By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The Labour leader has been invited to speak at the world famous Glastonbury festival. He has been asked to participate at Worthy Farm by veteran left-winger and musician, Billy Bragg. The festival is run by landowner Michael Eavis and his daughter, Michael stood as a ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor There appears to be a teaching crisis are a Teachers’ union said there was a crisis in recruitment. A survey has revealed that four out of five teachers have thought about leaving the profession entirely. The poll of nearly 900 members of the teaching profession ...
The Panama Papers, published today in an unprecedented data leak, confirmed once again that it is the super-rich and not the super-poor that are causing the real headache for Britain. Russian president Vladimir Putin has been caught up in a $2 billion offshore trail and a raft of wealthy UK residents have also been ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The video below shows Iceland's prime minister storming out of an awkward interview when he was questioned about his interests in a secret offshore firm. Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, came to power in 2013 on a wave of anti-banking anger after Iceland's financial meltdown. However, leaked documents have linked ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor If this picture if anything to go by we won’t have many doctors left in the UK soon. A group of medical students at the University of Birmingham were asked to put their hands up if they are going to leave the country and work ...
By Bea Patel, TLE Property Editor and Director of Shop for an Agent The new three per cent stamp duty land tax (SDLT) levy on top of the current standard rate hit homebuyers on 1 April 2016. Announced in Chancellor George Osborne’s 2015 Autumn statement, it affects domestic and foreign ...
It was only when Dianne Vavra looked up one evening to see her husband streaming a basketball game on his laptop, her son absorbed by Mario Kart on the Wii and her daughter playing a game app on an iPod Touch that she realised. “The family was in the same room, but ...
A huge leak of data from offshore service company Mossack Fonseca has exposed the super rich, celebrities and politicians. Iceland is considering a snap election over revelations which implicate Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson and his wife. He is among several leading politicians with links to Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based law firm whose ...
Review by Leslie Byron Pitt/@Afrofilmviewer Very much a cult curiosity, Black Mama White Mama condenses a truck load of plotting into what is effectively an exploitation chase flick. The results vary. While it’s fun to see a film which heavily influenced Quentin Tarantino, the film is so interested in stuffing ...