It might be freezing outside but the most bitter you are likely to feel, is knowing your MP has just got a pay rise. From 2018/19 they will take home a 1.8 pay rise, taking their pay to a chunky £77,379 a year, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority said. Last ...
The 2017 General Election showed a tabloid press that is "run by tax-dodging press barons" do not decide elections, Momentum national co-ordinator Laura Parker has said today. Jeremy Corbyn has endured a number of high profile attacks from the right wing press of late, but rather than putting voters off the Labour ...
The Tory Government seems intent on leaving the single market and not remaining in the customs union. A hard-Brexit is the outcome they are driving towards. However, this decision has been met with fierce criticism from the ex-chief of the international trade department, Sir Martin Donnelly. Donnelly told BBC Radio ...
Bosses at one of Scotland's biggest care providers have apologised to a dying pensioner who was left in agony following a night of staff blunders. Robert McIntyre, 79, has bladder cancer and only months to live is visited four times a day by Cordia staff to have a catheter bag ...
A familiar wave of populist nationalism is set to take hold in Italy next week when the country goes to the polls. The Five Star Movement, which has been kept at bay until now by a centrist “grand coalition”, is expected to emerge from the election on March 4th as the largest ...
I didn't eat for a day last week. This wasn't due to a bad curry or a particularly good night out on the town. My day of abstinence had a more noble purpose as I joined hundreds of others as part of a day of action organised by Make Votes ...
A Facebook glitch yesterday sent hordes of traffic away from the profiles of brands and celebrities to the personal accounts of some of the earliest adopters of Facebook. Businesses and celebs that have names starting with a number saw their traffic redirected to corresponding accounts that were set up under ...
As unsubstantiated claims from former Czechoslovakian diplomat Jan Sarkocy in The Sun (then repeated in the Daily Mail, Telegraph and Express) unravel, some Tory MP’s will be regretting their reaction. Even the Prime Minister picked up the allegations, revealed to be untrue by Czech figures and archives from the time. ...
Steve Baker was asked six times to explain how Jeremy Corbyn had "betrayed his country" in a scathing interview this afternoon. Andrew Neil tore in to the Brexit minister in an interview about the allegations that were revealed by The Sun newspaper. Defence secretary Gavin Williamson said Corbyn had "betrayed his ...