Macron needs to get his wallet out for what his country did to us nearly 1,000 years ago Daily Telegraph 11/09/26 Have you seen the Bayeux Tapestry? Maybe you are one of the thousands who have queued at the British Museum . Or perhaps you have visited its usual home in Normandy. Or maybe, like me, you have made do with images online. But however you have consumed this medieval masterpiece, it won’t have escaped your notice that it depicts mass human slaughter. It shows swords being plunged into bodies and soldiers hacked to death. Severed limbs and heads abound, while homes of ordinary people are torched and women and children are forced to flee. Horrifyingly enough, it’s a pretty good record of what actually happened. The Conquest was responsible for 100,000 deaths , many through deliberate starvation. Given that our population back then was about two million, this means it wiped out 5 per cent of us. Some even describe it as a genocide. So how come we are determined to view this tape...
Piddington votes to leave UK over plans for migrant camp Oxfordshire village passes symbolic referendum held to protest against plans to house 1,200 asylum seekers nearby Charles Hymas Home Affairs Editor Show biography Updated 16 September 2026 7:27am BST Published 16 September 2026 6:50am BST A village in Oxfordshire has voted to leave the UK in a symbolic referendum in response to plans to house 1,200 migrants next door. Residents in Piddington voted 285 to 26 to “secede from the UK and pursue self-determination” after the Government announced plans to convert a former army garrison into a camp for 1,256 male asylum seekers. The result was declared by Susannah Parden, a parish councillor, just after 7am on Wednesday, based on a turnout of nearly 92 per cent. The referendum carried no legal or constitutional weight, but villagers wanted to register their concerns about the threat that the camp represented to their way of life. Residents have said the male migrants would outnum...