By Bill E. Lytton We are entering a period of unprecedented, but entirely predictable, political and economic volatility. The next major test for politicians and campaigners in post-Brexit Britain is how to handle promises they made repeatedly throughout the referendum. Already, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove - as seen in their ...
By Joe Mellor. Deputy Editor So the Leave campaign got in their battle bus and drove around the country with a massive lie on the side of the bus about the NHS. Let's be honest, did you really fall for that? Actually don't answer that, seems MILLIONS did. Anyway, it ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor After David Cameron stepped down after a resounding defeat in the EU referendum many assume that the Chancellor will now have to leave his position as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Osborne had threatened to impose an emergency budget on the nation with another round of ...
Britain has voted to leave the European Union and the question on everyone’s mind has shifted from “what if” to “what now”. Immediately, nothing much will change. Prominent Brexiteer Boris Johnson has already called for calm and most political commentators agree that it could be some time before we see ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Donald Trump has flown into the UK today, as if we didn't have enough on our plate, what with Brexit and the PM resigning and all. Anyway he is here to visit his beloved golf course, and he was asked what he thought of the ...
A huge spike in the uncertainty index has been registered a day before Brits go to the polls. Research from Warwick Business School measuring political and economic uncertainty in the UK has revealed uncertainty has increased rapidly. Ilias Filippou, Assistant Professor of Financial Economics, said: “It is interesting because there was ...
The leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Ruth Davidson received an ovation last night after outing the Leave campaign's lies and inaccurate figures used in their propaganda. Facing Boris Johnson and other key 'Outers' Davidson said she "can't let it stand that you sell a blatant untruth two days before a ...
The Associated Press once stated it had stopped fact checking former Congresswoman Michele Bachman because it was taking up too much time. Bachmann was notorious for spouting internet conspiracy theories, unfounded claims and crazy titbits she heard from random strangers. In 2016, fact-free politics have become the norm. Donald Trump ...
Most intellectuals and averagely smart people have been thinking it for a while now, but finally a study has been released confirming ‘mainly stupid’ people will vote for UK to leave the EU. The study shows that those with low academic attainment, Daily Mail and Sun newspaper readers, Northerners, Monster Energy ...