Of all the indicators used to track the well-being of a nation it seems perverse that happiness is seldom used as the real test of success. A nation is more often judged to be "doing well" if its unemployment rates are low, if it has a healthy trade balance, if its currency ...
We all love a good celebration; a chance to get our glad-rags on, catch up with friends and show off our best dance moves. And Brits find plenty of excuses to throw a big bash, too, but which ones are our favourites? In a lifetime of celebrations it’s really the ...
By Courtney Greatrex Today George Osborne became the editor of the London Evening Standard. At first I thought it was a sick joke given fake news is alive and well in the Facebook generation. But then I looked online and saw my news feed was awash with memes and comments from ...
We live increasingly, it seems, in an age of protest. Sales of cardboard and marker pens must surely be at an all-time high, as the public laces up it boots and takes to the streets in favour of, or, more commonly, against any number of causes. Fracking being proposed in ...
Warning: this is what it looks like when irony dies. And it's not pretty. Outlining the reasons the SNP are calling for another Scottish independence referendum now that Scotland faces the threat of being dragged out of the European single market as well as out of the EU, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon explained: "Our ...
Review By Leslie Byron Pitt At 90 years young, Roger Corman is still shucking and jiving his way through the film world. He may no longer be in the director’s seat (Frankenstein Unbound was his last directed piece in 1990), yet this hasn’t stopped him from wearing his producer's hat. ...
Much has been written about fake news originating from Russia influencing the US election, stirring up unrest in Germany, and opening up divides across Europe. But how much did Russian fake news determine Brexit voters decision to leave the EU? Russian drive to destabilise the West As a result of ...
This week Barack Obama's former press secretary perfectly summed up President Trumps's simple strategy of how to detract from the sewer-slide of scandals seeping out of the White House on a daily basis. "The bigger the scandal, the more outrageous the tweet" said Josh Earnest, referring to Trump's claims that he ...
By Jessica Taylor At noon on Saturday, March 4, I joined an estimated 250,000 people who lined the streets around Tavistock Square to march to Parliament, protesting against cuts to the NHS. After dragging myself up 175 steps at Russell Square Underground Station, I followed a crowd on their way ...