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Australia’s policy on plain tobacco packaging was dealt another blow this week as police raided a series of premises involved in the supply of counterfeit cigarettes. According to a Channel Seven News report (below) about a raid on illegal cigarette

Conservatives are refusing to give back a £160k donation from a Russian oligarch with links to the Kremlin, according to the Sun. The money was paid by the wife of Vladimir Putin’s former deputy finance minister for a special tennis

A former Labour spin doctor has claimed that Ed Miliband wasted his time meeting Barack Obama, and should have seen State Governors instead. Damian McBride, who worked in Downing Street under Prime Minister Gordon Brown, wrote in the Times that

A school chief accused of being behind the ‘Trojan Horse’ plot to push radical Islam in the British education system has been exposed as a racist and sexist bigot. Secret recordings of Shalid Akmal made by an undercover Daily Mirror journalist

A 20-year-old Australian student narrowly escaped dying on the doomed Malaysian Airways flight MH17, after she changed her travel plans at the last minute. Bec McDonald from Geelong in Victoria was due to fly home on the plane, but just

The British military are to spend £650 million on drones to stop the Russians from making any further incursions into the UK’s territorial waters. The drones will be used to patrol the coast after Ministers became worried that Moscow was

Supporters of Israel were attacked by a pro-Palestinian gang as they peacefully protested yesterday, one man had to be treated at the scene and others complained of intimidation. The protest was organised to counter the enormous rally in London over

A boy was paraded on twitter to advertise jihad by a woman who claims to be his British mother, meaning that he too is a British national. The child, thought to be about four years old, was pictured with an

Gangs in London are passing around lists of teenage girls to be raped, as a punishment to rivals. The so-called “sket lists” are made up of young girls considered legitimate targets and have led to a whole raft of brazen

Super rich ‘activists’ have launched the most bizarre protest in support of the Socialist Workers campaign on Palestine yet: driving through Mayfair in Lamborghinis with banners. The drivers took placards with “Socialists Workers. Free Palestine” and drove the expensive super-cars

Tens of thousands of campaigners have marched through London to protest at operation protective edge, the Israeli military campaign against Hamas. Organisers had expected around 20,000 people to attend but many more came on the day, leading them to claim

Veteran Conservative ex-cabinet minister Norman Tebbit has said that giving people the right to die would create a “breeding ground for vultures”, who exploit the law to cash in on inheritances. Lord Tebbit made the comments in debate on the

Sacked Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson is “spitting blood” about being sacked by the Prime Minister. When he was called into Cameron’s office earlier this week he ended up having a “stand up shouting match” with the Prime Minister, according to

The United Arab Emirates, which is known for its bold and ambitious projects, now plans to boldly go where no Arab state has gone before: space. It has announced it will send a probe to Mars, launching an ambitious new

Sadiq Khan MP, who is expected to get the Labour nomination for Mayor of London, is facing further questions over his links to a terrorist who was given 12 years in prison on terror charges yesterday. Mr Khan is accused

It is perhaps not a widely known fact that the shuffle is a move in tap dance, and the reshuffle is a small routine. The shuffle itself is a two-sound move, other two-sound tap moves include: the scuffle, the flap,

A 33-year-old Ethiopian farmer has become so disillusioned with the way UK overseas aid is propping a “one party state” that he is suing. The man, who has been granted anonymity to protect his family, believes that UK overseas aid

A Commons motion has been tabled to protect Britain’s iconic buildings from having their names changed due to temporary sponsorship deals. Andrew Rosindell MP, says that owners of major landmarks should only be allowed to change their names if the

David Cameron has pledged to look at ways to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), in the light of the sacking of his most senior legal advisor, according to the Daily Telegraph. The Prime Minister is believed to

Britain is to build the first spaceport outside of America by the year 2018, the government has announced. The facility will eventually enable tourists to take commercial flights to Australia in just two hours, but before that it will be

Charles Clarke, a former Home Secretary under Tony Blair has said that Ed Miliband who lose the next election as he has no “narrative”. He believes that the Conservatives will win an overall majority next year and that Miliband is

Three women have been promoted to cabinet in David Cameron’s biggest reshuffle of his premiership. It followed a night of sackings nicknamed by Westminster insiders as the cull of the “pale, male and stale”.  The changes were seen as purely

David Cameron has nominated Lord Hill of Oareford, the leader of the House of Lords, to be the next British member of the European Commission according to the BBC. Hill served as political secretary to Prime Minister John Major during the controversial

British Prime Minister David Cameron has targeted opponents of his flagship ‘Same Sex Marriage’ legislation, as well as reducing the number of men in the British cabinet in tonight’s long-awaited UK Cabinet reshuffle. The move has seen older, middle class

A Labour whip has taken to twitter to accuse the news editor of Jewish News of “killing children” and of “murder”. Graham Jones MP has now removed the tweet and apologised, according to Guido Fawkes.  On Saturday the MP for Hyndburn

Jean-Claude Juncker has demanded Britain send a woman to be our next European Commissioner, replacing Baroness (Cathy) Ashton, whose term has ended. The soon-to-be-installed President of the European Commission made the demand as he wants half of his cabinet to

David Cameron will today announce another £1.1bn in defence spending, just ten days after the new HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier was launched at a cost of £6.2bn. The announcement will come at the Farnborough Air Show and includes “everything

Nigel Farage has hinted at how a deal between the Conservatives and UKIP at the 2015 general election might work. He suggested a “potentially intelligent approach” would be for the Conservatives to offer UKIP a free run in twenty to

Tony Blair faces being called before Parliament to explain the secret deals given to Irish Republican Army (IRA) suspects confirming they would not be prosecuted for terrorist offences. The Sunday Telegraph reports that he did deals with the IRA’s political wing,

British police have established a specialist group to investigate allegations of sex crimes by MPs, Peers and celebrities in the wake of new victims coming forward. Hundreds more people made allegations against senior establishment figures in the light of news

British Police Officers will face disciplinary action for failure to be polite under new plans to be announced by ministers next week. According to the Daily Telegraph, the government plans to implement a ten-point code of ethics, requiring officers to

Guardian CEO Andrew Miller has been awarded a bumper salary and bonus of £2.2m despite the company losing £33.8m. Miller, who runs the Guardian News and Media group, justified the bonus because he oversaw the sale of the company’s share