By Jacqui Hunt, Europe Director at Equality Now The US election has been a catalyst for a global grassroots movement that is bringing together many who feel deeply concerned about how the hard-won rights of women and girls are currently under threat or are being denied. On Saturday 21 January, ...
UKIP could pull off a surprise election win in Stoke-on-Trent if party leader Paul Nuttall throws his hat into the ring. Odds of UKIP winning the seat, which was recently vacated by Tristram Hunt, have been slashed from 11/4 to 9/4, with Nuttall is 15/8 to be UKIP’s name on the ballot paper, ...
Back in 2005 Dr Cliff Arnall calculated that today, 16th Jan, is the most depressing day of the year, due to bills coming in, rubbish weather and the xmas buzz wearing off. I can say that I am definitely in that camp today, with a combination of traditional illness and ...
It is the time of the year where we reflect on the past and consider what we will do differently in the future – how we will make this year better than the last. Britain entered 2017 with a colossal hangover, entangled in divorce proceedings with the EU, and with ...
The richest eight people in the world now has as much wealth as the poorest half of the world - some 3.6 billion people. The Oxfam study, released to coincide with the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos, revealed the growing gap between rich and poor was "far greater than feared". ...
Think the UK has a free press? You're sadly mistaken, and what's happening to journalism right now should worry you... Whilst the threat of litigation is silencing real journalists and publications, an even darker threat, fake news, is putting them clean out of business. Politicians, climate change deniers, corporations and even countries ...
The UK vote for Brexit showed Europe that the UK wanted to stand alone as a united Britain outside of Europe. However, a new study indicates that more people now think of themselves as English rather than British. The YouGov statistics found that nearly 20 per cent of people think ...
Theresa May has claimed that the government’s approach to Brexit “isn’t very muddling at all” in a TV interview today. The claim comes after the government’s former ambassador to the EU, Sir Ivan Rogers, criticised the government’s approach in a strongly worded resignation email last week. May said “Look, we ...
I'm not a pretentious man, but I do hate it when restaurants chains try to imitate independents. You may think rows of Bill's, Comptoir Libanais and Las Iguanas have improved the culinary outlook of Britain's high street, but in reality they have done little more than create a beige blueprint for our ...