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Today's Queen’s Speech was stripped of so many of Theresa May’s unpopular manifesto promises such as winter fuel allowance cuts that it seemed Her Majesty couldn’t be bothered to put her customary regal crown and furs on to get down to business but appeared in a powder blue outfit fit for her dash to catch the 2.30pm first race at Royal Ascot, more importantly. Instead of their vote losing and controversial manifesto commitments, Conservatives were briefing that they would seek policies...

A former drug addict has helped transform Afghanistan's notorious heroin fields into fruit farms - and created a new energy bar in the process. James Brett, 47, has spent years working with the Taliban, tribal elders, governments, donors and farmers to replace the deadly opium poppy crop with fruit trees. He has persuaded 22,000 farmers to stop growing poppies - the source of much of the world's heroin - and start growing pomegranates and mulberries. The inspirational entrepreneur has now...

The national media's coverage of the Day of Rage protests could be well off the mark after reports emerged that there are likely to be more "press than protesters" at the event. Media outlets have reacted with rage this morning accusing the far left of "hijacking" the grief of Grenfell Tower victims. The Daily Express cited concerns that the UK’s emergency services are already “overstretched and exhausted” in its coverage. It also ran a quote from Tory MEP Daniel Hannan who...

Theresa May’s “coalition of chaos” looked in real trouble today on the eve of the Queen’s speech with the support of the Democratic Unionist Party looking in doubt today - ten days after she announced a vote support deal had been agreed. The day after Brexit talks began, Theresa May faces any chance of a Westminster majority crumbling as DUP sources told Sky News that talks "haven't proceeded in a way that DUP would have expected." The Queen will speak in the...

A Syrian family now settled in the UK paid £45 to smuggle their baby to Lebanon in a suitcase as they fled their war torn village. Zak Al Halak, 34, his wife Ghaliya, 25, and their three children Amneh, five, Omar, three, and Zineddine, one, are just one of 15 Syrian families who have found refuge in the UK last year. As part of the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Programme, the family now lives in Brightlingsea, Essex. As the country...

One of the most effective methods to gauge current attitudes of the UK population is by observing their voting habits. Although, given recent uncertainty this should come as no surprise but what we have learnt is which factors influence voter decisions; the type of political and social "barometer" that should help the government better address the needs of the populace while simultaneously highlighting areas that may serve to predict future changes. We looked at some of the results garnered from...

In a new report, poorer university students are less likely to obtain the necessary skills to appeal to employers once they graduate, in the current higher education climate. The data from the Bridge Group Social Mobility and University Careers Services report, found that poorer students were less likely to participate in extra-curricular activities domestically and abroad, accept internships and obtain work related to their course. The extortionate tuition fees increased by the Conservatives are suggested to be one of the...

Exciting times at NASA where plans to send a probe to Uranus or Neptune to study the gases that surround these neighbouring planets in our solar system have been announced. NASA wants to learn about the constituency of these icy giants somewhat neglected by science, so far from our sun, that solar power for any probe would be useless. The Uranus or Neptune probe would need a nuclear battery - in short supply due to treaties about plutonium enrichment. NASA hope...

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says the Finsbury Park van rampage, which happened in his constituency, is "terror on the streets" and "terror of the people." One man has died and eight people have been taken to hospital after a van was driven into pedestrians near a north London mosque. The van driver, described by eyewitnesses as a large white man, was detained by members of the public after the attack in Seven Sisters Road at 12.20am on Monday. His full...