The British Army should be used to stop the invasion by migrants from Calais, comes the cry from MPs. David Cameron has threatened, yet again, to smite terrorists by carrying out military air strikes on Syria and Libya.
The Tories’ killer case at the election was the charge that Labour spent too much, caused the financial crisis, left an economic mess and want to do the same again. This is good politics but lousy economics. It worked a treat for the Tories and it is clear that George Osborne wants to replay the same political theme through to 2020.
Left untweaked for too long and television formats have a tendency to give up their secrets.
There can hardly be a crueller contrast than the one on display at the Calais end of the Channel Tunnel. On the one hand, the queues of cars laden with British families on their way to or from a continental holiday, all sunhats, tanning cream, and smiles. On the other, groups of mostly young men scaling metal fences, clambering aboard lorries and jumping onto trains in the desperate hope of reaching the land of their dreams.
The loss of MH370 is the greatest mystery in aviation history. The disappearance of the Boeing 777 on the night of 8 March 2014 has transfixed the world and triggered a spectrum of speculation.
For decades Labour was the was most popular political party among black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) voters, but has now started to lose ground. BAME support for the Conservatives hit an all-time high in the last election, with many voters swapping their allegiances towards the centre right – despite the fact that race inequality is still a huge issue in the UK.
The shocking events in Calais this week are a reminder that we face the greatest refugee crisis since the Second World War with 55 million people in need of help.
Jeremy Clarkson and his unique brand of television presentation represent the latest in a whirlwind of inducements to fork out for a subscription to Amazon’s Prime service.
Right, pay attention everybody. We’ve some tough choices to make. The NHS has to make £22bn of efficiency cuts by 2020, so where shall we start?
Summer’s arrived at last: that merciful period where offices wind down, politics takes a break (the spectacular cannibalistic implosion of the Labour party aside) and the singular joy of holiday reading beckons. The canny release of the Man Booker prize to coincide with the summer break lends itself to holiday choices, and always garners attention.
Summer’s arrived at last: that merciful period where offices wind down, politics takes a break (the spectacular cannibalistic implosion of the Labour party aside) and the singular joy of holiday reading beckons. The canny release of the Man Booker prize to coincide with the summer break lends itself to holiday choices, and always garners attention.
UK Athletics has found no impropriety on the part of Mo Farah after receiving the initial findings of a review into the double Olympic champion's relationship with coach Alberto Salazar, it said on Thursday.
How would you react if someone told you that a magic potion has been invented which will allow you to go to a party, get blind drunk, make overtly sexual comments to someone else’s spouse, undress yourself publicly, devise an offensive chant about said undressing, and wake up the next day with a clear head and clean conscience? Well, they’d be lying about the conscience – your naked inappropriateness is now circulating on social media and your linguistic creativity has alienated most of the people you used to call friends. Читать дальше...
As thousands of refugees tried to enter the channel tunnel on Tuesday night, the Home Office had another crisis on its hands. Fred*, 24, climbed on to the roof of a London detention centre and threatened to jump. He was about to be deported to Sierra Leone, a country he left when he was 11, and somewhere that our Foreign Office advises against all but essential travel “except for those involved in the direct response to the Ebola outbreak”. Fred is reported to have said, "I am 24 years old and... Читать дальше...
Ray Tensing killed Samuel DuBose after stopping his car over missing licence plate
A new study has found that the majority of people harbour crushes outside of their primary relationships, with many reporting that they believe it actually improves their desire for their partner.
Valery Gergiev loves the flashy gesture, and it was certainly flashy to programme all five of Prokofiev’s piano concertos in one evening, with three hot-shot Russian-school pianists doing the solo honours supported by the London Symphony Orchestra. Gergiev’s protégé Daniil Trifonov played the first concerto with the airy brilliance we now expect from him, and Gergiev, on the podium, let his interpretation of this youthful, ardent, nose-thumbing work flower as it needed to.
Jeremy Corbyn is having a good week. On Tuesday a new poll gave him a 22-point lead in the Labour leadership race, and today he won the support of the trade union Unison. He's now the bookies' favourite to win. But he's also, let's not forget, a once relatively unknown backbencher with markedly left-wing views. So how has he become the clear frontrunner to be the country’s Leader of the Opposition?
Charities, politicians, journalists and public figures have almost universally come out in support of iRights, a five-step plan that aims to improve online experiences for under 18s. One of these tenets is the right for children to be able to edit and delete any content they have created in their wayward youth, meaning that a throwaway remark on your Facebook page won’t get dredged up by a future employer one day and used against you. Everyone is clamouring to tell you that it’s a sensible and compassionate idea. Читать дальше...
Composed in 2001, Qigang Chen’s Iris devoilee has now made it to the Proms, and it still comes over with marvellous freshness. Chen’s back-story is typical of his generation: born into a cultured family in 1951, he saw his parents sent to a labour camp in the Cultural Revolution, and he himself underwent ‘re-education’; he was one of the first students admitted when the Beijing Conservatory was reopened; then he went West, studied under Messiaen, and settled in France.
Even small sums of currency can be costly to exchange, unless you choose the right service
The Independent presents a simple guide to international payments from currency specialists XE
Can denying people the choice to decide what they do with their own bodies - or specifically when they consent to sex - ever be an advancement of their human rights?
While the world mourned Cecil, the 13-year-old lion that was allegedly shot by an American hunter in Zimbabwe, an even more devastating poaching incident was quietly carried out in Kenya.
In the second series of BoJack Horseman, Diane fails to expose beloved TV star Hank Hippopotamus for years of sexual assault against female fans. The episode, which is colloquially known as ‘the Bill Cosby episode’ because of similarities with the accusations against Cosby, has a laser focus on how sexual harassment is treated by Hollywood and the media – and how powerful stars at the centre of allegations seem to be structurally protected. The sombre ending to Diane’s crusade is that she simply... Читать дальше...
