Here's a Pro Tip drawn from the world of sportswriting: If you are ever called upon to write a match report – and in football that means you file within ten minutes of the final whistle unless you want to discover just how loudly an editor can scream into a ...
A hung parliament is becoming a genuine possibility based on current spread betting trends. Ed Fulton, spokesperson for Sporting Index, said buying Conservative seats was all the rage when the spreads were opened in April, with Tory seats rocketing some 30 points up to a prediction of 402-407 by 5 May. ...
British MPs are sitting on a property empire worth over £100 million while £500,000-worth of pay outs have been recorded from the BBC and Rupert Murdoch and nearly a quarter were revealed to employ their partner as secretaries. In an exclusive investigation by freelance journalist Chris White, 650 Members of ...
Forget U-turns, most people think Britain's top politicians are telling porky pies in their manifesto pledges, and they have revealed the politicians they think have their pants on fire. With the General Election a week away trust in political parties seems to have dropped to an all-time low, with 71 per cent ...
By The Retired Raver The eagerly anticipated leaders election debate took place tonight in Cambridge with the conspicuous and much mentioned absence of the Prime Minister Theresa May. The seven politicians including the last minute entrance of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, took their places onstage and lined up to challenge Conservative stand in Amber Rudd ...
Just over a week before the snap election that Theresa May called buoyed by a massive lead in the polls, YouGov's first seat by seat projection of the campaign suggests that the Tories will now fall 16 seats short of an overall majority. This would be a shocking result - especially ...
The Conservative candidate for the former seat of murdered Jo Cox joked yesterday that the campaign is going well as ‘we have not yet shot anybody’. Dr Ann Myatt, running for election in Batley and Spen, has apologised after making the comment during a hustings debate held for constituents before the ...
As London’s housing market cools off, the ways in which the capital’s homeowners are choosing to sell their properties is also shifting. According to Rightmove, the average asking price of a home in the capital is now £649,864, an all-time high, despite general election and Brexit jitters. Not only that, ...
Land Securities NAV slips as markets pause for breath For the year ended 31 March 2017, Land Securities NAV slipped as it said that its markets are pausing for breath. The chairman says that “In the London office market, we expected the occupational balance to shift from demand to supply during ...