On 9th August 2007 the banking sector observed the first shudder of what was to become a debilitating earthquake of seismic proportions. The markets woke up to find French bank BNP Paribas had halted redemptions on three investment funds because it was unable to measure the value of the (then) obscure (but...
Brexit may not have happened if Britons were brighter because not enough people grew up with access to higher education, according to new research. With education the predominant factor dividing those who voted Remain or Leave, researchers from the University of Leicester reckon greater access to higher education may have...
Labour MPs are warning to expect queues outside food banks this Christmas as universal credit changes threaten to push thousands of families below the poverty line. According to Citizens Advice benefit claimants are being plunged into debt with four in ten people having to wait more than six weeks to receive...
A little known beach lying directly underneath one of Scotland's busiest bridges has been named one of the top places in the UK to have a picnic. Boden Boo, a small strip of grass and beach lying underneath the Erskine Bridge, has been plucked from obscurity as one of the...
Donald Trump's pledge to build a wall across the US/ Mexican border may be deemed unconstitutional because it would require federal troops to be billeted on the borders of southern US states. The wall was a big part of the President's election pledge and according to a recent leaked transcript...
Analysis of the latest GP Patient Survey for England reveals a marked worsening of access to GP surgeries over the past five years, largely as a result of sustained Tory underfunding of primary care services. Jonathan Ashworth, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, has slammed Theresa May’s record on General Practice and...
A down-on-his-luck man has spent years begging strangers to 'give me shelter' while sleeping rough on a street - opposite the headquarters of Britain’s biggest homeless charity. Army veteran Tony Richards has built himself a makeshift camp on the cold street opposite the posh London headquarters of Shelter, a charity...
They say that much of the right-wing backlash being observed in the political mainstream across the world stems from how overly PC society has become. And if that's true, comedy may have a lot to answer for. Long been a vessel for expressing risque observations of society comedy is the...
Tony Blair's hopes of creating a new centrist political party lie in tatters after key donors abandoned the cause. With an increasing amount of MPs feeling alienated by their respective parties and a lack of support for pro-Remain policies the time seemed ripe for the former New Labour leader to...