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UK Pub singer arrested for performing Kung Fu Fighting song
Entertainer Simon Ledger was singing Kung Fu Fighting as a Chinese man and his mother walked past which later prompted the complaint to the police.
A pub singer has been arrested on suspicion of racism for singing the classic chart hit Kung Fu Fighting.
The song, performed by Simon Ledger, 34, is said to have offended two Chinese people as they walked past the bar where he was singing.
The entertainer...
Islamic Group with British Intelligence Links Threatens Royal Wedding
Police warn of possible terror attack during wedding event.
Once again, the corporate media rolls out a scary story about Islamists threatening the state, this time represented by the British royal family.
“Police are concerned about two extreme groups which are planning protests during the Royal Wedding,” Sky News reports today.
Sky News reports that Muslims Against the Crusades has decided to...
Dad who split up fight in McDonald's shot dead
A DAD-of-four who split up a fight in a McDonald’s was shot dead moments after being told he wouldn’t see the morning.
Raymond Mitchell, 34, had only popped into the restaurant to buy a hot chocolate.
But he apparently caused offence after splitting up two men fighting in the queue.
One of them, who had several gold teeth, shouted at Raymond: “You are gonna die tonight, you are not gonna see...
China Takes Up Key British National Party Energy Policy
FLiBe, a molten salt reactor coolant.
Far-sighted economic super-power China has announced that it is going to address the looming global energy shortfall by building a safer, cleaner, and ultimately cheaper network of nuclear reactors based on thorium molten salt technology.
The extensive development and use of this ultra-safe alternative to uranium-based nuclear power was adopted as British National...
Alcohol causes cancer, British scientists reports
At least 13,000 cancers in the UK every year are the result of people’s drinking habits, according to one of the largest studies ever carried out into diet and cancer.
The research, carried out across eight European countries including the UK, has found that thousands of cancers could be prevented if men had the equivalent of no more than two drinks a day and women had no more than one.
Nearly...
Up to 500,000 people rally against the government in London, UK
Protesters on the anti-cuts march at the rally in Hyde Park, London.
These are the scenes in central London tonight as riot police struggle to control anti-capitalist protesters following the TUC’s national demonstration against the cuts.
Violence broke out in iconic London locations after splinter groups of activists broke away from the main demonstration and spread out across the centre of...
Prince Charles warns that monoculturalism kills rural community
The Prince of Wales addresses a tourism conference at Anglesey Abbey, in Lode, Cambridge.
Prince Charles has warned that the British countryside risks being ruined by monoculturalism.
If society continues to spurn village pubs and traditional crafts, it will end up ‘pulling threads’ from the ‘delicate tapestry’ of rural life, he said.
The heir to the throne today used a verbose speech to tourism...
China could match US military power in 10-15 years
Western cuts and swiftly rising defence spending in emerging economies are redrawing the global strategic map, a leading think-tank said on Tuesday, with the danger of conflicts between states also rising.
In its annual Global Military Balance report, the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said the shift in economic power was already beginning to have a real military...
The world should NOT take military action against Gaddafi, says top Russian diplomat
Relations: Mr Lavrov visited Downing Street earlier this month during which time it is likely that the Middle East unrest would have been discussed.
Russia’s top diplomat has today dismissed plans to create a no-fly zone over Libya as embattled leader Moammar Gaddafi unleashed bombing raids, special forces and army troops in a desperate bid to retain power.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov...
Assange Complains of Jewish Smear Campaign
A report published by a British magazine on Tuesday said the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, suggested that British journalists, including the editor of The Guardian, were engaged in a Jewish-led conspiracy to smear his organization.
His remarks appeared in the magazine Private Eye, in an article by its editor, Ian Hislop, who outlined a rambling phone call that Mr. Assange made on Feb. 16 to complain...
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange extradited to Sweden to face rape sex attack allegations
Order: Julian Assange will be extradited to Sweden, a judge ordered.
The founder of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, will be extradited to Sweden to answer sex attack allegations, a judge has ruled.
The 39-year-old Australian is accused of sexually assaulting one woman and raping another during a week-long visit to Stockholm in August.
He denies any wrongdoing and has sought to fight...
30,000 pupils branded as bigots in Britain
Penalised: Primary school pupils are being labelled as bigots over minor squabbles in the playground and so-called hate crimes involving words including 'gaylord' and 'white trash'.
More than 10,000 primary school pupils in a single year have been labelled racist or homophobic over minor squabbles.
Even toddlers in nursery classes are being penalised for so-called hate crimes such as...
8 in 10 Britons want Tighter Controls on Immigration
Misjudged? Vince Cable has said he thought the cap was too tough.
The public, including a sizeable majority of Lib Dem supporters, want far stricter controls on immigration to the UK, according to a poll released last night.
The YouGov survey found 81 per cent support for the government’s cap on economic migration – which will slash the number of non-EU workers given visas by a fifth.
It...
Fury as controversial German banker is invited to speak at LSE
The former Bundesbank executive has said that ‘all Jews share a certain gene’ and attacked Muslims for not integrating.
A German banker who has said “all Jews share a certain gene” and described Muslims as “dunces” will speak tonight at the London School of Economics amid a row over free speech.
Anti-facist campaigners vowed to demonstrate outside the LSE during...
Cameron to declare the Big Society does exist
David Cameron will relaunch his big idea, the Big Society, in a keynote speech on Monday amid growing fears in the Conservative Party that it has started to backfire on the Government.
As local authorities and voluntary groups feel the impact of the spending cuts, some ministers are worried that the Big Society will be seen by the public as an attempt to mask the cuts and hand state-financed services...