A police officer has been accused of homophobia after telling a gay colleague he “screamed like a little girl” when he had a spider flicked at him. Sergeant Mark Goodenough of London’s Metropolitan Police teased junior colleague PC Aaron Prayter
The French port of Calais, where thousands of migrants have been storming a freight terminal in the hope of entering the UK, descended even further into chaos today as striking workers blocked a road with burning tyres. The protest took
Dramatic new images show two immigrants entering the UK clinging to the top of a freight lorry last night as hundreds of migrants once against tried to storm the fences at the French port of Calais. The migrants were pictured
Darling of the left, political talking head Owen Jones has been accused of lying after denying backing the IRA “militarily”. Jones, who has become the go-to left-winger for BBC political programmes, caused controversy earlier this week after it was reported he
French police have again been overwhelmed by hundreds of migrants attempting to storm the Channel Tunnel terminal near Calais in a desperate attempt to smuggle themselves aboard trucks to reach Britain. Yesterday, one person died when they tried to climb
Users on social networking site Facebook can now proclaim themselves “allosexuelle”, “transkvinde” and “lesboflexible” as the site rolls out a vast array of alternative ‘genders’ across eight different languages, with more likely to follow. Breitbart London has already reported that
A transsexual man in Spain has threatened to take the Catholic Church to court after his local bishop prevented him from becoming a godfather because he does not “live a life consistent with the faith”. Alex Salinas, 21, who was
A Sudanese migrant has been crushed to death by a truck in a second night of chaos at the French end of the Channel Tunnel as 2,000 migrants attempted to stowaway on vehicles travelling to Britain. Local police and tunnel
Greece’s outspoken former finance minister could be about to face treason charges after he revealed details of a plot to hack taxpayer accounts in preparation for the country’s exit from the euro. The country’s Supreme Court has referred Yanis Varoufakis
Facebook has announced a new gender-neutral pronoun for its Swedish language version to coincide with the start of the biggest gay pride festival in Scandinavia. English-language users can already select a “custom” gender, giving them up to 71 options including
British foreign aid money is helping fund executions in Pakistan, a human rights group has claimed. Legal charity Reprieve, which campaigns against the death penalty, says that nearly £13 million has been used to fund anti-drugs operations in the country,
Norway’s newest bishop has said he would refuse to officiate at gay weddings, but would support a service blessing couples who have already wed in civil ceremonies. The Local reports that Per Arne Dahl, Bishop of Tunsberg in the Lutheran
For the past two years, Argentina’s state broadcaster has been trying to broadcast English-language propaganda to the residents of the Falkland Islands, the British South Atlantic Territory claimed by the Latin American nation, but its efforts have not exactly been
Former Chancellor Ken Clarke has denied ever meeting a former actor who claimed he groped him when he was a teenager, describing the allegation as so ridiculous it was “rather like Martians landing.” Mr Clarke – who is still a
Police have been accused of covering up a serial killer who murdered 18 people by pushing them in front of trains on the London Underground. Former detective Geoff Platt alleges in his book The London Underground Serial Killer that officers
Britain has wasted a fortune on funding schemes for foreign police forces that have increased crime, corruption and political repression. Over the past four years, Diana Good, who was appointed to scrutinise Britain’s foreign aid funding, found numerous examples of
France looks set to pass a new law that could lead to jail sentences for people who insult or discriminate against the poor. Under the proposals, offenders guilty of insulting the poor or refusing them jobs, healthcare or housing would face
Nearly 100,000 people have signed an official petition calling for the British government to legalise the production, sale and use of cannabis. The petition, which is the second most popular on UK Parliament website, claims that legalising the drug could
British exam boards have been criticised for making questions too easy after it emerged one paper asked 16-year-old school leavers to ‘spot the difference’ between two pictures. The AQA History GCSE paper presents students with two images of the House
Spain’s King Felipe yesterday warned the region of Catalonia to respect the law as separatists threaten to unilaterally declare independence if they win upcoming elections. Regional president Artur Mas has called elections for 27 September, which he wants to turn
Britain must outlaw parents smacking their children, a UN human rights report has demanded. The organisation’s human rights committee – which includes countries such as Egypt, Uganda and Algeria – urged the government to ban all forms of corporal punishment
Children in their early teens are less likely to have smoked, consumed alcohol or taken drugs than ever before, new figures reveal. The annual Health and Social Care Information Centre survey of 6,000 pupils aged 11 to 15 found that record
The cultural left in Sweden is in a state of confusion after a right wing nationalist group organised a gay pride march through a Muslim neighbourhood. Jan Sjunnesson, former editor-in-chief of Samtiden, the newspaper of the right wing Sweden Democrats,
The Greek parliament last night comfortably passed a second set of reforms in order to continue talks on a new bailout, although the governing Syriza is now deeply divided. Dozens of hardliners with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s party rebelled, effectively
A hotel in Hull has apologised to a Romanian graduate after staff turned her away because they thought she was a prostitute. Alecsandra Puflea had already booked online, but reception staff at the Holiday Inn Express refused her a room
Aborted babies accounted for over a quarter deaths in the England and Wales last year, latest figures reveal. Last month, Breitbart London reported how 26.78 per cent of all deaths in 2013 were due to abortion. Now newly released government
Cannabis users in Durham, northern England, will be free to grow it for their own consumption after the local police force said they will no longer actively target people who take the drug. The Times reports that Ron Hogg, police
The European Court of Human Rights has told Italy it must introduce state recognition of same-sex relationships after ruling in favour of three gay couples who claimed they needed greater legal rights. Italy is the only country in Western Europe
While Eurozone leaders scramble to find a new bailout deal for Greece to put off the country’s inevitable exit from the euro for another few months, they may find two new crises about to hit them. Spain and Portugal, two
A top official in charge of Sweden’s immigration policy has been exposed as a jihadi sympathiser who described someone’s intention to join Islamic State as “beautiful”. Samiyah M Wasame, who serves on Sweden’s Migration Board, is accused of ‘liking’ numerous
A British man has been charged with plotting a terrorist attack against American military personnel based in the UK. Junead Ahmed Khan, 24, is suspected of plotting to commit terror acts as well as planning to travel to Syria to
Angela Merkel’s authority has been seriously dented after her Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, threatened to resign if he is pushed to offer more concessions to Greece. Schäuble, who proposed of “temporary” Grexit last week, also cast doubt on whether the
A man from the tiny Central Pacific nation of Kiribati has failed in his attempt to be classed as the world’s first “climate refugee”. Ioane Teitiota, 38, tried to persuade New Zealand’ Supreme Court that his homeland had become unsafe
Norwegian killer Anders Breivik has been accepted onto a political science course at the University of Oslo. Breivik, who killed 77 people in Oslo and at a Labour Party youth summer camp on the island of Utoya in 2011, will
Italian authorities turned away a boat with some 700 migrants aboard as there was no room left in immigration centres. The boat, operated by medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF), was turned away from Sicily due to “lack of capacity
One news event that may have passed most people by last week was the election of Tim Farron as leader of the Liberal Democrats. The party, which was once Britain’s third largest, was decimated in May’s General Election, losing all
A police force in Britain has secured the country’s first “protection order” against female genital mutilation (FGM). The order, obtained by Bedfordshire Police, prevents two young girls from travelling out of the country after fears they would be taken to
A stampede at a mosque in which 80 people were injured was caused when a woman spotted a mouse, officials say. The rush happened in Casablanca’s Hassan II mosque during Monday evening prayers when a mouse scurried over a woman’s
The Vatican’s financial chief appeared to criticise Pope Francis’s eco-encyclical Laudato Si after saying the Church has no God-given mandate to pronounce of scientific matters . In an interview with the Financial Times, Cardinal George Pell, who has been leading
Greece’s outspoken former finance minister has warned the country’s controversial planned economic reforms are “going to fail” and said the country’s government does not really believe they will work. Yannis Varoufakis told the BBC that Greece was being subjected to
