Over two hundred Scottish schools that have been constructed under PFI (private finance initiative) are in some way owned by investment funds located offshore. This means that 80 per cent that could be at least partly located outside of the UK. PFI schemes have come under criticism recently as schools, hospitals ...
Another day another senior Labour figure has backed Owen Smith over Jeremy Corbyn to become the next Labour leader. Yesterday Sadiq Khan decided to announce he was backing Smith and said in his opinion that Corbyn couldn’t win the next election. Now Scottish Labour Leader Kezia Dugdale has said that ...
There was a worrying spike in racially motivated attacks after the UK decided to leave the EU Referendum, across the UK. It has been reported that there were over six thousand reported race crimes in the UK in the four weeks after the UK opted for Brexit, which was showed ...
After London Mayor Sadiq Khan decided to back Owen Smith for leader rather than Jeremy Corbyn in yesterday's Observer, he was always going to face some amount of criticism. It didn't take long for Corbyn supporters to vent their anger, they roundly booed Khan at a Corbyn rally last night. The ...
The Burkini debate in France has left most of us in disgust at the French government's decision to ban the full-body swimsuit, but one cartoonist has summed it up better than most. French illustrator Pierre Marchetti, who goes by the nom de plume "Nawak", drew a cartoon that addresses the choice faced by ...
Students could end up paying over £100,000 for their degree by the time they clear their debt. New analysis has revealed that interest rates of up to 4.6 per cent on student loans could more than double the estimated £44,035 of debt that students are saddled with. Despite being pinned to the retail ...
For centuries men and women have pondered over whether a friendship can exist between them. Can you be friends without benefits and without one fancying the other? With some believing you can and others strongly believing there’s always an ulterior motive, the answer has the majority of the world split. ...
Is White Rioja an underrated classic? That’s the question Quentin Sadler posted on his wine pages recently, and one I set out to explore on a warm mid-week evening drinking al fresco in central London. Bold red wines are as synonymous with the Rioja region as light clarets are to ...
A shocking new report has found that private landlords hauled in £9.3bn in 2015. It is huge figure and double what the level was a decade ago. The study was undertaken by the National Housing Federation (NHF) and they said the figure was due to a huge increase in private ...