MPs are “clueless” about the impact of robots and new technology on workers, the Government’s gig economy adviser has warned. In a model of the workforce in 2035 Matthew Taylor says the rapid trend towards automation will trigger more inequality, put the workforce under “constant surveillance,” push down wages and deepen regional divisions across the […]

GROWING delays for routine NHS operations risk fuelling negligence claims, a watchdog warns. A record 4.2 million people are now on waiting lists for procedures such as hip replacements and cataract removal – up 56 per cent in four years. Just 86.7 per of patients are now being seen within 18 weeks, against a 92 […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union has made clear its options for delaying Brexit and now it is time for Britain to lift all ambiguities surrounding its position, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday. EU leaders gave May an extra two months, until May 22, to leave if she wins a vote in the […]

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s birth rate in several regions, including the capital Beijing, fell again in 2018, the official China Daily said on Friday, despite government efforts to encourage couples to have more children. Alarmed by the rapid aging of its population, China relaxed its controversial “one-child policy” in 2016, allowing all couples to have […]

A BOY of ten was left too terrified to leave home after a racist thug daubed "no blacks" on his front door. Vaughan Dowd, 54, spray painted the sickening graffiti outside Jackson Yamba and son David's flat just five days after they moved in. Jackson, 38, a solicitor, spotted the scrawl on his way to […]

BOGOTA (Reuters) – At least nine people were killed and four injured in an unexplained explosion on Thursday in an indigenous area in Colombia’s mountainous southwest, local authorities said. The incident came on the 10th day of a blockade of the area’s major highway. Hundreds of members of indigenous groups have halted traffic on the […]

It's not every day that a 104-year-old upstanding citizen is arrested, handcuffed and taken away in a police car with sirens blaring. But that day came for Anne Brokenbrow on Wednesday, the International Day of Happiness. Anne Brokenbrow is “taken into custody”.Credit:Facebook: Bristol Wishing Washing Line Anne, a resident of the Stokeleigh Care Home an […]

HENRY DEEDES on the oily elite that swarmed over Theresa May like a wolf pack in the Prime Minister’s EU schmooze fest e-mail 34 View comments Officially, it was all smiles in Brussels when Theresa May arrived to try and convince other European leaders into granting Britain a Brexit extension. Unofficially? The poor woman’s stomach […]

Sexism storm rocks Lloyd’s of London as women are branded ‘totty’ and rated from one to 10 on ‘sh**ability’ Women say they were abused and attacked by male bosses at Lloyd’s of London Female workers at one of City’s grandest institutions claim they were silenced One woman said she was attacked by a drunk senior […]

BRUSSELS — Worn down by three years of indecision in London, European Union leaders on Thursday grudgingly offered the U.K. more time to ease itself out of the bloc, delaying by several weeks — but not eliminating — the threat of a chaotic British exit. After a meeting that stretched through the afternoon and over […]