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If there were any doubts amongst people before the EU in/out referendum that the British parliament is stuffed full of out-of-touch, arrogant, self-serving twerps who sneer at the democratic will of the British people and will try to overturn it at any opportunity if it suits them then, thanks...

DeLonge left Blink 182 last year.

Doctor Who is to be reimagined as Mr Men book characters, with the first four based on Doctors played by William Hartnell, Tom Baker, Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi. The 12 incarnations of the Doctor will be made over in the style of Roger Hargreaves, who created the books. Doctor Who to get Mr...

Novelist Tom McCarthy, of Dulwich College and Oxford (just right for the Guardian), is in a frightful bate because he has been invited to a bash at the Royal Academy to celebrate British art and feels insulted: ‘Like all English-language writers, I’m thoroughly European’. To prove it he...

The 'hate-crime' figures are another part of that growth industry of pressure groups now intent on proving that Britain is the world’s most vile and intolerant country. Not content with claiming that we are a nation of racists and ‘Islamophobes’ they have also decided that we are homophobes...

A former prisoner-of-war who credited the Nagasaki atomic bomb with saving his life has died at the age of 97. Gordon Highlander Alistair Urquhart said the bomb prevented a Japanese plan to massacre Allied PoWs. He was blown off his feet by the Nagasaki bomb in 1945. That and the Hiroshima...

Between 1135 and 1154, a civil war known today as The Anarchy raged in England. It was a struggle for the throne between King Stephen and his cousin Matilda. Professor David Crouch and Charlotte Hodgman visit Wallingford Castle in Oxfordshire, which played a key role in the vicious...

One thing is for certain: our referendum is being talked about the world over and it may well be the first kick-back against the status quo that leads to a popular revolt across the West. While Trump and Clinton may be the most unpopular presidential candidates ever, there has been a...

98% of the people of Hungary - an EU Member State - recently voted against accepting migrants, as demanded by the EU. But even this won't do for the lefty-liberals... We’ll all be Hungary soon if the ‘let ‘em all in’ brigade don’t shut up Ninety-eight and a third just won’t do for the...

Anti-Brexit campaigners have erected six mock customs checkpoints along the UK/Irish Republic border on Saturday in a protest over the possible impact to peace, jobs and the free movement of workers. Northern Ireland, a British province, will be the only land frontier between the United...

What we learned on 24 June is that the establishment elite are not representative of the country at large. And what we have learned since is that they are not about to give up any time soon… The most obvious example is this new distinction, endlessly promulgated by the BBC, between...

Jem Duducu shines a light on some of the wonderfully strange and overlooked moments in history. Here, he rounds up seven of his favourites… Nazi super-cows and defamed Gods: 7 strange and forgotten moments in history...

A Saxon army is marching through the medieval market town of Saffron Walden, travel-weary and weather-beaten after a long fortnight on the road. King Harold II and his warriors are advancing on the Sussex coast and the most famous battle in English history. Weapons jangling astride...

Britain will be offered a free trade deal before the rest of the European Union if the Republicans win the US presidential election, Donald Trump's trade adviser has said. Dan DiMicco said Britain was "a friend" of America and was leaving the EU for the right reasons. Both presidential...

This year's Christmas Day episode of Doctor Who will see the Doctor team up with a comic book superhero. The Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi, will work with the superhero to save New York from a deadly alien threat... Doctor Who Christmas show to feature Doctor Mysterio BBC News 7 October...

Yeah. I think it's some fellow in a costume. Almost certain, in fact. The gif have been more believable had the goit not done some silly dance in it.

Taking the dog for a walk seems like a tradition as old as time itself. But now we are one step closer to finding out exactly when the special connection between a man and his dog began. Archaeologists have found evidence of the oldest known ‘walkies’. And not only was it roughly 7,500...

No. It's a Bigfoot. I reckon the bottom video footage is fake, though. It looks like some knobhead in a costume.

The Rolling Stones have confirmed they will release a new album of blues covers in December. Blue and Lonesome was recorded over just three days in London earlier this year, and features new versions of songs by Howlin' Wolf and Jimmy Reed. Guitarist Eric Clapton also features on the record...

The rise of the Tudor navy and eight places related to it... Where history happened: the Tudor navy Charlotte...