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The UN is launching an investigation into ‘grave’ violations of disabled people’s human rights over welfare reforms. They will visit the UK in the next few months to investigate whether Iain Duncan Smith’s welfare reforms […]

Lord Janner will not be forced to attend crown court to face child abuse charges when the case comes up next week. Proceedings against the former Labour peer are listed for 1 September at Old […]

Thousands of people did not receive their wages on Friday because of an IT glitch at HSBC bank . Around 275,000 individual payments failed to go through on Friday leaving potentially hundreds of thousands of […]

Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha had a crap holiday in Cornwall this week according to reports. Cameron was photographed enjoying a daily swim off Polzeath with his wife, unaware that untreated human […]

An anonymous article published by the Financial Times calls for cash to be abolished in order to give governments and central banks more power. Similar remarks were made earlier this year when former Bank of England […]

MP’s who cheated on their expenses, a multimillionaire Tory donor, a group of back-room political fixers and an alcohol industry lobbyist have been given peerages by David Cameron, sparking new demands for drastic reform of […]

All British retailers will have to offer the tap-and-go system by the year 2020, a move that will likely see the end of £5 minimum spend rules. Shops will continue to accept regular card payments […]

Welsh singer Charlotte Church performed a live version of “Requiem for Arctic Ice” in protest to Shell’s Arctic drilling for oil, outside Shell’s headquarters in London on Wednesday.  The action, which occurred outside Shell’s offices in […]

Christopher Spivey who claimed the murder of Lee Rigby was a conspiracy designed to provoke anti-Islamic feelings, has been spared jail. At a sentencing hearing today, Spivey continued to protest his innocence and stood by his […]