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Last month’s terrorist attacks in Paris did not lead to a rise in anti-Muslim sentiment in Britain, a new study has shown.

The new research, conducted by Rob Ford and Maria Sobolewska of the University of Manchester, comes amid growing concerns about western hostility to Muslims after the Front National’s strong performance in regional elections in France and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s call for a ban on muslim immigration to the US.

The academics asked the same questions both before and after the Paris attacks on 13 November. Before Paris, 33% of respondents agreed that ‘Muslims have a lot to offer British culture’, compared to 35% who disagreed. After Paris the proportion who disagreed remained the same, but an additional 2% agreed with the statement.

A similar modest increase in the proportion of tolerant respondents was shown in the responses to the statement ‘Muslims in Britain have respect for the way of life of others’. Before Paris, 23% of respondents agreed with that statement, compared to a far larger 53% who disagreed. After the Paris attacks, the positive proportion increased to 27%, whereas the proportion disagreeing declined to 51%.

The greatest change was witnessed when respondents were asked whether they felt London was better or worse off due to its ethnic and religious diversity. Pre-Paris, 40% felt the capital was better off or much better off for its diversity, whereas 32% thought it was worse off or much worse off.

After Paris, the proportion with a positive attitude swelled to 43%, but the proportion who felt London was worse off for its diversity fell by a quarter to 24%. The respondents were drawn from the whole of Great Britain, not just London, perhaps suggesting that the terrorism in Paris encouraged Brits to rally round London and defend it as a symbol of diversity.

Rob Ford commented that the study “suggests that Isis failed in their stated objective of sowing division between Muslims and non-Muslims in Britain. Far from raising anxiety about diversity and Islam, the Paris attacks strengthened liberal and multicultural views.”

Maria Sobolewska added: “While tolerance is clearly not a universal value in Britain, it is a resilient one for those who hold it. The Paris attacks did not deepen divisions among our respondents, as pessimists feared. Instead they encouraged a stronger expression of the inclusive tolerance the terrorists threaten and reject.”

1,707 people were surveyed in the first round of the study between 10 and 12 November, and 1,621 were surveyed in the second round on 17 and 18 November. The Paris attacks occurred on the evening of 13 November. Both surveys were conducted online using the YouGov panel.

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Following Donald Trump's proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States, "Progressives" and other left-wing ideologues throughout the West suffered a spontaneous meltdown.

They were plunged into a state of shock and disbelief that such a "radical" policy would ever be proposed in the "tolerant" and "inclusive" societies that they have socially engineered throughout the West.

British Prime Minister David Cameron, leader of Britain's "Conservative" Party, decided to join his Progressive allies in their attempt to defame and discredit Mr. Trump.

In a statement made within the British parliament, Cameron pronounced:

Of course, Mr. Cameron's is entitled to his opinion, but I believe he should look in the mirror and reflect on his own actions before denouncing others for their words.

Bloodshed and Destabilization in Libya

Under Cameron's command, the British government intervened in Libya's civil war, spending €320 billion in an eight-month military campaign.

These actions resulted in the death, injury, and displacement of scores of Muslim civilians in Libya, not to mention the fact that the destabilization of Libya has resulted in a state of perpetual warfare between rival factions fighting for control of (what remains of) Libya.

It is an undeniable fact that decisions taken by Cameron and his advisers have contributed to massive bloodshed in Libya, as well as a host of unintended consequences that now threaten the safety and security of all European citizens.

You see, the power vacuum created by Gadaffi's ouster in Libya allowed ISIS to gain a foothold in the region, and the terrorist organization has announced their intention to cement their control of Libya, then cross the Mediterranean into European territory disguised as refugees.

ISIS has also announced that they will send 500,000 "migrants" to Europe from Libya as a "psychological weapon".

Furthermore, Libya's unrecognized Islamist government has also threatened to flood Europe with hundreds of thousands of African "migrants" unless the European Union officially recognizes their government.

Basically, the Cameron administration's actions in Libya, in concert with a host of other Western governments, has allowed radical Islamic organizations to gain power and influence within Libya, organizations which threaten to utilize "migrants" and "refugees" as a tool against the peoples and governments of Europe.

As of November, 130,000 "migrants" have entered Europe from Libya. I wonder how many of these "migrants" are actually ISIS operatives in disguise. And I wonder if any of these "migrants" have made their way to Britain.

If any of those Libyan "migrants" did happen to reach British shores, it appears likely that Cameron's government would have no idea as to their whereabouts.

Recent shocking revelations have revealed that the Cameron administration cannot account for more than one million "migrants" who have come to Britain in recent y

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Putin’s popularity has soared in recent months

The ex-KGB strongman attracted the support of four out of five Express.co.uk readers, compared with just one in five who opted for the current PM running the country.

Asked 'Who would you rather was Britain's prime minister?', 78 per cent chose the Russian president, while 22 per cent voted for Mr Cameron.

The poll of 1,000 people follows an Express.co.uk survey on Putin's airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, which found more than 70 per cent of readers supported the bombing raids.

Putin's popularity has soared in recent months, with a Russian poll carried out in October putting his approval rating at 87 per cent.

In the same month, Mr Cameron's approval rating continued to nosedive with 49 per cent judging him to be doing a bad job.

Putin's popularity in Russia has remained consistently high in the wake of the annexation of Crimea and airstrikes in Syria.

But despite the definitive Express polling, the Russian leader continues to divide opinions in Britain.

read full article at source: http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/627...ant-British-PM

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A group of leading academics have come out and stated the obvious. Universities are now too politically correct.

This is what happens when Jews and Marxists take over academia. It has been transformed into a cesspool of nonsense.

British universities have become too politically correct and are stifling free speech by banning anything that causes the least offence to anyone, a group of leading academics warns on Saturday.

A whole generation of students is being denied the “intellectual challenge of debating conflicting views” because self-censorship is turning campuses into over-sanitised “safe spaces”, they say.

Their intervention comes as an Oxford college considers removing a historic statue of Cecil Rhodes, one of its alumni and benefactors, because he is regarded as the founding father of apartheid in South Africa.

I’m pleasantly surprised that academics in the Jewnited Kikedom have come to this perfectly rational conclusion.

“A whole generation of students is being denied the ‘intellectual challenge of debating conflicting views’ because self-censorship is turning campuses into over-sanitised ‘safe spaces’, they say.”

I couldn’t agree more. The primary purpose of a university is to properly prepare students for whatever major they are studying. Exposure to alternative worldviews, ideas, and civil discussion is secondary; nearly all Western universities in the West fail on both points because Jews and Marxists cant risk the possibility of someone intellectually challenging their ideology and being exposed as infiltrators.

Jews, Holocaust believers, JIDF trolls, Hasbara shills, Zionist retards, degenerate Marxist traitors and social justice warrior faggots will also be banned immediately.

You clowns already have 6,000,000 websites to post your propaganda on. You are also backed by the subversive Jewish establishment. As a result, there is no reason for you to be posting your propaganda here.

read full article at source: http://www.infostormer.com/uk-leadin...cally-correct/

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US guards with guns to patrol British airports for the first time under controversial new plans being discussed by London and Washington

- US Department of Homeland Security wants to introduce the scheme
- It's a worldwide proposal, including including Heathrow and Manchester
- Policy makers hope it will reduce the risk of IS terrorists flying to America

Gun-toting US border guards with the power to search holidaymakers will be stationed at British airports for the first time, under controversial plans being discussed by Washington and London.

The US Department of Homeland Security wants to introduce the scheme at airports worldwide, including Heathrow and Manchester, to reduce the risk of Islamic State terrorists flying to America.

Guards from Customs and Border Protection would carry out immigration and customs checks before passengers board.

They would be given diplomatic immunity so they could not be prosecuted for any crime committed on British soil.


read full article at source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ashington.html

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Hardly news El Al have an entire arsenal including armoured vehicles at terminal 4 and it has never been subject to public comment

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Police marksmen have threatened to hand in their weapons in protest at the arrest of the officer who shot dead alleged gangster Jermaine Baker.

The officer was interviewed under caution ‘in respect of his use of lethal force’ following the death of Mr Baker during an alleged attempt to spring two convicts from a prison van in North London nine days ago.

But the officer’s colleagues in the elite Metropolitan Police firearms unit are understood to be ‘incensed’ and ready to step down from duty if he is charged over the shooting.
An officer was interviewed under caution ‘in respect of his use of lethal force’ following the death of Jermaine Baker (pictured) during an alleged attempt to spring two convicts from a prison van in North London

An officer was interviewed under caution ‘in respect of his use of lethal force’ following the death of Jermaine Baker (pictured) during an alleged attempt to spring two convicts from a prison van in North London

Their anger has been sparked by the way the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) used a community meeting last Thursday to publicly announce his arrest. In particular, they feel comments made at the meeting by IPCC Commissioner Cindy Butts appeared to ‘give the impression’ that the unnamed officer was guilty.

Sources have told this newspaper that the threat from the officer’s colleagues to ‘hand in their tickets’ – a reference to their authorisation to carry firearms – extends beyond his close circle of friends in the Met’s SCO19 firearms unit.




read full article at source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...r-charged.html

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A study conducted in the city of Newcastle, UK, has revealed what you always suspected. Over two-thirds of emergency room visits on weekends, especially in the wee hours of the morning, are directly related to alcohol consumption.

Newcastle University health researcher Kathryn Parkinson and her colleagues examined health records from a local inner-city hospital over the 2010-11 year, looking for statistics on how many people were admitted for alcohol-related issues. Then they conducted breathalizer tests of people admitted to the same ER during 2012-13.

In an analysis of the data, the researchers uncovered several telling patterns. Though overall alcohol-related visits to the ER hovered around 15.2 percent in 2012-13, the numbers jumped dramatically on weekends, rising to 70 percent. The majority of those were young men, arriving in the late night or early morning—and most of them came from outside the city. "Traumatic injury was the most common reason for attendance [at the hospital]," Parkinson and her colleagues write in a paper published yesterday in Emergency Medicine Journal. But "psychiatric problems" were a close second.

Parkinson and her colleagues suggest that hospitals could ease the burden on workers by beefing up staff during weekend binge drinking hours. Psychiatric staff could offer brief interventions, helping people who are struggling with alcoholism and depression. In the long run, these interventions could save money. Right now, treatment for alcohol-related problems in the ER costs the hospital where the research took place roughly £1 million per year (nearly $1.5 million).

Musgrove Park Hospital emergency care consultant Clifford Mann says the main problem is that alcohol is too widely available and too cheap. "The absurdity of retail alcohol prices must be addressed," he argues in an op-ed. "There are few more obvious economic principles than the link between price and volume sales." He suggests one remedy would be to set minimum unit prices on booze. Like Parkinson and her colleagues, he also recommends "short personalized interventions" for people who show up at the ER with alcohol-related maladies.

Ultimately, this study confirms that cities experience predictable patterns of people drinking to excess—and getting injured as a result. The question that remains is whether hospitals and policymakers will do anything about it.

Emergency Medicine Journal, 2015. DOI:10.1136/emermed-2014-204581 (About DOIs).

read full article at source: http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/...ts-in-uk-city/

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"Extremism has no place in our schools," said Education Secretary Nicky Morgan.

She was speaking the day before schools face new requirements to play a bigger part in counter-extremism.

The Counter-Terrorism and Security Act places a legal duty on schools to "prevent people from being drawn into terrorism".

But NUT leader Christine Blower said: "Teachers cannot be turned into spies in the classroom."

Head teachers' leader Russell Hobby said schools should see the regulations in terms of "safeguarding" and not "surveillance".

"Recent events have shown the risks of young people being targeted by radical groups should not be underestimated," said Mrs Morgan.

"Schools and childcare providers already play an important role in protecting and safeguarding young people including from radicalisation and extremism," said the education secretary.

A telephone helpline has been offered for teachers, governors and other staff to raise concerns directly with the Department for Education.

The regulations, being introduced on 1 July, set out new responsibilities for "frontline workers" in public bodies, including schools, to challenge extremism.

It follows high profile cases in which young people have left the UK to join militant groups in Syria and Iraq.

'Non-violent extremism'

The counter-extremism requirements, applying to primary and secondary, state and independent schools, include warnings against "non-violent extremism".

"Being drawn into terrorism includes not just violent extremism but also non-violent extremism, which can create an atmosphere conducive to terrorism and can popularise views which terrorists exploit," says the government guidance for schools.

Teachers will have to assess the risk of pupils being drawn into extremist ideologies.

There will be training for staff to identify children at risk and "to challenge extremist ideas".

Schools will have to ensure that pupils do not access extremist material online.

Mr Hobby, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, said schools should "see their duties on radicalisation as another safeguarding duty".

"Schools are used to keeping their students safe from harm and this is a version of that. This means looking out for students rather than conducting surveillance on them.

"It means understanding the risk and acting proportionately. And it does mean reporting serious concerns so that any danger can be prevented before it materialises."

But Christine Blower, leader of the National Union of Teachers, said the "jury is out" on whether such regulations are the best way to get young people to "reject engagement with groups who advocate violence".

She said that the Prevent counter-extremism strategy was already causing "significant nervousness and confusion among teachers".

Ms Blower warned that concerns over extremism could "close down" the classroom debates which could encourage democracy and human rights.

The regulations set out a definition of extremism as "vocal or ac

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read full article at source: http://www.bbc.com/news/education-33328377

[EDLIE Stampton]

Love this thread.
Nice one newsfeed I think I want to make children with you.

All the shit that no one bothers to read in one secure location.
Bliss.

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DAILYKENN.com -- While Muslims occupy themselves blowing things up — there have been 27,477 confirmed terror attacks worldwide since 9-11, 2001 — authorities in Britain are investigating a real hate crime: Two pig heads placed near a Muslim school.

Ridiculous hate crime laws are used as psychological leverage to hyper-sensitize Westerners to opposition to their own destruction. Islamic insurgents impose themselves on white Europeans (and American, et al). Those who object are promptly whipped in line by accusations of racism.

Our's is the first generation to witness the displacement of Western culture. Most Britons who are 50 year old or older can remember a time when their nation was nearly homogeneous. When this generation passes, those memories will be lost forever as globalism rewrites history.



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A career criminal went on a naked rampage through a toy store and abducted a young child before battering the boy's grandmother with a cricket bat when she intervened.

Przemyslaw Kaluzny's Easter Sunday rampage was captured in a CCTV video which was shown to Dundee Sheriff Court on Tuesday.

The court heard how Kaluzny took Class A ecstasy that he found in a Kinder Egg on the street before running amok in the city's Toys R Us store.

He first stripped off as he walked through the store before picking up a terrified six-year-old boy who was on an Easter day out with his father and grandmother.

The footage showed shoppers walking past as Kaluzny strolled through the store completely naked.

He then grabbed the boy and dragged him along the ground as he was chased by shoppers and staff.

One worker repeatedly rammed Kaluzny with a trolley before the boy's grandmother, who cannot be named to protect the boy's identity, hit him with her handbag.

Staff and shoppers then dived on top of Kaluzny as he tried to struggle his way free.

Fiscal depute Eilidh Robertson told the court that two hours before the incident Kaluzny had gone to a neighbours home where he "did not appear himself" and took ecstasy before leaving in a car for the shop.

She said: "A member of staff, Ryan Chaplin, saw him exit a car and enter the store. The accused was unsteady on his feet and holding a cricket bat.

"He began to remove the outer layers of his clothing and was still holding the cricket bat."

She added: "About this time, a family comprising a man, his mother, aged 67, and his two sons aged eight and six arrived at the shop having been on a family Easter day out.

"The father and one son walked down one aisle looking at toys, while the grandmother and the six-year-old walked along a nearby aisle.

"Almost immediately they saw the accused running along the aisle towards her and the six-year-old.

"Without saying a word and appearing calm, the accused approached them, and whilst still running he forcefully grabbed the boy with one arm, lifting him from the ground and proceeding to run off with him in his arm towards the front entrance door.

"He [the boy] immediately started crying hysterically and appeared petrified. The accused then went to leave the locus.

"The father and grandmother ran after the accused, along with staff and members of the public who came to their assistance.

"Numerous persons shouted at the accused to put the boy down, but he continued to hold him whilst swinging the cricket bat at everyone who attempted to go near him, including Mr Chaplin who repeatedly struck him with a shopping trolley in an attempt to get the accused to release his grip.

"The grandmother approached the accused, who was still carrying the boy and the cricket bat and attempted to hit him with her handbag.

"The accused then forcefully struck her on the left side of her face with the cricket bat causing her to stumble back, however she did not fall.

"At this time the father

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read full article at source: http://news.stv.tv/tayside/1336920-n...ugh-toys-r-us/

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It has been revealed that the growing number of lone refugee children in the UK has cost local authorities more than £200 million, just weeks after a leading charity warned such councils are failing British families, and 100,000 British kids face being homeless this Christmas.

New figures suggest that over the past five years ten councils have spent close to £200 million on lone children claiming asylum, with £36.9million spent in the last year alone on 1,168 unaccompanied children in the UK. The Sun calculates that that works out at £31,500 spent per child per year.

Individual councils, who are also responsible for housing British children and families, largely pick up the bill for unaccompanied migrant children, not central government.

At the beginning of this month, the homelessness charity Shelter warned that councils are increasingly being forced to move British families into cramped bed and breakfasts and hostels.

Because of such failings, they estimate that more than 100,000 British children will wake up homeless on Christmas morning this year. That number has been consistently rising, up nearly 25 per cent on Christmas four years ago.

With the number of asylum seeker applications in the UK rising by a fifth this year alone and the government promising to fly in another 20,000 Syrian refugees over the next five years, the strain on councils is likely to continue to increase.

The three councils that bore the greatest burden of lone refugee children last year were Kent County Council, Hillingdon in West London and Croydon in South London. They respectively house the Port of Dover, Heathrow airport and Lunar House, where all asylum claims are made.

Unlike with adults, even when a child ends up being housed in another area, the original council forks the bill.

Croydon spent £17.5million after taking in 453 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children last financial year and Hillingdon spent £2.1million on 102 children.

Kent spent £14.7million on 368 children in 2014-15, and in a possible indicator of what is to come, said they had already taken a whopping 930 lone migrant children in this financial year.

read full article at source: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015...ess-christmas/

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The suspects are believed to have climbed over the rear garden fence before breaking into the rear of the house. Once inside, they walked around leaving dirty footprints as they made their untidy search.

The suspects wrecked the cuddly toys, puzzles and games of the victims' baby as they searched their home whilst wearing dirty clothing.

One of the men stands near the Christmas tree (Met Police)

CCTV footage filmed at 21:59hrs on Saturday, 12 December within the home shows the two men take the presents from the Christmas tree. They returned at 05:43hrs on Sunday, 13 December.

The suspects captured by the CCTV being released by officers are described as:

'Suspect 1' is described as a medium built man in his 20s, with thick eyebrows and wearing a hooded zip top with three stripes on the shoulders, jeans, trainers and gloves.

'Suspect 2' is described as a slim built black man in his 20s, with a dark beard wearing a dark coloured zip top jacket on top of a light coloured hooded top, loose fitting trousers, dark trainers with a reflective strip on the heel and gloves.

Police are keen to hear from anyone who may recognise the men shown on CCTV.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact police on 101 or quoting reference number 198181 (suspect 1) or 198182 (suspect 2) or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

read full article at source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...tmas-tree.html

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Local authorities are paying out as much as £31,500 per child - mounting up to a staggering spend of £36.9million for just ten councils.

Last year, 1,168 unaccompanied child asylum seekers were supported by councils who were forced to meet the costs of keeping them in Britain.

Over the last decade the same ten councils have spent almost £200m, with that figure likely to soar, a Sun investigation found.

Grants are available to the councils from the Home Office, but the funding gap must be plugged by them.

The three councils with the highest rate of recipients are Kent County Council, Croydon and Hillingdon in West London.

In the last year councils have spent millions looking after child refugees

Hillingdon hosts the port of Dover and Croydon Lunar House where asylum bids are made.

Even if a child ends up being placed with another authority, it is the original claim council that foots the bill.

In the last financial year Croydon council spent £17.5m taking in 453 children and Hillingdon spent £2.1m on 102 children.

David Simmonds, deputy leader of Hillingdon council and chairman of the Local Government Association’s Asylum, Migration and Refugee Task Group, said: “It is not right.

“Councils have long argues that it is not sustainable to leave a small number of port authority councils to look after large numbers of refugee children, a point government has accepted for adults who have access to a national dispersal scheme."

Over the last five financial years the total spent on unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASCs) is £193m.

In the last financial year Croydon council spent £17.5m taking in 453 children and Hillingdon spent £2.1m on 102 children.

Kent spent £14.7m on 368 children in 2014.15 but said it has already taken 930 in the last financial year.

Helen Johnson from the Refugee Council said: “These children have often fled unimaginable horrors overseas and have endured frightening and dangerous journeys.

“It is essential that their needs come first and that local authorities are supported to provide the specialist care that these children are entitled to and desperately require.”

read full article at source: http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/628...efugees-Crisis

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"Nine of their children" ffs. What hope is there?

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Channel 4’s Alternative Christmas Message will be delivered this year by the father of a three-year-old boy whose drowning on a Turkish beach came to symbolise the plight of Syrian refugees.

Abdullah Kurdi will use the platform to plead for “a little bit of sympathy” for those who are merely “seeking peace and security”.

The death of his son, Aylan, in September inspired a media outcry which is credited with transforming public opinion on refugees fleeing the crisis in Syria.

The Independent put the haunting picture of the drowned toddler on its front page and the tragedy became the subject of a social media storm. Researchers at Sheffield University found that pictures of Aylan – taken by a Turkish press photographer, Nilufer Demir – were the subject of 53,000 tweets per hour on Twitter, appearing on 20 million phone and computer screens around the world in a 12-hour period.

Politicians were moved to act. David Cameron announced that the UK would take “thousands” more Syrian refugees and that further aid would be provided to camps in Syria, Turkey, Jordan and the Lebanon.

In his Channel 4 address, Mr Abdullah – who also lost his wife, Rehanna, and five-year-old son, Galeb, as the family tried to reach Greece on an overcrowded inflatable craft which capsized – will appeal for the world to do much more.

“We Syrians leave our country due to war. We all are afraid for our children, for our honour. There are barrel bombs, explosions and also Daesh [Isis]. We have hundreds of thousands of problems,” he says.

“My message is I’d like the whole world to open its doors to Syrians. If a person shuts a door in someone’s face, this is very difficult. When a door is opened they no longer feel humiliated.”

His words are interspersed with footage of the refugee crisis and the dangerous Mediterranean crossings from Libya to Italy and from Turkey to Greece.

“At this time of year I would like to ask you all to think about the pain of fathers, mothers and children who are seeking peace and security,” he says. “We ask just for a little bit of sympathy from you.”

Mr Kurdi is a Kurdish Syrian who had been in Turkey for three years but returned to his home city, Kobani, to bury his family.

At the time of the funeral he said he had “buried my soul along with my sons”. He currently lives in Irbil in Iraq, and has plans to start a charity project running a hospital and school for Syrian Kurds.

The Channel 4 Alternative Christmas Message will be broadcast on Christmas Day at 3.35pm.

The tradition – an alternative to the Queen’s annual televised message to the nation – began in 1993.

The message has previously featured the then President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the American whistleblower Edward Snowden, the writer Quentin Crisp, the human rights campaigner the Rev Jesse Jackson, the campaigners Doreen and Neville Lawrence, and 9/11 survivor Genelle Guzman. Last year’s message was delivered by William Pooley, a British nurse who survived Ebola.

read full article at source: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...-a6783746.html

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It is “almost too late” to stop a global superbug crisis caused by the misuse of antibiotics, a leading expert has warned.

Scientists have a “50-50” chance of salvaging existing antibiotics from bacteria which has become resistant to its effects, according to Dr David Brown.

The director at Antibiotic Research UK, whose discoveries helped make more than £20bn ($30bn) in pharmaceutical sales, said efforts to find new antibiotics are “totally failing” despite significant investment and research.

It comes after a gene was discovered which makes infectious bacteria resistant to the last line of antibiotic defence, colistin (polymyxins).

The resistance to the colistin antibiotic is considered to be a “major step” towards completely untreatable infections and has been found in pigs and humans in England and Wales.

Public Health England said the risk posed to humans by the mcr-1 gene was “low” but was being monitored closely.

Performing surgery, treating infections and even travelling abroad safely all rely to some extent on access to effective antibiotics.

It is feared the crisis could further penetrate Europe as displaced migrants enter from a war-torn Middle East, where countries such as Syria have increasing levels of antibiotic resistance.

Dr Brown told said: “It is almost too late. We needed to start research 10 years ago and we still have no global monitoring system in place.

“The issue is people have tried to find new antibiotics but it is totally failing - there has been no new chemical class of drug to treat gram-negative infections for more than 40 years.

“I think we have got a 50-50 chance of salvaging the most important antibiotics but we need to stop agriculture from ruining it again.”

Resistance is thought to have grown due to colistin being heavily used in pockets of the agricultural industries, particularly in China, often to increase the physical size of livestock.

Worldwide, the demand for colistin in agriculture was expected to reach almost 12,000 tonnes per year by the end of this year, rising to 16,500 tonnes by 2021.

In the UK, nearly half of all antibiotics used are in farming, according to reports, although the use of it as a growth agent has been banned in the EU since 2006.

The unnecessary prescription and use of antibiotics as a form of treatment is also believed to be an aggravating factor.

Although the imminent threat of the resistant bacteria spreading throughout the UK remains small, it could worsen in Europe next year, Dr Brown added.

He said: “In 2016, a number of factors are going to come together - including the effects of the migration crisis.

“I think, for the time being, northern Europe will be okay. Southern Europe, places such as Italy and Greece, and the Middle East are more under threat because of weaker health systems and weaker monitoring systems. India, especially, could be in real trouble.

“The migration crisis will probably not be helping anything as a lot of people coming over from S

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read full article at source: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2...ibiotic-misuse

[Henry.]

New figures suggest that over the past five years ten councils have spent close to £200 million on lone children claiming asylum, with £36.9million spent in the last year alone on 1,168 unaccompanied children in the UK. The Sun calculates that that works out at £31,500 spent per child per year.

And every last imaginary penny of it borrowed at interest from the Banks...