Outrage at Griffin’s Copenhagen role about four months too late
The media overlooked Nick Griffin’s appointment to the European Parliament’s environment committee in July – a story picked up by Left Foot Forward.
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UKIP MEP stands by attack on “biased, censoring” BBC
UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom tells Left Foot Forward he “absolutely stands by” his anti-BBC rant; he said they had “blocked sceptics of climate change for four years”
Look Left – The Week in Fast Forward
The Week in Politics • The Iraq Inquiry got under way this week, six-and-a-half years after the conflict began and six months after British troops formally ended combat operations. The most dramatic testimony came from Sir Christopher Meyer, Britain’s formertest
Farage smears Ashton as being in the pocket of “enemies of the West”
UKIP leader Nigel Farage this week launched an outrageous attack on the integrity of new EU High Commissioner Baroness Ashton, implying links with Communists.
Net A8 migration down 88 per cent
Net migration from Estonia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia fell 88 per cent from the previous year, to just 9,000.
Major reforms to policing proposed as report says performance “has not improved”
Greater local accountability and the creation of a National Policing Agency are among major reforms to the police service proposed by the Institute for Public Policy Research in a report out today. The priority areas for reform, the ippr says,test
Politics Summary: Wednesday, November 25th
Sign up to receive this daily email by 9am every morning. President Obama will finally accept the recommendations of the McChrystal Review into Afghanistan next week, and commit to an increase of up to 35,000 troops, report the Guardian andtest
Lansley’s market dogma at odds with OECD health study
A major new report by the OECD has criticised those who advocate a purely market-based approach to healthcare as “zealots”, and severely attacks the US system.
UKIP MEP threatens to silence press over fraud investigation
UKIP MEP Mike Nattrass is threatening to take the Sunday Times to court over claims he is being investigated by OLAF, the European anti-fraud police.
Kaminski: “Migrants bring typhus & malaria”
More shocking evidence about the past of Michal Kaminski: he blames typhus and malaria on Soviet migrants, and, essentialy, blames Jews for the Jedwabne pogrom.