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Scottish teachers are being encouraged to report any concerns over the sexual wellbeing of their pupils to the child’s ‘Named Person’, or state guardian, but not to the child’s parents under new government guidelines. The advice has deepened concerns by

A small victory in the battle against the promotion of liberal values has been won, as the British government has backed away from Ofsted’s persecution of faith schools in the face of legal challenges and a letter writing campaign. According

Supporters of a new tax on sugary drinks in London are promoting it on the grounds that it will save the NHS in London £39 million over the next twenty years. But their own figures show that it would cost

In a moment of supreme irony, Michael Mann, the climatologist who constructed the now debunked hockey stick graph designed to make the case for global warming, has today delivered a lecture on “professional ethics for climate scientists”, Watts Up With

The Catholic Education Service (CES) is demanding an apology from school of inspectors Ofsted after one of its schools was placed on a blacklist of schools which were failing to prepare students for “life in modern Britain”. The school remains

The BBC failed to “interrogate immigration rigorously enough” because it has become “a bit pleased with itself”, and is staffed predominantly by “liberal Oxbridge males”, veteran radio interviewer John Humphrys has said. His comments came in an interview with the

Labour party strategists are advising their activists to steer doorstep conversations away from immigration and on to healthcare and housing, in an attempt to win back Ukip waverers next May. The advice comes in a 33 page document, entitled Campaigning

Hundreds of new cases involving allegations of torture of Iraqi citizens, including men, women and children, by British soldiers are set to be brought before the International Criminal Courts in The Hague.  A new dossier, containing claims of torture and

A member of parliament has called for the chief executive of Britain’s National Air Traffic Service (NATS) to be stripped of his bonus after dozens of flights were cancelled and hundreds more delayed across the South of England on Friday

A shock poll has placed Ukip to the left of the Conservative Party for the first time. The results will make unwelcome reading at Conservative Party HQ, as they are banking on capturing the centre ground as a means to

Last year, the government created a new £148 million fund to improve cycling networks across Britain. With the intention of spending the money by 2015, it included £77 million to be split across some of the UK’s largest cities, and

The Guardian’s environmental blogger George Monbiot has written an article claiming that whales should be conserved because their poo helps to mitigate climate change. He takes this as “refutation of the idea that we can manipulate the living world with

Less than a week after police officers and armed forces personnel were told not to wear their uniforms whilst off duty, including on the way in to work, children in the army cadet forces have been issued with the same

Immigrants have been travelling hundreds of miles to take their ‘Life in the UK’ citizenship test – a requirement for gaining British citizenship – at a centre that was fixing the results, guaranteeing all applicants passes. The revelation comes a

Faith schools are dominating Britain’s league tables for primary schools, with six in ten of every ‘perfect’ scoring school being a faith school of some denomination. The Church of England has said that it is “delighted” that its schools, some

Yesterday Breitbart London reported on the anti-fracking group Frack Free Balcombe Residents Association (FFBRA), who had gone to the High Court in an attempt to overturn planning permission for exploratory drilling in Balcombe, Sussex. The case was thrown out and

A mother of three has been wrestled to the ground and arrested by an off-duty police officer, simply for swearing during casual conversation on the school playground. She and a friend who tried to tackle the man were both taken

Nearly 12,000 foreign criminals are currently being handled by the Home Office, including 775 murderers and 587 rapists – but the true figure of Britain’s foreign criminal population is potentially much higher, as the official figures don’t include convicted criminals

The quaint village of Iddesleigh in Devon is best known as the opening setting of War Horse, an acclaimed novel recounting the story of a thoroughbred horse caught up in World War I. But now Iddesleigh is the setting for

Environmental protestors have long made a purposeful nuisance of themselves in the hope that the cost of policing that activities will deter organisations from engaging in activities they don’t like – such as, for example, fracking. But a high court

In what was trailed as one of the “most important speeches” he’ll ever make, the chairman of Arts Council England (ACE), Sir Peter Bazalgette has warned arts venues that they must do more to make their audiences, output and workforce

Dame Janet Suzman, a South African-born Shakespearian actress, has come under fire for saying that black and Asian people don’t visit the theatre as much as white people because it’s not part of their culture to do so. The actress,

Two million Conservatives voters are set to switch to the UK Independence Party at the next election, according to a new survey of 30,000 voters. It found that one in five of the 10 million who voted Tory in 2010

It looks as though Britain’s first new grammar school in 50 years will get the go-ahead. Education secretary Nicky Morgan has said that she is “open to being convinced” ahead of her decision on the foundation of a satellite school

More than one in every three Brits self-censors on topics such as religion and immigration, according to a new poll. And four in ten Brits think that there is not enough freedom of speech in Britain today. The findings have

The BBC spends an astonishing £27,000 every working day on taxi fares alone, new figures have revealed. In total, the taxpayer funded corporation has racked up a mind-boggling £21 million over the last three years merely on ferrying its people

Britain’s active army will be reduced to just a few hundred soldiers on duty over December, as military bosses have sent the vast majority of the 80,000 strong force home to save on heating bills. More than 100 barracks will

Amber Rudd, the Conservative minister for climate change, has apparently been banned from attending the second week of the UN’s climate change conference in Lima by Chief Whip Michael Gove. He has insisted that she stay behind in order to

Tech giants Apple have invented a phone that flips itself around in the air to avoid falling screen side down, thus avoiding the inconvenience and massive expense of a broken screen. Drawing on the way cats always land on their

The spy agency Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ) is investing in techniques that will allow it to spy on peoples’ office emails, in an attempt to uncover fifth columnists. It is hoping that, through the use of language analysis, it will

The Archbishop of Canterbury has backed a report calling on the government to spend at least £150 million on food banks. Writing in the Mail on Sunday he has said that “hunger stalks large parts of our country.” However, a

A global poll of more than 6.5million people has placed climate change at the very bottom of a long list of priorities, with the finding being consistent across both genders, almost all age ranges, all education levels and in most

Just one in three schools now hold traditional Christmas nativity plays, despite the majority of parents wanting their children to learn about the birth of Jesus. Instead, more than half of schools have opted for modernised versions, featuring aliens, punk

Conservative Members of Parliament have been accused of attempting to filibuster a Bill set to go through Parliament next Thursday, which seeks to enshrine the commitment to spend 0.7 percent of GDP on aid. Outspoken Tory MP Philip Davies said

Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party has hit the headlines for daring to question whether women should ostentatiously breastfeed in public. “Nigel Farage says breastfeeding women should sit in a corner” screamed the Guardian. But closer inspection reveals

South Korea has found a novel and seasonal way of taunting its northern neighbours – by constructing a 30 foot fake Christmas tree which they plan to illuminate on December 23. Pyongyang has warned that doing so would be considered