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Alan Sugar hits back over racist World Cup tweet
Alan Sugar just tweeted and deleted this racist joke with a photo of Senegal's World Cup team appearing to be selling sunglasses and handbags: Alan Sugar's deleted tweet But as people pointed out how appalling his xenophobic quip was, the Apprentice TV star doubled down and was far from apologetic. Bookmakers Paddy Power didn't waste any time responding by opening bets that tech mogul Lord Sugar would delete his Twitter account and lose his job on the BBC series...
Beckham rumours – Social media causing “Chinese whispers” turning fake news into news
Scientists said the dangers of sharing of information on social media can lead to threats being amplified and twisted promoting 'crowd hysteria.’
Harrowing tales of British slavery revealed for first time.
They are revealed in a new digital database of runaways that escaped from cruel merchants who grew rich on their labour.
James O’Brien: report proves Tories’ ‘hostile environment’ not just for immigrants, but Brits too
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...
Newsreader in tax row says he was ‘expected’ by the BBC to set up his own company if he wanted a freelance contract
David Eades was giving evidence at a tribunal to decide whether he and two other presenters should pay a £920,000 tax bill
Watch – Sainsbury’s chief caught on camera singing “we’re in the money” after ASDA deal
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 brand ex-British ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer a “posh bore” after calling Mishal Husain STUPID live on air
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....
Murdoch’s Fox offices raided by EU antitrust watchdog over broadcast “cartel”
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...
Jacob Rees-Mogg joins LBC
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...