A city commuter will inevitably moan about travelling an hour to work. Complaining about navigating the tube routes, London bikers or having to dare the sweaty buses in the summer heat. And the ultimate two words you must never utter to a commuter are, “tube strike.” But no city commuter is entitled to moan more than an out of city commuter, because they’re the ones that have it really bad. Thousands of dedicated employees that live outside the city, will...

It is not a rule of journalism but it should be. Writing anything at all about the various conflicts in the Middle East, with all their shifts and shapes and connected parts moving like the patterns in a kaleidoscope tube with absolutely none of the beauty, invites the fate of Shelley's Ozymandias. The journalist roars, 'Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' In response to which the wind makes the sand shrug and the writer is buried until some...

Germany's financial centre Frankfurt is "confident" of poaching London's  €930 billion clearing industry after Brexit. Hubertus Väth, managing director of Frankfurt Main Finance, which lobbies for its financial centre, told Business Insider he was confident the EBA, Europe's banking authority, would move to Frankfurt, and confident in the arguments for bringing Euro clearing to the city if it does move from London. He said: "We are confident about it. I cannot say it will be the likely decision of such a...

Jacob Rees-Mogg is in serious contention to become the next leader of the Conservative party, according to the latest betting trends. The MP for North East Somerset has become somewhat of an Instagram star and seems to have put himself in contention for the top position if it is vacated by Theresa May. The eccentric Eurosceptic toff is a hit with a group of young Conservatives led by 23-year-old Sam Frost from London, who has set up a petition for Rees-Mogg to...

  A cash-strapped school has resorted to asking parents to buy TEXTBOOKS for their children because of a lack of funding. Hanley Castle High School, in Worcester have sent out letters to mums and dads asking for financial help to plug a £400,000 cut in their budget. Headteacher Lindsey Cook has requested that parents cough up a £40 yearly fee to cover the costs of books. Meanwhile, sixth form students will have to pay for all of their textbooks. Mrs...

Don't worry though, she'll be at Latitude next week. In the past five months, Sigrid has gone from unknown to breakout star. With a defining debut Glastonbury performance, ‘Don’t Kill My Vibe’ streaming at 17M on Spotify, and two sold out Scala headlines in September, Sigrid’s arrival has been nothing short of extraordinary. Check out the video for ‘Plot Twist,’ the second single to be lifted from her debut Don’t Kill My Vibe EP below.   Sigrid says: “Plot Twist is about...

  The world's first car running on a biofuel made from WHISKY residue has had its first successful test drive. The fuel - biobutanol - is a brand new type of sustainable fuel and is designed to be a direct replacement for petrol and diesel. It is produced from draff - the sugar-rich kernels of barley which are soaked in water to facilitate the fermentation process necessary for whisky production. The other main ingredient is pot ale, the copper-containing yeasty...

Robert Halfon, the former Apprenticeships and Skills Minister, was unceremoniously sacked by prime minister Theresa May just after the June General Election. Halfon had one or two things to say about the prime minister which we won’t repeat here, but which we highly recommend you go and read. While the low profile of the position means most people don’t know who the Apprenticeships and Skills Minister is, Halfon’s sacking may be significant. He was a huge supporter of further education...

Being curious about curiosity truly does sound like something out of Alice in Wonderland, whose lead character was observed saying 'curiouser and curiouser' about Mad Hatters, talking playing cards and the like. Although you know, if the Queen of Hearts leaps out of the desk and starts crying 'Off with their heads!' in the midst of your monthly evening of euchre with friends; well if that doesn't raise a burst of inquisitive curiosity then there's just no hope for you...