Last week, British Parliament seized internal Facebook documents. The documents allegedly include communications from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and evidence that the company promoted a loophole exploited by Cambridge Analytica. Facebook asked Parliament to refrain from referencing the documents in an upcoming hearing. In a letter to British MP Damian […]
Facebook is embroiled in controversy surrounding US election interference, users’ personal data, and the firm Cambridge Analytica. On Wednesday, the company said it’s making it easier for people to revoke apps’ access to their data – and simplifying privacy settings. Shares are up about 1% ahead of Wednesday’s opening bell. […]
Four suspicious packages were reported at the British Parliament in Westminster in Monday and Tuesday. They were sent to the offices of Muslim MPs in the Labour Party. Police were called, though they ultimately concluded the packages were not harmful. The packages were accompanied with offensive Islamophobic letters. Labour leader […]
Theresa May and more than 100 other MPs and peers posed in the Palace of Westminster. They stood with an original copy of the 1918 Representation of the People Act, which first granted women the vote in 1918. Female MPs and members of the House of Lords gathered in Britain’s […]
Austria’s interior minister, who is a member of the Nazi-linked Austrian Freedom Party, suggested “concentrating” refugees into special centres. Many were outraged that a member of a Nazi-linked party would invoke terminology used in the Holocaust. Austria is the only western European country with a far-right party in government. Austria’s […]
The Houses of Parliament may look prim and proper but what goes on inside isn’t always completely innocent. A freedom of information (FOI) request filed by Press Association and reported by The Guardian found that there were 24,473 attempts to access pornographic websites from computers and other devices in the […]
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[credit provider=”Flickr/Guillaume Paumier” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/gpaumier/5847834401/”] France’s lower house of parliament has approved a sweeping bill to legalise gay marriage and allow same-sex couples to adopt children.President Francois Hollande’s Socialists have pushed the measure through the National Assembly and put France on track to join about a dozen, mostly European nations that […]
[credit provider=”MattBuck007 / flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattbuck007/4859038038/sizes/l/in/photostream/”] When the moment came, it was joyous and loud. There were deafening cheers as the gay marriage bill passed its first parliamentary hurdle in the House of Commons last night from supporters squeezed into a committee room anxiously waiting the result. “As a boy I […]
[credit provider=”YouTube/HARAMAINGALLERY” url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSq1JJ-N5fQ”] On Friday King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia issued a historic decree allowing women to be members of the kingdom’s previously all-male parliament for the first time, Al-Arabiya reports. The mandate creates a 20 per cent quote for women in the 150-member Shura Council, the formal advisory board of […]
[credit provider=”mjtmail (tiggy) at www.flickr.com” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/mjtmail/3335958017/”] They take up just 13 of the Leveson report’s 1957 pages but the judge’s comments on newspaper treatment of women (“reduced to the sum of their body parts”) and minorities (“concerning”) could have far-reaching implications.The 16-month inquiry provided an opportunity, for the very first […]
[credit provider=”Wikimedia Commons” url=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Siege_and_Relief_of_Gibraltar.jpg”] Earlier this week, a little known state regulator came out with some bombshell allegations against a U.K. bank and now some British politicians are sounding off about an anti-British bias from U.S. regulators.The New York Department of Financial Services–headed by former prosecutor Benjamin Lawsky–alleged that Standard […]
[credit provider=”Youtube Screenshot” url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l87OvAhdw2A”] Late last week, G4S, the private security firm tasked with heading security for the London Olympics notified the British government it wouldn’t be able to completely fulfil its contractual obligations, falling 3,500 short of the approximately 13,000 personnel they were expected to provide.It was a disaster.
Footage here from a brawl that broke out in Ukraine’s parliament earlier today.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron showed his “volatile” side in an argument at Prime Minister’s Questions in parliament on Thursday.
[credit provider=”ancientritual via YouTube”] Do you prefer your neo-Nazi movements with some musical flavour?Public Radio International reports one of the far-right Golden Dawn party just elected to Greece’s parliament is also the bassist in a black metal band called Naer Mataron.
[credit provider=”(Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) “] LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II says Britain’s government plans to finally reform the centuries-old House of Lords and introduce direct elections for its members.Attempts to overhaul the unelected 700-year-old upper chamber — which does not make laws but can amend legislation — […]
[credit provider=”Flickr/david_shankbone” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/shankbone/5663059043/”] LONDON (AP) — News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch must take responsibility for serious failings that caused Britain’s tabloid phone hacking scandal, lawmakers said Tuesday in a scathing report — as a narrow majority also insisted the tycoon was unfit to lead his global media empire.In a report […]
[credit provider=”Mike Brown/Getty Images”] “Over the past months, we experienced a worrisome trend towards re-nationalization and ‘summitization,'” said Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament and member of the German opposition SPD, to a forum of the European Commission on Wednesday.His complaints went to the heart of democracy at the […]
[credit provider=”Wikimedia Commons”] The Romanian government fell Friday in a no-confidence vote, the AP reports, with 235 of 460 parliamentarians voting against the government, four more than the minimum needed.The cabinet of Prime Minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu has been dogged by public anger and violent protests over unpopular austerity measures, […]
Actor/comedian Russell Brand has been sober for nearly 10 years.But before the 36-year-old “Get Him To The Greek” star was on the straight and narrow, he was arrested “roughly” 12 times during his own struggle with drugs. As a result, Brand now believes that other addicts shouldn’t be sent to […]
[credit provider=”aheavens | Flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewheavens/2083693236/”] Lord Ahmed, a controversial British peer, has been suspended from the Labour Party amid reports that he offered a £10 million bounty [$15.8 million] for the capture of President Barack Obama and his predecessor President George W Bush.Lord Nazir Ahmed, 53, who in 1998 became […]
[credit provider=”Wikimedia Commons/Keith Edkins”] “It will not go on for ever, it will not go on for ever. Israel will lose support and then they will reap what they have sown.”These words, spoken by a member of the UK’s House of Lords, have sparked a huge amount of controversy in […]
[credit provider=”Wikimedia Commons”] French prosecutors have begun a criminal investigation into a Nazi-themed stag party attended by UK Conservative MP Aidan Burley, The Daily Mail reports.Burley, 33, was caught on film at the party, held at an Alpine ski resort’s restaurant last December, where the groom-to-be wore an SS uniform […]
[credit provider=”AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta”] In a speech to the Australian Parliament, President Barack Obama sent a stern warning to those countries trying to counteract American influence the region — with a message aimed squarely at China and North Korea.A day after announcing that the United States will deploy Marines […]
“This would have made a great cover for ‘News of the World’.”
[credit provider=”Courtesy of the Peter Cruddas Foundation” url=”http://www.petercruddasfoundation.org.uk/index.htm”] Peter Cruddas is to be named co-treasurer of the UK Conservative Party, reports The Telegraph.The billionaire founder of CMC Markets is expected to be announced as co-treasurer as soon as today.
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