Search results

There’s a video currently going viral starring Yoko Ono, in which she gives her response to Donald Trump’s election as new President of the United States of America. It lasts about 15 seconds and consists of Yoko emitting a long, strangled, mournful, high-pitched scream. Imagine the...

Labour MP Jo Cox was shot and stabbed to death for a "political and/or ideological cause", the Old Bailey has heard. Thomas Mair, 53, allegedly murdered Mrs Cox outside her constituency surgery in Birstall, near Leeds, on 16 June. He shouted "Britain First" as he carried out the attack and...

Houses collapsed, sheep ran wild, Westminster Abbey shook and the people trembled in fear of armageddon. Andrew Robinson describes what happened when a series of earthquakes struck London in 1750... The earthquakes that rocked Georgian London Houses collapsed, sheep ran wild, Westminster Abbey...

Data has revealed the NATO countries who are not spending enough on defence to warrant Donald Trump using US forces to protect them from an attack. The President-elect caused alarm during his election campaign by suggesting Washington would think twice about coming to the aid of an...

Vit Jedlicka, the president of the tiny eastern European state of Liberland, can no longer enter his country... The man who created a tiny country he can no longer enter By Jolyon Jenkins BBC News 14 November 2016 One man is trying to create a utopia on...

One of the earliest Victoria Cross gallantry medals ever awarded has been recovered from the mud on the banks of the River Thames. The medal, awarded to a hero of the Crimean War and worth at least £50,000 despite being badly weathered, was found by a treasure hunter ‘mudlarking’ on the...

The inquest into Clinton’s defeat is just beginning. But when it is concluded, it will find she lost for the same reason Ed Miliband lost. And Jeremy Corbyn will lose, and his successor will lose, and a procession of liberals will lose: namely, that the progressive Left long ago stopped being...

Britain is to deploy batteries of high precision long range missiles on Russia’s border for the first time since the Cold War. The long range rockets will be moved to Estonia next year amid fears Russian President Vladimir Putin could be planning to invade the country. The rockets are part of...

2016 is the year of Brexit and Trump. Will 2017 be the year of Marine Le Pen, who vows to take France out of the EU? The Front Nationale leader appeared on BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show this morning... Coffee House Marine Le Pen causes a stir on Marr Katy Balls...

A two-minute silence has been held to mark Remembrance Sunday. Services are taking place across the country to honour all those who have died in conflict. The Queen is leading the commemorations at the Cenotaph in London. Prime Minister Theresa May and other party leaders are also...

Nigel Farage has been spotted at Trump Tower as he becomes the first British politician to meet the new President-elect. The interim Ukip leader met with Donald Trump in New York to discuss 'freedom and winning'. Mr Farage has now beaten Prime Minister Theresa May to a summit with Mr Trump...

Here is a widespread populist backlash against a political class whose liberal assumptions ignored and sometimes openly deplored many of the basic principles — patriotism, belonging, community and security — on which our nation states were built. Now, it seems, the voters are making...

Friday's World Cup meeting between deadly rivals England and Scotland was marred by Armistice Day clashes inside and outside Wembley. Two men were arrested and several were left injured at Trafalgar Square, and at least one fan was ejected from the match itself, as supporters ignored pleas...

Beagle 2, the failed British mission to Mars in 2003, came "excruciatingly close" to succeeding, a study shows. A new analysis of pictures of the Beagle 2 spacecraft shows that it did not crash-land on the Martian surface. Instead, it indicates that the landing went to plan and at least three...

Before the famous Globe Theatre was built in 1599, William Shakespeare's dramatic productions were performed at the Curtain Theatre in East London. Archaeologists have spent three months at the remains of the playhouse, and have revealed just how unusual the layout was. Notably, they...

America is responsible for more than 70 per cent of all the military expenditure of the 28 Nato countries. This is grossly inequitable, since the combined Gross National Product (GDP) of the European allies exceeds that of the United States. It is no exaggeration to say that European...

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told European leaders to end the 'collective whinge-o-rama' over Donald Trump's election as US president. He said the Republican's emphatic victory over Hillary Clinton is a 'great opportunity for the UK' to build closer economic ties with America...

It's 11.08am, which means that Britain has just observed two minutes' silence on Armistice Day... Armistice Day 2016: Two minutes' silence marks day of national remembrance BBC News 11 November 2016 A two-minute silence has been observed across the UK to remember the nation's war...

Nigel Farage has described Barack Obama as a “creature” and joked about warning Donald Trump not to "touch" Theresa May. The interim Ukip leader said the current US President was a "loathsome individual who couldn’t stand our country." Mr Farage also suggested that he was the "catalyst" for...

Theresa May has promised to work for a "golden era" in the UK's relations with China, as the country's Vice Premier visits London for talks. Ma Kai's trip follows Mrs May's decision after coming to power to delay approval of the part-Chinese-financed Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant...