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After Woolwich attacks UK terror threat remains at ‘substantial’

It looks like terrorism has once again returned to the city of London, this time in Woolwich. Tonight the threat from international terrorism to the UK remains at ‘substantial’and MI5 say  that the “threat comes principally from Al Qaida and related networks”. MI5 explain: The Government continues to maintain a state of heightened readiness in response [...]

Time to shut the gate

Isn’t it exciting, one of David Cameron’s friends possibly said something silly to some journalists in a bar? Guess what, he went to Oxford too?! Yes, Oxford! Hold the front page. Is this seriously what our politics has been reduced too? There are some substantive issues in this story. Does David Cameron rule via an [...]

More from the anti-equal marriage hate camp

    As you can see, the whole thing was set up to look like it was advocating love, when really those there were just spreading hatred. I heard one preacher take up the microphone and say that the liberalisation of things like abortion and divorce had led to progress on equal marriage, and what [...]

Mandelson brands UKIP the “UK Isolation Party”

You can always count on Lord Mandelson for a quote, and so it was this morning. The noble Lord referred to Nigel Farage’s rag-tag band as the “UK Isolation Party”, and accused Eurosceptic Conservative MPs like Joh Redwood of being “fellow travellers”, and the “provisional wing” of the Conservatives. It was a typically stirring Mandelson [...]