TWENTY per cent of the 100 largest payments under the European Union’s "direct" subsidy system now go to people or families on the Sunday Times Rich List. According to a new investigation by Energydesk billionaires and aristocrats last year scooped up an even greater proportion of the UK’s biggest farm subsidy payouts,...
Labour MP Laura Pidcock's maiden speech to parliament has been lauded after she took an anti-establishment dig at Westminster. The speech has been likened to that of the SNP's Mhairi Black's first speech in which she launched a scathing attack on the Conservative Government addressing issues including benefit sanctions, the budget, and...
There were times when he would be mobbed by thousands of screaming fans every time he tried to step out the door. But those days were far behind Paul McCartney when he was spotted sitting alone on a train out of London - without a bodyguard or entourage in sight....
Coral exposed to radioactivity from nuclear bomb testing could hold the key to a cure for cancer, according to new research. The marine invertebrate at the bottom of the ocean floor has remarkable resistance to radiation exposure, say scientists. Now scientists hope to harness its innate gift in a bid...
An fascinating video has been released of a 3-D printer building an entire house for $10,000. The average new build home costs £189,940 to build, compared to a self-build cost of £84,000 if you do the work yourself or £146,000 if you employ tradesmen to do it for you. But...
London couriers are to get cycling airbags to improve safety. 'Absolutely', one of the oldest courier companies in the UK, has announced a new safety initiative in collaboration with 'Hövding', the airbag for cyclists in a first-of-its-kind partnership to make the booming London industry safer. With couriers spending up to ten...
Far-right ‘Identitarians’ have paid to hire a ship in order to disrupt search-and-rescue missions in the Mediterranean. The "Defend Europe" group secured a ship with a range of 3000 nautical miles, a place for a crew of 25, and a crane for RIBs to disrupt the work of humanitarian search-and-rescue NGO...
Damning new research has revealed public sector workers are turning to payday loans to make ends meet. The study has been revealed a day after Theresa May narrowly defeated a bid to end the pay freeze in the House of Commons. Labour’s amendment was defeated by 14 votes, with 309...
Today a new report by the Social Mobility Commission concluded once and for all that the British government’s performance on social mobility over past 20 years has failed to significantly reduce the gap between the “haves and have nots”. Without immediate reform by the government, it advised, the gulf between rich and poor...