Is life really more expensive in London?
According to a major report by Savills, London became the most expensive city in the world to live in two years ago, taking over from the previous world leader, Hong Kong. And those of us who live here can no doubt attest to the cost of housing – whether we’re buyers or renters. But what about everything else? Of course, such reports depend on which variables are included. But the most expensive places to live always include the “usual suspects”...
Hillary’s chance of becoming president ‘severely hit’ after doctors confirm she is in fact, a woman.
Hillary Clinton’s chances of becoming President suffered a huge blow last night after doctors confirmed she did not even have a penis. The news comes after months of allegations by Hilary’s challenger for the Whitehouse, Donald Trump, who said that she was not fit to become president on account of her not being a man. Trump said “People, people, I have been saying for some time that Hillary Clinton is not the right man for the job. And now it...
UK citizens might have to pay for EU travel visa post-Brexit
Trips to mainland Europe have become very simple and cheap since the UK joined the EU and the cost of airfares plummeted. However, now we have decided to leave the EU, UK citizens may need to apply and pay for visas to travel into Europe. Amber Rudd, Home Secretary, admitted that the EC is contemplating a visa programme for British citizens hoping to enter the EU member states. Rudd said she wasn’t expecting a Visa system to be implemented for...
Why The Smug Brexiteers Are Seriously Wrong
It was with a gnawing sense of despair that I haven’t felt since referendum results day that I watched my boss tip back his office chair, newspaper in hand and pronounce with great glee that, as he had so wisely predicted, things are back to normal for Britain. All those Remain doomsayers who predicted a slippery demise for Britain have been proved wrong. UK employment is on course for another record, the economy expanded at a reasonable rate, house prices...
Middlesbrough is ‘worst place to be a girl in England and Wales.’
A new study has ranked Middlesbrough as the worst place to be a girl. Charity Plan International UK took various factors into account to make the decision. They assessed child poverty, educational attainment and teen pregnancy rates. Sadly for Middlesbrough it came top of the list, not an enviable place to be. As expected there appears to be a north/south divide between the best and worst places to be a young female. Poverty could be seen as a major factor...
Seven-day NHS ‘impossible’ as health service reaches breaking point
The NHS is at breaking point and the Conservative Government’s dream of a seven-day NHS will not work unless there is a huge injected of funds, which is unlikely to be sanctioned. Chris Hopson, boss of NHS Providers has a vey bleak assessment of the public sector health service in the UK. He said the NHS was “increasingly failing to do the job it wans to do, and the public needs it to do, through no fault of its own.”...
Humans Have Destroyed 10% of Earth’s Wilderness Since 1992
Humans have destroyed ten per cent of the Earth's wilderness since 1992, according to new research. The study, authored by researchers from Australia’s University of Queensland and published in Cell, revealed that the earth has lost nearly 1.3 million square miles of wilderness (defined as areas that are largely free of human development) in less than 30 years, with most of this loss occurring in South America. This leaves approximately 11.6 million square miles of wilderness left on Earth (accounting for about 23...
Alex Lodge: Weekly Report Vol. 50
By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Thirty Two. Happy Monday people. We’re back on track with back to back weeks for the first time in a long time. This week we start with some impossibly cool French jazz-funk from Cortex, moving into fuzzy electronica from Kutmah and some funk from The Jimmy Castor Bunch. Some Polish Afrobeat is next, and after that we have a track from...
Why We Need A Better Debt Solution For Millions
By Angela Clements, CEO & Founder, Fair for You In 2014, in the world of unsecured personal credit, there were few offering credit to those people on low incomes, and who have to take credit and pay it back each week or fortnight; people who can’t get credit from their banks or building society. Most of those providers charged what most of us would consider to be high interest rates, high fees and inflated prices for the items, which would keep...