Whether you’re thinking about investing in residential or student property, the UK buy to let market has the potential to provide a lucrative investment opportunity. However, there are a number of things to consider before embarking on your first venture into buy to let property. Know Your Tenant Deciphering what tenants you want to attract should be the first step you take on your journey into property investment. Student property benefits from an unremitting student population searching for accommodation in...

If there is one thing British politics does not need right now it is another elitist party run by the well off, but according to an Observer revelation published today that is precisely what it may be getting thanks to a new “centrist” movement spearheaded by a former Labour benefactor. With dozens of powerful Blairites cast aside by Labour’s shift to the left it seems a new dawn for the former PM’s re-hashed Thatcherism could be in the offing, with...

  By Roger Cottrell, PhD Russian financial interests funding the Conservative Party, to a sum in excess of £800 000, may be directly linked to the manipulation of Britain’s Brexit vote and to the funding of Europe’s fascist Right. Core to this nefarious connection are the links between Aggregate IQ (AIQ), Cambridge Analytica (CA) and Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL), recently exposed in a joint report by Channel 4 News, The Observer and The New York Times.  Facebook has just banned...

Former Met Commissioner Ian Blair echoed the sentiments of Jeremy Corbyn this week by highlighting the impact cuts to police funding have had on the recent violent crime spree. A Freedom of Information request obtained by The London Economic following a spate of attacks in the capital showed some London boroughs now have higher homicide rates than many major UK cities. Appearing on the Andrew Marr Show this morning, Sajid Javid appeared stumped as he attempted to defend the rise in crime in relation to police...

By Ben Martin, Green Economy Coalition Today is World Health Day, which every year is a great excuse for journalists and editors to trot out finger-wagging articles about how unhealthy we’re all getting. We’re drinking too much, not exercising enough, our food is basically just sugar and chemicals, and our lungs are clogged with car exhaust. But these aren’t just symptoms of unhealthy people. They’re the side-effects of an unhealthy environment – and a diseased economy. Diesel fumes, contaminated chicken and...

Fateful life events ages the brain by four months

The Home Office have refused Yulia Skripal's cousin Viktoria a visa to visit Yulia and father Sergei, a former Russian spy in Britain were they are recovering from poisoning. The refusal came hours after Viktoria who had previously released a tape purporting to be a telephone conversation with her cousin to Russian media, alleged that they had not suffered a chemical attack, rather food poisoning. "I will stick with a simple theory that they ate something wrong at the pub,...

Somalian Aweys Shikhey branded a "danger as jailed for eight years for trying to join Islamic State

They arrived and left with no fanfare, and politely declined to speak to press