British Overseas Territories playing huge role in laundering dirty money from Russia

British Overseas Territories are playing a huge role in laundering dirty money from Russia, analysis of figures from the IMF and Russian Central Banks has revealed. The amount of money held by Russians in the UK is dwarfed by the amount held in the British Overseas Territories, which include some of the world’s most significant tax havens. The Global Witness report, Missing the Bigger Picture, is released as politicians have called for a crackdown on criminal and corrupt cash from Russia...

Revealed: Despite Theresa May’s apologies, Home Office charter secret removal flight to Jamaica with these grandmothers

After a week of repeated apologies to the victims of the Windrush scandal and assurances by Prime Minister Theresa May and Home Secretary Amber Rudd that they would not be facing any more deportations, we have discovered evidence of a special chartered removal flight to Jamaica next week. We know of at least three grandmothers with British families who were due to be removed on the secretive flight. One, Yvonne Williams, a 59-year old grandmother of seven, whose mother arrived...

Theresa May under immense pressure to sack Amber Rudd after new revelations

Last night Amber Rudd defied belief and appeared to still hold onto her role as Home Secretary as revelations emerged that she again appeared to have misled MPs, breaching Ministerial Code twice in one week. Political commentators and opposition MPs expressed dismay as despite expectations that she would resign by the end of the day, Theresa May appeared unable to sack her Home Secretary. - Presumably as the suffering caused by the Windrush scandal was largely down to the “hostile...

Climate change: ‘Dead zone’ in Arabian Sea bigger than Scotland discovered by British scientists

A 'dead zone' in the Arabian Sea that is "bigger than Scotland" has been discovered by British scientists. It has no fish, marine plants or other animals because climate change and sewage has sucked out all the oxygen. People who rely on the ocean for food and work are also being endangered, warn the researchers. The environmental disaster was identified by underwater robots exploring more than half a mile down in the Gulf of Oman. Global warming and human waste...

Forex Indicators and Trading Strategies – What You Need to Know

You know the old, universal idiom ‘’History repeats itself’’? There is no place where that famous saying is truer than the forex market, only in this case historical events are replaced by prices and charts. Even though machines and algorithms are doing most of the work, we tend to forget that the market itself will always fall victim to the flaws of the human psyche. As a result, the market trends have a tendency to repeat themselves, and the best...

Calls for action as UK economic growth grinds to a halt

Polling shows the public expect a recession within the next 2 years GMB, Britain’s general union, has called on the Government to 'get it's act together' as ONS figures released this morning showed GDP struggling at just 0.1% growth in the first quarter of 2018. Recent polling by Survation on behalf of GMB shows more than half of those questioned expect the UK to slip into recession within the next two years. John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, said: “The truth...

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