A British soldier has been axed from his job just 72 hours before the completion of his 18 years of service to his country, the soldier who is in his forties had served for 17 years and 362 days when he received his redundancy notice as the army cut about 5,000 jobs. The move which [...]
Barak and Michelle Obama are tonight attending a state banquet at Buckingham Palace, hosted by the Queen. Mr Obama addressing 170 specially invited guests said to Her Majesty “it’s great to join you again in this great country.” Guests included the American Kevin Spacey who runs the Old Vic Theatre and film star Tom Hanks, [...]
Benjamin Netanyahu the Prime Minister of Israel has hit back at suggestions from the U.S. leader that would require them to give back land claimed in the six day war. Barak Obama made the call for a revamp of the existing borders in a major speech on Middle Eastern and North African policy yesterday, he [...]
Prime Minister David Cameron in a speech to health workers has urged people to take a calmer view of his intended NHS reforms, he defended the plans and promised that the coalition will never ever take any risks with the service. Mr Cameron told the health workers that some of the plans had been reworked [...]
After all the fuss about a Scottish referendum for independence, now we have a poll showing that if the English and Welsh had their say, it would be goodbye Scotland. Now that the Scottish National Party has taken over after a crushing defeat, and relegated the traditional Labour Party to a nonentity north of the border, their leader [...]
Yousuf Raza Gilani, Prime Minister of Pakistan has called accusations that the country’s military and intelligence service were hiding Osama bin Laden as “absurd.” The PM admitted that there had been a breakdown in intelligence which enabled the al Qaeda leader to go so long without being detected, bin Laden lived under the noses of the Pakistan authorities, but Gilani insisted [...]
Finally the public have spoken in Great Britain, they said no to changing the existing voting system from first past the post to a alternative vote system. There was a higher than expected turnout (42%) but mostly people showed apathy and didn’t bother unless they had local elections, there were none in the London area. [...]
As news of the latest polls about the alternate vote system (AV) hit the headlines, the NO lobby are jubilant that the public will throw out the controversial system. The referendum to be held on Thursday is tacked onto the side of local elections in many parts of the country and is one of the concessions [...]
The debate over whether to adopt the AV style of voting or stay with the first past the post system is getting hotter by the day, yesterday PM David Cameron for the NO vote hit out at Lib-Dem minister Paddy Ashdown for the YES vote calling him “pious” over his backing for AV. Lord Ashdown [...]
Schools could face a summer of turmoil in the UK as teachers plan wave after wave of strikes in the period when pupils are due to take their exams. The three main teaching unions have openly declared themselves at war with the current Education Minister Michael Gove and the Coalition Government, who are attempting major [...]
