Britain is facing the sort of political chasm not seen since the start of the 20th century in the run-up to Brexit D-Day. Seven Labour MPs today quit the party to sit as an independent group in the House of Commons. Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Gape, ...
"White nationalist" Alison Chabloz, 54, was convicted of three charges relating to songs mocking the Holocaust posted online and given a suspended jail sentence by magistrates which she appealed against. But the UK’s first conviction over Holocaust denial posted on social media was upheld this week. Chabloz from Glossop, Derbyshire, ...
Her music videos, with lyrics that claim the Jewish community have exaggerated or made-up claims about the Holocaust during the Second World War, got her convicted of three counts of improper use of a communications network.
Lies... there have been loads of them. And not all on the side of a bus. Banning bendy bananas... renaming Bombay Mix to make the snack politically correct... rolling out a one-size-fits-all “euro condom” - a certain section of the British press have shamelessly misrepresented the EU to invent the kind ...
Donald Tusk has said there is a "special place in hell" for "those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan of how to carry it out safely". The European Council President was speaking after talks Irish premier Leo Varadkar in Brussels in which he emphasised that there were 50 ...
Labour MP Richard Burgon has won £30,000 damages from The Sun newspaper over a ridiculous story the newspaper ran with a Nazi “slur” about the Shadow Justice Secretary. MP Richard Burgon who has been outspoken against antisemitism said he would be using the payout to fund an internship for a ...
Gerard Batten has claimed just 100 lorries cross the Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border a day and that Guinness accounts for half of them in an astonishing Twitter rant. The UKIP leader was responding to a James O'Brien segment on LBC radio discussing why Brexiters hate the Irish backstop so much. O'Brien ...
The hostile atmosphere over Brexit could be exploited by far-right extremists, claims the UK's most senior counter-terrorism officer Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said 18 terror plots were foiled in Britain since 2017, four of them far-right. Mr Basu told the BBC: "We saw a spike in hate crime after the ...
The latest polling data has put the Conservatives and Labour neck and neck in the race for 10 Downing Street. ICM Research puts Labour one point ahead of the Tories with 40 per cent of the vote. Corbyn's party has increased their share by two points while Theresa May's Conservatives ...