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Prime Minister David Cameron said Iran is developing a long-range nuclear missile capable of hitting Great Britain, expressing serious concern over the possibility of a nuclear arms race. Speaking to the members of the parliament yesterday, the Prime Minister said he has intelligence reports indicating that Tehran wants “intercontinental missile capability”, strongly warning that Iran becoming a nuclear power has implications far wider than the Middle-East. “It is clearly very…

Ed Miliband is all set to insert more patriotism into British economic policies by calling for a ‘Made in Britain’ mark on goods produced in the UK. The Labour leader Ed Miliband in a speech at EEF National Manufacturing Conference in London will be accusing government for underestimating the need of “pride and patriotism”, saying it is the key to success for British business. Revising memories of Harold Wilson’s “I’m…

Boris Johnson urged George Osborne to close a loophole that allows rich foreigners to dodge stamp duty on purchase of expensive properties by treating the house as a company. In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, London Mayor writes “It is all the more extraordinary that there is a billion lying on the pavement, under his very nose – and all that the Chancellor has to do is trouser it…

In a rather unexpected turn of events, James Murdoch stepped down as the executive chairman of scandal-hit News International, creating a ripple of conjectures as to what prompted the junior Murdoch to make the move. While some analysts say the resignation might signal the ascension to the throne of Lachlan or Elisabeth Murdoch as the new supremo of News Corp., some still question the move saying that it dealt a…

Occupying London protesters warned this was only the beginning and the eviction won’t derail their future plans, after their camps were trashed from outside St Paul’s Cathedral by police and bailiffs early Tuesday. “Be assured that plans are already afoot: plans of some ambition, employing a diversity of tactics and delivered with the aplomb you would expect from us,” said anti-capitalist protesters in response to the eviction. The group, who…

Drug gangs have turned Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool into ‘no-go’ areas as terrifying as the ghettos of Brazil and Mexico, warned the UN narcotics chief. Hamid Ghodse, president of the UN’s International Narcotics Control Board, in a disturbing report said the inner-cities of the UK are now run by heavily-armed gangs as seen in most dangerous parts of Brazil and Mexico. Professor Hamid claimed there was “a vicious cycle of…

Just a day after the launch of the Sunday edition of The Sun, the Leveson Inquiry produces hard evidence of massive corruption at the tabloid, suggesting that its scribes routinely indulged in unlawful practices and bribe public officials. According to the Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Sue Akers, the corruption is deeply-rooted into British public life and involves virtually all arms of the government and the civic authorities….