A Spanish town has become the first in the country to ban Muslims from using public facilities to celebrate religious Eid festivals just weeks after a nearby area was rocked by anti-migrant riots.
Labour Homelessness Minister Rushanara Ali threw four tenants out of her east London townhouse before relisting the property for £700 a month more in rent, amid calls for her to resign.
The British state has only the vaguest idea how many people live in the UK, legally or otherwise, says Michael Simmons, with thousands of migrants overstaying their visas and purposefully slipping into illegality.
Heat pump installations are running 90% short of Ed Miliband's Net Zero targets, with just 30,000 fitted instead of 300,000. At this pace, it would take 150 years to equip all homes with 'renewable' technology.
Rachel Reeves must raise taxes immediately to plug a fresh £50bn hole in the public finances, according to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, one of Britain’s most respected economics organisations.
Sir Keir Starmer has declared that the UK will recognise a state of Palestine in September unless Israel makes peace with Hamas, in a move critics say treats statehood as a "bargaining chip" and "rewards Hamas".
Nigel Farage has demanded an apology from Labour Minister Peter Kyle after he accused him of taking the side of paedophiles like Jimmy Savile for wanting to scrap the Online Safety Act over free speech concerns.
A leaked internal email from a BBC Executive Editor reveals that the corporation has issued prescriptive and biased instructions to staff on how to cover the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Town councillor John Edwards, who asked questions about 300 Afghans put up in a local hotel, was "reported to police for stirring up racial hatred", and has also been placed under "investigation" by a "monitoring officer".
In the past week, an image of a desperately thin Gazan child has been splashed on the front pages of newspapers worldwide. What they miss out, says David Collier, is that the child has a serious genetic disorder.
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