Theresa May could be about to make a U-turn on public sector pay caps, according to leaked documents. The PM stoically rejected calls to lift the 1 per cent pay cap after the controversial policy saw the average public sector worker lose £13,000 over the last seven years. But according...
Almost 800 years of additional imprisonment were imposed on prisoners found to have broken prison rules last year, as jails across England and Wales descended further into chaos. Research by the Howard League for Penal Reform reveals today (Monday 4 September) that prisons are routinely and increasingly resorting to draconian...
A pub known as the luckiest in the UK after three separate million-pound lottery wins in the last four years is sporting a new lucky sign. Cashing in on the unlikeliest of winning streaks, the Mallard's brand new sign welcomes visitors to 'The Lucky Duck'. Pub regular, Dave Long, smashed...
Pensioners should foot the Brexit bill and be excluded from a second referendum, according to a scathing letter sent in to the New European. The tongue-in-cheek letter, being dubbed "Never mind cake, let them eat sovereignty", was submitted by 54 year-old Chris Webster from Abergavenny in Wales, and suggests pensioners should...
Anyone who has ever been to university knows the first year is essentially a write-off from an academic point of view. You join clubs, you drink, you watch more Friends episodes than you read books and take an overtly laissez faire attitude to your degree in the knowledge that nothing you...
MPs are reporting their own constituents to immigration enforcement using a new Home Office hotline and webpage. A Freedom of Information request submitted by Politics.co.uk has revealed that the Home Office has received 482 tip-offs from MPs between 2014 and 2016, raising the possibility that MPs are reporting their own constituents to the...
The Mayor of London has today launched a new vision for tourism in the capital after figures revealed more than 40 million people expected to visit the city by 2025 - an increase of 30 per cent on last year. The Tourism Vision for London, which is backed by more than...
Of all the people who sat back and unwittingly gobbled up reports of a Muslim woman adopting a Christian child this week I wonder how many saw a mother and a Samaritan when sensationalised, doctored pictures were splashed across the front pages of our national press. I had the same...
Back in 2013 researchers at the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California Berkeley examined how motorists in California behave when approaching intersections with pedestrians. They found that there was a huge boost in a driver’s likelihood to commit infractions in more expensive cars, with the...