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A recent report conducted by the World Retail Congress and Green Park, has claimed that many current retail bosses aren’t ‘fit for purpose’, with a distinct lack of digital and data driven skills raised as the biggest concern. The details of the published report come after BHS and Austin Reed have both and announced administration as a declining high-street is pushed to the forefront of the industry, giving a timely reminder that the high-street is not in the best of shape. Launched at the...

The average worker is paid £678 a year to slag off their boss, according to new research. According to a poll of 2,000 office workers Brits spend more than six working days a year moaning about management, with six in ten admitting to regularly laying in to them during lunchbreaks, on social media and even while sat at their desk. This adds up to a total of an hour and five minutes of each working week spent grumbling about their boss...

Venezuela's Vice-President Aristobulo Isturiz has announced that the country's two million state employees will only work Mondays and Tuesdays until the energy crisis that has crippled the country is over. The announcement follows news that the country is to put the clocks forward by half an hour to reduce demand for electricity in the early evening. The government has also told shopping centres to reduce their opening hours and generate their own energy Isturiz spoke on national television, saying: "We are requesting...

On Monday Labour MP Dennis Skinner told Jeremy Hunt to 'wipe that smirk of his face' and 'start negotiating now and sort the matter out', referring to the impending doctor's strike. The junior doctor's strike took place yesterday and is due to take place again today. Just two weeks after Dennis Skinner (known as the 'Beast of Bolsover') was ejected from the House of Commons for calling David Cameron 'Dodgy Dave', watch Skinner's fresh attack on Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

Prose by John S. Locke Justice was seen to be done today and a victory for working class people everywhere was seen to happen. Today was a victory for working class people against an establishment fully prepared to lie and damage the reputation of normal people to protect itself. A day when working class people beat establishment corruption and truth finally won. A very important day in history for a working class people, truth and justice in our country. Fought in...

Unwary British holidaymakers are falling foul of Spain’s one year time limit for injury claim compensation.  The country’s one year limit sits in stark contrast to other parts of Europe, such as France, where some claims can be filed up to 10 years after an accident. The latest figures provided by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) show that over 60 British tourists are hospitalised abroad each week, with 20% of these occurring in Spain.  These figures also show that...

A two-year inquest into the Hillsborough disaster has 'totally vindicated' families of those killed in the incident, ruling that the 96 people were unlawfully killed. In what has been described by Labour MP Andy Burnham as the "greatest miscarriage of justice of our times", justice for supporters and families who suffered on that fateful day has finally been delivered. The inquest ruled that Hillsborough had no accurate way of assessing fan numbers in the pens and that the stadium had inherent design...

Labour's Heidi Alexander hit out at a smug albeit sheepish looking Jeremy Hunt regarding his "kamikaze approach" to the junior doctors' strike. Alexander accused Hunt of being solely to blame for the loss of morale in the NHS and the potential exodus of staff to the Southern Hemisphere.  

"When corporations sit above Government, we are in big, big trouble." You have probably already heard and read about TTIP, but maybe you aren't quite sure how it will effect you? In a nutshell, TTIP stands for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. TTIP is a proposed deal between the EU and the US aimed at making it easier for the world’s two biggest economies to trade, leading to a projected increase in income for both continents. TTIP sets to make trade...