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FDI figures that show the UK enjoyed record breaking inward investment have been branded misleading. New figures show that 2,213 inward investment projects were secured in 2015-16 - an 11 per cent increase on the previous year. This led to around 116,000 jobs being created or safeguarded - the second highest number on record, the Department for International Trade said. However Professor Nigel Driffield of Warwick Business School said that in the period that covers these figures the expectation among political commentators...

What does the EU ever do for us? It is a question that many people in the UK asked during the referendum, they concluded the EU does very little and voted for Brexit. Well today, according to European commission rules, Apple should repay Ireland 13bn euros or 11bn pounds in back taxes. Interestingly the Irish government are not very happy about the ruling. The EU has been involved in a three-year investigation into the tech giant and concluded that the...

Nicolas Sarkozy is aiming to be re-elected as the French president next year and has been appealing to French populism, in a country reeling from a number of sickening terrorist attacks. Last week, as he launched his election campaign, he said he would make the burkini ban nationwide, even if the French high courts rejected the law. Sarkozy said he would change the constitution to ensure it was enshrined in law. Now Mr Sarkozy has pledged to shift the UK...

In the previous three years over 27,800 people have been arrested on suspicion of trying to enter Britain illegally. The figures were reported by the BBC and indicate the huge numbers of people trying to find their way onto UK shores and the strain they are putting on security services. The total number does not take into account people caught at ports and airports, who are dealt with separately by the Border Force. Also people who have overstayed longer than...

This documentary, by Abby Martin, is essential viewing to shed light on one of the most repressive states in the world. Saudi Arabia is also one of the main purchases of arms from the UK and the US, and there are claims that UK made weapons have been used in Yemen, killing innocent people caught in the crossfire of an on-going conflict in the country. Robin Laverne Wilson, New York Green candidate for the U.S. Senate said: "Saudi Arabia is...

One of the world’s leading experts in the Mafia, Roberto Saviano, has claimed that Capitalism relies on vast global criminal networks to thrive. They are actually part of the same system, the legal and the illegal worlds are increasingly merging. Saviano made these revelations in his new book Zero, Zero, Zero which has lifted the lid on the cocaine trade and world capitalism. The title refers the purest cocaine available on the market. The Italian writer has lived in hiding...

Nicolas Sarkozy is on the campaign trail to become the French president for the second time, and he is taking a hard line on immigration and as a defender of traditional French values. Now he has called for a nationwide ban on the burkini. He has said that if he is elected to his old position, in 2017, he will ensure there is a ban on the beachwear across France. Sarkozy, seeking to win votes from far-right FN, says he...

Owen Smith made a rousing speech last night, but the biggest cheer during it was for Jeremy Corbyn's name. Smith was going head-to-head with his leadership rival in Glasgow when he went in for his big key speech. Mr Smith strode into the centre of the stage hoping to win over the voters in the crowd. He asked for party unity and said that without it, they could never beat the Conservative Party. He said: 'We can stick with Jeremy Corbyn ..."...

The NHS has been thrown into even more turmoil, after plans have been revealed to conduct huge cuts across England’s NHS. According to the BBC, who have been able to access a draft planning document, the NHS will see ward closures, cuts in bed numbers and alterations to GP and A&E care across the country. Many will see these cuts as the end of free health care as we know it, as services are cut and shortfalls may well be picked...