During his trip to London in 2005 to support the newly launched high-profile campaign #MakePovertyHistory, the late, great and hugely missed Nelson Mandela said, “Poverty is man-made and can, therefore, be unmade.” Today, 50 years after another great black civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, established the Poor People’s Campaign, ...
There is an art to persevering against the odds. In poker, perfecting an impassive expression that hides a bad deal can deliver a win even in the most impossible scenarios, but no amount of steely glares can compensate for an empty hand come the flop. The UK is holding a near ...
During yesterday’s PMQs Jeremy Corbyn highlighted the amount of family doctors who are leaving the profession. Worryingly he said that these essential medical staff are “leaving the profession in despair” at the pressures of the profession. Mr Corbyn said that four thousand GPs “have retired early in the past five ...
Jacob Rees Mogg has told his fellow MPs to respect their constituents' vote on Brexit, despite his area of Bath and North East Somerset voting overwhelmingly to remain in the European Union. The outspoken MP says the Conservative Central Office has launched "an effective campaign to hold to account MPs ...
Daniel Drennan-Kane, 21, was handed a 12 month community order
Barbara and Ray Wragg scooped the jackpot prize in 2000
We were trying to steer clear of the whole boring gammon controversy: whether it is racist to call the roaring pulmoan-ary purple-faced middle aged men bellowing stuff like “just-get-on-with-it” about Brexit on Question Time gammon-coloured or not. Especially when Kathy Burke nailed it: But then Matthew Hankins just wrote this ...
Millions of Brits are bringing work into the bedroom, new research has revealed, with one in three saying they are so stressed at work they have checked their emails in the middle of the night. Researchers who polled 2,000 adults found 79 per cent struggle to switch off at bedtime and ...
Q: When is it OK for Conservative councillors to post racist jokes about “brown” people being “lazy” “dogs”? A: When reinstating them helps Tories win a local council. LOL As certain disgruntled Labour Party figures join Conservatives and much of the media in portraying a Labour council victory (Labour up ...