For a man that appears absolutely hell-bent on provoking the world’s most powerful nations to bomb into the dust, Kim Jong Un is a wiley old fox when it comes to earning income for his ultra-secretive nation....
Musk launches a spaceship in a hurricane
Elon Musk, in an apparent attempt to out-cool himself, has been at the helm of SpaceX as they launched a secret space plane mission hours before a hurricane hit Florida, where they were launching from....
Climate change and Harvey
Has climate change just cost a President who denies its existence $1 million personally, and his country a possible $100 billion? Possibly. It’s hard to definitively point to mathematics, statistics and measurements which can say that this much pollution caused this much rainfall....
Musk and industry experts warn the UN to ban killer robots
Obvious news is obvious; if we wish to avoid a self-inflicted terminator inspired apocalypse then we really should think long and hard about whether we should allow autonomous artificial intelligence to be allowed in warfare....
Is elite football’s business sustainable?
There’s now under two weeks left until the transfer window closes at midnight on the 31st August but already Premier League transfer spending has broken records once again with spending passing the £1 billion mark for the third season in a row.
Does nuclear war beckon?
We’ve had a good run. After nearly 15,000 years of human civilisation stretching back around 12,000 BCE in the Levant region of southwest Asia, it seems that President Donald J Trump has decided that, actually, being alive isn’t that good....
Let’s talk about Elon Musk
Net worth: $15.6 billion. Alumni of Stanford University. Founder of PayPal. Elon Musk is now one of the most recognisable and famous billionaires in the world after, perhaps, Donald Trump and Iron man. He’s currently the CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, SolarCity, Hyperloop, OpenAI and The Boring Company....
Airport security, EU borders and tabloid hypocrisy
Chaos! Carnage! Apocalypse! Ok the last one hasn’t been printed by any UK newspapers when reporting on airport delays this week, but you’d be forgiven for assuming they had....
Trump’s new communication director in astonishing rant
There was surprise and more than a few sniggers in Washington DC last week when Donald Trump’s, now famous, communications director Sean Spicer decided to resign his position, apparently unhappy at the appointment of new director Anthony Scaramucci (or as he’s known in DC, the mooch)....
Hollow Earth Theory on the rise
Following on from our report about the prominence of the Flat Earth conspiracy theory, there have been a string of off-shoot theories in which people are rejecting science and centuries of logical progression in favour of two hundred year old ideas....
Trump. Jr and the Russia e-mails
Case closed, good night, see you later. That’s what the majority were thinking to themselves this week as Donald Trump, Jr. posted an entire e-mail thread with a Russian lawyer, agreeing to meet her to accept potentially damaging and highly sensitive information about his father’s electoral nemesis Hillary Clinton....
The bizarre life of Mike Ashley
There has been a bizarrely entertaining court case taking place this week as Sports Direct and Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley is defending claims he agreed to pay a banker £15m while binge drinking in a London pub...
The Preston model
In 2010 in Cleveland, Ohio, a community was on the verge of ruins. The USA and the Western world had come a hairs width away from total collapse in 2008 following reckless and unregulated speculation by bankers and investors in the financial districts of New York, London, Paris and Frankfurt...
The rise of ‘Flat-Earth theory’
One of the most bizarre trends of 2017 has been the emergence of a noticeable rise in those who believe that the Earth is, in fact, flat. At a recent Professor Brian Cox lecture in Manchester in May, there were more than a few people outside the venue waving placards accusing the scientist of being a lizard, a Zionist shill or worse. It is their view, you see...
Tories humiliated
As people settled in to their sofas and armchairs last night, with election coverage starting at 9pm, presumably thoroughly looking forward to a government of strength and stability, something odd happened; the British people decided quite emphatically that Theresa May was neither.
Paris climate change treaty: America tries to doom us all
It’s difficult to know where to begin with this one. Perhaps, a little background on the Paris Climate Change Agreement which was agreed through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
‘Both manifestos are economically unsound’ – IFS
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has released its report on the costing and economics of both Labour and the Conservatives manifesto and it’s not been kind to either party.
Trump: the beginning of the end?
As Donald Trump embarks the presidential aeroplane Air Force One to start his first international visits as the President of the US he could hardly be leaving behind a more scandal-ridden White House.
What is Karoshi and why is the Japanese government involved?
In the last week the Japanese government has taken the extraordinary step of naming and shaming 300 firms which it accuses being guilty of risking ‘Karoshi’.
Local election results filter in
With nearly 5,000 seats up for grabs, Thursday 4th May 2017 was the first opportunity for local residents to have their say on who represents them since 2013.