“Ugly,” “disgraceful,” “vile,” “a day of shame,” “scenes nobody wants to see.” The media bandwagon clicked into its predictable gear following West Ham’s 3-0 defeat to Swansea on Saturday. It is a game which will not live long in the memory for the football, but rather the actions of a handful ...
By Dr Roger Cottrell To listen to the selective media coverage and political sound bites regarding the poisoning, on March 4, in Salisbury, of Russian defector Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, you might for a moment start to believe that Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Amber Rudd planned to ...
New research has unearthed a series of shocking stories of London business owners who have been forced out of their premises because of spiralling rents, with one committing suicide after a 200 per cent rent increase. 230 small businesses have united to call on London politicians to join them in confronting ...
By Rupert Read and Bennet Francis It’s time we faced up to reality: humanity is almost certainly going to have to learn to live in a world that has been radically damaged and transformed by human-triggered climate change. We are – virtually all of us, either softly or (less often) ...
The US launched its threatened hefty steel and aluminium tariffs despite 100 Congress men writing to the President warning that this would precipitate a trade war and global economic disaster. Donald Trump signed an order meaning US steel imports now face a 25% tariff and aluminium 10%. Trump exempted neighbouring ...
Actor Ralf Little has described the government's plans to increase NHS pay in exchange for sacrificing a day's holiday as a way of giving with one hand and "repeatedly punching in the face with the other". The Royle Family star has been a vocal critic of Jeremy Hunt's handling of ...
For the first time in history a North Korean leader and a US President have agreed to meet face to face. The shock development took diplomats by surprise, including the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Only yesterday US diplomats had ruled out talks between the two countries unless North ...
Lynda Lang began her career in 1987 after a chance encounter with an old school friend who was training to be a sergeant.
Eight fire engines rushed to the scene and expectant mums and other patients were told to leave wards after blaze was started in extractor flue in a boiler room