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Nazi pug Ukipper brags he still has not paid fine and taunts cops ‘come and get me’
Markus Meechan, who uses the monicker Count Dankula, insisted he did not regret his actions
Ukrainian president suing BBC over claims its reports inferred he authorised “seriously corrupt” £300,000 payment to meet Trump
The broadcaster reported claims from “authoritative" sources that President Petro Poroshenko’s aides had paid the US president’s then personal lawyer Michael Cohen to arrange the meeting.
Labour MP Richard Burgon wins £30K damages from The Sun for this ridiculous antisemitism ‘slur’
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 young person in his constituency. “Delighted to have won my High Court case against The Sun,” announced the Labour MP for Leeds East. “Their slur attempting to link me to...
Watch – ‘Remainers’ protest van displaying historic tweets by Leave.EU parked outside campaign group’s HQ
Tweets shown on digital screen include the October 2016 post: “Project Fear claims Nissan would scale back UK operation could not have been further from the truth.”
Watch – Tory MP roasted on air for tweeting “inaccurate” Brexit information hung up on interviewer
Daniel Kawczynski, MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham in Shropshire, was being interviewed by Alexis Conran on TalkRADIO
Radio presenter who said “I hate polls” told he was being racist – by a caller who thought he meant Polish people
Mike Graham, on his morning show on talkRADIO, took a call from a disgruntled Polish man
Trump asks for global warming to come back as it is cold
US President, Donald Trump, has taken to social media, not for the first time, to rant about global warming, or the apparent lack of it. On Monday he tweeted that as it was currently very cold in the Midwest then global warming doesn’t exist. He tweeted: “In the beautiful Midwest, wind chill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded.” “In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can’t last outside even for minutes. What the hell is...
TV star shouted “My name’s John Alford, I’m fighting Rupert Murdoch & corrupt police officers” as he was arrested for hijacking bin lorry
The 47-year-old former Grange Hill and London Burning actor suddenly broke into the Veolia lorry while it did its morning rounds near his north London home.
Facebook unveil plan to merge Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger
Facebook execs today unveiled plans to integrate the messaging element of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram in a move set to bolster the group’s dominance of social media. This will mean that Facebook users for example, will be able to message a WhatsApp user making the ecosystem the social media giant is creating even more seamless. Merging communication between the apps is set to occur by the end of this year or early 2020 and will pit the reach of the...