Quitting the European Union’s customs union could see Britain become a “beacon of global free trade” and create nearly 400,000 jobs, an analysis based on EU figures has shown.
Model Jasmine Lennard has reportedly been dropped from the Celebrity Big Brother House 2017, after producers accused her of making Islamophobic and transphobic comments. The 31-year-old Lennard — best known for her modelling work and as a reality TV personality
The BBC has been accused of a “conflict of interest”, as it emerged that the corporation has taken more than £300,000 in funding from the European Union since the vote for Brexit. Critics say the payment is bound to lead
Islamic State has ambitions to carry out “mass casualty” chemical weapon attacks in Britain, the minister with responsibility for national security has warned.
Members of a government-funded Muslim anti-extremism organisation praised by the Prime Minister have been found to have made numerous anti-Semitic and homophobic comments on social media. The Birmingham-based charity Odara is believed to have received over £150,000 of taxpayer money
A 40-year-old man has been arrested by counter-terrorism officials and charged with making online threats “relating to New Year’s Eve” celebrations in Sydney, Australia, police announced on Friday The man, named as Damien O’Neil, was seized at Sydney airport upon
Norway will witness an historic split between church and state on Sunday when the Church of Norway officially separates from the Norwegian government, after 500 years of partnership.
Israel’s defence minister has urged French Jews to move to the Jewish state, following the UN resolution condemning settlement building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Hundreds of migrants and refugees are trickling back across France to reform camps around Calais, in a renewed bid to make it to the UK. Six informal camps, each housing hundreds of migrants with dozens more arriving each week, have
Hundreds of protestors have gathered outside the Tunisian Parliament to demand that the government prevent jihadists who have fought overseas from returning to the country. According to organisers, 1,500 people attended the event, waving placards reading “Daesh’s [Islamic State’s] place
British political and religious leaders have invoked the virtues of faith, hope and charity in their Christmas messages, using the season to highlight a range of issues, from war and poverty to homelessness. The Prime Minister struck a positive note
Two and half thousand Europeans plan to march into Aleppo waving white flags in a three month long, 2,000 mile demonstration against the civil war taking place in Syria. This year, like last, has been characterised by the massive flow
Britons are more likely to think that terrorism is inspired by religious views than for any other reason, such as poverty or mental illness, a recent poll has found.
The number of Britons who believe in God has fallen by four percentage points in under two years, a new survey on religious attitudes has found, leaving atheism to pull significantly ahead.
Fewer than three per cent of the 1.2 million migrants who came to Germany in the last two years have found employment, newly released government figures show.
The BBC has been accused of disseminating fake news with a report which suggested that a police officer had used excessive force in making an arrest. The Police Federation have defended the officer’s actions.
The communities secretary, Sajid Javid, has suggested that all public sector workers should take an oath of allegiance to British values. The step would be aimed at helping migrants integrate.
Outlandish demands for Britain to hand over €60 billion in a ‘divorce settlement’ are being made by Euro-fanatical officials to deliberately derail the Brexit process, insiders have claimed.
Charity Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders – MSF) has hit back at the European Union’s border Force, Frontex, over accusations that it has been colluding with people smugglers in the Mediterranean.
Hundreds of protesters have marched through central London today to demand the British government help civilians caught up in the Syrian civil war in Aleppo. Waving Syrian flags, and banners reading: “save Aleppo”, “hand in hand with Aleppo” and “enough with
A Durham University student has won election to the National Union of Students (NUS) on a manifesto promising overthrow the Tory government via “violent revolution” and make “sweeping agrarian reform” Tom Harwood, 20, swept to victory with an outlandishly “ridiculous campaign”
British Muslims have taken to London streets for the second time in three days to call for a Caliphate. Gathering once again outside the mothballed Syrian embassy in London’s Belgrave Square, around 400 Muslims gathered to proclaim Allahu Akbar (our
The Conservative MP Philip Davies has faced down a torrent of abuse from colleagues, taking a principled stance against a discriminatory bill which recognises only female victims of domestic violence. On Friday the House of Commons met to ratify the
Choosing not to sit next to someone on public transport could now be a hate crime, the British police have confirmed – if that person happens to be a Muslim.
All new police officers will have to be educated to degree level from next year onwards, the College of Policing has announced.
Two of the main British Film Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) awards will only be awarded to films which meet diversity targets, the British Film Institute (BFI) has announced. From 2019 onwards, nominations for the awards of ‘outstanding
Britain should move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and have the Queen open the new premises in a show of solidarity with the Jewish state, senior Conservative Michael Gove has said.
Margaret Thatcher has topped the BBC Woman’s Hour list of most influential woman of the last 70 years, but the judges stressed that the list honours those who made a “negative impact”, as well as a positive.
Over a thousand British Muslims took to the streets of London on Tuesday in a show of force, blocking off a central London square to call for a caliphate while the crowd chanted ‘Allahu Akbar’.
A Jewish American documentary maker has been punched, kicked, and choked by five migrants after entering a “no-go” zone in Stockholm, Sweden.
Businesses should “work together in common cause” to spread a “unified message” of welcome and acceptance to refugees and migrants, an organisation co-founded by Richard Branson has said. Refugees and migrants have been dubbed an “opportunity for humanity” in a
The number of children from immigrant backgrounds taking Germany’s university entrance exams has doubled in just five years. According to the federal government’s Commission for Immigration, Refugees, and Integration, 17 percent of children from immigrant backgrounds completed the Abitur exam,
Students at Oxford University have been told to use “ze” rather than “he” or “she” to eliminate discrimination against transgender people.
Unaccompanied child migrants brought to the UK from Calais are disappearing, feared to have been entrapped in slavery and prostitution by their traffickers.
A local authority was forced to shut down a Facebook campaign to find foster homes for relocated migrant children after locals took to the page to protest against migration policy. The council said the comments were “racist”. The government has
UKIP has vowed to fight back against the removal of Union Jack and St George’s flags currently being flown across a south east English town by the local council. UKIP councillors in Thurrock have said they will maintain the approximately
AA Gill, the award winning writer and restaurant critic who died on Saturday of cancer aged 62 was denied cutting edge treatment that could have prolonged his life, as the NHS deems it too expensive. Writing about his experience of
A migrant stopped for a routine check by police in Athens opened fire on officers, wounding one before apparently turning the gun on himself. The man was questioned by a motorcycle patrol, who asked to see his papers. Instead he
European security forces should shoot at the boats ferrying migrants to Europe, a Danish member of Parliament has suggested. He later clarified his comments to explain that he had meant warning shots only.
European member states will be able to return migrants to Greece from mid-March 2017, the European Commission has announced, in a bid to unpick recent changes to the bloc’s migration rules.
