Mass extinction wiped out 90% of lifeforms & could happen again now
Global warming left animals gasping 252 million years ago and humans face the same within the next three centuries, according to new research.
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Vote Leave illegal spending “sufficient enough” to swing the result of the referendum
One of the world's leading experts in computational propaganda has concluded Vote Leave's illegal overspending was "very likely" to have been sufficient to swing the result of the referendum. Professor Philip Howard, director of the Oxford Internet Institute, has presented exhaustive analysis of the campaign’s digital strategy to the High Court ...
Giving ERG a crack of the whip could deliver the dose of realism Brexiteers so desperately need
"Perhaps Jacob Rees-Mogg has no clothes", Sky News political correspondent Lewis Goodall proffered in a piece published last month. The emperor of the European Research Group (ERG) - the faction of hard-line pro-Brexit Tory MPs - seems to be once again stuck between populist fantasy and cold reality as he rallies ...
Conservatives abandon Northern Powerhouse as spending gets ploughed into the south
Conservative promises to build a Northern Powerhouse lay in tatters today after new research found spending in the north of England has fallen by £6.3 billion while the south-east and south-west of England have seen an increase of £3.2 billion since 2009-10. Analysis of official figures by thinktank IPPR North showed ...
Police urge people not to use unlicensed currency exchanges after £8.5m London criminal gang link
The warning came after four gangsters were jailed for 15 years after tricking Chinese students into giving them access to their bank accounts.
This year’s winner of the spoof art award the Turnip Prize has been announced
The contest s a UK honour satirising the Tate Gallery's Turner Prize by rewarding deliberately bad modern art.
Government’s full Brexit legal advice doesn’t look good for Theresa May
When MPs voted to find ministers in contempt of parliament for not complying with a vote to show MPs the full Brexit legal advice yesterday the faces on the Conservative Party front benches said it all. Today the government released their full advice - see below - and it makes ...
When did we convince ourselves that having a vote is undemocratic?
This weekend I got into a referendum debate with a twist. Sat in a Swiss wine bar the case was made for and against subsidising farmers who don't dehorn their livestock, which was one of the issues voted upon in the latest referendum in the country. This year alone the ...
For the first time in history MPs vote government in contempt of parliament over hiding full Brexit advice
BREAKING NEWS: There were extraordinary scenes in the House of Commons as for the first time in history MPs voted to find the Government in contempt of Parliament over its refusal to release its full legal advice on Brexit. The Government is now set to publish the full text. Theresa ...