Maradona dies aged 60

Diego Maradona, one of the greatest footballers of all time, who captained Argentina during their 1986 World Cup win, producing a series of sublime individual performances has died aged 60.  In 1986 Maradona won the World Cup 1986 with Argentina, having knocked England out of the tournament in a match which saw him score the…

Snapchat introduces 60-secs video feed ” Spotlight” in 11 nations

Snapchat has launched its vertically scrollable video section “Spotlight” in 11 nations where users are able to view videos posted by other uses. The spotlight will have its own dedicated tab in the app and will feature videos, with background music, up to 60 seconds. Snaps from private accounts will be featured in an unattributed…

Big business is harming our society

A former competition lawyer telling us after the collapse of the Rana Plaza clothing factory in Bangladesh in 2013 after driven by competition to cut costs and maximise profits quite literally may kill us.   The rising levels of power are concentrated in the hands of a few yet no government or organisation has the…

Corruption of the British State

  The construction giant Carillion, an outsourcer of huge Government building contracts, leading to one of the greatest financial scandals of modern times following their collapse in January 2018. When it folded it had only £29 million in the bank and debts and other liabilities adding up to a staggering £7 billion, amounting the final…

The logic of capitalism

A highly provocative book by an Indian academic who is the Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at the University of  Copenhagen, revealing how India is being repackaged into a national brand  to be sold to foreign investors, part of ongoing historical shift. “The capitalist transformation of India wherein the logic of capital is…

International Men’s Day 2020

  International Men’s Day, an annual event celebrated on the 19th of November, in 44 countries including Antigua, Australia, Barbados, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Jamaica, Singapore, China, United States, UK, Romania, and Malta. Inaugurated in 1992 on 7 February by Thomas Oaster was re-initialized in 1999 in Trinidad and Tobago. The longest-running celebration of International Men’s…

NAO criticises Goverment over 17bn spending on Covid-19 contracts

The National Audit Office, the Public spending watchdog has criticised the government for failures in the award of more than £17bn of contracts to private companies to tackle the coronavirus crisis, for errors and potential conflict of interest including lack of transparency. They said the Cabinet Office and the Department of Health and Social Care…