A teacher who was brutally assaulted by a 15-year-old pupil accused the school where the attack took place of ‘putting her in the way of a rapist’. The 32-year-old, who cannot be identified, said Westminster City School should have warned her that it was unsafe for her to be in her classroom alone after lessons. The woman was attacked by powerfully-built Dwayne Best as she marked books... 

A former public schoolboy accused of making his own suicide vest using home-made explosives described in court how he became interested in explosives to make himself ‘cool’ and ‘popular’. Isa Ibrahim, formerly known as Andrew in his school days, also told the court he started using hard drugs such as heroin and crack cocaine while at school and played online computer games for... 

Police are searching white people under terror laws simply to provide ‘racial balance’ to statistics, it has been revealed. They are targeting people they have no real reason to suspect to avoid being accused of prejudice, said terror law watchdog Lord Carlile. But their tactic of ‘self-evidently unmerited searches’ was a waste of money, a breach of civil liberties and ‘almost... 

The adoption agency headed by Britain’s most senior Roman Catholic churchman declared yesterday that gay rights laws have forced it to stop trying to find potential homes for children. The Catholic Children’s Society, whose president is Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster, announced that it will no longer assess individuals or couples as prospective adoptive or foster parents. The... 

Every day we open our newspaper, switch on the television news or trawl the internet, we learn of yet another monstrous but mistaken decision by Gordon Brown and his demoralised rabble of a government — and each decision is yet more proof of his extraordinary talent for preaching like a Presbyterian elder while acting like a dodgy hedge-fund manager. After newspaper revelations about MPs’ outrageous... 

More than 100 Romanian Gypsies people who fled their homes in south Belfast have been moved to a leisure centre. The group of about 20 families spent Tuesday night in a church hall after a spate of racist attacks on their homes. Police have said they do not believe paramilitaries were involved in orchestrating the attacks. The attacks were condemned by Prime Minister Gordon Brown who said he hoped... 

So far as I can tell from England, the American media gives little real coverage to events in the United Kingdom. Either events are not covered at all, or they are covered without enough context to give them meaning. I think this has been the case with the results of the European elections and the House of Commons expenses scandal that is said to have led to these election results. The European Elections Let... 

Margaret Hodge was born in Egypt to Jewish immigrants from Germany and Austria. Her family then moved to England where Margaret married English politician Sir Henry Hodge who runs the British version of the left-wing ACLU. Margaret Hodge is member of the British Parliament and a high ranking member of the Labour party. In this interview she plays up her status as an “immigrant” to attack the BNP.... 

Four people have been arrested after a mob brawl in Halifax. The violence erupted between two large gangs on Parkinson Lane, at 4pm and left one man requiring treatment for head injuries. The two groups, who were both Asian, attacked each other with wooden sticks and baseball bats as shocked bystanders could only look on. The fight was believed to have originated from a family dispute. Mohammed Ilyas... 

The British National Party achieved its most significant electoral breakthrough last night when it won two seats in the European Parliament. In a result that hands the far-right party an international platform, Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, clinched a seat in the North West and the party also gained a MEP in Yorkshire and the Humber. The party had capitalised on the expenses furore during the... 

Karina Oakley and her mother Charlotte Fraser A Guildford toddler with an IQ of 160 is believed to be among the top 0.03% of the smartest two-year-olds in the country. Karina Oakley, who lives with her mother in Stoughton, enjoys dressing up and playing with her toys like other little girls, but an expert child psychologist has found her mental age is the equivalent of a child between the age of four... 

A young mother who was judged too stupid to care for her own baby has accused social workers of ‘stealing’ the child from her. The woman, who must be identified only as Rachel for legal reasons, is taking her case to the European Court of Human Rights in a last ditch attempt to halt the adoption of the child, now aged three. She has told the Mail that she was bitterly unhappy with her... 

The British National Party has today launched its official European Election manifesto for the 2009 elections. A press conference held in Essex today, attended by numerous media representatives, was shown a new BNP TV production mapping out the significant advances in organisational structure in the party over the last twelve months. The video can be seen below. BNP Rapid Expansion Campaign from BNPtv... 

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Gavin Alexander with some of the golly rag dolls and a selection of the other ornaments he sells. When police received allegations of racism, their reaction was impressively swift. They swooped on the premises in question and seized a pair of suspects to help with their inquiries. Questioning them was not an option, however ? for they were both rag dolls. Their alleged crime was that they were designed...