As Western leaders clash heads with Russia over the escalating Middle Eastern crisis the conversation dominating public discourse once again seems to revolve around everyone but the Syrian people. This morning our national newspapers ran with a series of bloodthirsty headlines stating the recent strike by the US, UK and France ...
To read some of the coverage of the limited air and missile strikes against Syrian military targets on Friday April 13 2018 one might have deduced that this was Iraq War II the sequel. On the one hand May and Trump were busy congratulating themselves on their “tough” military ...
Prime Minister Theresa May followed the US President's announcement of joint military action against Assad, insisting the strikes would be "targetted" and "limited" to degrade the Syrian forces' chemical weapons capabilities. As air raid sirens and explosions were heard in the Syrian capital, Theresa May said that Russian denials ...
Warplanes being maintained and flown at RAF Lakenheath & RAF Coningsby
Britain’s biggest car manufacturer, employing 40,000 people in the UK is set to lose 1,000 temporary contracts. The job losses according to reports are due to cuts in production at Jaguar Land Rover’s Solihull and Castle Bromwich plants in the Midlands, where Range Rovers and the Land Rover Discovery ...
She told an inquest that Alexander Perepilichnyy, 44, was shaking and drinking a lot and seemed "somewhere else"
Chris Hobbs is a former officer of the Metropolitan Police who served for 32 years Well Home Secretary, you certainly stirred up a hornet’s nest with your carefully timed statement over the weekend that spiralling violent crime involving shootings and stabbings is not as a result of reductions in police numbers. ...
An elderly couple have received a letter from Theresa May asking for their support in the upcoming local elections addressed “Dear Mr Fuckingjoking." Their neighbour posted it on social media, along with the enclosed form asking for a donation to the Conservative Party that she says accompanied the rude ...
The largely intact bag of cheese and onion flavoured crisps is believed to date back to the 1980s - highlighting further the environmental impact of plastic in our oceans.
The European Commission (EC) have confirmed that they raided UK offices of Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox Inc as part of an investigation into "companies involved may have violated EU antitrust rules that prohibit cartels and restrictive business practices.” The raid could not come at a worse time for ...
Alexander Perepilichnyy, 44, was being pursued for millions in Russia including from a company with links to the alleged killer of Alexander Litvinkenko
If there is one thing British politics does not need right now it is another elitist party run by the well off, but according to an Observer revelation published today that is precisely what it may be getting thanks to a new “centrist” movement spearheaded by a former Labour benefactor. ...
By Roger Cottrell, PhD Russian financial interests funding the Conservative Party, to a sum in excess of £800 000, may be directly linked to the manipulation of Britain’s Brexit vote and to the funding of Europe’s fascist Right. Core to this nefarious connection are the links between Aggregate IQ ...
Former Met Commissioner Ian Blair echoed the sentiments of Jeremy Corbyn this week by highlighting the impact cuts to police funding have had on the recent violent crime spree. A Freedom of Information request obtained by The London Economic following a spate of attacks in the capital showed some London boroughs now have ...
The Home Office have refused Yulia Skripal's cousin Viktoria a visa to visit Yulia and father Sergei, a former Russian spy in Britain were they are recovering from poisoning. The refusal came hours after Viktoria who had previously released a tape purporting to be a telephone conversation with her cousin ...
They arrived and left with no fanfare, and politely declined to speak to press
Jeremy Corbyn has accused the Foreign Secretary of “misleading the public” when he insisted that Britain's Porton Down chemical weapons research laboratory was “categorical” that the poison used to make a former Russian spy, his daughter and a British police man who attended them ill originated in Russia. The ...
In the immediate aftermath of the Spygate revelations politicians on both sides of the house poured scorn on Jeremy Corbyn for not immediately pointing the finger at Russia. Shouts of "shame" could be heard from the Tory backbench in the Commons, with Theresa May saying the Labour leader could have "taken ...
The man, understood to be 20, was a former pupil at City Academy, was stabbed to death in Hackney.
A woman diagnosed with terminal cancer was shocked to be called to a 'consultation' to discuss if she could return to work. Krissy Johnson, 48, was diagnosed with incurable metastatic Breast Cancer in September 2015 and given less than a year to live. Nearly three years later, she has been ...
By Jack Granard Announced today is the sad news that England legend and all round nice guy Ray “Butch” Wilkins has unfortunately died aged 61. The former Chelsea assistant coach had fallen ill from cardiac arrest last month and had been in critical condition at St George’s Hospital, in Tooting, ...
A maximum wage could be both economically viable and politically practical, a leading analyst has claimed. With minimum wages well established in many countries around the world, new research suggests capping income could create "a world without a super rich" and reduce the gap between the rich and poor. The paper ...
What it feels like when your religious celebration is secretly recorded. By Clouds Haberberg I came to the Jewdas Seder last night as a completely new face. I’ve been aware of them for a few years now, but it wasn’t until now that I’d gotten around to attending an ...
By James Gale Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has been urged to tackle gun crime after a freedom of information request revealed that some boroughs have higher homicide rates than major UK cities. There have been 53 murders in the capital since 2012, with London's murder rate overtaking New York City's for the ...
Tonight in perhaps the most bizarre chapter in the Jeremy Corbyn anti-Semitism row, he has come under criticism from the usual suspects for celebrating Passover with Jews in his constituency. But these are the wrong sort of Jews apparently. - Left wing Jews. According to right wing political blog ...
The most amazing underwater pictures in the world have been revealed - including a close-up snap of an angry crocodile. More than 6,000 pictures were entered for the underwaterphotography.com contest across 17 categories - from macro close-ups to wide angle shots, with two Brits claiming gold medals. [caption id="attachment_85187" align="alignnone" ...
It should be a headline that never sees the light of day in the fifth richest country in the World, but following an outcry from headteachers people across Britain today awoke to the news that malnourished, grey-looking, children are turning up to school in dirty uniforms and stuffing food in ...
The experts revealed that there are surprisingly high numbers of female paedophiles who abuse kids online - who account for up to a third of all groomings.
Amidst the furore that is the Australian ball tampering scandal many of us have failed to notice that a rather enthralling test series is about to draw to an equally dramatic close in Johannesburg. After four 5 day games and countless hours of cricket that has produced some captivating moments ...
The Home Office has been called on to help a five-year-old with epilepsy whose mother says cannabis oil is the only treatment that can ease his suffering. Karen Gray, 43, launched a petition for Cannabidiol (CBD) oil to be prescribed to her son Murray, who was diagnosed with Myoclonic Astatic ...
It is 70 years since the Soviet Union stopped British and US military trains from travelling between Berlin and West Germany through Russian-controlled East Germany, first announced on 1 April 1948. After Western protestations, the Russians eventually ceased this prohibition until June 1948 when an entire blockade was put in ...
Thousands of people could be in Cambridge today (sat) to witness the funeral of world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking.
Brexit has given people license to be openly racist according to Baroness Lawrence. Speaking to LBC this morning the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence said instances of racism are on the rise in Britain, and the Brexit vote is to blame for bringing it to the surface. Stephen Lawrence was killed ...
By Ariel Moshe, co-founder of Jewish Voice UK Yesterday, on the 26th March 2018, people gathered in London’s Parliament Square under the #EnoughIsEnough tagline. The gathering was in protest at the Labour party’s perceived anti-Semitism problem. The protest was called for jointly by the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the ...
Despite the atmosphere of fear created in the Brexit debate: European workers in general do NOT take British jobs. They do NOT drive down wages or undercut minimum wages. They are less inclined to come to the UK in the current climate. Our economy is set to suffer if fewer ...
PC Ryan Canning was cleared of rape after meeting the alleged victim on a dating website
Late last year before news of the Facebook data mining scandal broke Cambridge Analytica told Campaign magazine that getting people to vote is "no different from marketing toothpaste". The shameless brag by commercial vice-president Richard Robinson gave an unvarnished view of how the company works, by "understanding people's motives", what their "attitudes ...
An NHS oncology nurse forced to crowdfund treatment for her own terminal cancer - as the drug is not available on the NHS has raised tens of thousands of pounds in days and is commencing treatment today. As we reported three days ago brave Laura Harris, 42, has devoted ...
Romanian David Lupu, 29, lured fellow nationals into the country with the promise of demolition work for £50 a day and free accommodation
"It can be hard for people on the Left to admit that our movement has a problem with bigotry", Abi Wilkinson wrote in the Telegraph at the height of the last anti-semitism smear waged against Jeremy Corbyn's Labour in 2016. It is true that as politic's "good guys" those of a ...
The boyfriend of jailed Britain First leader Jayda Fransen has been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault. Fanatic was regional boss of the English Defence League before Britain First’s security guard, arrested after a woman told cops he had tried to force himself on her last December. Online snaps show ...
The US Senate just passed an important bill to tackle the loopholes used by internet companies that facilitate ads for sex trafficking. Senators voted yesterday to pass the historic FOSTA-SESTA (Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act). This bill establishes criminal and civil liability for websites that ...
Britain's post-Brexit blue passport, which has been used by politicians to symbolise the country's break from the European Union, will be made by a Franco-Dutch firm after they won the race for the £490m printing job. UK-based firm De La Rue, which makes the current burgundy version, lost the contract to make ...
Guy Verhofstadt has lashed out at Nigel Farage on Twitter over his river Thames fishing stunt, pointing out that if he cared about the British fishing fleet he would have bothered to turn up for them as a member for the fisheries committee in the European Parliament. - A role ...
New research of the Electoral Commission spending figures show the Conservatives paid over 50p more per vote than Labour, with Theresa May's embattled party outspending Jeremy Corbyn on all fronts. Each vote cost the Tories £1.36p compared to just 80p for Labour, with the Lib Dems having to shell out a ...