A video of Chuka Umunna schooling his future self on the virtues of staying loyal to your party has gone viral after the MP left Labour to found the Independent Group. The video, which was first published in 2016, called on those considering leaving the Labour Party to stay. He...
With the Oscars just hours away we thought we'd hit film buffs with this enticing quiz to see how well you really know the prestige event. The Favourite, Vice, Free Solo and Mary Queen of Scots are all up for gongs at this year's awards in what is expected to...
This week's announcement that nine Labour MPs have quit the party to join forces with centrist Conservatives as the Independent Group sounds like a little bit of history repeating for those old enough to remember the formation of the Social Democratic Party. In January 1981, four cabinet ministers announced their intention to...
A new campaign has launched today encouraging more City financial and professional services firms to pay the London Living Wage. The City of London Corporation, which runs the campaign backed by the Living Wage Foundation, is taking over the London Underground with a poster campaign to get more firms to...
A cross party coalition between the Liberal Democrats, SNP and newly-formed Independent Group could stand a chance of ousting the big two for the first time in modern British political history at the next General Election if they campaign on a Remain ticket. Early indications suggest the Independent Group and...
Just Eat is set to roll out a nationwide food safety improvement programme for the UK’s takeaway sector with a commitment of £1 million to raise hygiene and safety standards. Under the scheme all zero-rated restaurants will be removed from the platform from 1 May, and restaurants with a food...
Complex, mellow and packed full of flavour this week's wine choice is a Pinot Noir masquerading as a Burgundy. The delightful Yarra Valley-grown vino is packed full of deceptively French characteristics, with plenty of earthy and developed personality. Yet with a light and delicate composition it is very much the embodiment of...
Austerity policies have resulted in nine years of slower growth and left us all £1,495 a year worse off, analysis by The New Economics Foundation has revealed. The think tank found the impact of tax and spending changes since the Conservatives came to power had left the economy £100 billion smaller than...
A 12 year-old climate change campaigner has urged the Pope to consider going vegan for Lent following meetings inside the Vatican. Genesis Butler attended a general audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican following a meeting with senior Catholic priest, Father Paweł Ptasznik, in which she spoke about the Million Dollar Vegan campaign...