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Hate preacher Anjem Choudary has had his Instagram account suspended — just days after he was also booted off Twitter and Facebook. The 54-year-old joined the social networking site as anjemchoudary1967 and began posting on Monday. But within hours, Instagram’s parent company Facebook moved to take the account down for violating its policies. It comes days after Choudary’s accounts on Facebook and Twitter were “permanently suspended for violating the rules” of its violent organizations policy. The firebrand preacher began setting up online profiles two weeks ago after legal conditions that prevented him from speaking publicly expired on July 18. He...

A British jihadi bride who lost an arm in an air strike is living in a £500,000 ($700k) council house and has been fitted with a prosthetic limb, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Samia Hussein was injured when coalition forces launched an attack on a weapons store next to her home in the Syrian city of Raqqa, which was under the control of Islamic State. The Metropolitan Police last night said she had not been charged with any offence but remained ‘under investigation’. It is not known how the artificial arm was funded, but one of Hussein’s relatives said:...

“He did sermons with the head of his opponents on a pike.” London Mayor Sadiq Khan defended the impending placement of a statue of John Chilembwe, an anti-colonial activist who ordered the decapitation of William Livingstone in front of his children and then displayed his head on a pike, saying it served to “reflect London’s achievements and diversity.” Yes, really. Chilembwe was a Baptist pastor and educator who became a militant resistance fighter who railed against the treatment of Africans working in agriculture on European-owned plantations in Malawi in the early 1900’s. Chilembwe led a violent revolt against the Bruce...

As a small child Anthony Hendrie lived through the horrors of the Blitz in his home in Chatham, England He remembers cowering under a Morrison shelter when the family did not have time to get to the basement. As China rises and flexes its muscles, it is crucial that we remember the lessons of WW2.

Police have released men detained by Border Force officials in Glasgow after protesters surrounded their van and prevented it from leaving. Demonstrators in Pollokshields, blocked the immigration enforcement van for hours on Thursday, with one lying underneath the vehicle. Around 200 protesters were at the scene in Kenmure Street, with chants of “Leave our neighbours, let them go” and “Cops go home” being heard as a ring of police stood around the van. Staff from Immigration Enforcement are believed to have swooped on a property in the area on Thursday morning and detained people. Shortly after 5pm, Police Scotland released...

A British government-mandated report into racial disparities in the country has attracted the ire of a race-focused working group at the United Nations, who reject findings that do not neatly align with the dogma that racism is systemic and institutional in Britain. The U.N. experts charged on Monday that the report attempts to “normalize white supremacy.” Controversially, the group that compiled the 230-page report, the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, found (in the words of a foreward to the report, by the commission’s chair) that “geography, family influence, socio-economic background, culture and religion have more significant impact on life...

So what's happening with your eggs?' This was the question Sara Murray's oldest friend asked her recently during a phone catch-up. It's the same question she's been asking Sara ever since she decided to freeze her eggs back in 2015, aged 43. 'Normally when she asks me that, it reawakens my emotional dilemma of whether I should try to use my eggs or not,' admits Sara. 'But this time, as I sipped on my herbal tea, I felt a strange sense of peace. 'I'm turning 49 this summer, and after years of assuming I'll have children one day, I'm starting...

She is dressed in the casual, ‘urban cool’ uniform of the London 20-something: skinny jeans, unzipped hoodie, Nike baseball cap, trendy shades. Her hair dyed and straightened in the style of her generation. She really could be any young woman about town. But this is not any young woman. This is Shamima Begum, the teenager who fled Britain in 2015 to marry an Isis fighter. The now 21-year-old who described with chilling nonchalance how she ‘wasn’t fazed’ by the sight of a severed head. Who declared how she had a ‘good time’ with Isis, and who justified the bombing of...

London's streets are not safe 'for women or for girls', Mayor Sadiq Khan has told LBC. Video...

A British police chief has lamented the fact that her leadership team is white, saying it is “not OK that we look like we do”. “If we look at the Chief Officer group of this constabulary, we are half female and have all sorts of other diverse characteristics – but we are all white,” said Chief Constable Olivia Pinkney. “I’m really aware of that and so I’m doing what I can to mitigate in the short term and I have a very detailed plan, which also national policing has as well, to try and shift that balance,” she vowed. “It’s...

LondonAssembly members have blasted Sadiq Khan's £1.5million BBC-backed 'woke' pro-EU, NHS and BLM firework and drone display over the Thames. Viewers were quick to criticise the taxpayer-funded New Year's Eve event, claiming it was 'ruined by politics' after Thames bridges were turned blue and yellow in a tribute to the EU as the UK finally left the bloc. The display - which the London Mayor cooked up in secret with Scotland Yard to avoid crowds gathering in Greenwich - also saw 300 drones make the shape of a BLM fist and a turtle with Africa on its shell during a...

Two women were today stabbed as they shopped in Marks & Spencer just hours after lockdown ended and all non-essential stores reopened in England. A local man, 57, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following the attack in Burnley at around 9.30am, Lancashire Police said.

LGBT leaders and supporters in the Church of England are threatening a mass walkout from a recently-launched discussion process about sexual issues unless bishops give an urgent guarantee to support the marriage of same-sex partners in church. The warning was issued in a joint letter sent to 34 bishops "known to be supporters of LGBTIQ+ people", among them the Archbishop of York and the Bishops of Oxford, Manchester, Leeds, Dover and Liverpool. The letter was sent by Jeremy Timm, former chair of Changing Attitude England, and co-signed by a number of LGBT clergy and supporters, including Rev Colin Coward, founder...

Former evangelical Steve Chalke has claimed that churches could soon face prosecution over their treatment of LGBT people. He tweeted over the weekend: "When I began to welcome LGBT people into my church, the Evangelicals threw the charity I founded out of their alliance. "But I believe what amounts to the abuse of LGBT people by churches is likely to soon see a crop of high-profile prosecutions." His tweet was in reference to the Evangelical Alliance, which in 2014 discontinued membership of the Oasis Trust, the charity founded by Chalke, after he came out in support of same-sex relationships. Since...

The government has abandoned plans to let people officially change gender without medical checks - but ministers have promised to make the process cheaper and "more straightforward". In its response to a consultation on the 2004 Gender Recognition Act, the government concluded that "the balance struck in this legislation is correct". "There are proper checks and balances in the system and also support for people who want to change their legal sex," women and equalities minister Liz Truss said in a written statement to parliament on Tuesday. By sticking with the current legislation, the government has backtracked on former prime...

The United Kingdom’s fourth largest party suspended a candidate for mayor of London who was filmed in 1997 telling voters not to support a Jew. The Liberal Democrats suspended Geeta Sidhu-Robb, who was vying to become their candidate in London’s 2021 mayoral elections, the Jewish News of London reported. Over the weekend, a video emerged on Twitter showing her during her 1997 general election campaign for the constituency of Blackburn in northern England. In that campaign, Sidhu-Robb was running as a member of the Conservative Party against Jack Straw, a former Labour lawmaker. “Don’t vote for a Jew. Jack Straw...

A Labour councillor in Newquay has written to the Home Secretary urging her to deport a pastor who welcomed the cancellation of an LGBTQ+ pride event in a social media post. Councillor Stephen Hick asked for Pastor Josh Williamson, who's originally from Australia, to be investigated and branded him a hate preacher. He wrote: "Josh Williamson's ministry has caused harm to members of the community of Newquay and the wider LGBTQ+ community across Cornwall. "I believe his continued presence, preaching the hate that he does, presents a continuing harm to the same communities. "I am unaware of the previous ministry...

A man found guilty of plotting terrorist attacks on crowded central London tourist attractions including a Gay Pride march was jailed for life on Thursday. Mohiussunnath Chowdhury, 29, was told he must serve at least 25 years for preparing acts of terrorism. During his trial, Woolwich Crown Court heard how Chowdhury, from Luton north of London, divulged his plans to men he thought were his friends but who were in fact covert anti-terrorism officers. He told them he was considering targeting crowded central London tourist attractions and a Pride in London event, police said in a statement. “He also told...

Parents of children at a primary school in Essex are appalled after the head teacher ruled that children should sing ‘baby boy Jesus’ rather than ‘little Lord Jesus’ in the Christmas carol, Away in a Manger - so that pupils of all beliefs can join in. Pupils at Whitehall Primary School in Chingford, Essex, have also been told to sing edited versions of two modern hymns when they attend a carol service and nativity at a nearby church on Tuesday. One mother of children at the school, Margarita said: “I picked my children up at the end of the day...

This British socialite appeared on live TV to discuss Prince Andrew — but what she had to say horrified the hosts and viewers. A high-profile British socialite and royal expert has sparked outrage as she appeared to claim underage sex with prostitutes is not the same as paedophilia. Lady Colin Campbell, who authored a best-selling biography about Princess Diana, said while she was not defending Jeffrey Epstein, there was a “difference” between a minor and a child, reports The Sun. Speaking on Good Morning Britain, the 70-year-old said: “You all seem to have forgotten that Jeffrey Epstein, the offence with...