Grassroots Conservative activists are “mad swivel-eyed loons” who are forcing Tory MPs to take extremist positions opposing gay marriage and Europe, one of David Cameron’s closest allies has said. Read more ...
A Boeing 747 plane carrying about 140 people catches fire upon landing at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport. Read more ...
As if any further proof of grassroots dissatisfaction were needed, I've just been told by two sources that Richard Ashworth MEP - the Leader of the Conservative MEP Group in the European Parliament - and Marta Andreasen MEP - who [...] Read more ...
Senior Tory made remarks in response to question about MPs who voted for EU referendum amendment in Queen's speech [...] Read more ...
A 25-year-old Saudi woman has made history by reaching the summit of the world's highest mountain. Read more ...
Ryanair pilots have been warned not to sign a letter to airline regulators expressing concern that the airline’s employment practices could jeopardise passenger safety. Read more ...
Conservative Party chiefs were today under intense pressure to identify the senior Tory who described party activists as "swivel-eyed loons" in a major embarrassment for David Cameron. Read more ...
The education secretary is like a "fanatical personal trainer" who urges schools to jump higher and run faster, a head teachers' leader is to say. Read more ...
The extent of the suffering inflicted by the “bedroom tax” can be revealed for the first time today as figures show a 338 per cent leap in the number of people applying for emergency handouts in the month since it was imposed. Read more ...
Just watching Junior doctors conference 2013 - Sat, 18th May 2013 - 10:00 am - British Medical Association on British Medical Association http://www.bma.public-i.tv/core/share/open/webcast/0/0/0/0//webcast [...] Read more ...
The European Union is to ban olive oil jugs and dipping bowls from restaurant tables in a move described by one of Britain's top cooks as authoritarian and damaging to artisanal food makers. Read more ...
Conservative Party members have reacted to angrily to newspaper reports that a figure close to David Cameron described activists as "swivel-eyed loons". Read more ...
By Paul Goodman Follow Paul on Twitter. There are activists in every Party whose eyes aren't entirely steady in their sockets. And swivel eyes, to mangle a metaphor, cut both ways - see here. But most Conservative members are normal enough. Tory activists are not untypical of the class which, if one takes a romantic view, has been the backbone of E [...] Read more ...
David Cameron’s promise to tackle health tourism is facing criticism after official figures indicated that the cost to the NHS is 18 times less than the amount claimed by the government. Read more ...
This week the boss of one of southern Italy's most powerful mafia dynasties sensationally handed himself in to police after three years on the run - and now faces 16 years in jail. The BBC was inside the police station as it happened. Read more ...
In a short time, I shall be leaving the country for at least two years (stop cheering). When I return, Ed Miliband will be the prime minister. Whether this constitutes an achievement for a Labour leader is open to debate. The legalised gerrymandering which the Coalition parties have, through their mutual dishonesty, ensured will be [...] [...] Read more ...
Afghan MPs are to debate a law to prevent violence against women, amid a fierce argument between leading Afghan women over tactics. Read more ...
The widow of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko calls for the inquest into his death to be abandoned and replaced with a public inquiry. Read more ...
How veteran BBC investigative reporter Tom Mangold helped a woman in Mayfield, Kentucky, crack a murder case that local police had failed to solve. Read more ...
NAHT president Bernadette Hunter attacks education secretary for urging schools to jump higher and run faster [...] Read more ...
France's president is to sign into law a controversial bill that will make the country the eighth in Europe, and 14th globally, to legalise gay marriage. Read more ...
The way Diane Abbott tells it, men are homophobic, women-hating, porn-addicted, Viagra-quaffing, Jack Daniels-slurping brutes [...] Read more ...
England look to make further inroads into the New Zealand batting on day three of the first Test at Lord's. Read more ...
We have a ComRes opinion poll in The Independent on Sunday tomorrow, shared with the Sunday Mirror. The results will cause a bit of a stir. As well as asking [...] Read more ...
Angelina Jolie had a mastectomy after being told there was an 87% chance she would develop breast cancer. How high is the risk for other women? Read more ...
The Prime Minister's European strategy relies on an act of persuasion that he has proved himself incapable of pulling off. Read more ...
Does Britain’s attitude to the Eurovision song contest reflect its ambivalence towards the European Union? Read more ...
More than 25,000 people applied for DHP to help cover April rent, compared with 5,700 in same month last year [...] Read more ...
Gather round, everybody. I bear important news. Anti-Semitism no longer exists! Ring out, ye bells, the longest hatred has ceased to be. It’s kaput, kicked the bucket, shuffled off its mortal coil, joined the bleedin’ choir invisible. It’s a stiff, ladies and gentlemen. An EX-PREJUDICE! Read more ...
A British child has died in a pool at a hotel waterpark in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, travel company First Choice says. Read more ...
There have been 57 Eurovision winners to date but what has become of those acts that hit the dizzy heights of Euro fame? Read more ...
EXCLUSIVE: NEWSNIGHT ‘investigation’ accused charity of misspending cash — losing it £100,000 in withdrawn gifts [...] Read more ...
People who are unemployed for long periods could receive less in benefits than those who have worked and then lost their jobs, according to plans being considered by the Conservatives. Read more ...
Did the punishment fit the crime? Roy Greenslade on the page 2 'correction' of a page 1 article [...] Read more ...
Mr Gove was taken aback by the frosty mood of delegates with ironic laughter in response to many of his replies [...] Read more ...
The home page for the british medical association, the trade union and professional association for doctors and medical students in the UK [...] Read more ...
Biography of the Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party & Chairman of the Party Board [...] Read more ...
