An advert for a glossy travel magazine featuring an "unhealthily thin" model posing on a beach has been banned. The ad in Glamour magazine for Condé Nast Traveller was branded "socially irresponsible" by watchdogs. An investigation was launched when the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received a single complaint in June ...
The British mainstream media is refusing to cover the Paradise Papers because most of the avoiders own the newspapers, James O'Brien has claimed. Speaking on LBC today O'Brien launched a scathing attack on Telegraph owners David and Frederick Barclay, Daily Mail owner Jonathan Harmsworth and The Sun and The Times owner Rupert Murdoch for ...
The husband of a British mum whose sentence in an Iranian prison may be extended due to a colossal blunder by Boris Johnson, has demanded action. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been languishing in a prison in Tehran since last April, since attempting to fly home to London after visiting family in ...
This clip of one of the Conservative Party’s biggest bankrollers, former Tory Party Treasurer Lord Ashcroft being chased by intrepid Panorama reporter Richard Bilton across the Conservative Party conference floor until he hides in a toilet is going viral. While ordinary Brits pay their full taxes and government peers were ...
Police made only 25 arrests as protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks marched through London in an anti-capitalist Bonfire Night demonstration on Sunday evening. Demonstrators chanted slogans and let off fireworks around Trafalgar Square and Downing Street, but otherwise there was little trouble, due to a huge police operation. See image ...
John McDonnell says Labour would end the era of government turning a blind eye to the scandal of tax avoidance if they were in government. In a statement following the leak of financial documents the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer says the Tories have "refused to act" to stem the flow of ...
The Queen has been implicated in the latest data leak of financial documents being dubbed the "Paradise Papers". The leak shows how the powerful and ultra-wealthy secretly invest vast amounts of cash in offshore tax havens, and were revealed as part of a 100-strong media investigation which has been exposed today. ...
A damning study has today revealed one in five Brits are now trapped in working poverty as inflation continues to outpace wage growth. Ahead of Living Wage week (6-12 November), KPMG’s annual Living Wage report reveals 21 per cent of people in the UK are still earning below the real Living ...
A monster fatberg weighing more than ten double-decker buses has been cleared – following a nine-week battle. The 130-tonne congealed mass of fat, oil, wet-wipes and other sanitary products was lodged in an egg-shaped sewer four metres underground. But it now clear after workmen were forced to ditch machinery for ...