Estimates of Britain’s energy capacity margins may be overoptimistic, as the National Grid has based its figures for wind power output on an assumption that wind farms will generate at least 23 percent of their capacity, it has emerged. The
Greenpeace’s boat ‘Artic Sunrise’ has been seized by Spanish authorities and impounded following allegations that those on board were harassing Spanish oil workers. The vessel is the same one seized by Russia in the Arctic in 2013 during a protest
The green agenda has claimed a new victim: the Philae comet probe. As the probe lies dormant, unable to recharge its solar powered batteries so far from the sun, it has emerged that green lobbyists were behind moves to bar
Labour Leader Ed Miliband has been taken to task over the Manison tax – by ex pop star and current model Myleene Klass. As Mr Miliband looked on in bewilderment she berated him on the proposed Mansion Tax, saying “you
Mehdi Hasan, the Islamist apologist and political director of the Huffington Post has called for boycotts, strict regulation, and enforcement of diversity quotas to tackle “demonising press coverage” of Muslims. He presented his solution is a speech yesterday at a
The Labour party would fund 1,000 new UK border guards by introducing a £10 levy on all travellers from countries which have a visa waiver agreement with the UK, allowing them to be fast tracked through customs. The plan was
Last Sunday the American hostage Peter Kassig was gruesomely and gratuitously beheaded by ISIS militants alongside a number of captured Syrian soldiers. He was 26 years old. Just one week earlier the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin
Scientists and computer programmers have recreated the brain of a lifeform in robot form by mapping the neural connections of nematode worms, translating that into software and downloading it into a lego robot. They found that the robot behaved in
The environmental group Sea Shepherd negligently dumped up to 500 litres of diesel into the Trinity Inlet in Cairns, Australia, because the crew didn’t have the correct manual for the boat they were operating, it has emerged. The climate website
Germany’s Vice Chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, has indicated that the country will abandon its commitment to reducing CO2 emissions by 40 percent by 2020, from a 1990 base level. In doing so he has won the ongoing clash with his own
A businessman, Mike Watts, who built the first private toll road in Britain in over 100 years to bypass road works, is set to lose out on any profit thanks to the local council who appear to have gone to
An NHS doctor has skipped bail for charges of assault and fled to Pakistan, where he has become a senior Taliban leader. He was able to leave the country despite being ordered to surrender his passport as part of his
54 men have given birth in Australia in the last year alone, according to figures released by Medicare. A number of people identifying as men have also accessed abortions, the figures revealed. The trend for transsexual men to give birth
Jihadi John, the London-born ISIS terrorist who has brutally beheaded four American and British hostages over the last few months, is understood to have been injured by a coalition airstrike. The strike took place last week, and was the same
A high-ranking Conservative has admitted that Rochester and Strood will fall to the UK Independence Party this Thursday, and that the Conservative party’s best hopes are now to keep the “defeat to single digits”. Meanwhile, six more Conservatives are rumoured
Conservative Member of Parliament Andrew Bridgen is mounting an offensive against the BBC licence fee, backed by 50 of his colleagues. He has written to Culture Secretary Sajid Javid branding the licence fee one of “the most regressive taxes in
Each badger killed in last year’s cull to stop the spread of bovine TB cost taxpayers £3353, according to figures released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). The trial scheme cost just under £6.3 million to
Environmental lobby group Greenpeace has forced the European Commission’s chief scientific advisor out of her post – because she supports genetically modified crops. Professor Anne Glover’s post will be abolished in January following a letter sent to Commission President Jean-Claude
The Bible has been voted as the book deemed “most valuable to humanity” in a YouGov poll for the Folio Society, edging Darwin’s On the Origin of Species into second place. Only two novels made the top ten, whilst the
A non-Christian is set to address the Church of England’s General Synod for the very first time on the 18 November, but the man chosen is none other than Fuad Nahdi, a British Muslim with ties to the radical Muslim
Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may have converted to Christianity before his death ten years ago, according to a prominent Christian writer and speaker. Dr RT Kendall told Premier Christianity magazine of how he struck up an unlikely friendship with
Police had to be called to a parents’ meeting in a Birmingham primary school after angry parents confronted the head teacher about a program designed to tackle homophobic bullying. The routine meeting attracted five times the normal audience, as parents
A new examination of the distribution of CO2 has found that some areas of the earth experience huge seasonal variation by as much as 16 parts per million (ppm), whilst in other areas, notably at the Antarctic and equator, levels
Wind farm developers receive more than £115,000 in subsidies for each person they employ – and that figure is rising, as subsidies outstrip job creation within the industry, new analysis has found. 15,500 people are now directly employed by the
If the shale gas industry is to succeed in Britain, the government must relax regulations on the severity of tremors that fracking can cause, two academics have warned. They liken the current limit of 0.5 on the Richter scale to
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has again courted controversy, by opining that primary school teachers should be allowed to wear the niqab, or veil, while teaching. During an interview with the Christian think-tank Theos, he claimed that people’s fears
In 2011, Jennifer Mills-Westley, a mother of two and grandmother, was enjoying her retirement in Tenerife. But her life was brutally cut short in a local supermarket when Bulgarian national Deyan Deyanov stabbed her in the neck, decapitated her and
A gay couple are set to become fathers to “twiplets” – three babies born to three surrogate mothers who all live on the same street in Suffolk, England. The news has been hailed as a “world first” by The Sun,
In a decision branded “disappointing” by Royal British Legion supporters, the BBC has omitted the Legion’s poppy appeal song from its official radio playlists. Although the Corporation’s DJs will be able to play the song if they so choose, it
Did Jesus marry Mary Magdalene and have children? Although the Bible portrays Jesus as a single man, the idea that he may have had an earthly family continues to be a perennial favourite spawning numerous fictional works such as bestseller
A ban on smoking in cars when children are present is likely to be passed before Christmas, with the ban coming into force next October. Under the planned law, car drivers will face fixed penalty fines of £60 or points
Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) – famed in climate change ‘denier’ circles as the institution that brought us the Climategate email scandal – have found that climate change affects the ability of a solitary bee species to
A leaked document has emerged showing that former Prime Minister Tony Blair signed a ‘cash-for-contacts’ deal with PetroSaudi, an oil company owned by a member of the Saudi royal family. The contract promised Blair £41,000 a month, and 2 percent
Former UK Independence Party treasurer Stuart Wheeler has announced his intention to mount a legal challenge against Britain’s opt-in to the European Arrest Warrant, if Parliamentarians vote to re-join the program tomorrow. Although the European Arrest Warrant came into force
A massive question mark is hanging over Labour Leader Ed Miliband’s continued leadership this morning, as a YouGov poll for the Sunday Times reveals that just a third of those who backed his party at the last election believe he
A foreign doctor who killed two patients during his first shift as a locum in England has successfully sued the son of one of his victims for calling him “an animal”. Rory Gray, whose father David died in 2008 after
A Survation poll has put the UK Independence Party (Ukip) on 24 percent, just three points behind the Conservatives and only seven shy of Labour. This is the second time in a month Survation has found such a strong result
Left-wing attempts to dismiss Tuesday’s Republican landslide continue provide a huge source of entertainment. Lefty blogger Sunny Hundal’s attempt on the Daily Politics today to besmirch the result by claiming the Republicans only won because they got more people to
The average energy bill will be £1,319 by 2020, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has predicted. Government officials claimed that green energy subsidies will mean that the bills will be £92 a year lower than they otherwise
The extremist Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary has said that the British government should return his passport and grant him safe passage to Syria, so that he can see what life is like under Sharia law, The Times has reported. He
