Social mobility report should have carried Corbyn’s manifesto slogan
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 will only grow larger with grave consequences for society. If the report had been released a month earlier reporters might have been quicker to note a mirrored correlation between Labour's election manifesto...
Restaurant Review: Duck & Waffle Local
How many ducks must needlessly suffer to sate Dan Doherty’s ego? Following the colossal success of Duck & Waffle a ‘local’ version of London’s highest restaurant has recently opened behind Piccadilly Circus. If the ‘local’ tag is anything to go by – this new space is specially targeted at the fourteen people wealthy enough to boast a Westminster postcode. Looming over the square mile - on the 40th floor of Heron Tower - the original Duck & Waffle’s panoramic views...
PMQs 28th June – You’ve been extracting the urine for too long
The first PMQs of the new Parliament, if not quite new Government, began with a Tory MP seemingly blaming Corbyn for someone urinating outside her constituency office door. Not sure you can directly blame Corbyn that somebody took a leak outside your office, but that is what she was trying to allude to. Desperate times and all that. So how do we apportion blame? Well the rejuvenated Labour leader had a few ideas today. However, he began by praising the...
WATCH: Fleshy weirdness in Hypochristmutreefuzz’s ‘Clammy Hands’
Hailing from Ghent, Belgium Hypochristmutreefuzz are at the forefront of Ghent’s noise-rock scene. Other than a secret weapon for passionate Scrabble-fanatics (their name comes from an avant-garde jazz piece by Misha Mengelberg) the band, formed around Belgian musician Ramses Van den Eede, is a frontal attack to all of the senses, thanks to a crushing groove, the use of a power drill as an instrument and inconveniently lovable bone-shattering and shamanic vocals. Check out their latest video for new single...
Poverty in the UK Statistics Reveal 4.6 Million Endured ‘Persistent’ Hardship In 2015
Under the Conservative led coalition the number of British people who fell into the poverty trap grew by almost three quarters of a million, according to figures from the ONS (Office for National Statistics) . In 2014 there were 3.9 million people who struggled to survive in the UK but it was 4.6 million a year later, a very worrying rise in such a short space of time. The citizens were caught the cycle of “persistent” poverty. Alongside these worrying...
Hillsborough families deserve justice but shouldn’t have had to wait almost 3 decades for this decision
GMB union, which represents thousands of workers on Merseyside - and whose General Secretary was at Hillsborough on the day of the disaster - has responded to the decision of the CPS to bring charges against those involved in the 96 deaths. Former Ch Supt David Duckenfield faces 95 charges of manslaughter and five other senior figures will be prosecuted over the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. Mr Duckenfield was match commander at the FA Cup semi-final when 96 Liverpool fans were...
Increasing number of British people back tax and spending on public services
The Conservative Party assumes that people want lower taxes and the rolling back of the public sector, and under Thatcher that approach worked and kept the party in power for a long period of time. However, it appears that the British people are increasingly in favour of the opposite and welcome an increase in taxes and Govt spending, according to a new study. The research found that almost half of people in the British Isles want the Government to raise...
First “real world test” of self-driving CargoPod delivering shopping to customers
The UK’s first trials of an autonomous CargoPod vehicle which delivers shopping to customers have taken place around the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The TRL-led GATEway Project together with Ocado Technology saw a self-driving delivery vehicle, called CargoPod, operating in a residential environment, delivering grocery orders to over one hundred customers. Taking place in the UK Smart Mobility Living Lab, the aim was to demonstrate the use of autonomous vehicles for ‘last mile’ deliveries and mobility, seamlessly connecting existing distribution...
Fitness trackers, fridges and baby monitors at risk of been hacked
Millions of people are at serious risk of been hacked and don’t know it – with fitness trackers, smart TVs and even children’s toys among the most vulnerable items, according to research. The full extent to which unscrupulous individuals can invade people’s privacy - and their home lives - through a few clicks of the mouse was revealed following a survey of 2,000 UK smart device owners. A third of respondents admit they have no idea if their smart tech is...