You would have thought a lesson would have been learned by now. A year in to his presidency and Donald Trump has transferred the principles he acquired on television in to the White House, a mantra that usually goes: Give the audience what it wants, not what it needs. Yesterday came the announcement that the Trump administration will end protections for certain nationals of El Salvador, a move that could leave more than 200,000 immigrants who have lived in the US...

</a ></a >Sport News</a > 24/7 By Richard de Winter & David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport  @rgdewinter  @davidjdewinter The 2017/18 Ashes down under have been a bit of an unmitigated disaster; Richard and David cast their eye over the wreckage that is England's cricket team and analyse where it all went wrong.  Additionally, they pore over the melee that is the January transfer window, review the weekend's FA Cup action, preview the first Grand Slam of the year,...

Within Gare de Lyon train station in Paris, Le Train Bleu epitomises a golden era of glamorous railway travel. Befitted with cavernous ceilings, grand frescoes, chandeliers and immaculately dressed waiters, the restaurant has been a fine dining institution since first opening in 1901. It’s also one of the most storied restaurants in Paris – arguably the fine dining capital of the world. Although a fast-paced traveller’s menu is available, the restaurant seems completely removed from the train station dining we’re...

Theresa May struggled to reshuffle her own cabinet yesterday after ministers point-blankly rejected her proposals. With very little moves to report on the day it has since been revealed that many ministers defied her attempts to change their jobs. Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, successfully faced down the Prime Minister when she asked him to become business secretary, forcing Mrs May to tear up her plans to promote or move other ministers who were already pencilled in. Hunt has overseen...

Nearing the end of your lease? It could be worth contacting a cleaning service earlier than you planned to. Across the UK, around 29% of tenants lose part or all of their deposits every year, with average losses of £825 per renter. Collectively, lose deposits amount to over £1 billion per year -- a very large sum, even in the context of the property rental market. The figures are even worse for students and young renters, with four in 10...

Hg invests in MeinAuto.de - Hg, the Manager of HgCapital Trust has announced an investment in MeinAuto.de, a leading B2C online platform for new car purchases based in Germany. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. HgCapital Trust plc will invest approximately GBP6.7 million in MeinAuto, with other institutional clients of Hg investing through the Hg 8 Fund. Based on the pro-forma 30 November 2017 NAV, Hg Capital's liquid resources available for future deployment, including all announced transactions, are estimated...

Toby Young has resigned from his universities watchdog role apologising for the offence his social media posts and writings have caused over the years, just two days after the Prime Minister defended his controversial appointment to the role. On the weekend Theresa May said that the controversialist who had made disparaging remarks about working class students, called for genetically modifying poor people, homophobic statements, appalling remarks about women’s bodies - including MP’s and scoffed about needing tissues but not for...

Instead of selling off NHS land, the Government should create a People’s Land Bank, and use the land to build genuinely affordable homes The Government’s sale of NHS land is failing to produce affordable homes and is exacerbating the affordability crisis across the UK, according to new research from the New Economics Foundation. The research involved a comprehensive analysis of the 59 NHS sites that have been sold so far under the Government’s public land sale programme. It finds that,...

In today’s reshuffle, despite an unprecedented winter NHS crisis, Jeremy Hunt has not only retained his role as Health Secretary, but also been given control of social care. - Another area in crisis under successive Conservative cuts. A Government policy paper on social care is due to be published next summer. This means it is likely that Jeremy Hunt will now take charge of that, which worries many as he has been in charge of the increasing privatisation of the...