With indications of economic turmoil, countless job losses, food shortages and with peace in Northern Ireland on the line the notion that British people can be bought off with blue passports and a commemorative coin has been branded a vacuous attempt at self-congratulatory symbolism by commentators today. Even the chancellor himself ...
Philip Hammond’s budget, which was billed as marking an end to austerity, will actually benefit rich families 14 times more than the poor, new analysis has revealed. The Resolution Foundation crunched the numbers on the latest budget finding almost half of the income tax are set to go to the ...
It’s Halloween soon, so a lot of movie lovers are planning horror marathons for the season. I’ve clearly gone mad, so I figured I would try to suggest the longest endurance test of them all: a 24 hour horrorthon. I’m five minutes short, but hopefully you’ll forgive that. Obviously I’d ...
Hammond’s Brexit 50p will be worth less than yesterday’s 50p. - As Hammond delivered his budget statement the pound fell again on world markets, 0.2% on the dollar.
US President Donald Trump has given his backing to Jair Bolsonaro after the far-right politician won a sweeping victory in Brazil's presidential election. The former army captain won 55.2 per cent of the vote against 44.8 per cent for Fernando Haddad of the left-wing Workers' Party. His pledge to fight crime and ...
Boris Johnson has had his bid for Number 10 backed by a hedge fund manager who makes money from political volatility, according to recent reports. Billionaire Crispin Odey has told the former Foreign Secretary that he will have his backing to topple Theresa May. Talking to the Mail on Sunday, ...
By Roger Cottrell, PhD Much like the car bomb assassination of Daphne Carvana Galazia in Malta on October 16, 2017, the squalid butchery and dismemberment of Washington Post correspondent Jamal Karshoggi, in a Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018 tells us what we already know: namely that there ...
Guy Verhofstadt today significantly revised down Theresa May’s claim that Brexit is 95 per cent, saying the withdrawal deal is “zero per cent” finished. The European Parliament’s Brexit co-coordinator spoke out after the Prime Minister looked to appease fellow ministers with assurances that we are well on our way to ...
Labour MP David Lammy has likened Brexit to declaring war on ourselves after it was revealed plans are been drawn up to charter ships to bring in emergency food and medicines in the event of a “no-deal”. The Department of Transport has put in place contingency plans to own or ...