By Ben Gelblum, Contributing Editor @BenGelblum To paraphrase France’s greatest export (apart from Stella Artois) Jean Paul Sartre: “all human endeavours are doomed to failure.” Tony Blair and John Major join the EU Referendum fray today with even more nightmarish complications for those hoping for a quick and easy Brexit ...
Our MPs have just finished their inquiry into flooding and concluded that a “proactive approach to flooding is needed”. The report published this morning by the Environmental Audit Committee exposed the Government’s knee-jerk reaction to flooding. During the last Parliament funding was cut just before floods, only to be "increased" after the ...
With the recent release of Oculus Rift, gamers are getting excited about the presence of virtual reality in their homes. But have you ever considered how different your school days might have been if this kind of technology had been available in your classroom? Well, that’s something that Hope Education ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The factory where Trident nuclear warheads are built has seen construction disruption due to protests by anti-war protestors. The blockade at the Berkshire site has been organised by an international group of anti-war protestors. On Wednesday the group claimed that they had brought a halt ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Distressingly the world is now a more dangerous place, astoundingly there are now only ten nations that can be considered totally free from any form of conflict. Most of this small countries have relatively small populations. This shocking statistic was reported by the authors of ...
Sport News 24/7 By Rob McHugh @mchughr @TLE_Sport As the old sporting cliché goes; form is temporary, but class is permanent. English cricket has the ultimate proof of this saying in their team currently, with Stuart Broad and James Anderson going into the final match of the Test series against ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Footage has emerged of a huge Russian nuclear warplane flying over rebel-held territory in Syria, only a short distance from the Turkish border. There are concerns that relations between Turkey and Russia could deteriorate even more, from an already low point. The warplane was filmed ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor In a shocking twist in the EU referendum campaign a Tory MP has switched sides. Sarah Wollaston has now left the Leave campaign and will now back the Remain side instead. She was instantly subjected to attacks from Leave campaigners on social media after she ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The on-line voting registration system had crashed, EU citizens had wrongly been given polling cards and both sides have predicted the world will end on the 23rd June depending on which box you tick. So unsurprisingly the EU referendum led today’s session. At one stage ...