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UKIP MEPs back far-right leader Le Pen
UKIP MEPs have voted against a move by the European Parliament to remove the immunity of French far-right leader and MEP Marine Le Pen after French prosecutors opened a case against her for comments she made about Muslims.
How the Equality and Human Rights Commission forced the government’s hand on stop and search
The Conservative party has long expressed strong support for an increase in the use of stop and search powers by the police, irrespective of the impact on community cohesion, and inequalities.
The fate of Earl’s Court is in Boris Johnson’s hands
Despite being worth over a billion pounds to London’s real economy, attracting one a half million visitors from across London and the world, thirty thousand exhibitors, hundreds of events each year, the Earl’s Court Exhibition centers in West London that sustain thousands of jobs are threatened with demolition with plans to replace them with mostly extortionately priced homes.
Is David Cameron our prime minister, or just a travelling arms merchant?
This weekend a coterie of British businessmen including the arms dealer Rolls-Royce were jetted around Kazakhstan on board the private plane of its dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has ruled the large Asian republic for 23 years by filtering oil revenues into his private bank account and cracking down on dissent.
UKIP wants to charge NHS patients to skip waiting times
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has endorsed an article by the party’s health spokesperson which calls for people to be allowed to pay to skip A&E waiting times.
Is Gove’s department about to hand a school site worth £10 million to the private sector?
The Department for Education (DfE) has been accused of seeking to transfer a school site worth £10 million pounds to the private sector without compensating local authorities.
Live webchat: Failed austerity: Is a united Europe our only hope?
Take part in our live webchat at 1pm with European Socialists and Democrats president Hannes Swoboda and former European business editor for the Guardian David Gow. Ask you questions in the top box and the answers come in the bottomtest
What sort of person would three minutes of Muslim prayer at 3am ‘provoke’?
There’s Songs of Praise for the Christians every Sunday. There are special messages from the head Rabbi for Passover and Yom Kippur.
The European Union is standing up to the United States on data protection
As Socialist and Democrat spokesperson on Justice and Home Affairs in the European Parliament, I know that the European Union has been pushing hard to create the first piece of international legislation on data protection – the Data Protection Regulation and Directive – which would help enshrine much needed citizen’s protections in the internet age.
Three reasons why we need a cap on the cost of credit
Payday lenders have been called to a summit today to discuss the future of the industry, new regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority, and what should be done to make payday lending less exploitative.