Comedian Adam Carolla arrived in London yesterday for a one off live recording of his record-breaking podcast. Any concerns he and his team might have had about his chances of success were swiftly put to rest when he took to the stage
A survey of large industrial companies in the Czech republic on migrant labour conducted by the Confederation of Industry, shows companies are ready to hire more than 5,000 refugees, especially in technical professions. The survey is published in the same week that
More than 40,000 migrants who arrived in Italy this year have refused to be identified. Italian police say many choose to remain unknown hoping to move on to other EU member states. Of the 122,000 migrants who have arrived in Italy so
Sweden’s Social Democrat Prime Minister has invited municipalities, religious groups, sports associations, unions and public sector employers to a conference on helping refugees integrate into Swedish communities. Announcing an initiative called ‘Sverige tillsammans’ (Sweden Together) at a press conference in Stockholm, Prime Minister
The leader of Rotherham Council today backed the announcement from South Yorkshire Police that it is looking to use the law to end ‘far-right’ protests. The police claim resources to protect victims of crime are instead being used to meet the constant demand to police
The retired French footballer, Eric Cantona, has said he is prepared to open his own home to refugees. The former Manchester United favourite also expressed his disappointment at the French government, which he accused of trying to appease Marine Le Pen‘s party, Front National.
Armed forces in Norway have prepared transportation, barracks and sleeping arrangements for 3,000 migrants in preparation for a “mass arrival”. The country is said to be braced to receive a large number of migrants as the number of people leaving Syria
Warwick Davis has slammed a theatre’s decision to replace Snow White’s traditional dwarves in its Christmas panto out of misplaced and patronising political correctness. Leicester’s De Montfort Hall has changed the production’s title to ‘Snow White and her Seven Friends‘ saying ‘dwarf’ is “generally not a word
Hollywood star and humanitarian activist Angelina Jolie has issued a call for a “strong response” to Islamic State (IS). Speaking in Westminster, London, she highlighted the radical Sunni Islamist group’s deliberately calculated use of mass rape as “a centrepoint of their
The decision of Chancellor Angela Merkel to invite into Germany thousands of migrants stuck in Hungary has opened splits in her conservative bloc. Bavarian allies have accused her of sending a “totally wrong signal” to the rest of Europe. The divisions erupted after Angela Merkel and
A senior higher education official has urged all universities to establish compulsory ‘sexual consent workshops’ in order to teach students that “no means no”. Nicola Dandridge, Chief Executive of Universities UK – the university vice-chancellors advocacy organisation – called for the move,
Journalist and author Peter Hitchens has been exposing the hypocrisy and cant of “posturing notables” regarding the refugee crisis. In most recent column for the Mail on Sunday he warns against the fundamental transformation of Britain sought by those seeking
It has taken two years but Norwegian security services have finally confirmed a Norwegian man of Somali descent was one of the terrorists who attacked a Kenyan shopping mall in 2013. On 21 September 2013, a group of terrorists attacked the Westgate Mall, an
Weeks after being expelled over his anti-Semitic remarks from the Front National (FN), Jean-Marie Le Pen has announced the creation of a rival ‘Blue-White-Red- movement. 87-year-old Le Pen yesterday announced his plan to form the new political movement at a meeting of supporters
Experts are advising that imprisoned Islamic extremists should have their own segregated prison wings to prevent the radicalisation of more moderate inmates among Britain’s growing Muslim prisoner population. The Quilliam Foundation, the world’s first counter-extremism think tank, has suggested a trial of the “essential”
One of the most senior Brussels bureaucrats has warned Britain it would be on a par with Putin’s Russia if the Conservative Government follows through on its pledge to repeal the Human Rights Act. A government minister has hit back at the
Belgium’s Orwellian-sounding Interfederal Centre for Equal Opportunities has become embroiled in an argument over a cartoon in a regional newspaper. It is investigating the picture which the Editor In Chief of the journal says should never have been published. The cartoon in question
According to Hollywood star Emma Thompson, the UK is not taking its fair share of refugees because the British public is racist. Describing the country’s response to the migrant crisis as “really shaming” she insisted there is “plenty of room” for thousands
‘Shariah Police’ vigilante force founder, Sven Lau (pictured above), faces criminal charges from state prosecutors in Germany. He is accused of breaking the law on freedom of assembly, with nine other Islamists, who intended to police morals on the streets of Wuppertal urging young people to abstain
Foreign Ministers from France, Germany and Italy have put their names to a joint letter that highlights “the shortcomings” of the European asylum system. In light of events unfolding on the shores of Turkey and borders of Hungary the call for
Sweden’s Migration Agency (Migrationsverket) received 11,743 applications for asylum in August, making a total of 48,774 so far this year. Having been 6,619 in June and 8,066 in July the number for August represents the highest number of asylum seekers in a
Students members of Iran’s Basij Resistance Force – a volunteer militia operating under the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps – took part in flag burning activities outside the former US embassy in Tehran yesterday. Despite what is being billed as a ‘thawing’ of
The European Union has been told to abandon its “messianic” project of exporting democracy by Russia. A prominent diplomat has said the EU should instead seek to solve its problems in partnership with Russia, not at its expense. Speaking at
The French announcement of a €5 million (£3.65 million) upgrade to turn ‘The Jungle’ tent city at Calais into a fully appointed refugee camp has attracted criticism from all sides, including Marine Le Pen. Aid groups claim the move is inadequate but politicians warn
The recent discovery by two men of a Nazi gold train carrying valuable property said to have been looted in World War II has prompted a debate over who has a legal claim to ownership. Now the EU has been pulled into
Prime Minister David Cameron has abandoned his key negotiation plank of full British exclusion from EU employment laws ahead of the planned EU referendum. The move that could help Jeremy Corbyn lead left wing trade unions and the Labour Party into backing the
The European Union will give France €5 million (£3.65 million) to upgrade the Calais tent city known as “The Jungle” into a full humanitarian refugee camp for those seeking to reach Britain. At the same time the French Prime Minister announced that the Eurotunnel and ferry port
Barely a week since the Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond reopened the British Embassy in Iran, a Foreign Office spokesman has slammed a senior Iranian official for his country’s anti-Israel stance. Just a week ago, Mr Hammond said Iran’s President Rouhani indicated a “more nuanced
As the scandal surrounding the Clinton emails continues to grow, private criticism of British politicians by the Democratic Party establishment has been revealed. A close ideological ally of Hillary Clinton described Prime Minister David Cameron as snobbish, his deputy Nick Clegg
Sweden’s Minister for Home Affaris Anders Ygeman launched his government’s new counter-terrorism strategy in Stockholm yesterday. The policies unveiled are aimed at dissuading and disrupting would-be-terrorists looking to join radical groups, as well as preventing terror attacks themselves. Ygeman referred to the
A leading light in Europe Écologie – Les Verts, the French Green Party, has quite his political home of 20 years blaming his colleagues’ “shift to the left”. François de Rugy, French National Assembly Member for the western département of Loire-Atlantique and co-president
A Muslim mayor from the Nuovo Centrodestra (New Centre Right) party, representing the Tuscan seaside community of Monte Argentario, has refused to accept any refugees. A political opponent has now sought to use the mayor’s Islamic faith as a way to criticise
The de-radicalisation programme run by the British government is being overwhelmed as referrals to it have tripled in the last year. At the same time nearly 100 people newly-suspected of extremist links are referred to British authorities every week. Figures
From Reuters: Concerned about security threats and illegal migration, some European governments are considering amending the Schengen border code, which eliminated systematic frontier controls across much of Europe. A week after passengers subdued a gunman on an Amsterdam-Paris express, interior
The European Commission has become embroiled in an argument over a potential cover-up of engagement between its officials and the tobacco industry during negotiations over the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) treaty. Campaigners from Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) published documents revealed under
The latest users of the infamous adultery website Ashley Madison to have been exposed are European Union bureaucrats. The hack of the website’s membership list reveals 13 officials used work email addresses to register their interest, raising serious international security issues.
The non-partisan and independent campaign group, TheKnow, has been banned from the Conservative Party Conference. The group which seeks “to engage people from all walks of life, across the political spectrum” has been banned for “political reasons.” TheKnow Facebook page states: “TheKnow
The left-wing Syriza party says Yanis Varoufakis and others who voted against Greece’s latest bailout package will not be allowed to run for parliament under the Syriza banner in the upcoming snap election. For his part, Varoufakis said he would stand
A former Commander of the British Forces in Afghanistan, Colonel Richard Kemp, has warned that a new 9/11 attack could come from Islamist terrorists in that country if the West withdraws assistance given. Not only do the Taliban want to regain control of
In a reversal of government policy, members of the Danish military reserve force, the Home Guard (Hjemmeværnet – HJV), are once again to be allowed to keep functioning weapons in their homes. Having been banned from doing so following the Copenhagen terror
