By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Your mum jokes are funny, cruel, but funny, however when the two leaders of the main British political parties descend into a “your mum” slanging match during PMQs, you do wonder that it’s a matter of when, not if, the human race destroys itself. For...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has just won in the US state of Nevada, and may well become President of the "free world," so before the human race dies out, within a month of his inauguration, let's try and enjoy the time we have left....
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Tory MP Heidi Allen made an impassioned speech against her own party's plan to cut ESA (Employment and Support Allowance) by £30 a week to disabled people. She pleaded with her fellow MPs to "look after the little man," sadly they ignored her and voted...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Shockingly MPs have overturned a Lords decision to stop cuts to the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) meaning disabled people will now be £30 a week worse off. It is hoped this cut would help people back into work, but it has even left some...
By Florence Sarlat www.veganfashionventure.com For ages, fur and silk have embodied worth and luxury in fashion. They are beautiful and expensive materials that not everyone can afford. The rarer their origins are, the more sought-after they are considered to be. A wool coat is nothing compared to a mink coat....
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor It looks like the Chancellor’s much heralded “Northern Powerhouse,” is not quite going according to plan, which may come as not much of a surprise to people living there. Osborne will be saddened to hear that more start-ups were launched in a single London postcode...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Leading barrister Michael Bowsher says the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) does allow for private US firms to snap up NHS contracts. The legal analysis has also revealed that the controversial TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) deal would mean NHS privatisation maybe irreversible...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Mandy Boycott a UKIP campaigner, and one-time prospective parliamentary MP, has made a pretty special parody version of Baddiel and Skinner's Three Lions. It has to be seen to be believed. The singing is terrible, the lyrics are terrible, you guessed it...it is TERRIBLE. Our...
By Mathew Shaw The sport of boxing is known as the ‘noble art’ and has long seduced some of modern time’s greatest writers and philosophical thinkers - Ernest Hemingway, TS Eliot and Norman Mailer, to name but a few. The sport’s ethos and pathos seemingly providing the perfect metaphors for...