Author name: Tom Batten

Skegness donkey owner weighs kids before they’re allowed to ride

A seaside donkey owner has courted controversy by insisting that all children are weighed before riding one of his animals. John Nuttall, from Skegness, has installed a set of scales next to his mobile paddock and insists that youngsters must be under ten years old, less than 4ft 6ins tall and weigh no more than […]

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German football star no longer recognises the country he grew up in

It isn’t often that something thought-provoking comes out of a footballer’s mouth, but Germany’s star midfielder, Toni Kroos, has bucked the trend.In an interview recorded before Germany lost 2-1 to Spain in the quarter-finals last week, the ex-Real Madrid player lamented how much mass immigration has transformed his homeland in the ten years he spent

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Right-wing surge in European elections

It’s an exciting time to be a nationalist, as the European elections have shown a massive shift towards right-wing, conservative politics. Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz’s parties, which control the EU’s two largest and most powerful countries, suffered major defeats to right-wing and conservative groups. Macron’s Renaissance party lost heavily to the right-wing National Rally

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The majority of food charity aid goes to Nigerian students.

An economic crash in Nigeria has left international students struggling to afford tuition fees, with some at Teesside University blocked from their studies and ordered to return home due to non-payment. Nigeria is currently experiencing its worst economic crisis in a generation, with the value of the naira depreciating by more than 200% against the

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Nottingham NHS Trust prioritising diversity-hired midwives

18 internationally trained midwives have joined Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) to increase staffing levels, skills, and diversity in the Trust’s maternity services. Initially recruited through NHS England funding, the midwives were offered additional training to become UK registered and subsequently placed as student midwives across City Hospital and Queen’s Medical Centre. They have

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David Campanale, the Lib Dem candidate, ‘punished’ for his faith.

The Liberal Democrats have been accused of breaching equality law by deselecting a candidate ‘based on his Christian faith’. This development came after a complaint to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) was raised regarding the treatment of David Campanale. The party has been accused of tolerating a “hostile environment” for people of faith,

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Intrusive AI “speed” cameras get national rollout.

It’s difficult to think of a more overused cliché than the term “Orwellian” when critiquing the Government’s modus operandi. Anyone familiar with Orwell’s seminal “1984” will know only too well his nightmare vision of the surveillance state, where people’s movements, speech and even thoughts are monitored and catalogued. However, there’s no smoke without a fire,

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Iceland replaces iconic religious symbol on its hot cross buns.

Iceland has become the latest name to court controversy by erasing Christian iconography and, by extension, attacking the religion itself. The chain has decided to ditch the cross on its hot cross buns, which represents Jesus’s crucifixion on Good Friday. In its place will be a tick, reminiscent of Nike’s famous logo. David Lennox, Head

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Home Office asylum sites to cost millions more than hotels.

There was always going to be one fatal flaw in the Government’s policy of importing waves of migrants and dumping them in hotels—space, or lack thereof. The supply of lodging establishments in the UK is finite; therefore, the Home Office has no choice but to get creative. Their solution? Brazenly go all out and create

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Nottinghamshire Police joined the club and told to improve.

Law enforcement in Great Britain is a joke, and we all know it. Apologies if that statement comes across as rather blunt, but such are the depths that modern policing has fallen to that we are now beyond the point of eloquent and diplomatic language—it’s time to call a spade a spade. The fact is

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