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By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor An Anti-Islamic march managed to get two hundred meters up the road and lasted five minutes before the attendees packed off home. The police who were there to oversee the event outnumbered the protestors by four to one, that took place in Staffordshire. Only 24 protestors showed up for the demo in Burton, which had been organised by a group that have dubbed themselves “The Casual Infidels.” The group describes itself as a “freelancing movement”...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor In March the state of North Carolina passed a piece of legislation restricting the lavatory use of transgender people. It forces transgender people to use the bathroom that matches the gender on their birth certificate. The policy was criticised across America and the world. The US Justice department, told the North Carolina state government they had until the end of Monday to bin the legislation or they could have millions of dollars cut from federal...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Controversial figure and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had previously argued that he wanted to ban Muslims, for an indefinite period, from entering the US, assuming he was made President. Trump put forward the idea of the blanket muslim ban after deadly attacks by Islamist militants in Paris and California last year. However, this raises an issue for new London Mayor Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of a western European city. Khan is keen...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A video posted online which shows a dog making a Nazi salute in front of image of Adolf Hitler may lead to an arrest for its owner. The man a 28-year-old Markus Meechan from North Lanarkshire, now faces hate crime charges due to the nature of the video, Police Scotland have confirmed. In the footage the pug appears to be sitting in front of a TV set showing Hitler and making nazi salutes. The man...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor  At 6pm at offshoreleaks.icij.org. 200,000 more account details from the Panama papers leak became available. This data dump will show how some of the most affluent firms and high net worth individuals use offshore organisations to avoid paying tax. The database belong to Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, and the source of the leak is only know as “John Doe.” "John Doe" has issued a statement citing "income equality" as his reason for sharing this...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Three hundred leading economists have said that tax havens serve no useful purpose and only increase inequality. The charity Oxfam organised the open letter and has been released ahead of an anti-corruption summit this week in London. In the letter to world leaders the economists, including the Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang, say that tax havens “undoubtedly benefit” rich individuals and multinational corporations, but this benefit is at the expense of the rest of society. The...

By Oliver Ward With dark clouds gathering Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton look set to be the two presidential nominations. Like the rest of the world I have been watching the race with a kind of suspended belief. Even when states began toppling into the abyss like Eisenhower's dominoes in an effort to make "America hate/great again", I still didn´t quite make the connection that this means that the next president will have to be picked from these two rather...

There has been a lot of scaremongering about a Brexit eventuality in the press of late, but we've got a humdinger. Economy, security and borders aside, the prospect of a Boris Johnson / Michael Gove-led Conservative government is surely the most frightening outcome if Britain votes 'out' in the EU referendum. Boris is the 11/4 favourite to lead the Tory party if David Cameron resigns, according to Betway odds, with other prominent Brexiteers Michael Gove (6/1) and Priti Patel (14/1) in...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Around ten million pounds will be paid to 250 construction workers who had been “blacklisted” by building firms. Construction giants like Sir Robert McAlpine and Balfour Beatty are among the companies who are liable and have agreed to compensate union members who they denied work to. The final payout from the out of court deal by the Unite union on behalf of nearly 800 workers could be as high as £75m once all claims have...