Details have begun to emerge about just how much the British taxpayer paid to keep Mohammed Emwazi aka Jihad John and his family in a smart West London property. The family moved to the UK in 1990 shortly after they
Three quarters of Labour candidates at the General Election are against renewing the Trident nuclear deterrent, according to a new survey by the Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament. Candidates were surveyed online about the submarine-based defence system. Labour were quick to
Russell Brand has blamed “corrupt Britain” for the radicalisation of Mohammed Emwazi, also known as Jihad John. The ‘comedian’ made the claims on his latest video rant, uploaded to YouTube. The video was entitled “Could I have been Jihadi John?”.
A UKIP parliamentary candidate who said he was sorry Jihad John had not killed himself was not investigated for wrongdoing, despite claims from a number of news outlets. Richard Hilton posted a Sky News link on Twitter about the terrorist
Mid Ulster Council, a new local authority that will take over the powers of three existing bodies, has voted not to stock Remembrance Sunday poppies in any of their buildings. The council agreed the ban as an interim measure before
The Scottish National Party is threatening to undermine the independence of Scotland’s universities, according to a group led by the University of St Andrews. The universities claim their academic independence it under threat because the SNP wants to “bring politicians
The taxpayer is shelling out £726,000 a day on asylum seekers, despite the government’s promises to cut migration. The figures were revealed in today’s Daily Express, with the paper calculating the bill would be enough to fund 58,000 extra nurses,
Since Mohammed Emwazi was revealed to be the bloodthirsty terrorist Jihad John, few have had a good word to say about the 26-year-old West Londoner. But aged 21 he worked as a salesman for an IT firm in Kuwait, and
A report into the failure of Police and Social Services in Oxfordshire to stop the abuse of vulnerable girls by Pakistani men has concluded there are a total of 300 victims. The children were mostly in care, and were systematically
A British man who went to fight with the Kurds against Islamic State has claimed the terror group fed a desperate mother a meal of meat and rice before revealing she had eaten her own son. Yasir Abdulla, 36, from
This week the British advocacy group CAGE held a press conference in which it claimed Mohammed Emwazi aka Jihad John, was radicalised by the security services after he was questioned by its officers. The Sunday Telegraph has revealed this is
Margaret Thatcher considered taking over the BBC as a result of the corporation’s coverage of the 1982 Falklands war. As Prime Minister she considered the reporting to be “treacherous”, and put her Deputy under pressure to invoke emergency powers enabling
DJ and TV presenter Jimmy Savile raped or sexually assaulted at least 60 patients at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, including seriously ill children, a report has concluded. Savile, who is now accepted to have been one of the most notorious sex
The TV License fee, which funds Britain’s state-run BBC, should be abolished, according to a report by the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee. The group of MPs said the fee was “becoming harder and harder to justify” in a
Around 400 British children a year are been threatened with tasers by the Police, according to the BBC. The figures show the number of under-18s who have had the firearms drawn and pointed at them in 2013. The Freedom of
Mein Kampf, the Nazi bible written by Adolf Hitler, is to be printed in Germany for the first time since the country’s defeat in 1945. The book had previously been effectively banned because the rights to it are held by
All day, the grassroots Tory Party has been in overdrive about getting a genuinely gifted younger MP in Kensington now Sir Malcolm Rifkind has finally vacated his plum West London seat. The bookies have come up with some names that
French Police have established a special Police group after drones were spotted flying close to sensitive sights this morning. The flights took place between 1am and 6am, and have raised fears of a terrorists attack. The sights involved were the
An Air France flight had to be diverted because company rules demanded the pilot have a rest, according to a report in the Local. Passengers were left stranded for 12 hours in Manchester, even though the final destination for the
The Green Party Leader, Natalie Bennett, has appeared on the Nick Ferrari show on LBC to talk about her party’s policies. However, she became badly unstuck when she was asked about the Green’s policy on social housing. Bennett appeared to
Sir Malcolm Rifkind has stepped down as MP for Kensington and as chairman of the Intelligence Committee of the House of Commons following the cash for access scandal. He was secretly filmed by Channel 4 Despatches and the Daily Telegraph
A Nigerian drug dealer who was caught with nearly £500,000 in cocaine will not be deported because of EU rules. Cletus Okpala, 29, was jailed for 52 months in 2012 and was told he would be forced to the leave
One of Labour’s Shadow Justice team is hosting an event in the House of Commons for the Arab Organisation for Human Rights UK (AOHR), an organisation linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. Andy Slaughter MP, will chair the event
Two former British Foreign Secretaries have been accused of offering cash for access, in a sting by Channel4 and the Daily Telegraph. Labour’s Jack Straw and the Conservative Sir Malcolm Rifkind were secretly filmed by journalists pretending to represent a
Ed Miliband has announced that former Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, is to re-enter politics as an advisor to the Labour leader. Whilst much of the media has greeted Prescott’s return to the front line as a joke he does
A maths teacher has been sacked after a student showed a jihadi beheading video in her lesson, even though she tried to stop him doing so. Moya Fletcher, 51, was part way through the lesson when the pupil played the
A teacher has been fined but has so far kept his job after being found guilty of a racial offence when he admitted posting an anti-Semitic image of Hitler on Facebook. 35-year-old Muslim father of two, Mahmud Choudhury, pleaded guilty
An alleged terror group that has been banned in the United Arab Emirates is paying the travel expenses of a member of staff at the House of Lords. Records show Mrs Toni Hayhow-Khan received the money from the Cordoba Foundation,
A former Labour peer who repaid £125,000 in wrongly claimed expenses, was given an interest free loan of £124,000 partly funded by a businessman accused of being a part of the Muslim Brotherhood. Baroness Uddin made the £125,000 payment despite
Owen Paterson MP has attacked claims that three million British jobs depend on the European Union. The former cabinet minister instead said five million jobs were reliant on the Free Trade area the EEA, meaning that Britain could leave the
The Washington-based foreign affairs analyst and political commentator, Nile Gardiner has called for the British public to ignore both Downing Street and the White House by backing the UKs departure from the EU. The former aide to Margaret Thatcher made
A video has emerged of fans of Chelsea Football Club repeatedly pushing a black man out of a metro train in Paris. The fans are heard shouting: “We’re racist, we’re racist, and that’s the way we like it”. The footage was
Five-year-olds could be given sex education if proposals from the Deputy Children’s Commissioner are adopted. Sue Berelowitz, Deputy Children’s Commissioner, was tasked with looking at the aftermath of Pakistani grooming gangs, and her conclusions was that parents right to remove
A council boss who refused to resign after it was revealed her children’s services department had failed to protect young people from grooming gangs is likely to get a £600,000 pay-off. Oxfordshire County Council Chief Executive, Joanna Simons, will get
A man accused of being a terror mastermind behind a plan to detonate bombs in Manchester, Copenhagen and New York has gone on trial today in the US. Abid Naseer is accused of being the ringleader of the UK-based conspiracy,
Londoners viewed more porn on Valentine’s Day than they would do normally, according to statistics from PornHub. Whilst the rest of the UK recorded a fall on the most romantic day of the year, Londoners got their kicks in front
Greece will leave the Euro and the rest of the EU has to work out how to minimise the impact on financial markets, says Ken Clarke. The pro-European former Chancellor of the Exchequer made the claim on the BBC Sunday
Ed Miliband is increasingly under threat from UKIP according to two separate studies by the Economist and by Labour itself. The Economist says that UKIP are popular wherever traditionalists live, whilst Labour have calculated just how ‘Ribena’ each of their
Boris Johnson, has announced he will give up his US citizenship to prove his “commitment to Britain”. The Mayor of London described his dual nationality as an “accident of birth” caused by having been born in New York to British
Elite British forces in the SAS have been told not to allow the Islamic State to take them alive, according to the Daily Star. Special Forces have been ordered to “fight to the last man” with commanders telling them “save
