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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Biography of the Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party & Chairman of the Party Board [...] Read more ...
Deadly storms are sweeping across southern China, killing more than 50 people and leaving 14 missing [...] 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 ...
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 ...
Democracy in Wales is being damaged by a lack of coverage of Welsh affairs in the London-based media, the assembly's presiding officer fears. Read more ...
Senior Tory made remarks in response to question about MPs who voted for EU referendum amendment in Queen's speech [...] 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 ...
As you may know, I have been writing for Caffeine magazine since its second issue, and something which keeps coming up, both in the Knockbox piece I wrote for issue #2 and in conversations with caf [...] Read more ...
The EU is to ban restaurants from using refillable bottles and dipping bowls of olive oil, citing hygiene and consumer protection. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Amsterdam to Wolf Hall, Booker winners and bestsellers – authors including JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel, Philip Pullman, Nick Hornby and Ian McEwan annotate their own first editions. The books will be auctioned at Sotheby's next week in aid of English PEN [...] 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Deborah Ann Burns is accused of knifing her partner of six years, Willie Butler, with an eight-inch blade at their Florida apartment last week [...] Read more ...
NAHT president Bernadette Hunter attacks education secretary for urging schools to jump higher and run faster [...] 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 ...
School heads are expected to rail against Michael Gove’s education reforms and pass a motion of no confidence in the government’s educational reforms [...] 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 ...
Does Britain’s attitude to the Eurovision song contest reflect its ambivalence towards the European Union? 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 ...
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 ...
You may not have heard of Defence Secretary Philip Hammond. However, behind this man's bank-manager-style exterior lies a man of considerable accomplishment, writes SIMON HEFFER. Read more ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Head teachers will declare a motion of no confidence in the Government's education policies on Saturday amid claims Michael Gove is driving schools like a "fanatical personal trainer". Read more ...
New Statesman editor Jason Cowley speaks to Anthony Little, headmaster of Eton College, about the role of public schools, the new crop of Etonians ruling public life and Gove's education reforms. 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 ...
