In 2012, writing as a lone economics blogger, I put forward a case for why countries should ditch economic growth as a political priority. Long revered as a stalwart of a capitalist society the need to grow has come to overshadow everything else. We prioritise it over our personal health, ...
Switzerland has overturned a nationwide referendum after it was found that voters were not given full information. The Swiss, who run numerous referendums to dictate government policy, held the poll in February 2016 to decide whether married couples and co-habiting partners should pay the same tax. Voters rejected the proposal, ...
“This is an alleged crime to subvert our democracy."
I’m 64 next week and I feel the British Government has ruined my life. It has also ruined the lives of many more.
President Trump, you are not welcome in Pittsburgh until you stop targeting and endangering all minorities.
"I don’t want to rely on the Government’s benefits – I want to work so I can prove myself to my children"
I have set up a petition to call for an amendment to the Official Secrets Act. This would prevent its use in cases where child abuse is involved and would mean that child abuse could no longer be used as some kind of grubby political football, to keep MPs and ...
“There are probably women who have not yet found out that they had relationships with undercover officers, and as a result of names released by the undercover policing enquiry there’s now over twenty women who have brought claims.”
“I wouldn’t even rape you” he tweeted to Jess Phillips, during a 2016 campaign of trolling threatening tweets against the Birmingham Yardley MP.
"Of Course, we went there to see Stonehenge, Old Sarum, but we couldn't do it because there was muddy slush everywhere. The town was covered by this slush. We got wet, took the nearest train and came back."
The government has said that after March 2019 "your driving licence may no longer be valid by itself" in the EU, in its latest no-deal planning papers. To be able to drive your vehicle in the EU an application may be needed to gain an international driving permit for UK citizens. ...
- A disappointing reality for those who may have hoped that MPs would “just get on with it”and that anybody pointing out contradictions and problems was part of “project fear”,scuppering Brexit or betraying the “will of the people.”
Boris Johnson has admitted he “deeply regrets” going down the Brexit route according to sources close to the former Foreign Secretary. Matt Kelly, editor of The New European, revealed on Twitter that someone who knows Johnson very well said he now wishes he had sent the other letter. The source ...
Three years ago, N.K. Jemisin became the first black woman to win one of science fiction’s most prestigious prizes, the Hugo for best novel. She won it again last year, for the second in the series The Obelisk Gate, and this year became the first person to win three Best ...
The Labour party has made a formal complaint to the press regulator over newspaper coverage of Jeremy Corbyn’s attendance at a memorial to those killed when Israel bombed the Tunisian PLO headquarters. The Labour leader, a backbencher back in 2014 was attending a conference at the invitation of the Tunisian ...
Shocking images show a 76-year-old gran being forced to sleep on chairs in a crammed A&E department. Jacqueline Hickson, 76, waited a staggering 62 hours for a bed after she was rushed to hospital with breathing problems. Bosses at Glan Clwyd Hospital, in Rhyl, north Wales, say the heatwave has ...
Bexley in South East London is the most affordable place to rent in London, according to new data. Divided equally a four bed property costs £408.38 a month on average. This is 35 per cent cheaper than the average cost of renting a room in London, which was found to be ...
BREAKING: Jeremy Corbyn gave Theresa May a grilling for the first time in PMQs about Vote Leave failing to co-operate with the Electoral Commission’s investigation into breaking electoral laws. He demanded the senior Conservatives in the Vote Leave campaign comply with the police investigation now that the Electoral Commission has ...
Last night in parliament, irony died, and perhaps with it the chance of any Brexit deal being accepted by enough of Theresa May’s threadbare majority. In a bizarre turn of events, the Prime Minister, weakened by nine resignations in eight days orchestrated by shadowy Tory 'government within a government' the ...
These are the heart-warming moments brave children who have beaten cancer mark the end of their life-saving treatment – by ringing the end of treatment bell as they leave hospital for the final time. The youngsters carry out the symbolic gesture to celebrate the end of gruelling therapy as their ...
The US president arrived in Scotland on Friday evening after completing his two-day "working trip". Mr Trump, whose mother was Scottish, and his wife Melania are spending the weekend at his Turnberry hotel.
Emily Thornberry standing in for Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn had MPs in stitches as she compared the Tory ministerial bloodbath over Brexit to "Reservoir Dogs remade by the Chuckle Brothers." Theresa May's deputy David Lidington who took Prime Minister’s Questions today squirmed as the Shadow Foreign Secretary forensically explained the ...
BREAKING NEWS: Boris Johnson's resignation letter warns that the Government's course will leave Britain as a colony of the EU with no say over policies in a semi - Brexit. Johnson wrote that the compromise that Theresa May had claimed her cabinet had assented to less than 48 hours before ...
In an unprecedented intervention, the National Audit Office (NAO) has accused a government minister of making false statements to MPs to downplay failings of a flagship Tory policy. There were calls for Esther McVey to resign after the Auditor General wrote in an open letter to complain that the Work ...
A slavery victim was told that his benefits would be slashed and threatened with jail if he didn't pay a historical fine for committing a crime he was forced into by one of the UK's biggest human trafficking rings. The 51-year-old man, who was regularly beaten, starved and at one ...
Nurses quit NHS to work in Lidl because pay, hours and benefits better. With an astonishing shortage of 40,000 nurses across the UK, the NHS continues to face a drain on staffing as nurses quit for better pay, hours and benefits in supermarkets like Lidl.
A child's wellbeing to be linked to how well the family functions rather than parents' sexual tastes.
Destiny Jukes, 37, is married to oil worker Steve, 52, and the couple's children have dual citizenship - but were facing being torn apart
Craig Cobb, 66, infamously tried to create an Aryan enclave in Leith after moving there in 2012
As Boris Johnson went AWOL on the day he would have had to vote against the Government or with them against his principles on a new Heathrow runway, the Foreign Secretary was ridiculed by all sides. Fellow anti-Heathrow expansion campaigner and international trade minister, Greg Hands could easily have avoided ...
Oliver Storr, 22, asked the victim to send him a naked photograph of herself using Facebook messenger
Shirley Kordie, 33, will die unless she gets a life-saving transplant from brother Joseph who is her only stem-cell match
Today, on Clear Air Day, the Chelsea and Fulham MP Greg Hands who has always told his constituents he would oppose athird runway at Heathrow announced that he was forced to resign as Theresa May is insisting on bringing out the whips to get the majority she needs in a ...
A mum has spoken of her ordeal as she waits to hear whether the Government will allow her severely ill daughter access to banned cannabis oil. Kelly Anne O'Neill is in despair that she cannot do more to help 24-year-old Danielle. Danielle was diagnosed with epilepsy when she was six ...
Recco Williams, 21, and 18-year-old Reuben Blakeway targeted the 24-year-old woman as she walked home from Streatham Common railway station in south London
Alan Sugar just tweeted and deleted this racist joke with a photo of Senegal's World Cup team appearing to be selling sunglasses and handbags: Alan Sugar's deleted tweet But as people pointed out how appalling his xenophobic quip was, the Apprentice TV star doubled down ...
Home Secretary Sajid Javid has told the House of Commons that the use of cannabis in medical treatment will be reviewed. While ruling out any changes on recreational cannabis use, with the drug remaining criminalised as a Class B scheduled drug, the Home Secretary mentioned recent high profile cases. Javid ...
With confidence in a divided Conservative government’s ability to negotiate a Brexit that makes sense for Britain, Europe and Northern Ireland at an all-time low – both at home and abroad, Theresa May urgently needed some good news. And according to the front pages of the newspapers that have been ...
Last night social media was ablaze with speculation about what Robert de Niro may have said to get bleeped out at the live broadcast of the Tony Awards. At America’s glitzy theatre awards the movie star took to the stage to introduce a performance by rocker Bruce Springsteen. When the ...
The Suffragette walk is to signify 100 years since women got the vote. Other walks in London, Belfast and Cardiff also took place.
One of the major financial backers of the Brexit campaign, Arron Banks, is said to have held meetings with the Russian Ambassador on three occasions, in the run up to the EU referendum vote. Additionally he flew out to Moscow to look at potential business plans in Russia. These revelations ...
The Executive Committee of the Conservative Muslim Forum has just added its voice to calls last night from over 350 mosques and Muslim organisations all over the Muslim community for an independent investigation into Islamophobia in the Tory party. It will be increasingly hard for Theresa May to ignore the ...
Airlines are facing a call for an international criminal inquiry into toxic exposure of crew and passengers. Campaigners are calling on anybody who may have suffered ill health linked to chemicals on board passenger jets to be part of an international inquiry into toxins in cabin air. John Hoyte, chairman ...
Facebook users up and down the country have exposed themselves as idiots by sharing their fury over the miscarriage of justice that took place when modern-day-martyr Tommy Robinson, or convicted criminal Stephen Yaxley-Lennon to use his real name, was convicted for contempt of court.
@BenGelblum The House of Commons Exiting the European Union Committee has published the Whitehall Brexit impact analyses that the Government did not want you to see. Brexit Minister David Davis fought tooth and nail to keep the assessments of the possible impacts of Brexit on the economy confidential, insisting they ...
