A pioneering new citizens’ wealth fund in the UK could provide a universal annual cash dividend and eventually a weekly basic income, a new report has claimed. According to research by City, University of London and the Friends Provident Foundation the UK government should create a citizens’- owned investment fund to...
It's 2018 and the World is on its knees. Ask British folk singer Jay McAllister about it and he'll tell you that “the world is dying. Shit is getting serious". Ask punk poet Sean McGowan and he'll say it's all "daylight robbery, mad men on a muggery, lifetime of monotony, it’s a...
Sean Dyche has emerged as the favourite to win this year's Premier League Manager of the Year in what is expected to be one of the most hotly contested accolades in history. The Burnley manager has navigated the Clarets to 7th in the league on a shoestring budget. With one game...
Budget cuts will make the next term for new councillors increasingly tough, new research has revealed, with spending by boroughs falling by a fifth over seven years. London’s authorities saw a 19 per cent fall in their budgeted expenditure (per head) between 2010/11 and 2017/18 (excluding education, public health and policing)....
The term 2018-22 will be one of the toughest the Conservatives have faced in Wandsworth, Councillor Ian Lewer says. Following a shock win the Deputy Mayor for the borough predicts that the next four years are likely to be some of the most challenging that the party has faced in its...
The President chose cheers over tears by stepping into the warm embrace of the NRA rather than tackling gun crime - a decision he should be made to rue Donald Trump’s address to the National Rifle Association convention on Friday was a thoughtless move from a President who has routinely failed to...
Mainstream media outlets have today spun a successful election result into one that looks like defeat for Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party. Despite Labour winning more seats than all other parties combined the BBC pointed to "mixed results" for Labour, highlighting losses in safe Tory seats such as Wandsworth...
"Being a Remainer and voting Labour is like being a vegetarian and ordering steak", was the meme making the rounds on social media before yesterday's local elections. And so it proved to be as the first results trickled in this morning. With UKIP all but obliterated across the country Labour...
Nigel Farage is calling for a new referendum on the abolition of the House of Lords after the Government suffered set-backs on the Brexit process. Writing in the Telegraph, Mr Farage blasted the Lords for its intervention and suggested the House had "signed its own death warrant". He said: "By...