Opinion

Jeremy Corbyn is under "huge pressure" to shift Labour Party policy on Brexit, the Observer has revealed today after a poll carried out by the publication found a substantial majority of existing and potential Labour voters want him to back permanent membership of the EU’s single market and customs union. According to the results four times as many Labour supporters favour that option as oppose it, and more than twice as many in this group want Corbyn to support a second...

In a week when the Guardian left the FT and Telegraph as the only publications flying the flag for broadsheet the message from the media industry in 2018 is clear; size really does matter. The media market is undoubtedly shrinking, with a demand for content that fits in your pocket and can be consumed on-the-go on the rise. Thanks to Netflix, iPlayer, Spotify and Amazon Prime video we are all being trained in the art of "stackable", watch or listen...

When looking for ways to bring about equality and improve the lives of minorities we must be bold enough to call time on a bad idea and come up with a new solution. This, it could be argued, is true in the case of bisexuals and tethering their equality to the LGBT movement.  LGBT groups have long represented the interests of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people but campaigning for four minorities that deal with completely different issues could actually...

After five long months, my friend, fellow broadcaster and activist, Hisham Al-Omeisy was finally released by his Houthi captors on Sunday 14 January 2018. Nothing can explain the emotion this image of Hisham, now a free man, with his sons evokes in those of us who have campaigned for his freedom every day since his kidnap (or as the Yemeni authorities would say  ‘detainment’) on 14 August 2017. I had discovered Hisham whilst co-hosting a news and current affairs show on...

By Robert Seiler Influential Bulgarian businessman Petar Hristov, who had assisted with the dismantling of a kidnapping ring and who was closely tied to senior members of Bulgaria’s ruling GERB party, was shot in broad daylight on the 8th of January in an upmarket area of Sofia, the Bulgarian capital. This fatal shooting, coming six days after Bulgarian President Rumen Radev vetoed anti-graft legislation and seven days after Bulgaria assumed the rotating EU presidency, puts the spotlight back on Bulgaria’s unresolved problems with corruption and a difficult investment...

Jeremy Corbyn this weekend appeared to question the historic bond between Britain and the United States, refusing to call it the UK's most important relationship in an interview aired on Peston On Sunday. The Labour leader was critical of Donald Trump and his "endless offensive" comments which appear to have distanced the US from the rest of the world. Corbyn said the UK had many important relationships around the world, with nations such as China and India, and distanced himself from...

I doubt I'm the only one in Britain currently feeling uneasy: the world seems to have gone a little bit topsy-turvy, hasn't it? For months and months, even the vaguest suggestion of a second referendum, or a 'final say' on the terms of Britain's exit from the European Union, well... it was likely to be shouted down by an army of angry Brexiters decrying it an 'affront to democracy'. It was a definitive, cardinal rule. The lemmings would not have...

You would have thought a lesson would have been learned by now. A year in to his presidency and Donald Trump has transferred the principles he acquired on television in to the White House, a mantra that usually goes: Give the audience what it wants, not what it needs. Yesterday came the announcement that the Trump administration will end protections for certain nationals of El Salvador, a move that could leave more than 200,000 immigrants who have lived in the US...

A scene from Channel 4’s 'SAS Who Dares Wins', which aired last night, showed us exactly how not to react when someone is having a panic attack. SAS Who Dares Wins, for anyone unfamiliar, is a reality show that sees normal men from across the UK take on SAS-style training led by former SAS servicemen. Recruits endure physical and mental challenges that push them to their limits. The scene that troubled me, followed a task where recruits had clambered across...