Donald Trump has reached his late-Nixon phase: he’s paranoid, unpredictable and a threat to American democracy. The Mueller Report showed a litany of unethical actions, attempts to obstruct justice and old fashioned executive incompetence. Impeachment is probably off the table, but Trump’s numbers are under water in key swing states ...
The Government has responded to a petition “To establish a Public Inquiry into the conduct of the 2016 EU Referendum,” insisting there are no plans for an inquiry. The response by the Cabinet Office insists that electoral offences “are investigated thoroughly by the appropriate agencies,” but adds “this Government wrote ...
Ali Sadjady has decided to step down from the list of potential candidates put forward by Change UK following revelations that he made derogatory comments about Romanians. The Independent's Europe Correspondent Jon Stone published an article yesterday bringing to light comments by Mr Sadjady in 2017 in which he said: ...
A racist who told David Lammy to “go back to the jungle” and threatened to kill other MPs over their opposition to Brexit was jailed today. Jarod Kirkman, 51, used a fake email address to target a cross-party selection of prominet "Remain" MPs - including Tory ex-cabinet minister Nicky Morgan ...
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 ...
...By a fellow whistleblower The barbarity of wars In Franz Kafka's story Metamorphosis, a travelling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes up one morning to discover that he has turned into a giant insect. This is not dissimilar to what has happened to Julian Assange. Tired of his uncomfortable presence in the ...
The entire wooden roof of the iconic Parisian church, a World Heritage site, was completely destroyed after being engulfed in flames
The Wikileaks founder is in custody at a central London police station and is due to appear in court "as soon as possible"
Julian Assange's arrest at London's Ecuador Embassy was today branded a "violation" of his asylum rights