A British woman being held in a “notorious” Iranian jail has gone on hunger strike to mark 100 days of imprisonment. Ghoncheh Ghavami, 25, was a law student at SOAS visiting family in Iran when she was arrested for attending
Latest polling for the Heywood and Middleton by-election shows that the majority of those planning to vote Ukip are doing so because they like the party’s policies. 14 percent were planning to vote tactically to prevent another party getting in,
A doctor who wrote a damning attack on Ukip’s health policy for the Guardian’s Comment Is Free has failed to declare in the article that he is an active member of the Labour party, and was even shortlisted as a possible
A Liberal Democrat peer has claimed that there are no hairdressers or bus drivers in the House of Lords because the daily tax-free allowance of £300 a day is too little to live on. Baroness Grender, who was awarded a
Britain’s oldest think tank, the Labour party supporting Fabian Society has released a report detailing the “clear and present danger” that Ukip poses to the party’s 2015 election hopes. The report, titled Revolt on the Left: Labour’s UKIP problem and
The boss of British retailing giant John Lewis has launched into a diatribe against France, labelling the country “sclerotic, hopeless and downbeat”, and advising investors to pull out as quickly as possible. The company tried to brush off the remarks
Just two years after a lavish ceremony to celebrate the centenary of Austria’s “model” law on Islam, the law is set to be overhauled to ban Muslims from receiving foreign funding and pave the way for a standardised German language
A British schoolgirl who ran away to Turkey may have been groomed to be a jihadi bride through a Twitter-based jihadi dating service, according to counter terrorism officers involved in her case. The ‘Jihad Matchmaker’ account urges people to make
Britain’s Royal Air Force has detected a defect within the Eurofighter Typhoon jets, causing production in Germany to be put on hold whilst the fault is investigated. Both Germany and Britain have halved the recommended annual flight time for the
Nearly two in five babies born in Switzerland last year were born to foreign mothers, a Swiss governmental study has found, nearly double the rate of 20 years ago. The study also showed that foreign women living in Switzerland were
The US State department has listed him as one of ten most wanted “foreign terrorist fighters” for his acts which allegedly include execution-style killings, but friends and family of Frenchman Salim Benghalem have expressed surprise at the accusation, telling press
It appears the Labour Party are rapidly losing confidence in their ability to hold on to Haywood and Middleton in next week’s by election. Breitbart London understands that they are not finding the support on the doorstep they had expected,
German police are investigating reports that guards at three asylum centres in North Rhine-Westphalia have been abusing the refugees interned in the centres. Photos released showing the abuse have been compared to Abu-Ghraib, whilst a colleague has told German media
A Muslim premier league footballer has taken a second wife in his native Côte d’Ivoire. Although polygamy is illegal both in that country and in the UK, Cheick Tioté, 28, who earns £45,000 ($73,000) a week playing for Newcastle United
The Conservative to Ukip defection announcement have come thick and fast throughout the Conservative party conference in Birmingham this week, as Ukip piles on the pressure before next year’s general election. And today is no different. In a few hours
A 15 year old girl from Bristol is missing from her family home, and is believed to have travelled to Istanbul in Turkey with another teenage girl. It is thought that the pair plan to travel on to Syria to
Controversial media man Piers Morgan, whose CNN slot was cancelled earlier this year amidst falling ratings and widespread criticism of his stance on gun control, has been appointed Editor-at-Large (US) for MailOnline. Although the company nominally takes a conservative position,
A new exception to British copyright law is being introduced to allow for the creation of mash-ups – but only if they’re funny. The exception to the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1998 will come into force on Wednesday, and
Richard Barnes, the former right hand man to Mayor of London Boris Johnson, has become the latest high profile Conservative to defect to Ukip. Last night his former boss accused Ukip defectors of being the type to have sex with
Deirdre Kelly, better known as ‘White Dee’ has told an audience at a Conservative Party conference fringe event that she “very well might” vote Ukip at the next election. She also indicated that she may consider running for a seat
A Spanish court has remanded in custody a man accused of leading an ISIS-linked terrorist cell located in Melilla, a Spanish exclave on the Moroccan coast. Eight other men, thought to be members of the cell, were also detained. In
Nationalist groups including the National Front, the British National Party (BNP) and the East Kent English Patriots gathered in Dover this weekend to protest against the government’s ‘abandonment’ of British truckers passing through Calais. The 50 or so protestors wanted
In a further blow to his credibility, French President Francois Hollande’s ruling Socialist Party has lost control of France’s Senate, allowing the National Front to pick up seats for the first time. The victory for the far right party marks
A group of Muslim mothers, horrified at the prospect of their daughters running off to marry jihadi fighters, have launched a campaign to stop radicalisation via what they name as the real culprit: “Sheikh Google”. The Make a Stand campaign,
As we head into Ukip conference, the party has put out on its website a manifesto statement by Policy chief Tim Aker MEP in which he reiterates that “We’re beyond left-right, authoritarian-libertarian–those arguments are for university common rooms.” This was
Actor Stephen Fry has admitted to taking cocaine in Buckingham Palace in his new autobiography, More Fool Me, due to be published this Thursday. Fry also admits to taking the class A drug in a variety of other notable locations
Radical Feminists have stripped off and taken to Paris’s streets in protest against radical Islamists. Urging “infidels” to “speak out” and “rise up”, the women wore scarves to cover their faces as they marched through the streets sporting plastic flowery
One man has been killed and another severely injured in a fight at a shelter for asylum seekers in Wolfsburg, Germany. Sixty police officers were called to the scene, as witnesses reported hearing the sound of gun-fire. According to a
Al-Qaeda may stage attacks in Europe and Israel to show that they are still relevant following the rise of ISIS, the European Union’s counter-terrorism coordinator has told a European Parliament committee. It is believed that some militants have travelled from
Islamist militants in the Philippines are understood to be threatening to behead one of two German hostages being held, unless Germany agrees to pay a large ransom and withdraw all support for the US-led attacks on ISIS in Iraq and
Germany’s Eurosceptic Party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), has come third in a nationwide poll for the first time, making it the leading opposition party in Germany, the Telegraph has reported. The party is continuing to build on success after taking
Joyce Thacker, former director of Children’s Services at Rotherham, has been asked to write to MPs with a “full explanation” for why she had omitted key information when giving evidence to the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee. Thacker avoided
Whilst the world watched as hundreds of thousands took to city streets on Sunday to lobby their governments for more green taxes, in Madrid a very different rally was taking place. Thousands of pro-lifers marched through Madrid to demand that
The Danish Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard has threatened Israel with sanctions unless it agrees to concessions including ending the “blockade of Gaza” and stopping “illegal settlements”. Speaking to the Danish media, Lidegaard indicated that the EU would join in with
A number of children, one aged just thirteen, have left Germany for Syria and Iraq to join Islamic jihadists. Some have already returned with battle experience. They join around 400 other Germans who have left for the Islamic State to
Around 100 French farmers have burned a tax office and agricultural insurance office to the ground, in protest at falling living standards which they blame on red tape. The farmers are reported to have used their tractors to prevent firefighting
The British government has pledged to spend £12 million ($19.6 million) on boosting security measures in the French port of Calais, following a number of incidents in recent weeks in which illegal immigrants have attempted to storm the port and
Lord Stern, author of a 2006 report on climate change that led to him being dubbed “the most dangerous man you’ve never heard of,” has written a second report recommending basing the world’s economies around climate policy. Colloquially known as
Labour leader Ed Miliband’s pledge to raise the national minimum wage to £8.00 an hour has made waves, with one pundit labelling the move as “[throwing] down the gauntlet to the Conservative Party on low pay”. But, as Breitbart London understands,
A London council has removed ambiguous posters placed around the borough by orthodox Jews for their Torah procession, which took place earlier this week. The posters, which read “Women should please walk along this side of the road only,” were
