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Donald Trump has sacked Rex Tillerson just hours after the Secretary of State linked the nerve agent attack in the UK to Russia. The move will fuel speculation that Trump and Putin enjoy a cosy relationship, and will scupper Theresa May's hopes of US backing in response to the attacks. CIA chief Mike Pompeo, who has in the past played down findings by the CIA that the Russians attempted to influence last year's US election, will replace Tillerson. Trump tweeted the shock sacking of...

The perception that many of the elite jobs in the UK are disproportionally handed to those from a private school background were given more credence today, after a Labour MP slammed the civil service for its recruitment policy, reports The Guardian. Senior civil servants along with lawyers, judges, doctors and journalists among other professions have traditionally been seen as careers that are unfairly given to those from a privileged educational background. Dan Jarvis, who was encouraged to run for the...

Many people will see this as a strange statement, from an ardent Brexiteer and one of the more prominent leave voices during the referendum campaign, but Liam Fox wants the EU’s help to fight tariffs from the US. Mr Fox wants to EU to help the UK out over the 25% import tax on steel and 10 % on aluminium introduced by the Trump administration. Trump's move has raised concerns that the US is planning a widespread trade war, which...

Some Chinese meals should carry a health warning, say campaigners

By Dr Roger Cottrell To listen to the selective media coverage and political sound bites regarding the poisoning, on March 4, in Salisbury, of Russian defector Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, you might for a moment start to believe that Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Amber Rudd planned to do something about it beyond throwing their toys out of the pram. After all, the implication of the Kremlin and of Vladimir Putin’s “murder incorporated” in this heinous and actually...

The Historians Committee On Culloden is calling on the Scottish Government to intervene following claims officials approved planning permission after being given incorrect information.

A rare cancer-busting mineral which has only ever been found in space has been discovered growing on plants - in the UK. The mineral, called vaterite, has so far only been traced on a few sea creatures, rocks and meteorites from outer space. But it has now appeared on alpine plants - part of a collection called European Saxifraga - at Cambridge's Botanic Garden. The incredible discovery could be groundbreaking for cancer sufferers as the substance has special properties that...

A council have launched a crackdown on homeowners that dump rubbish outside their homes - by threatening them with huge fines. Greenwich Council have released images of two households that let rubbish pile up so high in their front gardens the windows were blocked. Both houses which saw the small gardens overflowing with rubbish were in the same London borough. The rubbish was piled so high residents could barely see the windows of the ground floor. After receiving complaints from...

New research has unearthed a series of shocking stories of London business owners who have been forced out of their premises because of spiralling rents, with one committing suicide after a 200 per cent rent increase. 230 small businesses have united to call on London politicians to join them in confronting the capital’s affordable workspace crisis. Members of the East End Trades Guild will meet the Hackney and Tower Hamlets mayors on Tuesday and ask them to commit to their agenda​....