Cornwall teen disciplined for ‘extreme hairstyle’
Source: BBC A teenager who shaved his head for a cancer charity has been removed from classes. Taylor Jones, 15, was told that his “extreme hairstyle” was inappropriate when he […]
Britain First ‘Invades’ Birmingham Islamic Bookshop
‘This whole bloody place is a disgrace.’ 17/04/2017 12:05 Chris York Senior Editor, Huffington Post UK Britain First has “invaded” an Islamic bookshop in Birmingham prompting localChristians, politicians and the police to spend Easter Sunday “uniting in peace”. Members of the far-right group filmed themselves in the store on Alum […]
Theresa May to seek general election on 8 June
Source: BBC UK Prime Minister Theresa May has announced plans to call a snap general election on 8 June. She said Britain needed certainty, stability and strong leadership following the […]
Gay marriage proposal to be debated by Kirk Assembly
Source: BBC By Reevel Alderson BBC Scotland’s social affairs correspondent Gay marriages may soon be able to take place in the Church of Scotland. A report to be debated at […]
Why has Theresa May called a general election and how will it work?
Theresa May has called the general election for June 8 Christopher Hope, chief political correspondent 18 APRIL 2017 • 1:06PM When will the general election be held? Theresa May said […]
Thousands of asylum seekers and migrants wrongly denied NHS healthcare
Exclusive: Cancer sufferers requiring urgent medical care erroneously turned away by NHS overseas departments amid crackdown on overseas patients accessing free healthcare May Bulman @maybulman Migrants with cancer and heart disease have been turned away from NHS hospitals, in a crackdown against overseas patients that has left vulnerable asylum seekers afraid of […]
I was blinded by my contact lens
Source: BBC By Claire Bates Image copyrightNEW CITIZENSHIP PROJECT When Irenie Ekkeshis’s eye started to itch she assumed it would soon settle down. It didn’t. Before long, she found herself […]
Blind loyalty to Trump is a special relationship Britain can’t afford
by Emily Thornberry, The Guardian UK foreign policy should be based on human rights and international law. That means putting some distance between us and an unpredictable White House ‘We should […]
Muslim woman from viral EDL protest photo says she ‘wasn’t intimidated in the slightest’
Source: ET Saffiyah Khan at the EDL protest. PHOTO: TWITTER An image of an unfazed half-Pakistani, half-Bosnian woman standing her ground, smiling at an English Defence League protestor took social media by storm on Sunday. In an interview with BuzzFeed, the woman of the hour, Saffiyah Khan said she ended up […]
It is pretty shameful !
Source: Daily Mail The Kremlin launched a furious attack on Boris Johnson yesterday after he cancelled a Moscow summit on the Syrian war. Russia accused the Foreign Secretary of ‘making up absurd excuses’ after he made way for Donald Trump to lead the diplomatic drive. And at home, opponents dubbed […]
Could Britain have sold sarin chemicals to Assad’s regime?
Source: The Guardian Campaigners point out that substances used to manufacture the nerve agent were exported to Damascus in the 80s Syrian chemical weapons being removed from the country on a Danish cargo ship in 2014. Photograph: Petros Karadjias/AP By Jamie Doward Evidence that the sarin nerve agent was used in […]
Sadiq Khan tells Labour not to ‘faff around’ over Ken Livingstone
Source: The Guardian By Peter Walker and Decca Aitkenhead Jeremy Corbyn and senior Labour figures around him must not “faff around” and should unreservedly condemn Ken Livingstone for his comments linking […]
Ken Livingstone faces fresh inquiry over Hitler Zionism remarks
Source: The Guardian By Rowena Mason Deputy political editor Ken Livingstone will face a new investigation into his recent comments that Hitler supported Zionism, as Jeremy Corbyn criticised his old ally […]
Pope to meet with UK imams in bid to promote moderate Islam
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is scheduled to meet Wednesday with four British imams two weeks after the London extremist attack, part of […]
Cadbury’s ‘War on Easter’ Brings Out the Inner Churchill in Theresa May
Source: Time By Dan Stewart At last, Britain’s Prime Minister is really angry about something. No, not Scotland’s renewed bid for independence. Not even the E.U.’s apparent attempt to use Gibraltar […]
Theresa May criticises Cadbury over Easter egg hunt
Source: BBC Theresa May has described the decision to drop the word Easter from the name of Cadbury and National Trust egg hunts as “absolutely ridiculous”. Her comments come after […]
This is how we can reclaim the British Muslim identity from extremists
Public debate has become toxic and polarised: on one side are the people who call all Muslims terrorists and extremists, and on the other are the people who cry ‘Islamophobia’ the moment anyone opens a discussion about Islamist extremism in Britain Sara Khan @sarakhaninspire Muslim children carrying flowers join a vigil […]
Croydon ‘hate crime’: Teenage girl among three more arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after attack on asylum seeker boy
The 17-year-old among three more people picked up by police, bringing the total number of arrests to nine Chantal Da Silva @chantaladasilva A teenage girl was among three more people arrested over a “brutal” suspected hate crime which left a teenage asylum seeker with a fractured skull and a blood […]
Praise for a story of hope, faith and commitment that built a children’s hospice
Source: Slough Observer The battle to get a children’s hospice for Berkshire has been praised as ‘an incredible story of hope, faith and commitment’. The comment was made by Cllr […]
Article 50: What will be negotiated?
Source: Aljazeera By Shafik Mandhai British Prime Minister Theresa May has invoked Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty to leave the European Union and now has two years to finalise the […]