In April 2000, I read the extraordinary story of hungry American, Kenneth Payne, who was given a 16 year jail term for stealing a one dollar Snickers bar. The American legal system saw him as a serial food thief. The American District Attorney tried Payne as a habitual offender, increasing the severity of a shoplifting ...
A pioneering new citizens’ wealth fund in the UK could provide a universal annual cash dividend and eventually a weekly basic income, a new report has claimed. According to research by City, University of London and the Friends Provident Foundation the UK government should create a citizens’- owned investment fund to ...
Our Greek fave crashes into Norse mythology - son in tow.
Budget cuts will make the next term for new councillors increasingly tough, new research has revealed, with spending by boroughs falling by a fifth over seven years. London’s authorities saw a 19 per cent fall in their budgeted expenditure (per head) between 2010/11 and 2017/18 (excluding education, public health and policing). ...
Child abuse survivors who grew up in 'hellholes' run by the Home Office and other institutions have been 'ignored', their 'complaints and accounts sidelined', the Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales (IICSA) heard today. The Home Office, local authorities, their insurance companies, police and social workers ...
By Anicée Van Engeland, Senior Lecturer, Center for International Security & Resilience When he came to address the public at Chatham House in February 2018, HE Abbas Araghchi, the Deputy for Political Affairs of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs who served as chief nuclear negotiator, was quite clear about ...
The President chose cheers over tears by stepping into the warm embrace of the NRA rather than tackling gun crime - a decision he should be made to rue Donald Trump’s address to the National Rifle Association convention on Friday was a thoughtless move from a President who has routinely failed to ...
A chemical sensing chip has been developed that detects cocaine "within minutes."
A British woman has adopted FOUR Tanzanian children she met after volunteering in an orphanage during a holiday aged 19 - and is now trying to get them to the UK. Claire Upshall was due to spend just seven weeks at an orphanage in 2009 but after endless nappies, night ...