Politics

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,...

Jeremy Corbyn really wanted to discuss his plans for a fully nationalised health service today, however the reporters at the press conference had other plans. He become very flustered when the hacks wanted to discuss "traingate," especially Darren McCaffrey from Sky News. Virgin Trains released video footage which they claim shows there were empty seats on the train, which Corbyn could have sat down on for his journey from London to Newcastle to attend a hustings there. Initially, the Labour...

The Labour leadership contest is becoming increasingly fraught, Corbyn is dealing with “traingate” and whether he actually had to sit on the floor during a train journey from London to Newcastle. Now Owen Smith has been criticised for referring to his rival as “some lunatic” during a rally in London. Jeremy Corbyn has asked for Owen Smith to withdraw the comment and demanded he makes an apology to people with mental health issues. The Labour leader has made increased support...

There is no doubt that Team GB were hugely successful at the Rio Olympics and many people took to Twitter to celebrate, after they finished second in the medal table, seeing off China, the country with the biggest population in the world, who came a close third. The USA were the clear winners and were the only country to reach treble figures in their medal tally. However, one Tory MP may have taken her support for Great Britain a bit...

Donald Trump has more psychopathic traits than Adolf Hitler and fell within a whisper of Henry VIII on the psychometric scale. Using the Psychopathtic Personality Inventory – Revised (PPI-R), Dr Kevin Dutton of Oxford University ranked both Trump and Hilary Clinton amongst a series of historical world figures, finding the Republican candidate ranked fourth on the list behind Saddam Hussein, Henry VIII and Idi Amin. Trump scored 171, achieving two more points than Adolf Hitler. The PPI-R method scores candidates based on eight traits, including fearlessness,...

Another day another senior Labour figure has backed Owen Smith over Jeremy Corbyn to become the next Labour leader. Yesterday Sadiq Khan decided to announce he was backing Smith and said in his opinion that Corbyn couldn’t win the next election. Now Scottish Labour Leader Kezia Dugdale has said that she will also be backing Owen Smith to become the next Labour leader. Dugdale said: "Owen Smith gets my vote. I believe Owen can unite our party, and move us...

There was a worrying spike in racially motivated attacks after the UK decided to leave the EU Referendum, across the UK. It has been reported that there were over six thousand reported race crimes in the UK in the four weeks after the UK opted for Brexit, which was showed an increase of a third on the same period on 2015. Now new shocking figures released have shown an increase of race hate attacks on Britain’s railways. The data was...

After London Mayor Sadiq Khan decided to back Owen Smith for leader rather than Jeremy Corbyn in yesterday's Observer, he was always going to face some amount of criticism. It didn't take long for Corbyn supporters to vent their anger, they roundly booed Khan at a Corbyn rally last night. The divisions in the party continue to grow and as Corbyn loses even more support from senior figures in his party, the grassroots support appears to grow and appear certain that...

The Burkini debate in France has left most of us in disgust at the French government's decision to ban the full-body swimsuit, but one cartoonist has summed it up better than most. French illustrator Pierre Marchetti, who goes by the nom de plume "Nawak", drew a cartoon that addresses the choice faced by Muslim women - whether to betray the laws of their country or the customs of their faith. French prime minister Manuel Valls said the swimsuit is based on the "enslavement...