A Bolton councillor who transitioned from male to female ten years ago has complained to the police and Bolton Council after a fellow councillor used the pronoun “he” to refer to him. Zoe Kirk-Robinson accused the town’s former mayor Guy
A verse from the Koran is to be read at the funeral of Mia Ayliffe-Chung, the British backpacker who was stabbed to death in Australia last week by a French Muslim who allegedly shouted ‘Allah hu akbar’ as he carried out the attack.
More than 27,000 people have been arrested for illegally entering Britain in the last three years alone, new figures obtained from police departments have revealed.
The TTIP negotiations, designed to forge a trade deal between the EU and the USA have collapsed, German’s economy minister has announced.
The leader of Pegida UK, Tommy Robinson, has been ejected from the city of Cambridge and threatened with criminal charges – for watching a football match in a pub with his three young children, all aged under ten, and some
Around 200 illegal migrants are arriving in England each week smuggled aboard lorries, according to French officials. The figure represents a huge step up in the number of “lorry drops”, being nearly double the number arriving in this way last
The Prime Minister, Theresa May, has asked every one of her Cabinet ministers to come up with a plan to make the most of Britain’s exit from the European Union. The request comes amidst concern that senior civil servants are
Twitter, Facebook and Google have been accused by MPs of “consciously failing” to stop jihadists from using their platforms to promote terrorism, making the sites the “lifeblood of ISIS”. In a report, MPs sitting on the Home Affairs Select Committee
A vegan restaurant with a “pay what you can” policy is facing closure after receiving an average of $3 per meal from customers. For the last two years, Lentil As Anything in Sydney’s trendy inner-city Newtown has prided itself both
Nearly half of all those deemed to be at risk of becoming radicalised by Islamic State are refusing to take part in the government’s flagship de-radicalisation program, new figures have revealed. MPs are calling for participation to be made mandatory
Some of Britain’s best-loved and most watched programmes, including EastEnders and Coronation Street, are to be monitored for their ethnic, gender and sexual orientation diversity as part of a new scheme to be rolled out eventually across the whole of
Footage has emerged of migrants near Calais ambushing a truck driver as he makes for the port on his way to the UK. The latest of several similar incidents in the area which have seen migrants weilding a range of
European Union (EU) leaders are storming ahead with their plans to create a pan-EU army, insisting that a joint defence force is necessary to combat Islamic terrorism and other threats. Standing on the deck of the Italian aircraft carrier the
A gay Church of England priest who married his partner in defiance of the church’s official line on same sex marriage has announced that he is gathering signatures for a letter to the House of Bishops, urging them to relax
Mothers who return to work earn less per hour than their male counterparts as they work fewer hours resulting in fewer promotional opportunities, the Institute for Fiscal studies has found. Despite personal choice being a clear factor, calls have been
The Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Loefven has threatened to make the Brexit process “more difficult” unless the British government scrap planned corporation tax cuts which would see EU member states’ competitiveness eroded. Mr Loefvan warned that any “aggressive” tax cuts will
As few as one in twenty failed asylum seekers are being deported by authorities after having their applications turned down, an asylum judge in Britain has revealed. Consequently, there may be as many as one million illegal immigrants living in
Kathriya Louis is gazing out of the window of the second floor condo she shares with her family in Thailand when a military vehicle pulls up. Pausing only to take a quick picture on her cell phone, she quickly withdraws inside, and the family sit in silence, hoping not to be the latest detainees shipped to Thailand’s immigration centers.
Christian asylum seekers in Thailand, fearing a fresh crackdown by Thai authorities following a spate of deadly bomb blasts across the country, have appealed for the West to intervene in their plight.
Theresa May has ditched a number of key elements of the proposed anti-obesity strategy, considering them to be “nanny state” policies. Anti-sugar campaigners have reacted furiously, but anti-sugar tax campaigners have welcomed the move. A proposed ban on junk food
The number of weddings being performed by the Church of Scotland slipped below the number of humanist ceremonies taking place for the first time last year, latest figures have shown. The decline in church weddings is yet another indication of
Government ministers are considering a raft of measures to crack down on hate preaching in the wake of the jailing of Anjem Choudary, who was allowed to promote Sharia in the UK for two decades. Questions have been raised over
A Romanian father and son have been jailed for keeping a pregnant Polish woman as a domestic slave in their home in Tottenham, London, forcing her to work twelve hours a day even after she had suffered a miscarriage. Ioan
Oxford City Council is considering doing away with the terms “Mr” and “Mrs” as they are “not inclusive” of transgender people. The move comes as part of an equalities review conducted by the council. Following the recommendation of a panel
The British Olympics Association has threatened pro-Brexit campaign group Leave.eu with legal action after they posted a video on Twitter in support of the British Olympics team. The thirty second video contrasts suggestions made by anti-Brexit campaigners during the referendum
Twitter and YouTube refused to take down posts by hate preacher Anjem Choudary even after he was arrested for swearing allegiance to Islamic State, and despite the best efforts of the British authorities to force them to do so, it
Every pound of European Union (EU) funding spent in Britain is to undergo a “national interest” test to see whether it should be continued from the national purse following Britain’s exit from the EU, a government minister has said. A
Anjem Choudary, one of Britain’s most notorious hate preachers, has been convicted of supporting Islamic State. He now faces up to a decade in jail.
A British tourist has been killed in a knife attack in Cyprus after stepping in to defend a fellow British girl who was being harassed. The assailants have been described as “foreign nationals”. A second victim was injured in the
People who wear Islamic clothing such as a burqa are more likely to become radicalised and plot terror attacks, the President of Kyrgyzstan, Almazbek Atambayev has said. His remarks, which have provoked widespread criticism, were offered as part of a
Members of Parliament (MPs) are being taught self-defence techniques developed by Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad to protect themselves against violent attacks.
Migrants wielding bats and knives have been smashing up vehicles on roads near Calais as their owners sit in traffic, reportedly “just for fun”. Local residents are warning others to avoid the area, saying that the migrants are not even
At least four companies are facing legal action from pro-Brexit employees over alleged bullying in the office from Remain-backing colleagues. Lawyers are warning that the cases may merely be the first of a wave of similar legal actions. Workers who
A halal supermarket in a Paris suburb has been told to start stocking pork and alcohol or face being shut down by the local authority.
The nomination of Shami Chakrabarti for a peerage just weeks after she published a report finding no indication of institutional anti-Semitism within the Labour Party proves that the report was a “fraud” and a “whitewash”, Jewish leaders have said.
Holiday makers heading to Birmingham and Heathrow airports faced delays this morning as Black Lives Matter protesters blocked the main roads towards the hubs by lying on the tarmac and chaining themselves together.
The Munich resident who hurled insults at shooter Ali David Sonboly as he was carrying out an attack on a shopping mall has been accused of libel, the Munich prosecutor has announced.
Members of the public are mocking the police for pursuing ‘poor mental health’ as the primary line of inquiry into the stabbings that took place in London’s Russell Square last night. An American woman was killed in the attack, and five others injured.
Britain’s border security is “clearly under-resourced”, MPs have found, leaving the country’s front door wide open to people smugglers. They have recommended that it be supplemented with warships drafted in to provide security for the country’s small ports to guard
A report confirming that anti-Semitism did occur within Oxford Union Labour Club (OULC) has been leaked three months after the Labour Party took measures to suppress its publication.
