Opinion

With concerns over the impact of automation on jobs already mounting news that Amazon will employ fewer casual workers in its warehouses this Christmas due to increased robot utilisation will come as a concern for leaders across the world. Citing cost-cutting and increased productivity, Amazon will be at the forefront of a revolution that has already seen retailers such as JD.com move to fully automated warehouses in the US. Closer to home the British Retail Consortium (BRC) estimates that over the...

So-called purveyors of the British rule of law were nowhere to be seen today after yet another credible threat to our democracy was exposed. The National Crime Agency is set to investigate allegations of multiple criminal offences by Arron Banks and his unofficial leave campaign in the Brexit referendum, with reason to believe Banks was “not the true source” of £8 million in funding to the Leave.EU campaign. Russia may have been the source of some of the money, but...

I’m 64 next week and I feel the British Government has ruined my life. It has also ruined the lives of many more.

With indications of economic turmoil, countless job losses, food shortages and with peace in Northern Ireland on the line the notion that British people can be bought off with blue passports and a commemorative coin has been branded a vacuous attempt at self-congratulatory symbolism by commentators today. Even the chancellor himself will not have missed the irony when a new coin designed to celebrate Brexit dipped in value as he delivered the announcement yesterday. The pound fell once again on world...

I don't know how the Government have the cheek to say austerity is over then deliver this budget with a straight face says GMB Union Chancellor Philip Hammond’s budget has been ‘more trick than treat’ after Amazon were given a free pass until 2020 at least and school children were handed a pittance. The Chancellor announced a new digital services tax which gives the likes of Amazon a free pass until at least 2020. Meanwhile the UK’s desperately under-funded education system was...

By Roger Cottrell, PhD Much like the car bomb assassination of Daphne Carvana Galazia in Malta on October 16, 2017, the squalid butchery and dismemberment of Washington Post correspondent Jamal Karshoggi, in a Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018 tells us what we already know: namely that there has never been a more dangerous time to be a journalist. According both to the US based Committee for the Protection of Journalists and Reporters without Borders, there is abundant...

I fled war and persecution in Syria to seek safety in the UK. Now, I can’t rebuild my life because I am not allowed to work  By Ahmad I owned a barbershop in Aleppo before the war broke out. It was small and had a few workers, but I made good money from it. I supported my entire family from my business. My wife, my parents, who are old and frail and my younger brother. Life was fantastic in Syria,...

Thousands of protesters marched through the streets of London recently demanding a second vote on Brexit. It seems like a simple request. Things have changed since 2016, and not for the better. People should be allowed to reconsider their position and vote again. For the prime minister, Brexiteer politicians and the right-leaning press, the idea of a second vote is an affront to democracy. “We’ve voted, get over it,” is the constant cry. But there is no good reason to...

I was on my own, fighting a system that was stacked against me