It has been revealed that a third of British billionaires have moved to tax havens over the past ten years. By becoming non-UK resident for tax purposes, wealthy people can avoid 38.1% in UK income tax on dividends and 20% in capital gains tax on the sale of shares. The ...
With knife crime on the rise, Dr Tim Bateman, Reader in Youth Justice at the University of Bedfordshire, comments on why a more nuanced approach that focuses on improving young people’s environments is needed: Tragic events such as the fatal stabbing of two teenagers in London last weekend rightly create ...
Researchers have forecast that, by the year 2070, increased human land-use is expected to put hundreds of species at greater extinction risk by shrinking their natural habitats
The Westminster stage of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has heard shocking allegations of cover ups by political parties, police and the prosecution service. Today an investigation opened into “whether Westminster institutions have failed and whether indeed they are still failing to protect children from child sex abuse.” ...
News today that councils are having to sell off libraries, playgrounds and public buildings to pay for austerity-induced cuts and redundancies should come as no surprise to those well versed in the self-defeating nature of such policies. As early as 2016 the International Monetary Fund were sounding the alarm about ...
Local councils are being forced to sell off libraries, playgrounds and public buildings to pay for austerity-induced cuts and redundancies, a Huff Post investigation has revealed. With local government funding increasingly strangled a major examination has revealed councils have been forced to raise a total of £9.1 billion from selling ...
Last week new figures were released confirming what many of us had suspected for some time. While the incomes of the richest households grew by 4.7 per cent those in the poorest strata of society saw their incomes fall by 1.6 per cent on average, proving beyond doubt that the ...
Caroline Lucas says MPs have been caught truanting while young people show leadership on climate change after just a handful showed up to a key debate on the issue. Some 610 MPs were missing from yesterday's sitting on the UK’s progress towards net zero carbon emissions which was brought about ...
The government is set to pay Eurotunnel up to £33 million in order for it to drop its legal action brought over the "secretive" process used around post-Brexit ferry contracts. The Channel Tunnel operator mounted a legal challenge after Chris Grayling's department handed out lucrative contracts to increase cross-Channel capacity ...