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The only shameful thing about $1200 trousers is that the British press made such a meal out of them. If I said of the biggest political scandals in the UK this year related to expensive leather trousers, your ears might prick up. You would think to yourself, “wow this is going to be some politician caught in a very compromising position”—Weinergate, only with kinky clothing, perhaps? If you thought “Trousergate” was going to be something epically juicy, you would be wrong. No

LONDON, United Kingdom - A third major university has voted to leave the British National Union of Students since it elected a pro-ISIS president. So far Hull, Lincoln and Newcastle have disaffiliated from the NUS since the election of Malia Bouattia, a Muslim who claimed her alma mater was a “zionist outpost.” Ms Bouattia caused outrage across Britain when she organized the opposition to a motion condemning ISIS. At the time she claimed the motion was “Islamophobic” and woul

LONDON, United Kingdom - The former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has appeared on BBC Daily Politics to defend himself after being accused of antisemitism. It followed his appearance on BBC London earlier yesterday when he said: "When Hitler won his election in 1932 his policy then was that Jews should be moved to Israel. He was supporting Zionism before he went mad and ended up killing six million Jews." Labour MP John Mann then accused Mr Livingstone of being a "Nazi ap

LONDON, United Kingdom - The hashtag #FuckOffObama trended on Twitter today after the US President demanded the British vote to stay in the European Union. Mr Obama flew 4000 miles to warn that Britain would face consequences if it votes to leave the EU. In advance of the presidential visit the former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith claimed Obama planned to “bully” voters. He went on to say that the Prime Minister had “begged on bended knee” for the president to come to

A former European Union official has called for a ban on referenda across the bloc following the Dutch rejection of EU’s immigration policy in a nationwide poll last week. Voters in The Netherlands were promised the right to decide whether every Ukrainian should be given the right to live in their country, but when they voted no the EU said it would push ahead anyway. Fraser Cameron, a former senior adviser to the European Commission, has now said Brussels should consider out