There’s plenty of drama in Michael McLean’s Years of Sunlight about friendship and the exodus of Liverpudlians living in 1960s slums to new purpose built town Skelmersdale, but Mark Rice-Oxley’s Paul, best friend of parent-less Emlyn, is directed by Amelia Sears to stand as still as one of Anthony Gormley’s ...
This week Starbucks hit back at Donald Trump's travel ban with a promise to hire 10,000 refugees globally over the next five years. The warm gesture will provide a much-needed PR boost for the often beleaguered coffee house chain, but sentiment has little to do with it, the truth is that it makes good ...
As an island just off the coast of mainland Europe it is hardly surprising that UK trade with the EU is huge and access the single market encourages this level of commerce. Now the UK is about to invoke article 50 and leave the EU, a thinktank has investigated the ...
Critic Mark Shenton wrote of the 2016 Escaped Alone production, now back at the Royal Court for a second run that he wouldn’t be surprised “if we woke to headlines today that described exactly what she'd foretold.” The play by Caryl Churchill premiered before the UK left the EU, a ...
Looking for a job might become harder than ever for the UK population as the Government looks to close a large number of its Jobcentres across Britain. There may well be thousands of job losses and those, faxing the axe, might well not have a job centre to start their ...
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is on coarse to becoming the world's first trillionaire and could hit the milestone within the next 25 years, a new report has found. The study has predicted Gates’ future wealth using the average rate of growth of his investments, which have been growing by 11 per ...
On January 16, Britain's Prime Minister, Theresa May laid out the government's plan to proceed with Brexit. She made it clear that she will push for a clean break from the EU without maintaining the vestiges of an half-in, half-out membership. Mrs. May also laid out a 12-point plan detailing ...
By David McGuinness Twenty-sixteen was the year of post-truth. Even the Oxford Dictionary says so, naming post-truth its Word of the Year, calling it, “an adjective defined as relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal ...
By Linda Marric When Breitbart, a pro-Trump alt-right news website, posted a story about how a mob of Muslim men chanting “Allah Akbar” had vandalised a German church on New Year’s Eve, the story was shared thousands of times across social media platforms before finally being debunked by German police ...