‘Having climbed halfway up a lamppost, a homeless guy in a pink skirt and a low-cut white blouse starts to hump it’

‘Turkey's membership would mean a European Union bordering on Iraq and Syria’

After widespread protest, a Japanese High Court ruled that their similar scheme could not legally be enforced. Will people in the UK just roll over and allow the government to know all about them?

The leader of Norway's Progress Party, Siv Jensen, has a good chance of winning next year's election. In an interview with Standpoint editor Daniel Johnson, she explains her views; Bruce Bawer explains the background to her meteoric career

This month's small charity making a big difference is the Hindu Kush Conservation Association

The public and government mood towards immigrants, whether legal or illegal, is increasingly ugly

The EU's Human Rights Act need not be incompatible with parliamentary sovereignty - if the government were to grow a backbone

This month's small charity making a big difference is The European Roma Rights Centre

‘?“Islamophobia” is a nonsense term. There are reasons to be fearful of some aspects and versions of Islam’

The cartoon controversy has cowed all the Nordic countries except Denmark