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Scientists said the dangers of sharing of information on social media can lead to threats being amplified and twisted promoting 'crowd hysteria.’

They are revealed in a new digital database of runaways that escaped from cruel merchants who grew rich on their labour.

LBC’s James O’Brien has accused the government of creating a hostile environment for people who rely on welfare, just as they have done for immigrants. A welfare study today slammed the Tories’ welfare sanctions as disproportionately causing poverty and suffering, while failing to prove efficient at getting people into work. The study of welfare conditionality discovered that not only did the threat of sanctions, or the actual introduction of benefit cuts not help people get into work. It was more...

David Eades was giving evidence at a tribunal to decide whether he and two other presenters should pay a £920,000 tax bill

Sainsbury's boss Mike Coupe was caught singing to himself between TV interviews, regarding the merger of Sainsbury's and ASDA. He sang: "We're in the money while sipping on a coffee from Cafe Nero. Sainsbury’s and Walmart-owned Asda have agreed terms for a merger worth some £12bn. He later apologised for the 'unfortunate choice of song' At least 75 ASDA stores could close in merger with Sainsbury’s, according to new analysis. The recently-announced merger will create Britain’s biggest supermarket chain, but...

Radio 4 listeners today (Fri) branded ex-British ambassador to the US Sir Christopher Meyer a "posh bore" after he appeared to call presenter Mishal Husain STUPID live on air. The pair were discussing plans for President Donald Trump’s visit to the UK in July on the Today programme when Sir Christopher lashed out. While talking about Britain’s uneasy relationship with the US Sir Christopher – ambassador to the US between 1997-2003 - lost his cool with the award winning presenter....

  The European Commission (EC) have confirmed that they raided UK offices of Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox Inc as part of an investigation into "companies involved may have violated EU antitrust rules that prohibit cartels and restrictive business practices.” The raid could not come at a worse time for the Murdoch group which for a long time has been trying to take over European broadcaster Sky Plc. Bloomberg report that the media mogul “has offered to spin off Sky...

Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg is joining LBC to host a live phone-in as part of the new spring schedule. The prominent politician will take calls every other week for a 30-minute phone-in during Nick Ferrari at Breakfast. He joins Nigel Farage and Theresa May's PR man Tom Swarbrick on the books at the broadcaster, with "no topics off limit" according to an official statement. Rees-Mogg said: “I am greatly looking forward to conversing with LBC’s listeners every fortnight. "In the programmes I have...

Commenters on Guido Fawkes have been accused of being so racist they create their own language to be antisemitic and get past the algorithms. Last night after right wing blog Guido Fawkes published a secret recording of a private Passover seder ceremony that Jeremy Corbyn attended to attack all those present for supporting the Labour leader, eagle eyed people started questioning some of the comments on the blog. While the Jewdas organisation that the blog describes as "radical" has a history of...