In an article for The Independent, Sam Osborne revealed that the government has increased the amount it pays to outsourcers who administer disability assessments by £40 million per year, taking the total yearly output to £295 million per year....

There is a pub in York city centre, just near the ancient city walls, called The Kings Arms. It’s also known locally and nationally as ‘The pub that floods’ after numerous appearances on the news whenever the River Ouse bursts its banks....

The UK Independence Party, most recognisable for its anti-immigration and anti-EU stances, seems to be imploding as 12 people had resigned from top positions in the party by the time of publication, apparently in protest at their leader, Henry Bolton, who has refused to resign following a racism scandal....

Despite our best efforts, it’s nearly impossible not to cover what Donald Trump has done at least once a month, if only to highlight the ludicrous situation that a country like the USA finds itself in....

Given the news emerging this week with regards to Intel’s processor fiasco, which Apple admitted has affected all iPhones, iPads and Mac computers, it may be worth counting Apple out of the running for 2018’s hottest race: Becoming the world’s first company valued at $1 trillion....

In an attempt to understand what drives abusive and threatening social media users, Sky news confronted two people who had publicly called for the hanging of Conservative MP Anna Soubry for voting against the government on the recent Brexit bill, in which a fellow Remain supporting MP had tabled an amendment calling for Parliament to have the final say over any final deal....

A Swiss village has announced that it intends to pay new residents up to £53,000 just to move there in order to combat its decreasing population issue....

Matt Steiner and Christian Wong of Florida, USA, are perhaps not the types of entrepreneurs you’d expect to meet in a board room or an episode of the apprentice. They’re what might be referred to as unconventional, working from Stein’s mother’s dining room table and only working on a Thursday....

Writing in The Guardian this week, Cristobal Young, the author of The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight: How Place Still Matters for the Rich, has countered the often made claim of conservatives that higher taxes would mean that the rich would flee....

It was an unexpected arrival and one that nobody was expected but, then, Elon Musk hasn’t exactly cultivated a reputation for doing things the traditional way....

Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley moguls have more than one thing in common at least. Apart from being laughably rich and powerful, more than a few of them think that governments around the world should look into trialling a Universal Basic Income for their citizens.

In an illuminating and somewhat disturbing thread on Twitter from Jo Maugham QC, a major study undertaken by The Treasury has been revealed and the results make for fairly grim reading....

In 2014 a campaign was launched in India called the Swachh Bharat Mission (Clean India Mission), which lists its mission statement as seeking to make the country free of “open defecation” – the practice of defecating outside – by 2019....

Almost a year ago in October 2016 hundreds of thousands of women across Iceland got up from their desks and took to the streets at 2.38pm. It’s an oddly specific time isn’t it? The reason being that according to government figures women earn 14-18 percent less than their male counterparts for doing exactly the same job....

Apparently dissatisfied with their reputation being in complete tatters following revelations about their app that meant them being banned from London, Uber have been revealed to have made a deal with Apple which means that they can record everything on your iPhone’s screen, even when the app is running in the background, according to security researchers....

In an absolutely astonishing piece of scientific discovery, researchers in China have reportedly successfully reprogrammed human DNA to remove a disease in a world first....

EasyJet has taken a massive step towards leading the airline industry in reducing its carbon footprint by confirming that it could be flying electric planes within ten years....

The BBC came under serious fire from the science community recently after it invited former chancellor Lord Lawson onto Radio 4 to discuss climate change....