Today's labour market statistics have left a lot of people scratching their heads. While new jobs are being created and unemployment has ticked up, real wages have fallen for the tenth month in a row. In short, nothing really adds up. The reality is that under the Conservatives the labour market has ...
Survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting last Wednesday have vowed to march on Washington to embarrass politicians in the sway of America’s powerful gun lobby. The mass shooting in Florida left 17 dead and 15 wounded. It is the 18th gun-related incident in the US this year ...
Theresa May today acknowledges the electorally toxic policy of making the England's higher education system the most expensive in the world. “We now have one of the most expensive systems of university tuition in the world,” the Prime Minister will admit. - Though according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and ...
Millennials need to stop complaining about the housing crisis, Sean O'Grady wrote in the Independent on Friday. Despite baby boomers growing up in an age of free education, affordable property and a prosperous job market they had it much worse. If you wanted to play Snake on your phone in the ...
By Robert Seiler As if Europe did not have enough corrupt, charismatic politicians who expertly undermine democratic norms to their own benefit behind a charming facade, Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi is currently enjoying a political renaissance that is bad news for Italians but also for the whole of the European Union – Britain included. Italians may have known better, but the rest of the EU thought it was rid of ...
Hundreds of Americans attended a gun show in Florida just days after a tragic mass-shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The 500-booth expo is less than 50 miles north of the school and was well attended despite the recent attacks. Reporters in the area said that many, in fact, attended because of ...
As Jeremy Corbyn dismissed a “ridiculous smear” by the Sun alleging he briefed a Czechoslovakian communist spy during the cold war after a photo of the two emerged, another more current embarrassing photo of a Russian agent expelled from the UK with a UK politician has come to light. The ...
Faith leaders have called on the Government to end its “unjust, ineffective and inhumane” practice of detaining people indefinitely without trial for administrative reasons in immigration cases. At present, Britain detains around 30,000 people a year in mostly privately-run detention centres on administrative grounds, ostensibly while attempts are made to ...
By Sammy Russell A number of pro-Brexit figures have criticised the transition period for leaving the UK a ‘vassal state’. Granted, the conditions of the transition period are a world away from the ‘take back control’ mantra of the Brexiteers - it leaves the UK a neutered state. But for the ...