Threat to good manufacturing jobs in Belfast risks ‘domino effect’ with thousands of jobs at stake, union warns GMB, the union for aerospace workers, has called for the Government to intervene to protect Bombardier jobs in Northern Ireland. The union's call comes on the day Theresa May is expected the ...
No, this is not a review of the former Secretary of State's new book What Happened. I rather doubt I shall ever get around to reading it, which actually is not that unusual, even by its purchasers. There was an interesting article by Walt Hickey on the political data site FiveThirtyEight.com ...
Even though the UK statistics watchdog calculated that the promise of an extra £350m a week for the NHS post-Brexit was “misleading,” Boris Johnson has decided to make the claim again. The article, which appeared in the Daily Telegraph, could be seen as many, as another attempt by Boris to ...
A new line of presidential flip flops has been launched allowing Americans to celebrate Trump's tendency to go back on his word. The flip flops include tweets from his infamous profile which contradict each other, with opposing views split between the left and right foot. Punters are then encouraged to ...
A four-year enquiry has revealed that the practice of torture “habitual, widespread and deliberate” in Egypt. The conclusions were presented by members of the Committee Against Torture (CAT) after an investigation, triggered by Alkarama, unearthed a wide range of cases of violations in the North African nation. The inquiries are to be kept ...
A video of a racist woman in Leicester has gone viral after she told Asians to get out of "her country" and Jamaicans to go "back to Somalia". The woman was filmed outside a taxi rank asking drivers "why they are in our small island" before calling one man a "dirty ...
This is potentially the largest corporate scandal in history, but it hasn't been widely reported This is a story of deception on an unimaginable scale, but the UK mainstream media has been strangely mute. This year average global temperatures continued to break records. Devastating flooding, mud slides and forest fires ...
When I get through to Skinner's office, the phone is answered by a gentleman with a hushed voice and a regional dialect that I don't recognise at first. "Who is it?", Skinner says. Not quite the start I'd hoped for. I’d read reports he could be quite difficult to interview ...
For all the hype Moggmania has garnered over the past few weeks it is perhaps surprising, given the political climate, how little of it revolved around his political stance. For most people Jacob Rees-Mogg did the thing that few other politicians dare do – he gave an honest account of ...