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When exactly is it political correctness gone mad? Diane Abbott appeared on Good Morning Britain this morning after a study by Amnesty found almost HALF of all the horrendous abuse female MP's suffer on social media is directed at Britain's first black woman MP, the shadow home secretary Diane Abbott. The human rights watchdog uncovered 25,688 abusive tweets to women MP's over six months leading up to the June 8 general election. Diane Abbott received 45% of all abusive tweets. Black...

Whoever is in charge of the Conservative Party's comms strategy should have learned to keep Jacob Rees-Mogg out of the limelight following his controversial comments last week. But the staunch Catholic is at it again today in an interview with LBC. Speaking about the growing use of food banks in the UK he said the trend is "rather uplifting", insisting that rather than demonstrating the scale of poverty in the country the development showed what a “good compassionate country we are.”...

In yet ANOTHER U-turn for Theresa May, her Conservative manifesto pledge to make private schools sponsor academies, forge state sector partnerships or offer scholarships to poorer children to keep their charitable status has appears to have sinisterly disappeared. Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner accused the Tories of "yet another U-turn" for ditching “one of the few sensible ideas the Conservatives had”. “Ministers are ripping up the manifesto on which they stood just months ago page by page," said Rayner. “The...

Remember this summer, not long after the General Election Theresa May called so that Britain could enjoy a "strong and stable" Government, just a fortnight after firefighters had fought to save the residents of Grenfell Tower, the PM survived the first test of her slim minority government, defeating a Labour Party amendment to the Queen’s Speech calling for an end to the 1% pay cap for emergency and public services by 323 to 309 votes. Northern Ireland’s 10 DUP MP’s - despite speaking out...

The Police Federation has accused Theresa May of telling the House of Commons a "downright lie" about the level of police pay at Prime Minister's Questions today. Calum Macleod, the vice chair of the Police Federation, told HuffPost UK: "The government stating that police officers have had a 32% pay rise since 2010 is a joke – and is in fact a downright lie. "It shows they have lost touch with reality, if they ever had it, and are clueless as to the demands...

Labour stalwart Dennis Skinner outraged many on the left and remain camps this week when it was revealed that he had defied the Labour Party whip to vote with the Government on the EU Withdrawal Bill. Many took to social media to express their dismay and there were many shocked comments on our interview this week with the veteran MP nicknamed The Beast Of Bolsover. Right wing sections of the press such as The Sun and Daily Express wasted no...

Satellite images have been used to revealed the crippling economic collapse inside territory controlled by Islamic State. The new report paints a bleak picture of economic life under the terror group, and estimates that the Caliphate has contributed to a 23 per cent reduction in the gross domestic product (GDP) of cities under its control. With traditional economic indicator figures unavailable to assess conditions on the ground within Islamic State-held territory, researchers looked down on the cities from space. Using...

A police officer has been removed from duty after being captured on camera telling a black man: "You would be the first one I would shoot if I had a gun." Jack Chambers, 24, said he was left gobsmacked when the PC also asked him "Are you going to go Black Lives Matter on us are you?" West Midlands Police’s Professional Standards Department are now investigating after the video went viral on Facebook. The force confirmed they had received an...

Storm Aileen, is set to bring winds of up 75 miles per hour to parts of the UK this week, the Met Office said. Aileen is the first storm to be named since this season's names were released last week, as part of the scheme by the Met Office and Met Eireann to raise awareness of extreme weather in the UK and Ireland.      So far the photos aren't quite as dramatic as the storms hitting shores across the...