Unable to count on Conservative Party members, the electorate, her DUP allies, and now even her own MPs, Theresa May’s government is now so weakened that it’s being mocked by Tory backbenchers in the House of Commons. Philip Davies is the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Shipley in West Yorkshire. You may have heard of him from the occasions he used his position to talk out private members’ bills on tackling domestic and sexual violence against women. - With...

We are in the 8th year of the celebrity shoe auction, now the biggest in the world, with more A-listers taking part in our small charity’s fundraiser than Comic Relief. How? Almost a decade ago when I founded Small Steps Project, helping children surviving off landfill sites, Celebrity endorsed charity events and paraphernalia were not quite as popular as they are today. Many celebrity events these days cost as much as they raise. The infamous Red Campaign by Bono raised...

David Davis has conceded that Brexit withdrawal agreement with EU will 'probably favour the union' in one key way - financially. Speaking in the House of Lords European Union Select Committee, the Brexit Secretary said: “In the infamous – or famous – words of the European Union nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. “The withdrawal agreement on balance will probably favour the union in terms of the things like money and so on. Whereas the future relationship will favour...

Millions of Brits are facing a never-ending road to financial recovery, with one in eight believing they will never be debt-free. That’s according to new research which reveals a growing reliance on credit has led to the highest debt levels in recent history. The average person with debt is in the red by over £8,000 and that’s not even including mortgage repayments - the average mortgage owed is £106,755. Right now, nearly a quarter of adults are struggling to make ends...

One of my very favourites in a long, long list of literary anecdotes is drawn from the late Dick Seaver's posthumous memoir The Tender Hour of Twilight. Seaver more or less discovered Samuel Beckett in Paris after World War Two, at least in terms of the larger world markets, and became Beckett's friend, editor and publisher at Arcade, Grove and Viking Press. In any event, sometime in the early 1960's Beckett paid a visit to Seaver in New York and...

A Met Police firearms expert who blamed himself for the shooting of Mark Duggan blasted himself in the head in the street during a standoff with armed cops, an inquest heard. Civilian employee Tony Hanley, 51, turned the handgun on himself when negotiations with armed officers broke down near his home in Wallington, south London, the hearing was told. Officers tried to talk to him on January 30, 2016, and used a taser and fired two rubber bullets at him...

A zero hours worker has won a court battle to force his former employer to pay him for annual leave. Helier Heath, 23, is now calling on others to know their rights after he took his former employer to court over unpaid holiday. Helier worked as a security guard with Plymouth-based Crown Security Solutions for about three months. During that time he was on a so-called zero hours contract, where the employee is not guaranteed any hours, and said he...

Police in the US are facing accusations of collusion after they carried out "suspiciously timed" arrests of Rose McGowan and Corey Feldman on drug charges. Both celebrities have been vocal campaigners against Hollywood sex abusers following revelations brought forward in the Harvey Weinstein case. Former child star Corey Feldman announced plans on Friday to make a documentary that will expose the truth behind sexual abuse in Hollywood. In an interview he said: "I vow I will release every single name...

Speculation that a Brexit financial services job crisis could be in our midst have been downplayed after HSBC became the latest bank to change its warning of an exodus. The Bank of England this week released a warning that up to 75,000 jobs could be lost in financial services following Britain's departure from the European Union. The cautionary advice comes after Goldman Sachs agreed to lease 10,000 square metres of office space in Franfurt and JP Morgan planned to shift some services from London...