Ian Gallagher

6 days ago | dailymail.co.uk | Abul Taher |Ian Gallagher

Man, 50, who set fire to the Koran outside the Turkish consulate in London says he never would have come to Britain if he 'knew this country does not have free speech'By ABUL TAHER and IAN GALLAGHER Published: 18:12 EDT, 1 June 2025 | Updated: 18:12 EDT, 1 June 2025 A protestor who set fire to a Koran outside the Turkish consulate in London said he would not have come to Britain had he known free speech was ‘under threat here’.

1 week ago | dailymail.co.uk | Ian Gallagher

What better way for the Mayor of London to launch a drugs debate than to pose for pictures framed by a forest of cannabis plants? So thought Sadiq Khan's aides when he announced a 'commission' to look at decriminalising the drug in Britain. It was decided that a taxpayer-funded 'fact-finding' mission to the United States was needed to discover how Los Angeles had fared since recreational marijuana became legal in California four years earlier.

1 week ago | dailymail.co.uk | Ian Gallagher

Once the undisputed enfant terrible of show jumping, Nick Skelton has long put his wild days behind him. Boozy hi jinks, sexual shenanigans, punch ups with rivals, he was guilty of the lot in his time, his antics often eclipsing those of Jilly Cooper's fictional bounders. 'I'm too old for all that,' he sighs. 'They were fun times but I'm 67 now.'Age was never previously a barrier, though.

1 week ago | dailymail.co.uk | Ian Gallagher |Abul Taher

Sharon Graham in full flight is something to behold. Fist aloft... blazing rhetoric... cries of solidarity. Spellbound comrades cheer her every exhortation. In the first female leader of Unite, Britain’s most powerful union, it is easy to recognise the firebrand orators of old. Hard-headed Ms Graham, 56, doesn’t give an inch. Just ask Birmingham City Council with whom she’s been battling over the bin strike.

1 week ago | thisismoney.co.uk | Ian Gallagher

Sharon Graham in full flight is something to behold. Fist aloft... blazing rhetoric... cries of solidarity. Spellbound comrades cheer her every exhortation. In the first female leader of Unite, Britain’s most powerful union, it is easy to recognise the firebrand orators of old. Hard-headed Ms Graham, 56, doesn’t give an inch. Just ask Birmingham City Council with whom she’s been battling over the bin strike.