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80s moustache aside, Nigel Farage has been off the radar, but he popped up at a Trump rally in Jackson Mississiippi yesterday. Farage complained that Obama had come to the UK during the EU Referendum, and told the UK pubic who to vote for. The crowd booed and Farage said "there is no way I would tell you who to vote for," then went on to say he wouldn't vote for Hilary Clinton if he was paid to do it,...

Images have emerged on Twitter of armed police making a woman remove her “Burkini” while resting on Nice beach, next to the Promenade des Anglais where 84 people were tragically murdered in a terrorist attack. The photographs appear to show a number of armed officers, congregating around a women lying on the beach. She appears to be wearing a headscarf. Reports have said that the police spoke to her and demanded she removed the headwear and it there have been...

In a move that some people might find sensible and others might find slightly over the top, Germans have been asked to ensure they have enough essential supplies to keep them alive at home if there was ever an extreme terror attack. They have been told to buy enough water for five days and food for ten. One would assume these emergency rations would only be used in the case of a natural catastrophe or terror attack. The terror attack...

A Christian preacher, who told his followers that God sends natural disasters to punish homosexuals, home has flooded. Tony Perkins, a Christian lobbyist and leader of the Family Research Council - a religious group that has sparked major controversy in America. His home in Louisiana has now been flooded in a what Perkins described as “near biblical proportions.” This story echoes the thoughts of a UKIP councillor who said gay people where to blame for extreme weather. Perkins has also...

The gap between the rich and poor and the white and black communities in the US appears to be growing and a new study shows how shocking the gap actually is. A new report by the Corporation for Enterprise Development and Institute for Policy Studies has discovered that it would take two hundred and twenty-eight years for African Americans to create the same wealth as white people now have, assuming current fiscal and political policy remains in the same way....

In a move that will shock many as the Mayor of Cannes, on the south coast of France, has decided to ban “burkinis.” The all-body swimwear are used predominantly by Muslim women to protect their modesty in line with their religious beliefs. The Mayor cited public order issues, for bringing in the ban, which would see people wearing the swimsuit fined almost 40 euros (£33). Before they are slapped with the fine, they will be asked to change their clothing...

It was a monumental struggle to get into legislation but eventually Obamacare provided twenty million low-income people with health insurance. There are many Americans who are still wary of the policy and others who are outwardly hostile to it. The health law,continues to be a major point of dispute in national politics, as it has been since it passed in 2010, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has pledged to repeal the law. He has offered little indication how he would replace the...

The outcry for this latest ISIS attack has sadly not reverberated around the world as more recent atrocities in mainland Europe. A hastag doesn’t bring back any of the dead, but shows some solidarity with the innocent people who were murdered in cold blood by an IS suicide attack on a hospital in Quetta. The attack left at least 70 dead and over one hundred wounded, the death toll is likely to rise. The suicide bomber attacked on Monday and...

Obama recently delivered one of the biggest speeches of his life, and one of the most damning criticisms of Donald Trump to date. After eight years of being heckled by "The Donald" and his fellow conspiracy theorists, this one was personal. Around 45 minutes he spelt it out with these bold words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aip0BAWrdLw&feature=youtu.be&t=40m43s "That's why anyone who threatens our values, whether Fascists or Communists or jihadists or homegrown demagogues, will always fail in the end." This powerful sentence puts Trump shoulder to shoulder with Mussolini, Stalin,...