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Austerity policies have resulted in nine years of slower growth and left us all £1,495 a year worse off, analysis by The New Economics Foundation has revealed. The think tank found the impact of tax and spending changes since the Conservatives came to power had left the economy £100 billion smaller than it would otherwise have been. As a result, the cumulative effect of tax, public spending and welfare adjustments on growth by the end of the 2018-19 financial year had left the...

Scientists say the Gaskiers glaciation could have been triggered by huge amounts of carbon dioxide being absorbed as part of the weathering process of the solidified lava

Scientists say the concentration of carbon dioxide is rising faster than at any time since the age of the dinosaurs

Officers had called off the pursuit just before the crash as the car was speeding on the wrong side of the road.

A Tommy Robinson supporter who called a TV reporter a ‘slag’ to her face has been fined and ordered to pay her £50 compensation. Restaurant worker William Eve, 57, claimed in his defence that he didn't perceive swearing or using the word ‘slag’ as insulting because he was from east London where it was "common" language. Eve was cleared by magistrates of using "religiously aggravated" language when he asked Al Jazeera journalist Sonia Gallego if her employer was 'Muslim-backed'. He...

The small but speedy flesh-eater was the size was a modern mule deer native to western North America, being up to four foot tall and weighing around 180 pounds

A thoughtful document illustrating how to deal with Syrian returners has re-surfaced following Sajid Javid's decision to strip Shamima Begum of her British citizenship. The United Kingdom’s Strategy for Countering Terrorism, published in June last year, details a four step approach that should be used to deal with a British woman who travels to join ISIS and has a baby. They include a managed return to the UK, a criminal investigation, deradicalisation and care for the baby, none of which were applied in...

The concept of equilibrium, one of the most central ideas in economics and one of the core assumptions in the vast majority of economic models, may have serious problems, concludes a study from the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. The concept of equilibrium is the basis of many economic models, including models used by policymakers on issues like monetary policy, climate change, trade policy and the minimum wage. In a paper published today in Science Advances, Marco Pangallo,...

At only 21 miles wide, it's among the smallest in the solar system - explaining how it's eluded astronomers