Ukip's leading councillor for Lincoln, Chris Pain, has been embroiled in a second scandal over his Facebook page, with another posting that appears to...

A Ukip councillor is alleged to have described "illegal immigrants" as "sandal-wearing, bomb-making, camel-riding, goat-f******, ragheads". The com...

The Jamaican Mary Seacole became an heroine when she travelled over 4,000 miles to nurse and attend sick British soldiers in the Crimea during the Crimean War. During her life her exploits were revered, by royalty, the military elite and thousands of ordinary citizens. More than 100 years later, tens of thousands of school children view Seacole as a wonderful role model.

A Ukip county councillor could be removed from the party after admitting to sharing offensive material about Muslims on his Facebook page. Eric Kit...

A top Scottish lawyer has sparked outrage after posting on Twitter that it would be better for Scotland if the Tories were in power for 100 years than...

What happened when those jobs disappeared? In true entrepreneurial Thatcherite spirit, they were replaced by robbing and drug dealing. Bankers, speculators and hedge fund managers got rich, pharmaceutical companies made a killing out of producing addictive anti-depressants.

The Labour Party has complained of racism about a Lib Dem election leaflet - because it points out the Scottishness of one of its candidates. Lib ...

Boris Johnson has said Ukip leader Nigel Farage is essentially no different from the Conservatives and is "a rather engaging geezer" in an about-face ...

Ukip has accused the Tories of running a "morally reprehensible" smear campaign by trawling through would-be councillors' Twitter and Facebook posts. ...

Greece: idyllic country of picturesque islands and sparkling seas that welcomes strangers, or land of serious human rights abuses and growing violence and xenophobia? While there is no doubt about the loveliness of Greece's landscapes, something brutal is going on behind the beauty.