New police powers to spy on web history and hack phones revealed by Theresa May

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A new law will hugely extend the already feared snooper’s charter, which will give additional power to the police that were originally intended to fight terrorism. Police will be given the power to hack into your phone and computer and retrieve your web-browsing history, under the new law proposed by Home Secretary Theresa May. This massive expansion of the spying powers was originally drawn up to assist the security services battle against terrorism, but mission...

VIDEO – ‘Tracksuits are back!’ Corbyn makes a joke at his famous shell suit

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The PM told Corbyn to "put on a proper suit," but the Labour leader was more than happy to have a laugh at his own dress sense during a TV skit. Corbyn became a meme-creator's wet dream when he was spotted wearing a grey tracksuit in November. He was asked to create an ideal front page headline on the ITV panel show The Agenda. His response was a mocked-up image of his grey-clad self strutting on a catwalk with...

Government pays Facebook 113 TIMES more for adverts than company pays in taxes

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The social media giant received 113 times more of taxpayers’ money to advertise on the site than the social network paid back in corporation tax. Various government departments spent a whopping £489,329 in 20014-15 on adverts with Facebook in the UK. In return the multi-billion dollar company gave the public purse £4,327, a lot less than most people in the UK paid in tax for the same period. Astonishingly, Facebook claimed they only needed to...

VIDEO – Cameron Vs Corbyn PMQS rap battle parody

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor We have come across a hilarious video parody of Cameron vs Corbyn PMQs rap battle. TLE labelled the two JAY-SEE and Eazy E-U after yesterday's "yo momma" off. The video was made by Simon Gibson, for more from him follow@simonwgibson See video (below) like all good rap battles it contains explicit lyrics.

The surrealist Twitter art of George Galloway

By Darragh Roche Confession time: I follow George Galloway on Twitter. Like the dozens of political accounts in my newsfeed, Galloway's can usually pass unnoticed in the blur. Recently, however, I was drawn to his page following some posts about the Grassroots Out campaign – a pro-Brexit group that's seen Galloway buddying up with UKIP's Nigel Farage. Scrolling through the former Big Brother contestant's tweets, the surreal beauty of it all revealed itself to me. It was like the moment...

Trust me, I don’t even know what I earn

By Darragh Roche It's not often MP s have the moral high ground when it comes to money. They get paid by the taxpayer, claim expenses for silly things and provide questionable value for money. But when a Commons committee put some simple questions to the European boss of Google, the politicians won a rare victory. People are already angry at Google for apparent tax avoidance but Matt Brittin's claim that he didn't know his own salary was beyond belief....

VIDEO – “Racist Trump” by Peter Serafinowicz

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Comedian Peter Serafinowicz has done it again, and harder than ever. His third Trump video comes on the back of "Cockney Trump" and "Posh Trump." He pulls no punches as he used his own voice to say what Trump "really means".  It is clear Mr Serafinowicz is totally fearless in his pursuit of the Republican candidate. Watch Video Here

Google rejects claims they censored search results for Conservative Party

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Conspiracy theorists have claimed that Google has censored search results for the Conservative party, even though autocomplete results for the party are blank. Google suggests common searches for all of the other major political parties, usually not very complimentary, but nothing appears for searches for “Conservatives are” or “Tories are.” If you do the same search replacing Labour for Conservative suggested searches bring up “…finished”, “a joke” and “right wing.” For the Liberal Democrats the...

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