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Lonely Planet, a popular and well-respected travel guide company, took a misguided step when it came to promoting a key destination...

The rape victim’s letter which stunned the Scottish Conservatives into silence [VIDEO]

The Scottish parliament was in uproar on Tuesday 25 April as it debated the Conservative government's two-child limit for tax credits and...

Angry beekeepers have served up the public’s favourite election story at UKIP’s expense

PR disaster Paul Nuttall, UKIP's current leader, has been accosted by one aggrieved group - the British Beekeepers Association (BBKA)...

It’s now very clear which party leader is going to deliver on a major Brexit promise

It's almost one week since Prime Minister Theresa May called a snap general election. And between the incumbent Tory government...

Theresa May’s government is deporting a man to a country he left when he was five [VIDEO]

Curbing immigration is one thing. But if an 18-year-old who has lived in Britain since he was five doesn't have...

Twitter is having a field day contemplating George Osborne’s election predicament [TWEETS]

With all of the election excitement, MPs have a lot of work to do in the six weeks running up...

The Tories have managed to flout their own rules on holding snap elections

The Fixed-term Parliaments Act was brought in to stop prime ministers calling general elections based on polls. But now, Theresa May has...

Ministers are trying to use a sticking plaster to patch up Britain’s social care emergency

Britain's social care is in meltdown. Underfunded, understaffed, and overburdened. The latest debacle to hit the sector is the alarming...

Asylum seeker is gagged and locked in a toilet while sent back to a war zone

Around 30 asylum seekers have reportedly been rounded up and detained in facilities across the UK ahead of mass deportation plans. And an...

Labour members warn Jeremy Corbyn that their voices are under attack

Members of the Labour Party have written to Jeremy Corbyn to officially oppose claims that outspoken critics of Israel are...

The DWP decided to take away a disabled woman’s Motability car after tickling her with a feather

The Department for Work and Pension's (DWP) Personal Independence Payments (PIP) scheme has come under swathes of criticism. But one case...

Brexit is striking at the heart of Westminster, but it won’t be MPs paying the real price

No-one thought managing Brexit would be easy. But now it seems it may be a real burden on Westminster -...

British Muslims give an extremely English response to an EDL march [TWEETS]

The Union Jack came out in full force in the heart of Britain on Saturday 7 April as two very...

The UK is playing a terifying role in cracking down on free speech across the world

Data showing UK surveillance export licenses reveals that British companies are supplying snooping tools to countries that have a habit of locking...

Actor Orlando Bloom shines light on the victims of a forgotten crisis [VIDEO]

UK actor Orlando Bloom recently visited displaced victims of Nigerian terror group Boko Haram. In doing so, he shone some...

It’s official: austerity will hit families harder than ever imagined

17 August 2017