More than 4.5 million people across the UK are now self-employed, and the number of contractors continues to grow at a healthy rate every month, according to the Office for National Statistics. In today’s digital and connected business landscape, being your own boss is easier than ever before and there ...
Well, it’s that time of year again. The Christmas adverts which have been up since September, like a clock that’s stopped and momentarily has its time twice a day to be bang on cue, are finally relevant; we’ve been badgered to buy cards for anyone we’ve ever met, and kept ...
Although Japanese whisky has origins as far back as the 1920s, it’s only within recent years that the Japanese spirit has become such a global phenomenon. As a result, stocks from Suntory Distilleries such as Yamazaki and Hibiki are depleting in a struggle to keep up with demand, and their ...
Well this is mega awkward and likely to be the way of things to come in the future. Our esteemed PM arrived in Brussels this morning for a one-day summit to discuss immigration, among other crucial trade issues. As soon as the summit finished, the Prime Minister was left awkwardly hanging ...
In news, which will anger pretty much everyone, including even some MPs, our elected officials are going to get another pay rise next year. With many public sector workers seeing their pay frozen or even reduced in some cases, MPs will be gifted a 1.4% salary boost next year, which ...
An ICM poll has found that over a quarter of people (28 per cent) who use a racial slur at someone due to their race is not a hate crime. The same number also thinks that hate crime laws are an attack on freedom of speech in the UK. Additionally ten ...
When the UK voted to leave the EU, many Brexiteers thought that ties would be instantly cut from mainland Europe, but it seems it is going to take a lot longer. The BBC has reported that Britain’s ambassador to the EU, Sir Ivan Rogers, thinks the UK-EU deal could take ...
British citizenship has been a hot topic this year thanks to the result of Brexit, with many EU nationals looking to find out how they can secure their UK citizenship. Any persons wishing to apply for UK citizenship has to pass a test that combines both topics surrounding British history ...
Retail giant Amazon has successfully completed the world's first delivery by drone. The driverless plane delivered the order in less than thirty minutes in Cambridgeshire. The billionaire founder of Amazon announced on Twitter that: "First-ever #AmazonPrimeAir customer delivery is in the books." Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon in 1994, claimed ...