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Is there a right time to retire?

Gone are the days of carriage clocks, uncomfortable presentations and a pat on the back as you clear out your desk at age 60 or 65. Retirement at a certain age is no longer a foregone conclusion (if it ever was). These days, people can retire at any age, but many keep working into their 70s and even beyond. Is there really a right time to retire? Let’s take a look at retirement through the ages and some of the...

Leading Brexit campaigner applies for official residency card – in France

Former Vote Leave chairman Nigel Lawson is applying for an official French residency card, it has been revealed. Lawson, formally Baron Lawson of Blaby, has told Connexion he’s applying for his carte de sejour, a document that secures his rights to remain in Gascony post-Brexit. The move is on the recommendation of the French government who say Britons living in France should seek to get official residency cards. As of last month fewer than 15,000 ex-oats had them, which is roughly a tenth...

Activate deactivated: Conservative’s Momentum imitation folds after 8 months

Activate, the Conservative's imitation of Momentum, has folded after just eight months. The political movement was set up to engage young people in centre-right politics but has struggled to make any headway since it was launched in August last year. High membership fees, homophobic WhatsApp conversations and lavish meetings are highlight's of the organisation's short-lived existence. Many have argued that the group was doomed from the start having been set the impossible mission of becoming the vehicle for a conservative mass movement...

Japanese whalers admit killing 120 pregnant whales

Japanese whale hunters have admitted butchering 120 pregnant minke whales. In a report detailing a whaling expedition in the Southern Ocean, the slaughter of 333 minkie whales is detailed, of which 181 were females, including 122 pregnant ones. The report on the three-month expedition which began at the end of last year was submitted by to the International Whaling Commission. The grisly details will add to international condemnation of the Japanese whaling fleet. Despite an international ban on the practice,...

What’s going on with Battersea Power Station?

If you’ve been anywhere near Battersea Power Station in the last twelve months, you’ll have noticed that its iconic towers have become a hive of activity, lined with cranes and construction vehicles as redevelopment gets underway in earnest. It’s been an insurmountable project for countless investors over the last fifty years, but it finally looks like the status of Battersea Power Station is going to be restored. Not as an energy plant, but as a luxury development. Curious as to...

Donations to the Conservatives dwarf all other parties in first 3 months of the year

Donations to the Conservative party were three times the size of any other party at the start of 2018, new figures have revealed. The Tories received £4.7 million in the first three months of the year, compared with £1.4 million of donations to Labour and £564,000 to the Liberal Democrats. Leading Tory donors include Ehud Sheleg, an Israeli-born businessman who recent media reports have suggested could become the party's treasurer. The party also received a £582,358 bequest. Outside of the main...

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