One surefire way to win the approval of the social media masses is to appeal to their sense of vanity. Better still is providing easy solutions to complicated problems, and problems that exist entirely in a person's mind. Enter 'Positive Thinking' – a movement that combines common sense advice with ...
The ruling by the Supreme Court to uphold a gagging order preventing the naming of so-called ‘PJS’ at the centre of a threesome injunction has been met by a media outcry this morning, but that won’t prevent “kiss and tell stories” or “criticisms of private sexual conduct” been published. Free ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor As the Government was facing a defeat in the lead up to the hotly debated EU referendum, they have accepted that the NHS will now be protected by the highly controversial TTIP. The amendment was backed by an unlikely alliance of SNP, Green, Tory and ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Official figures released by NHS Improvement have shown that NHS trust in England, closed 2015-16 financial year, £461m worse off than had been forecasted. This means that we now have a record deficit in England of £2.45bn, the largest in its history. The health service ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor As embarrassing things your dad would do, this must rate near the top. Today David Cameron attempted to recreate the Beatles' Abbey Road picture, but with only one other person, pop legend...Tessa Jowell. There is no way around it, it simply didn't work, Cameron strode ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Jeremy Hunt was taken apart by veteran broadcaster Jon Snow on Channel 4 News over the Junior Doctors fiasco, and millions tuned in to see the event. Expert video editor Chris Presswell noticed how well the interview fitted with a classic scene from BBC comedy series, ‘The ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A prominent Labour politician, Chuka Umunna, has accused the UKIP leader of echoing Enoch Powell. Umunna said that Farage was showing “shades of Enoch Powell” due to his warning that there may be violence on the streets of Britain if immigration kept rising. A vote ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Pat Glass, Labour’s Shadow Europe Minister, has decided to apologise after branding a voter a “horrible racist.” Glass was in Derbyshire on a Vote Remain campaign visit at the time. The comment was captured by BBC Radio Derby says: “The very first person I come to ...
The R&A have announced Muirfield will not stage another Open Championship after members at the historical course voted to maintain its ban on women members. The governing body in Scotland said it would not stage the Open "at a venue that does not admit women as members" after 36 per cent ...