Politics

The Tory MP has been blasted for supporting hunters who activists say illegally chased foxes, killed pets and terrorised locals

The leader of Nigel Farage’s new Brexit Party has dramatically quit today following a HOPE not hate investigation revealing her numerous Islamophobic statements and extensive retweeting of far-right figures – including a neo-Nazi – on her Twitter feed. A HOPE not hate analysis of tweets posted to Catherine Blaiklock’s now-removed Twitter account revealed multiple examples of anti-Muslim statements, including claims that Islam is “incompatible with liberal democracy”, that “Islam = submission – mostly to raping men it seems”and is a “threat to women,...

Prime Minister Theresa May has written to the European Union to ask for a three month delay to Brexit. She has sent a letter to Europe asking for Brexit delay until June 30. The UK is due to leave the EU next Friday, on 29 March, May says in a letter to European Council President Donald Tusk she needs more time to get her withdrawal deal passed and ratified by Parliament. May seems to threaten to quit as PM if MPs...

The Guardian has defended its decision not to publish a letter signed by 205 Jewish women. (See full letter published below.) The letter responded to a Guardian article on March 9: “Just Close Them Down: Margaret Hodge on anti-semitism in Labour’s branches.” Labour MP for Barking Margaret Hodge has been a long-running opponent of the Labour leader, submitting a vote of no confidence in his leadership in 2016. Within 24 hours of Hodge’s latest attack on Jeremy Corbyn in the...

As Theresa May heads to the EU to beg for a delay to Brexit, she was warned by her cabinet that delaying Britain’s exit from the EU risked “the end of the Conservative Party”. There were angry scenes in a cabinet meeting this morning as she refused to guarantee how long a delay she would be asking for. EU leaders, fed up with the uncertainty of the UK position insist that any delay granted has to be for a good...

Watchdogs found it breached rules regarding responsible advertising plus harm and offence

Last year saw a record low of babies called Donald in Scotland, according to the latest figures, although Corbyn is on the rise. Records of boys called Corbyn and Corbyn-Bleu were noted by the National Records of Scotland(NRS) which today released the full list of the names given to the 47,785 babies born across the country in 2018. But there was a record low babies called Donald - the name of US president Donald Trump - with just six being...

The eight tubular steel curved columns have been erected in a car park in Ashby-de-la-Zouch

Now people and parliament is finally waking up to the total dog’s dinner Brexit is, it’s more important than ever to march for the public to have a final say over our future. Brexit’s biggest chance of succeeding was always to bore the population into submission, and let them tell themselves that it couldn’t be stopped, that resistance was useless. That’s why in October 2017, myself and a few friends first started taking photos of dogs posing with ‘#Wooferendum –...