A new report has revealed that the standard of living of Britain's middle class is edging closer to that of the poor rather than the rich. The Institute of Fiscal Studies study showed half of middle income families with children rent their homes rather than owning and get 30 per...
Melania Trump has been accused of plagiarising a speech written for First Lady Michelle Obama. Donald's wife Melania was speaking at the Republican National Convention and was widely praised by the media for delivering a rousing speech. But she appears to have lifted at least one crucial section of her speech from the...
Greenland has lost a trillion tons of ice in four years, according to a new paper published by scientists in Geophysical Research Letters. Tests using the Cryosat-2 satellite revealed that the North Atlantic island loses ice at a rate of about 287 billion tons per year, which is the equivalent of loosing...
The UK is set to endure another recession at the turn of the year with growth forecasts cut from 2.6 and 2.4 per cent three months ago respectively, to 0.4 per cent and 1.4 per cent today. "Severe confidence effects on spending and business” have been projected by the EY Item...
The House of Lords will discuss the possibility of having a central bank digital currency called "Britcoin" tomorrow. Its Economic Affairs Committee will take evidence from the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England on blockchain technology, the distributed ledger that allows Bitcoin to function as an online currency. In...
London Gatwick Airport is the new favourite to get an additional runway after pro-Gatwick Sadiq Khan won the London mayoral election and a number of anti-Heathrow MPs were appointed to Theresa May’s cabinet. Betway has cut odds on Gatwick to 4/7 while Heathrow Airport’s odds of being awarded the right to develop a...
The traditional British holiday has had its day in the sun, according to new research. A study of 2,000 families exploring old and new holiday pastimes revealed that games like beach cricket and wheelbarrow-racing are in decline. Just a third of families played I-spy on their last family holiday, less than that...
A new centre-left party is a "real possibility", according to Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron. As Labour MPs become increasingly frustrated by Labour isolation and the Lib Dems try to claw back lost seats from the last General Election, the possibility of a new alliance to oppose the Tories is becoming...
Foreign secretary Boris Johnson has been ridiculed after his plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Luton leading to delays. The former Mayor of London's plane made an unscheduled stop at Luton shortly after leaving London and was met by five fire engines on the tarmac. He was forced...