By Charlotte Hope – Celebrity Writer Louis Tomlinson fails to buy Doncaster Rovers A while ago, Louis Tomlinson (of One Direction fame) announced his plans to buy Doncaster Rovers. Whilst this could be construed as a bizarre move from one fifth of the world’s most successful boy band, it wasn’t ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The partners of women who miscarry often feel invisible, ignored and sidelined during and after miscarriage – and unable to talk about their own feelings of loss and pain – according to new findings from UCL and the Miscarriage Association. This represents a very large ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The news that Tesco's chief executive Philip Clarke is to leave the retailer in October, has given the business a chance to return to its roots, says a leading academic. The UK supermarket giant said it would miss profit forecasts, leading to the change at ...
By Gregory Taylor So the Prime Minister seems to have had a “Night of the Long Knives" part 2, as any political geek will know that Harold Macmillan famously sacked seven members of his cabinet in one night. Although the PM has not sacked seven members of the cabinet ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor London taxi driver swaps his cab for two wheels, to tackle the London to Paris Bike Ride for the Stroke Association Hornchurch resident John Clark,54 is getting ready to cycle 234 miles, over five days, through two countries, as he takes on the London ...
By Marcus Hunt There are potentially many reasons why an individual might be pro- or anti-immigration. Beliefs about immigration’s concrete effect on the economy, crime, or public services like health and education can be important. However, most people who take a strong view on immigration – and here I ...
By Guy Dorrell @GuyDorrellEsq This week’s reshuffle gained a huge amount of media and airtime, as it was surely meant to, and coincidentally prevented much coverage of the on-going investigation of paedophilia among the establishment and also prevented proper scrutiny of the DRIP intelligence intercepts legislation. It was cast as ...
By J T Coombes @GMagnaCarta There was a time, not many decades ago, when warfare was defined by the combatants wearing uniforms to identify who they were and also to separate them from the civilian population and other non-combatants. Within this arena there were also codes of practice on ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor As a lifelong Newcastle United fan who has watched them home and away hundreds of times, I was deeply saddened by the deaths of eternally loyal Newcastle supporters, John "the undertaker" Alder & Liam Sweeney. I can’t say I knew them, I might have ...