her Majesty The Queen’s invitation to Privy Council – the Queen’s group of advisors of which the leader of the opposition is traditionally a part. But the
Last night saw a feminist protest invade the premiere of a pro-feminist film, setting off smoke flares and trespassing on the red carpet in London’s Leicester Square. Police declined to make a single arrest and it has now been revealed the
The head of one of Europe’s leading economic think tanks has called on Germany’s government to scrap the minimum wage and raise the country’s retirement age in order to cope with the huge influx of migrants now underway. Only by
Sweden’s migration agency has called for sports halls and government emergency facilities to be turned over to migrant housing, as present facilities are totally overwhelmed by the volume of new arrivals. Migrants making it to Sweden have now hit 1,500
This is geopolitical chaos theory in practice. Every day the European Union (EU) changes direction on how it will cope with hundreds of thousands of migrants crossing the Mediterranean and heading for a new life in Europe. Border fences go
LONDON (Reuters) – Concerns among British employers about a new, higher UK minimum wage are contributing to a sharp slowdown in hiring via recruitment firms, according to a survey published on Thursday. The number of people hired last month for
VIENNA (Reuters) – Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann cast doubt on the workability of the so-called migrant hotspots European leaders plan to create by the end of next month in Greece and Italy to help manage large numbers of refugees. Of
A village in Germany has released a list of ground rules for migrants. The list covers matters of basic civility – like shopping and the Highway Code – to fundamental principles of Western society; like gender equality, not harassing young
The London Film Festival opened Wednesday with “Suffragette“, the story of Britain’s feminist movement that fought for women’s voting rights in the early 20th century. “This is such an important movie,” said Meryl Streep, one of the film’s stars, at
It remains unclear whether the BBC intends to waste licence fee payers’ money writing about every Change.org petition that gets 10,000 signatures, or whether they reserve that privilege of publicly funded publicity for things with the word “racist” in the
ZURICH, Oct 8 (Reuters) – FIFA President Sepp Blatter and his possible successor, UEFA chief Michel Platini, have been provisionally suspended for 90 days by the global soccer body’s ethics committee. The committee also handed out a 90-day suspension to
BERLIN (AP) — German news agency dpa reports that authorities have arrested three terror suspects in the west of the country. It reported Wednesday that the arrests took place in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It quoted a spokeswoman for
Large-scale police operations across Europe are resulting in hundreds of people smuggler arrests, the main engine of suffering and the migrant crisis, which is placing national justice systems under enormous strain. Germany’s BILD tabloid reported yesterday on one criminal German-Turk gang,
There have been a couple of disturbing signs lately that the United Kingdom no longer aspires to have one law for all, that instead UK Muslims are entitled to preferential treatment. Both signs take the form of extending special privileges to Muslim
Our green and pleasant land is being concreted over due to the relentless, though thoroughly predictable demand for housing. As a councillor I see applications come in weekly for the destruction of green field sites around Lincolnshire. The most recent being 600
BRUSSELS, Belgium – NATO is ready to send troops to Turkey to defend its ally against threats on its southern flank, the head of the U.S.-led alliance said on Thursday after violations of Turkish airspace by Russia jets conducting air
European Union governments are set to agree on Thursday to step up deportations of illegal immigrants among the hundreds of thousands who have failed to win asylum as they try to cope with a surge in refugees from war-torn Syria.
The victim, a 20-year-old woman known as “Rokstan M,” is one refugee who had a strong case for asylum. She was gang-raped in Syria, emigrated to Germany two years ago, and found employment with the German government as a translator.
Mob rule is nothing new in France, but this week even a socialist government used to tolerating thuggish union behavior is saying enough is enough.
Scotland Yard has slammed the BBC following their broadcasting of a Panorama program focussing on the accusations of a man at the centre of the VIP child abuse scandal. The man, known only as David, told program makers he may
The immigration ministry will be one of the most legislatively busy in Denmark this parliament, with 17 legal changes put forward to make it tougher for foreigners to get citizenship. While many of the new laws proposed may seem harsh,
One by one German Chancellor Angela’s Merkel’s political allies are questioning her touch. Ever since she announced to a startled world in mid-September that Germany would take anywhere up to 800,000 refugees from war-torn Syria and Iraq, Merkel seemed to rise above
