Great year for Monks as seven holdings more than double
Great year for Monks as seven holdings more than double. Over the year to 30 April 2017, Monks Investment Trust's net asset value total return was 40.0% compared to a total return of 31.0% for the World Index (in sterling terms). The share price total return for the same period was 53.9%, with the discount narrowing to 0.6%. The one year net asset value performance ranks it third out of 23 AIC Global sector peer trusts. The Board is recommending that a single final...
Eavis: “I said to when are you going to be prime minister? He said: ‘In six months’.”
Jeremy Corbyn said he'll be prime minister in six months and will start trying to get rid of Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent as soon as he can - according to Michael Eavis. The Glastonbury Festival founder said Corbyn was fantastic, but also said the Momenentum movement that backs the Labour leader should have done more to get young people to vote in the EU referendum. In a wide-ranging Q&A on Sunday at Speakers Forum in the Green Futures area of...
Woman complains about leftwing speaker speaking at leftwing festival
Jackie, 58, an accounts manager from Kent, was totally outraged when a leftwing speaker gave a speech at a leftwing festival. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn addressed the 135,000 strong crowd at the traditionally leftwing Glastonbury festival. Whilst the crowd chanted Corbyn’s name and gave him a rapturous response, one BBC viewer was left in a total spin. Jackie said ‘I couldn’t believe what I was seeing when I flicked on the BBC. That terrorist prat Jeremy Corbyn being allowed to...
Refugee Week: British solidarity in the face of suffering
By Dipti Pardeshi, Chief of Mission, The UN Migration Agency, International Organisation for Migration UK Recently, IOM was working in Lebanon with a group of Syrian refugees who were to be resettled in the UK. While the parents attended a pre-departure orientation session, we asked the Syrian children to draw what they expect for their future in the UK. Almost all children drew a house and a school. “If we have this, everything will be beautiful,” noted ten year old...
Still Loved: How to move forward whilst never forgetting your child
By Chris Mates Some months ago I wrote about a documentary that was released in conjunction with Baby Loss Awareness Week. The main message I tried to portray from watching the film was that you have to try to move forward whilst never forgetting your child. As somebody that experienced those tragic events I still believe in that message. In the two-plus years that have gone since my son Joshua passed away my wife Jen and I have worked hard...
Video – Tommy Robinson involved in a brawl at Royal Ascot
Former EDL leader Tommy Robinson has been filmed repeatedly punching a man in a Royal Ascot car park - but he has since claimed it was done in 'self-defence.' He preaches that Islam is a religion of violence, however this clip appears to show the ex-football hooligan is more than capable of aggressive behaviour himself. Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was caught on a coach's dash cam footage pushing the man to the ground in a. He throws around seven punches towards the...
‘Cruel Irony’ – Young Cancer Doctor Has Died Of Same Super-Rare Cancer He Dedicated His Life To Curing
The death of a talented and dedicated young doctor has been described as a “cruel irony” after he was diagnosed with the same rare cancer he dedicated his life to trying to cure. Ed Showler was 28 and training to be a consultant haematologist when he was diagnosed with incurable clear cell sarcoma last September – like his own patients suffered from. He died on Sunday, June 11, having been admitted to Kent and Canterbury Hospital in his final days....
Discovering how to fry in Bologna
As a publication we have a tendency to eschew tourist traps for lesser known destinations. We overlooked Paris and Nice this month to take in the sights of Lyon and have in the past delighted in the sights of Gaziantep over Istanbul, Leipzig over Munich and Chennai and Puducherry over the beaches of Goa. And so it was that I found myself in Bologna having disregarded the common tourist hubs of Milan, Rome or Pisa. Despite been the seventh most populous...
UK Parliament hit by a cyber security attack. MPs’ emails compromised
Details are emerging of an extraordinary cyber attack on the UK parliament. Members of the House of Commons and House of Lords were giving out alternative contact details today as the security services try to secure Westminster staff emails that they had been unable to access on Friday night. News emerged that MPs had reported the email concerns on Friday evening and were then told about the hack. The BBC reported that the inability to access emails was not due to...