Oil prices at two and a half year high
Continued fighting in Libya keeps prices up.Oil prices hit their highest level since 2008 after US crude rose to $108.74 this morning, while North Sea Brent crude hit $119.54.Continued conflict in...
View ArticleParis attempts to lure HSBC from London
French officials are trying to convince HSBC to shift its domicile from London to Paris ahead of theHSBC have reportedly been meeting with French officials in discussions over moving domicile from...
View ArticleZac Goldsmith's Channel 4 complaint rejected by Ofcom
The Conservative MP argues Ofcom did not understand his complaint.Zac Goldsmith, Conservative MP for Richmond, has had his complaint against Channel 4 rejected by the media regulator Ofcom.Goldsmith...
View ArticleFuture for HMV looks bleak
The retailer releases its third profit warning of the year, causing shares to fall by 14p.HMV has announced its third profit warning of the year, stating that profits before tax will be £30m. Shares in...
View ArticleCameron tells Pakistanis tax non-payment is unfair
David Cameron criticises Pakistan’s tax-dodging rich at a press conference in Islamabad.In a speech at a press conference in Islamabad, David Cameron told Pakistan's elite that:Many of your richest...
View ArticleSpain say they will not need a bailout
After Portugal requested a bailout, Spain reassured the Eurozone that it will not follow suit.The markets' attention is now directed at Spain after Portugal buckled to pressure and requested a bailout...
View ArticleSimon Ward predicts interest rise
The only one of 67 forecasters polled who predicts a rise in interest rates.Simon Ward, Henderson's chief economist, is the only one of 67 forecasters polled by Reuters who predicts that the Monetary...
View ArticleWhy dissident groups will fail in Northern Ireland
The ideology of terror is a fading force.An innocuous photo emerged after the Omagh bomb of 1998, showing a Spanish tourist posing with his daughter atop his shoulders on Market Street, Omagh. The...
View ArticleJapan hit by another earthquake
The north east coast of Honshu has been hit by an earthquake of between magnitude 7.1 and 7.4Japan's main island of Honshu was hit by another earthquake today at 23:32 local time (14:32 GMT), which...
View ArticleOsborne uses Portuguese crisis to justify cuts
Portugal's request for a €90bn bailout is used by George Osborne as validation for cuts.In a speech at the British Chambers of Commerce, chancellor George Osborne said:If you hear the stories about the...
View Article“A child is supposed to love learning”
Katharine Birbalsingh made her name when she wowed the Conservative Party conference last October. HKatharine Birbalsingh taught me when I was a year 8 in secondary school, in 1999. Just about all I...
View ArticleSyria and Lebanon: tied by blood
Fallout from Syria’s violent repression of uprisings could have dangerous effects on its neighbours It was only a matter of time before the effects of Syria's violent repression of uprisings began to...
View ArticleThe new Egypt flexes its muscles
Early signs point to Egypt as a revived Arab force, albeit one divorced from the West.The recent Egyptian-mediated rapprochement between the Palestinian groups Fatah and Hamas, followed by the...
View Article"Comic book creators are really trying to create a visual music"
Author and artist Craig Thompson discusses religion, French Orientalism, and his long-anticipated neCraig Thompson is a comic book artist and writer who found success and huge critical acclaim in 2003...
View ArticleAustralia's Tony Abbott is a man for everyone and no one
It remains far from clear whether Tony Abbott can win September's election, but his campaign so far is a disturbing example of politics at its most crass and exploitative. On the 4 April, in the great...
View ArticleThe Swedish riots: What really happened?
Inequality, not immigration, was what sparked the unrest.On the evening of Monday 13 May, police were called to an address in Husby, a suburb in north-west Stockholm, on accounts that a male occupant...
View Article"We remain peaceful and happy, but now we are not dreaming anymore": Rio's...
The protests in Brazil began as a demand for cheap public transport, but are now so much more.Sem violência. No violence. This was what protestors were chanting as police charged them in São Paolo,...
View ArticleIs it harder to "come out" as an atheist if you're black?
Liam McLaughlin speaks to members of the London Black Atheists group about the consequences of their decision to turn their backs on religion.When Clive Aruede’s twelve-year-old daughter asked him...
View ArticleAre the Austrian FPÖ party really neo-Nazis?
At an FPÖ rally, I mix with those who are both for and vehemently against the controversial party. FPÖ are compared to Nazis, one man says, because the FPÖ is an identity cult which exists only through...
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