But the EU’s “disastrous” failures have fuelled tensions between member states and allowed Germany to grow in power, “take over” the Italian economy and “destroy” Greece, he warns. Mr Johnson invokes Winston Churchill’s war-time defiance, urging the British people to be “the heroes of Europe” again, set the country free and save the EU from itself by voting to leave in the referendum next month.

The former mayor of London, who is a keen classical scholar, argues that the past 2,000 years of European history have been characterised by repeated attempts to unify Europe under a single government in order to recover the continent’s lost “golden age” under the Romans. “Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically,” he says. “The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods.”

Yesterday, Mr Johnson travelled to Bristol, as Vote Leave staged 300 events around the UK. In his interview, he suggests that the economic benefits of EU membership have been exaggerated, when in fact the euro has fuelled tensions between member states. “The Italians, who used to be a great motor-manufacturing power, have been absolutely destroyed by the euro – as was intended by the Germans,” Mr Johnson claims.

“The euro has become a means by which superior German productivity is able to gain an absolutely unbeatable advantage over the whole eurozone.” He adds: “This is a chance for the British people to be the heroes of Europe and to act as a voice of moderation and common sense, and to stop something getting, in my view, out of control.”

Think enhanced vision, increased upper body strength, improved speed and even amplified situational awareness. Some of the technology that the soldier of the future may wear could include advanced sensors, that can respond to brain functions; smart fabrics that could provide hemorrhage control; and a heads-up display that could provide real-time battlefield data. An exoskeleton that enhances physical performance — and also captures kinetic energy to power the soldier’s attire — could also be part of the future uniform.

Although this might sound like something straight out of a scene from a science fiction movie, it’s actually not that far off from becoming a reality. The US military is currently working on a system called the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS) — which is aimed at providing greater ballistic coverage as well as increased strength — for Special Operations troops. “The next 20 years are going to be transformational years,” said Michael Fieldson, the program manager for TALOS.

Though the case is about whether the 11-year-old can give informed consent to such serious medical treatment, which is intended to delay the onset of female puberty, the judge appears to have already conceded the point by referring to the girl by her preferred, male, initials JK, and accepting her male self-identification.

In his ruling, Mr Justice Ronald Skolrood declared that, “This case is really about JK and his role in determining his own future. In my view, these issues cannot be properly considered without JK's direct participation.”

The neighbor is being called transphobic — but perhaps the neighbor thought he was being pranked by a boy and reacted accordingly. Not everyone assumes that a boy in a dress selling Girl Scout cookies is transgender.

Stormi looked like a boy to the neighbor because he really is a boy. Transgender people may deceive themselves, but they do not deceive others. Life in society is not some fantasy world where a boy should pretend he has magically transformed himself into a girl simply by uttering the words “I am a girl” and changing how he presents himself.

Stormi could be in need of psychotherapy, not a dress. Caregivers all too often collaborate with a mental disorder instead of treating it. Telling a psychologically troubled boy he has changed genders is not compassion, but can become reckless parenting. By withholding psychotherapy, parents could be abusing the kid.

Parents are now having to wait up to nine months to take their child to a clinic after being referred by their GP. Figures from the Gender Identity Development Service show they treated three children aged three last year. Dr Polly Carmichael, from the clinic which is part of the Tavistock Centre, told The Sun the rise was unprecedented. 'Young people are making the full social transition — living full-time in their preferred gender inside and outside the home — at earlier ages,' she said.

Children and their parents talk to psychologists, psychiatrists and experts at the North London clinic as part of consultations. Poppy, now nine, has made the transition from a boy to a girl. She said: 'I didn't feel right as a boy. When I was little I'd go to a wishing well in my garden and wish I was a girl. I'm so happy now that wish has come true.' Children who attend the clinic can be given medication but would not be eligible for any gender reassignment surgery until 18.

Hormone blockers can be prescribed to children under 16 which helps to prevent the development of typically male or female features. Cross-sex hormones can then be given to children at 16 if they wish to continue treatment.

Simon Calvert, of the Christian Institute think-tank, has said that there was 'no way' that three-year-olds were capable of making 'such a life-changing choice'. Medics say the drugs given to under 16s are only there to give children more time to discover who they are as they grow up. Mr Calvert said: ‘The fact that children as young as three are transitioning gender proves this is to do with adult political ambitions and not with what is best for the children.

‘There is no way that a three-year-old is capable of making such a life-changing choice. What we will see in years to come are young adults whose lives have been ruined because their parents and doctors who should have known better told them they needed to transition gender when they were just going through a childhood phase.’

Hackers affiliated with Anonymous also claimed to have shut down several international banks over the past four days, including the National Reserve Bank of Tonga, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the central banks of Sweden, Myanmar and Laos.

A hacktivist who goes by the name ‘S1ege’ claimed responsibility for the attacks, stating they want to “start an online revolution” to retaliate against the “elite banking cartels putting the world in a perpetual state of chaos.” S1ege, who is thought to be a member of the Ghost Squad branch of Anonymous, said the focus of future cyber-attacks will be “NASDAQ, NYSE and Paypal.”

According to IBTimes, none of the institutions subject to attack have disclosed the extent of damage. While some banks were taken down for only a few minutes, others were left offline for hours.

But the beer hall cancelled the booking after the party agreed a policy that Islam was "not part of Germany". Landlord Ricky Steinberg said he feared protests outside the venue. He said that under the terms of the contract he was entitled to call off Friday evening's meeting on grounds of security. "I could really do without the hullaballoo," he was quoted as saying.

But the Munich district court ruled on Thursday that the beer hall was tied to the rental contract. AfD officials said they had already paid a €6,100 (£4,800; $7,000) deposit for the event. AfD officials have suggested that the beer hall was leant on by the mainstream political parties to ban the event. They argued that they had offered to provide the venue with security and insisted that no protest against the meeting had been planned.

Mr Steinberg has run the Hofbraeukeller for almost 20 years and it has been widely used by mainstream parties in the past, including Bavaria's centre-right CSU and the centre-left SPD. However, its historical connection to Adolf Hitler is particularly relevant in Germany now, with the AfD adopting policies that are synonymous with the far right.

The woman, who has not been named, was in her 20s and had gone through sexual abuse starting from age five to 15, according to the Dutch Euthanasia Commission. Being a victim of child sex abuse, she underwent excruciating depression, severe anorexia and PTSD.

Although her psychiatric conditions did improve, doctors believed that her multiple problems were incurable and decided upon ending her life.

The doctors said she was “totally competent” and that there was “no major depression or other mood disorder which affected her thinking”. Her death has ignited a debate over the issue of mercy killings. Nikki Kenward, who is associated with the disability rights group Distant Voices, said, “It is both horrifying and worrying that mental health professionals could regard euthanasia in any form as an answer to the complex and deep wounds that result from sexual abuse.”

While Labour MP Robert Flello was of the opinion that, “It almost sends the message that if you are the victim of abuse, and as a result you get a mental illness, you are punished by being killed, that the punishment for the crime of being a victim is death.” He added: It serves to reinforce why any move towards legalising assisted suicide, or assisted dying, is so dangerous.

But even that very open license is too narrow for the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons – which infamously wants every doctor forced by law to be complicit in killing patients. From the Waterloo Region Record story:

Canada’s largest medical regulatory authority is warning that most or all doctors in some Ontario communities could be disqualified from approving requests for a medically assisted death under the federal government’s proposed new law.

The province’s college of physicians told a Senate committee that some of the safeguards the government wants to impose are so stringent they will prevent many otherwise eligible patients from accessing an assisted death. It is a very alarming day when a medical association is so into the killing agenda that it wants a radical legislative proposal to go even further!

The transgendered and their supporters claim that people are merely assigned a sex at birth, their gender identity (how they feel) may or may not match their assigned sex. The goal is to force everyone to accept that gender identity should take precedence over the biological reality of sexual identity and men who claim to be women should be treated as though they were women. The ACLU complained that the school district challenged their “client’s identity as a girl,” which is true because their client is not a girl, but a boy. According to the ACLU, all “she wants to be accepted for who she is.”

The problem is that he wants to be accepted for who he is not. Their client claims that not allowing him to change with the girls stigmatizes him, “making me feel like I was not a normal person.” The simple answer is that it is not normal for a male to want to be accepted as female. The Bruce Jenner celebrity blitz and the battle over bathrooms, have brought the issue of gender to the fore and people are wondering how we got to the point where boys who think they are girls can use the girls’ locker room. What happened to common sense?

In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself.

One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. The girls forced to accept a boy in their private space are being targeted for just this kind of humiliation. This is about much more than bathrooms.