By Rupert Read This winter, now finally ending, has seen disturbing early signs of the Earth’s climate starting perhaps to go out of control. The fierce cold snap in the UK occurred because the Arctic’s normal weather came down here; meanwhile, the Arctic was off-the-scale warm. Such events concentrate the ...
Professor Stephen Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA has sadly passed away at the age of 76. He died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in the early hours of this morning. Hawking was born on 8th January 1942 in Oxford, England, the eldest of four children, Mary, Philippa and Edward, ...
Donald Trump has sacked Rex Tillerson just hours after the Secretary of State linked the nerve agent attack in the UK to Russia. The move will fuel speculation that Trump and Putin enjoy a cosy relationship, and will scupper Theresa May's hopes of US backing in response to the attacks. CIA ...
“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 ...