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As Brexit Party storms into poll lead, Labour warned to back remain or risk Farage landslide
A second opinion poll this week shows Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party is set to command the most MEP’s in May’s European Parliament election. Just one week after the official launch of the Brexit Party in Coventry unveiled four of its candidates including Jacob Rees-Mogg’s sister Annunziata and Brexit profiting fund manager Ben Habib, it has topped a second poll of European elections voting intent. Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party has surged into the lead for the European elections, according to two...
Richard Dawkins nails Brexit, again
Richard Dawkins has discredited the notion that Brexiteers are giving the “British people what they want” in a scathing tweet. The evolutionary biologist and writer said: “Have you noticed how the very people who keep telling us what we want are the most reluctant to actually find out what we want. “If they are so confident of what the British people want, why are they so terrified of a People’s Vote?” It’s not the first time Dawkins has let his...
Trio of environmental protestors who caused DLR disruption denied bail
Cathy Eastburn, 51, Mark Ovland, 35 and Luke Watson, 29, appeared in Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court
Man fatally stabbed in north London
He suffered sat injury just after 5.45pm in Mathias Road
Rescuers say fat cat found in bin bears uncanny resemblance to bagpuss
The cat - named Matilda - was found by refuse collectors in a large chest-height bin outside a block of flats in Croydon.
Facebook bans prominent British far right figures ‘who spread hate’
Facebook has announced that it is banning some of the most prolific British far-right figures from its Facebook and Instagram platforms. The move comes after the world’s biggest social media firm said it would tackle the spread of white nationalism and supremacist content on its networks following the Christchurch mosque shooting in New Zealand. Earlier this month Facebook banned far-right pages in Canada. From midday today, 12 British accounts are banned under Facebook’s “dangerous individuals and organisations” policy. Donald Trump...
‘County lines’ gangsters who used kids as young as 14 jailed in modern slavery trial
They forced "vulnerable" south London teenagers to sell crack and heroin for them
97 year old paedophile told he will probably die behind bars as jailed for child abuse
Christopher Stowe could spend his 100th birthday in jail after being jailed for for sexually abusing a young girl in the 1970s
The UK “Porn Ban” – what do you need to know?
While the Internet undoubtedly offers innumerable benefits to our society, it also has the potential to cause huge issues. Key amongst these is the possibility of minors stumbling across material – such as pornography – which studies show can be damaging to young people’s mental health. The NSPCC, for example, recently cited widespread confusion over what constitutes “normal” intimate activity as a cause for increasing peer sexual abuse. Safeguarding children online, and helping to prevent them from viewing such material, is therefore of utmost...