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Great Britain on Monday sent warships to the Mediterranean and weighed legal action against Spain in a territorial dispute over the Gibraltar peninsula, as Madrid threatened to join with Argentina in a U.N. effort to strip Britain of the last remnants of its empire. In London, Ministry of Defense officials told the BBC that the Royal Navy deployments are part of a long-planned military exercise and not connected to the three-centuries old dispute over the Gibraltar enclave. The feud between the European allies has erupted anew in recent weeks amid Spanish protests over an effort to create an artificial reef...

Readers of First Things probably know this already, but here’s a follow up on a story from earlier this year. In February, archaeologists confirmed that they had discovered the remains of King Richard III beneath a parking lot in Leicester. Richard died in battle at Bosworth Field in August 1485; the Tudor victors gave him a rather unceremonious burial in what was then a local abbey. Richard will now be re-interred in Leicester’s Anglican cathedral, most likely next May. Back in February, some Catholics objected that Richard, who was Catholic, should by rights be buried in a Catholic ceremony in...

Fees have not risen for more than a decade and there is a shortfall of £19 million each year for police forces to process certificates. Chief Constable Andy Marsh, the association’s spokesman on firearms licensing, also called on the Treasury to plug the financial hole. Sporting gun users immediately said they feared the move was a backdoor attempt to cut the number of gun owners in the country. A five-year firearms or shotgun certificate currently costs £50, yet police forces estimate they cost around £200 each to process the paperwork and ensure the guns are being stored safely.

Fifty years ago, it was the Summer of Profumo in London, commencing with a ministerial resignation that brought down a Conservative Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, and eventually his successor, Lord Home, too. Half-a-century on, it remains Britain's most famous sex scandal, and sufficiently potent that later this year Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Christopher Hampton will unveil their West End musical on the subject. Here's what I had to say, with a personal reminiscence of the lady involved, in my obituary of John Profumo. This essay appears in my book Mark Steyn's Passing Parade:

A new secret justice row broke out last night after The Mail on Sunday discovered that hundreds of thousands of convicted criminals are having their identities protected by police. More than half of forces in England and Wales refuse to publish mugshots of offenders unless they have been jailed—in defiance of national guidelines. Some insist on sentences of more than three years before they release a custody photo to the press, citing concerns about data protection and the criminals’ human rights. …

53% of Muslim men are depending upon the kuffar. It's the jiyza. It's the duty of non-Muslim to pay for the upkeep of the non-Muslim. Muslim Economic Activity in the UK Islam vs. Europe  Politicians constantly argue that immigration brings economic benefits. Even if that were true in general, it clear that Muslim immigration does not. Here are links to a few relevant sources of information on the subject: MigrationWatch reports that: "For example, compared with the UK average of 22% of the working age population being economically inactive, Somali, Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Iranian immigrants are likely to be 81%,...

LONDON — British police have arrested a 75-year-old man on suspicion of causing an explosion after a homemade bomb went off near a mosque. West Midlands Police said the man was arrested by counterterrorism officers Thursday at his home in Walsall, near the central England city of Birmingham.

Prominent anti-jihadi bloggers Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs and Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch have been banned from entering Great Britain for a democracy march. The BBC reported: Two prominent US bloggers have been banned from entering the UK, the Home Office has said. Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer co-founded anti-Muslim group Stop Islamization of America. They were due to speak at an English Defence League march in Woolwich, where Drummer Lee Rigby was killed. A government spokesman said individuals whose presence “is not conducive to the public good” could be excluded by the home secretary. He added: “We condemn...

Listen to this video of how Muzzie immigrants come to Britain, get treated to the best of the best bennies, while native Brits get the dirty end of the stick. LISTEN, it's hilarious!!

Plucking disgusting? Coat made from human chest hair  Fur sale ... £2,499 coat made from chest hair  A JACKET made entirely from human CHEST HAIR has gone on sale. The furry fashion statement, which costs £2,499, uses a million hairs plucked from mens' pecs.     Cravendale milk producers Arla foods are hoping it will turn people on to their new drink Wing Co, which they call "the manly chocolate milk for men with added man". Man fuel ... Arla Food's solution to shaven-chests But we hope it doesn't have a dampening effect on appetites. It does go perfectly...

1st PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1789-97 FAMILY ESSAY "Washington came of very good blood - aw, quite good - I b'lieve." Attributed by his classmates to Amory Blaine in F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise. The Washingtons are of unusual antiquity in European terms, let alone American ones. A direct male ancestry has been traced back to William de Wessington or Wessyngton (i.e., Washington, a town in Tyne and Wear, formerly County Durham, in northern England), who was living in the late 12th century. The remoter ancestry is not absolutely certain but a detailed argument has...

Tt is often regarded as the British Army’s greatest military victory. Led into battle by the Duke of Wellington, UK troops routed Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, a triumph ushering in almost a century of peace and stability in Europe. But the Government is refusing to mark the battle’s 200th anniversary in 2015 amid suspicions it does not want to offend France. SNIP Brussels is spending at least £20million on commemorative events, including restoring the battlefield. SNIP James Morrow, secretary of Waterloo 200, ...said he was ‘disappointed’. SNIP ‘The Belgian government has spent millions on events to commemorate the...

... The machine produces 10 to 15 see-saw motions a minute to induce an exact imitation of natural breathing. It works automatically once the patient is balanced on the light metal frame.

Six Islamic extremists who planned to spark 'a tit-for-tat spiral of violence and terror' with an attack on an EDL rally have today been jailed for up to 19-and-a-half years. The Al Qaeda-inspired cell were plotting to attack an Armed Forces Day rally in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, with weapons including nail bombs, machetes and sawn-off shotguns Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC told the men: 'How was it that you became involved in a crime of this gravity? 'At least part of the answer to that question must come in the tide of apparently freely available extremist material in which most of...

Carole Longhorn, 65, took a number of unusual safety stops after discovered the explosive SNIP She hit the metal object with a spade while she was gardening at her home and when she looked closer realised it was in the shape of a shell. SNIP Once she had dug it up she took it inside their house and left it on the coffee table, before Mr Longhorn heard a rattle and turned around to see his wife washing mud off the bomb in the sink. Police were called and experts confirmed they believed that the bomb was still live. They...

Children from Newtongrange Primary visited the Central Mosque in Potterrow, but from an original group of 90 pupils, 28 were withdrawn. The trip had been organised to help educate the primary one, two and five pupils about other religions and cultures. But one parent today said they didn’t want their child “mixed up in the hate being preached in mosques”. The incident comes amid heightened tensions in the wake of the killing of soldier Lee Rigby in London, and David Cameron’s pledge to “drain the swamp” of extremism. Religious leaders and Midlothian councillors condemned parents pulling their children out the...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has discussed its revamped security regulations with the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) in light of the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby, 25, in Woolwich, south-east London, which it said had even provoked attacks in the United States. The security improvements encouraged by CAIR, America's largest Muslim advocacy group, encourage the building of transparent fences around mosques, wire screens on windows, designated security officials, three-inch-thick doors, panic alarms and safe rooms. Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for CAIR, said: "From the outside it definitely seems UK mosques are more at risk than anywhere, including the...

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David Cameron has pledged fresh action "to drain the swamp" that is creating British Islamic extremism as he gave his first report on his taskforce set up after the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby outside Woolwich barracks. SNIP No 10 said the taskforce will focus on: • Whether rules for charities are too lax and allow extremists to prosper. • Fresh action to disrupt groups that incite hatred or violence, including extremists on university campuses and in prisons. • More support for madrasas to prevent radicalisation, including help for mosques that want to expel extremists and recruit imams who understand...

Legalising gay marriage could force the Queen to break a Coronation oath, a senior clergyman warned yesterday. Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, former Bishop of Rochester, said the Queen vowed when she was crowned 60 years ago to ‘uphold the laws of God’. He claimed that signing into law an act allowing same-sex couples to marry would contravene that promise. He spoke as opponents of same-sex unions launched a last-ditch bid to kill the plans in the House of Lords today. Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby will demand amendments to the Bill to protect those with moral objections. Gay marriage passed with...

Stephen Timms, who was attacked by a Muslim student in his East Ham constituency in east London three years ago, said ministers must investigate how to remove radical material from the internet in the wake of the Woolwich terror attack. Thousands of extremist videos are easily available on YouTube and other websites, and police investigating the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby have seized a number of computers. Roshonara Choudhry, the student who attacked Mr Timms, was inspired by online sermons by a radical preacher who urged Muslims to do “whatever you can” in violent defiance of the West. She tried...

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A threat to kill Prince Harry was made just 24 hours after the brutal slaying of soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich. Ashraf Islam, 30, was arrested in ­London after confessing he wanted to murder the soldier prince. After an investigation by the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command, Islam, from West London, was charged with threats to kill the third in line to the throne. A Scotland Yard spokesman yesterday confirmed that he pleaded guilty to the charge at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court SNIP It is feared that Harry, known in the Army Air Corps as Captain Wales, is the Taliban’s number...

Jeremiah Adebolajo, who uses the name Abul Jaleel, was also asked to help ‘turn’ his brother, Michael, to work for MI5, who were already aware of Michael’s close links to extremist groups. SNIP Jeremiah Adebolajo, 26, who works as an English teacher at a university in Saudi Arabia and returned to Britain this week, is to be questioned about his brother by Scotland Yard counter-terrorism detectives today. Government sources have already confirmed that Michael Adebolajo was known to MI5. Last week it was alleged that he rebuffed efforts by the security service to recruit him as a spy. SNIP Now...

Tony Blair today makes his most powerful political intervention since leaving Downing Street by launching an outspoken attack on ‘the problem within Islam’. The former Prime Minister addresses the shocking killing of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich by going further than he – or any front-rank British politician – has gone before over the issue of Muslim radicalism. Writing in today’s Mail on Sunday, he departs from the usual argument that Islam is a peaceful religion that should not be tainted by the actions of a few extremists. Instead, Mr Blair urges governments to ‘be honest’ and admit that the...

Hazhar Hassan Taha, a 24 year-old Iraqi man, was jailed for 17 months for violent disorder and after his release won a legal challenge against deportation on human rights grounds. SNIP Taha, who lives in Manchester, came to Britain in 2005 as an asylum seeker. His claim for refugee status was rejected within months but he “nevertheless remained in the United Kingdom”, according to the court papers. Taha, who also goes by the name Hajar Hassan, was arrested in February 2008 for violent disorder. He was involved in a mass brawl in Lapwing Lane, West Didsbury, Manchester, in which at...

<p>Council bosses have abandoned attempts to move Abu Hamza’s wife from her £1million taxpayer-funded house.</p> <p>Officials admitted yesterday they are ‘powerless’ to throw out Najat Mostafa, the hook-handed cleric’s second wife, from the five-bedroom property in an exclusive west London street.</p>

Britain is being taken to court by the European commission over allegations that nationals from EU countries are unfairly denied welfare benefits. The commission argues that Britain imposes an extra test on migrants from the EU that does not apply to British citizens, in contravention of EU law. Britain applies its own test on top of the standard EU test to determine if a migrant is eligible for welfare payments. The commission believes that, as a result, thousands of migrants may have been denied access to benefits, such as child tax credit and jobseeker's allowance. SNIP But the official said...

Readers contact PCC about newspapers' dramatic front pages, particularly images of suspect with bloodied hands The press watchdog has received 83 complaints about newspaper coverage of the Woolwich murder. Distressed readers contacted the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) about the stories and pictures used by newspapers, including tabloids and broadsheet titles, following the killing of British soldier Lee Rigby last Wednesday. Each of the national titles carried dramatic front pages the following day showing one of the murder suspects with bloodied hands, prompting criticism from some readers. The PCC declined to say which titles it had received complaints about, but said...

Counter-terrorism police are investigating after three Muslim inmates assaulted two prison officers and held one of them hostage at an east Yorkshire prison. The attack took place at Full Sutton prison on Sunday, amid heightened tensions after the murder of the British soldier Lee Rigby, who was stabbed to death in the street in Woolwich, south-east London, last Wednesday. Neither the police nor the Ministry of Justice would comment on the motive for the attack. None of the inmates involved were serving time for terrorism-related offences. Two of them are aged 25 and the other is 26. Neither of the...

Where did the hatred that led to the murder of a soldier in Woolwich come from? Radical hate preacher Anjem Choudary knew one of the assailants and says he is proud of having "a big influence" on his life. The attack demonstrates how difficult it is to prevent Islamist violence in Britain. Anjem Choudary grabs a can of Red Bull before he talks about the man with the blood-soaked hands and a meat cleaver -- a man who is an acquaintance of his. Choudary doesn't call what happened in London last week murder, but rather "the operation on Wednesday." Wearing...

Boris Johnson has attacked Islamists who want to impose ‘mumbo-jumbo’ sharia law on Britain. The Mayor of London condemned as ‘bunk’ the idea that there was a clash of civilisations and warned against exaggerating the ‘plague’ of militants. Britain should not give the killers the prize they craved most – dividing us through perpetuating the myth of a 'war' 'This is a sinister political agenda that promotes a sense of grievance and victimhood among a minority of Muslims,’ he wrote in his regular column for the Telegraph. ‘The Islamists want universal sharia law and other mumbo-jumbo. 'Above all, they want...

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David Cameron visited MI5 headquarters to thank spies for their work on the Woolwich terror case a day the after murder of Drummer Lee Rigby despite concerns about the failings of security services.

A man in his twenties has been stabbed in broad daylight less than 300 metres from where soldier Lee Rigby was executed on Wednesday afternoon. Police treated him at the scene in central Woolwich but Scotland Yard said the violent assault is not linked to the terror attack last week. The person was stabbed at 4pm in Wellington Street - across the road from where Lee Rigby was murdered - and he is not thought to have suffered life-threatening injuries. Hours earlier the family of murdered British soldier Lee Rigby paid an emotional visit to the scene where he was...

By now most of you would have heard about the latest Islamic attack on non-Muslims, this time in the UK. A British military man in southeast London was repeatedly stabbed to death, along with an attempt to behead him. The two Muslim killers then attacked police with guns, knives and meat cleavers. One news item puts it this way: “Clutching a bloodied meat cleaver after executing a soldier on a crowded street, he delivers a chilling message of hate. ‘You people will never be safe,’ he declares in a clear south London accent. ‘An eye for an eye, a tooth...

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Just a few moments ago I heard about the attack by the members of the “Religion of Peace” on a man in South London. They killed a man who is apparently a British soldier using only knives and machetes. It is also apparent that the police retrieved a gun off of these Muslims after they attacked the police. I am interested in that last fact. If it is true. (we are still not certain of all the facts) “THE GUN” In London it is illegal for a person to even carry a knife over three inches long on your person...

Those who grew up during the Hungry Thirties, and fought in World War II, were called “the greatest generation” in a 1968 book by U.S. author and broadcaster Tom Brokaw. … Now it’s suggested that Tory David Cameron’s 2010 coalition with Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats won’t last as long. In an interview, the PM mentions the possibility of it ending prematurely, and facing the new circumstances “in whatever way we should”. In 70 years, have we gone from the greatest to the weakest? In 1943, our coalition government was threatened by a Germany dedicated to our destruction. The 2013 coalition...

Tatt's not fair! Man with inking on face says it's sad nobody will give him a job       Ink about it ... Yusuf wishes he'd never had his tattoos done But the 40-year-old from Batley, West Yorks, says the feedback is always the same — employers are turned off by his body art. As well as the Buddhist symbol on his face, Yusuf has two Thai boxing designs and a yin yang symbol on the back of his head. But he believes potential bosses should be more open-minded about his inkings. Yusuf said: “It is really getting...

The Qur'an allows for the owning of sex slaves: ... This is by no means an eccentric or unorthodox view in Islam. The Egyptian Sheikh Abu-Ishaq al-Huwayni declared in May 2011 that “we are in the era of jihad,” and that as they waged jihad warfare against infidels, Muslims would take slaves ... on May 25, 2011, a female Kuwaiti activist and politician, Salwa al-Mutairi, also spoke out in favor of the Islamic practice of sexual slavery of non-Muslim women, emphasizing that the practice accorded with Islamic law and the parameters of Islamic morality. ... While the savage exploitation of...

A LARGE meteor was spotted in the sky above Cornwall in the early hours of this morning. A giant green meteor was spotted by astronomers in the skies above Cornwall Experts have said the phenomenon was likely to have been debris from Halley's Comet. The large lump of space rock was seen by people across England and Wales and Twitter was abuzz with reports of sightings. A meteor spotter with the handle @VirtualAstronomer, wrote "The meteor fireball was witnessed from Cornwall to the Scottish [sic] borders." A man Tweeting from Nottingham, @TwitFlickR, described it as a "green fireball that lasted...

FULL TITLE: Child rapists taken off Sex Offenders' Register in secret... and police say it's to protect their human rights Police have secretly removed dozens of convicted sex offenders, including paedophiles and rapists, from the Sex Offenders’ Register, the Mail can reveal. Following a human rights ruling, the law was changed last year to allow sex attackers to claim they no longer posed a threat and apply to be taken off the register. Since then, 43 applications have been approved behind closed doors, at the rate of one every five days. About half of those who apply have been successful...

A TYCOON MP dubbed the “Tory Barack Obama” has tried to gag The Sun. Adam Afriyie, 47 — at the centre of plot rumours against David Cameron — hit the roof as we researched his finances. The multi-millionaire, who owns two homes worth a combined £11.25million, even got lawyers to rush to the Press Complaints Commission just for us asking questions and BEFORE we printed a word.

A British think tank has unveiled a plan by the UK government to return to the seat of its old imperial power by developing a strong “shadow presence” in the Persian Gulf region. The plan was cited in a report entitled ‘A Return to East of Suez? UK Military Deployment to the [Persian] Gulf’ by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). It expounded on a shift in UK policy that is driven by, what it described a “fear of what is happening in the Middle East.” “The military intends to build up a strong shadow presence around the [Persian] Gulf;...

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Six (MUSLIM) men from the West Midlands have pleaded guilty to planning to bomb an English Defence League rally. Omar Mohammed Khan, Mohammed Hasseen, Anzal Hussain, Mohammed Saud, Zohaib Ahmed and Jewel Uddin admitted preparing an act of terrorism. All six will be sentenced on 6 June. Five of them took a homemade bomb to an EDL rally in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, last June but arrived after it ended. They were caught after their car was stopped and found to have no insurance. Police and security services had no intelligence about the planned attack, although one of the would-be killers,...

A man who had covered himself in petrol became a human fireball after police shot him with a Taser. A police watchdog will investigate whether firing the weapon at Andrew Pimlott, 32, caused fatal burns. Mr Pimlott suffered serious injuries in the incident on the evening of April 18. He was taken to hospital and subsequently transferred to the specialist burns unit at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol, where he died five days later. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said two Devon and Cornwall Police officers responded to a 999 call from a caller who said that Mr Pimlott was...

Successful Catholic schools could be enlisted to act as “sponsors” to help run community primaries and secondaries in difficult circumstances, it was revealed. The move would reverse an existing policy that prevents Catholic schools striking up federations with non-religious counterparts as part of the Government’s academies programme. It comes two years after the Church of England embarked on a similar path which has resulted in a number of secular schools adopting a faith “ethos” under Anglican control.

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