Russell Brand has called on thousands of protesters to be part of a "peaceful, effortless, joyful revolution" that seizes power back from Westminster. The former Big Brother's Big Mouth presenter, who this year implored readers of the New Statesman magazine to abandon the current political system, told crowds gathered in London's Parliament Square that MPs no longer represented the people. Speaking in the shadow of the Houses of Parliament at the end of a march marking the one-year anniversary of ...
Saturday, 21 June 2014
UN warns Britain over child voodoo rituals pedophile sex tourists
Hundreds of children are being kidnapped in Africa and bought to the UK for voodoo rituals, a UN watchdog said, also voicing alarm about the number of British pedophiles who prey on children abroad. The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) urged Britain to do more to stop this brutal form of people trafficking. “We’re concerned about reports that hundreds of children ...
Plan to tackle mobile phone blackspots
Mobile phone operators could be made to share their networks in rural areas of the UK where signals are weak under plans being considered by ministers. Some parts of rural Britain have just one or two of the main mobile phone networks available, or none at all, leaving some people without any signal. It is hoped so-called national roaming could be used to plug blackspots. However, ...
Mind-control: ‘I drove a car with my thoughts’
The Brain Driver consists of a headset with 16 sensors monitor electrical signals from the brain. Clinical devices usually use 32 sensors, but Llarena and his team are trying to build something that’s as small, cheap and unobtrusive as possible. “We think that 16 are probably too many,” he says. “We’re trying to figure out if we can take half of them out.” But there’s only ...
Man jailed for illegally exporting electrical waste to Africa
Man jailed for illegally exporting electrical waste to Africa Waste dealer Joe Benson is first defendant to be sentenced to prison for illegally exporting wa ...
Heirforce One Queen Gets New Helicopter For William And Kate
Queen Gets New Helicopter For William And Kate Dubbed 'Heirforce One', the helicopter will whisk William and Kate between royal engagements and time with Prince Geor ...
Brian Johnson says it's likely AC/DC will tour this year
AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson says it’s likely AC/DC will tour this year. In a message posted to his Brian Johnson Racing website, the singer says his "day job" with AC/DC will be distracting him from producing more episodes of his TV series Cars That Rock for the time being. Johnson writes: "We hope to bring you more shows in the near future but, of course, there is the slight distraction ...
Islamist militant group Isis, taken off-line. and free speech
The father of a British man who has appeared in a video aimed at recruiting jihadists has said he is "heartbroken" his son left the UK to fight in Syria. In the film, would-be medical student Nasser Muthana, 20, from Cardiff, urges others to fight in Syria and Iraq. His father, Ahmed Muthana, told the BBC his other son had gone with Nasser, and that someone must be "driving" them. ...
English Heritage ruined Stonehenge?
Has English Heritage ruined Stonehenge? The summer solstice, King Arthur, the Holy Grail … Stonehenge is supposed to be a site of myths and mystery. But with timed tickets and a £27m visitor centre, does it herald a rampant commercialisation of our herita ...
The use of CCTV
CCTV spy cars can be seen lurking on every street raking in cash for greedy councils and breaking the rules that clearly state that fines should not be used to generate profit for town halls. "Over-zealous parking enforcement and unreasonable stealth fines by post undermine the high street, push up the cost of living and cost local authorities more in the long term. "Today the government ...
CCTV 'spy cars' to be banned in victory for drivers and shoppers
CCTV 'spy cars' to be banned in victory for drivers and shoppers Wardens will have to fix tickets onto windscreens instead of penalties being issued by p ...
Saturday, 14 June 2014
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