Opinion

A super-rare Rolls-Royce came up for sale today for a whopping £120,000. The gold-plated "Ghost" edition, which comes with custom champagne flutes and a built-in refrigerator, is likely to be snapped up in no time by investors, but there's a catch - it can only be purchased with Bitcoin. Gold seems to be quite a poignant colour in relation to the cool electronic currency at the moment. BBC Business News today led with a feature covering the gold rush which has seen bitcoin...

If it wasn't for Brexit the work of Peter Roberts may have been forgotten in the annals of European legislation. But a week on from the government's vote to reject an amendment to the European Union Withdrawal Bill tabled by Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas his work is being debated again. Born in the 1920s Roberts took up dairy farming in Hampshire as a young professional but became so appalled by the suffering of animals in intensive farming systems he started campaigning about...

By Generation Borrowed Time  This coming budget promises to offer nothing more than the same gimmicks the PM already announced at the most recent conference. A conference that she would probably rather forget, and would rather we forgot also. There were a few policy announcements, if anybody remembers them from the conference rather than the letters falling off the stage behind her, the conference cold and some ‘comedian’. Policy announcements such as an unspecified amount put aside to deal with Brexit. However, there...

Canary Wharf is sitting on a Brexit time bomb as the city's financial sector prepares to move away. The former docklands were transformed into one of the world's most important financial districts in the 1980s as part of a private sector-backed government initiative to transform the brownfield land that had been left by the port industry decline. Following the creation of the London Docklands Development Corporation in 1981 and the granting of Urban Enterprise Zone status to the Isle of Dogs...

Opinion: Why International Men's Day? As a leading bisexual activist I usually write on the issues that bi men face, but as November 19th is International Men's Day, all men, no matter their sexuality, race, religion or politics must discuss the issues that impact us collectively. It could be argued that men so rarely have the talking stick to discuss the unique issues facing their gender, so this International Men's Day I wanted to examine the five issues I feel...

In recent weeks, a tide of allegations about sexual harassment and violence have engulfed the Palace of Westminster, with numerous stories emerging of women being subjected to abuse by men in senior positions on both sides of the political spectrum. The Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Labour are all running investigations into various charges of sexually inappropriate behaviour by MPs and other party members. They are also examining claims that previous reports were brushed under the carpet by top officials. The...

We are in the 8th year of the celebrity shoe auction, now the biggest in the world, with more A-listers taking part in our small charity’s fundraiser than Comic Relief. How? Almost a decade ago when I founded Small Steps Project, helping children surviving off landfill sites, Celebrity endorsed charity events and paraphernalia were not quite as popular as they are today. Many celebrity events these days cost as much as they raise. The infamous Red Campaign by Bono raised...

The 12th century story of King Arthur and his gallant knights is complex, frustrating, and fraught with contradictions and impossibilities. Very few of the names and events recorded in these chronicles exist in the historical record, and so the text represents a huge historical crossword puzzle that is almost impossible to crack. But how can we derive an answer for two-down in this puzzle, if we have not discovered the solution for five-across? Arthurian history is traditionally set in the...

Arm yourself. There is a war raging across our information systems. Whilst no bombs are being dropped, the impacts of this war will have far reaching consequences. At the same time Donald Trump was elected president of the United States of America, 2016 witnessed the rise of populist and extremist movements all over the globe. The success of many of these causes, groups and individuals came as an unexpected surprise, even a shock. Many asked ‘how could this happen?’ In...