Anyone who has ever been to university knows the first year is essentially a write-off from an academic point of view. You join clubs, you drink, you watch more Friends episodes than you read books and take an overtly laissez faire attitude to your degree in the knowledge that nothing you ...
A woman who fleeced a man she met on a dating website out of thousands of pounds to buy high end Jimmy Choo shoes has been jailed for two years. Parasitic Beverley Weetman, 34, spun a web of lies, including claiming to be terminally ill, after learning her victim had ...
Anyone heading abroad for some last-minute sun will be disappointed to hear that the pound has fallen to a new eight year low against the euro due to global instability. Britain's currency tumbled to 1.075 against the euro before picking up to around 1.079 on Wednesday, as the third round ...
Tony Blair's hopes of creating a new centrist political party lie in tatters after key donors abandoned the cause. With an increasing amount of MPs feeling alienated by their respective parties and a lack of support for pro-Remain policies the time seemed ripe for the former New Labour leader to ...
On the whole I rather enjoyed my writing career. I phrase that in the past tense as there are only two possible outcomes after sending in this commentary: my editor at The London Economic responds with purple-faced rage at my effrontery in assuming that this publication would ever under any ...
When the weather reaches over 30 degrees, all plays should have to incorporate an air conditioning unit into their set by law. Fortunately, HIR has come prepared, and sitting in the auditorium of the Bush Theatre is a sweet, blessed relief after the persistent heat wave raging outside. In the ...
There has been a huge spike in the number of children been named Corbyn as expectant parents eschew celebrities for politicians. Following years of baby names inspired by the Beckhams and Kardashians it seems new parents are 'electing' to name their children after politicians - with Corbyn the hottest new baby-naming trend. ...
Details are emerging of an extraordinary cyber attack on the UK parliament. Members of the House of Commons and House of Lords were giving out alternative contact details today as the security services try to secure Westminster staff emails that they had been unable to access on Friday night. News emerged ...
Council penny pinching and accepting the lowest bid was to blame for a huge blaze in a tower block which killed at least 12 people, a former worker claimed. The woman, who worked as a property manager for Conservative controlled Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council for 20 years ...