Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

SNP MP Pete Wishart has again written to the Metropolitan Police regarding the ‘Tory election fraud’ scandal, and has said he hoped David Cameron would be interviewed in the early course of the investigation as the leader of the Conservat...

Ely and Littleport are two towns in part of modern Cambridgeshire known as 'The Fens'. In 1816, the Fens were still stretches of flat marsh or, instead, marshland that had been pumped dry of water by engineers. The majority of fen people were poor, a...

Ken Loach wins 2016 Palme d'Or at Cannes, cementing his place in the festival's great directors. The British director Ken Loach won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival  on Sunday night, making him one of only nine fil...

Purdah period set to silence officials on EU referendum from Friday, Civil servants prohibited from making EU pronouncements or releasing information in four-week run-up to poll. Purdah is the pre-election period in the United Kingdom, spec...

Kenny Bailey who is partly paralysed and missing part of his skull has been told he is ‘fit to work’. Mr Bailey who is partly paralysed following a stroke and suffers from memory loss after an operation on his brain resulted in a large de...

The UK is a divided society where the richest receive the lion’s share leaving crumbs for the rest. How did we get to this point? What are the costs of having such high inequality? And what do people think we should do about it? Below is a vide...

EU Migrants aren’t bad for UK wages, study says: European migration has not had a negative affect on the wages and job prospects of British nationals, according to research carried out by the London School of Economics. Migration from EU countr...

Labour Party Senator Ged Nash has said the government has abandoned low paid workers by not supporting a living wage. Senator Nash commented: “I am disappointed but not surprised that there are no plans for a living wage in the programme for go...

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Paschal Donohoe has insisted that no family will be punished by having child benefit withheld. Minister for Children Katherine Zappone must make clear her opposition to Programme for Government pla...

The summit to tackle international corruption takes place in London today. To kick things off with a bang, British Prime Minister David Cameron plans to introduce a new corporate offense for executives who fail to prevent fraud or...