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Brits will protest outside Downing Street this weekend after similar protests in Iceland toppled Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson. Thousands of people in Iceland protested in front of the parliament building this week calling for the Prime Minister's resignation over the Panama Papers scandal. Demonstrators vented their anger following revelations that Gunnlaugsson once owned – and his wife still owns – an offshore investment company with multimillion-pound claims on Iceland’s failed banks. Protests in Iceland call for prime minister's resignation over #PanamaLeaks allegations https://t.co/39JK7QqNz8 https://t.co/BAfd5xLpfW...

America's leading Republican candidates for president, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, have rabidly loyal grassroots voters. Both men's supporters viscerally hate the other and use social media to slander and brutalise the other man. Outside the conservative bubble, there is barely a hair's breadth between Cruz and Trump. One is a religious zealot who makes hay with bigots, the other is a crypto-fascist demagogue who wins favour with self-styled racists. Both are beholden to the extreme right in the Republican...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor In Mississippi the Governor has signed off a law that allows public and private businesses to refuse to their service to same-sex couples, as long as that couple’s existence conflicts with the “sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions” of the proprietor. The news has caused widespread outrage and civil rights groups have said it is “a sad day for Mississippi.” Governor Phil Bryant said the bill: “merely reinforces the rights which currently exist to...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Please have  a watch of this video of George Osborne's 2003 appearance on BBC2's Daily Politics programme. The future chancellor encourages a caller to look into 'clever financial products' that let homeowners to pass on the value of their home to their children and also get personal care paid for by the state. 'I probably shouldn't be advocating this on television,' he later says during the conversation. Watch Video Here

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A new Ronnie Pickering video has emerged, this time is he a force for good? The footage, which could be taken by himself, shows him having a go at a parking attendant who had approached an elderly couple, with a disabled badge, who had parked up on double yellow lines. Most people will remember when he made national news after a four-letter tirade of abuse at a moped rider and asking him "Do you know...

Up and down the nation, parents of children aged around 7 and 11 will be doing battle with the horror that is SPaG tests – or, to the uninitiated, Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar. Large numbers of children are arriving in school so much further back in their development than they were 20 years ago – many have speech problems, many aren’t toilet-trained, many have never held a pencil or pen or been read a story before they arrive in school....

Two days on from the Panama Papers leak, the Independent has revealed that HMRC - the government body responsible for collecting taxes - actually pays rent on its head office to a company based in a tax haven! Eleven million documents were leaked from law firm Mossack Fonseca on Monday highlight the extent to which UK residents and its institutions are taking advantage of tax havens such as Panama. Over half of the companies listed in the document cache are registered in...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor This really didn't go very well; supremely wealthy Tory candidate for Mayor looked pretty out of touch with the city he wants to run during a TV interview. The BBC's Norman Smith asked Goldsmith which team play at Loftus Road, he had no idea (it's QPR). Then he was asked the next type station going east on Central Line from Tottenham Court Road, he had no idea (it's Holborn). He was finally asked where the...

Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson is set to resign after revelations of his tax affairs were revealed in the Panama Papers leak. The documents from Mossack Fonseca showed that the disgraced PM hid  millions of dollars of investments in his country’s banks in an offshore company under his wife's name. Although it isn't an illegal act, thousands of protesters turned up last night calling for his head, the vast majority of whom still have a sour taste in their mouths following the...