Heard the one about the immigrants taking “our” jobs? It’s one of those water cooler topics, something to chat about at work. The immediate answer is, “Which jobs have they taken? Because they haven’t taken your job, have they?” Still ...

Owen Jones shares his worries over the effectiveness of government policy against legal, soon to be illegal and illegal drugs. [Adverts]

Last year’s sweltering heatwave in mainland Europe has combined with the UK’s heavy rainfall to reduce this year’s onion crop by at least 10%. As a result, industry analysts fear that wholesale prices may rise by over 50%. The largest ...

Police investigating the cause of the Berlin Bomb on Tuesday morning now believe that the bomb may have been intended to assassinate the driver as part of an organised crime feud. The fear that the driver was a suicide bomber ...

As successive Governments have cut the state pension as part of their austerity policies, they have been left with the dilemma of how to cope with the inequalities such cuts build into society. Cuts to the state pension have not ...

Reports are coming in of an explosion taking place in the German capital, Berlin. Early reports from police say that the car was driving along a street in the wealthy Charlottenburg district of Berlin when it exploded. The force of ...

Causing the trouble today is Ian Hislop. Usually thought to favour the Tories, the editor of Private Eye here takes on Tory MP Priti Patel (now Minister of State for Employment) on the question of capital punishment. Justine Roberts gives ...

Emdad Rahman Under the tutelage of Mariusz Bajda, Judo Development Officer, young people from Tower Hamlets schools and colleges came together to compete at the British Judo London Area Development Event. The event was hosted at the University of East London Docklands Campus. A total ...

Good satire passes the test of time – and none better than this “moan” from US Maths Professor and part time writer and performer of satirical songs Tom Lehrer. He wrote fewer than 40 songs over the lifetime of his ...

Osborne warned us, in effect, that this week’s budget will be a shocker when he announced earlier this week that he is aiming to cut public spending by half by 2020. He thought cuts on this scale would be necessary ...