Day: January 17, 2018

    This is the age of the zombie. The undead maraud around our popular culture. Stick on the telly, and they’re attacking Jon Snow in Game of Thrones. At the cinema, reanimated carcasses lurch through everything from Resident Evil to World War Z. The headlines might burst with blundering boastful strongmen, but our nightmares are full of blank-eyed walking corpses. Unthinking, unquestioning, neither alive nor dead, the zombie is horrific. It is also us. Britain in 2018 is stalked by zombie ideas, zombie politicians, zombie institutions stripped of credibility and authority, yet somehow still presiding over our lives. Nowhere is this more true than in the way we run our economy. This September marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Lehman Brothers. In autumn 2008,...

    A builder kidnapped, raped and murdered his teenage niece before dumping her body in a locked freezer because he was jealous of her relationship with her Muslim boyfriend, a court heard. Mujahid Arshid, 33, allegedly tied up 19-year-old Celine Dookhran and another young woman, bundling them both into the boot of his car and taking them to a £1.5 million house in Kingston that he was renovating. He is accused of raping both women at the abandoned house before slitting their throats. The body of Celine, a Barclays bank clerk and aspiring make-up artist, was later found in a padlocked deep freezer at the house, but the other woman, who was badly wounded, managed to convince Arshid not to kill her and raised the alarm, it is alleged. Prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC said ...

    Mansfield MP Ben Bradley A Tory MP recently appointed to a prominent party position has apologised after is emerged he had written a blog post suggesting benefit-claimants should have vasectomies. Ben Bradley, who was promoted by the Prime Minister this month to become Conservative vice chairman for youth, wrote the UK could be drowning in a vast sea of unemployed wasters without a cap on welfare payments. In a 2012 post on his personal blog, titled consbradders32 and uncovered by Buzzfeed News on Tuesday, the Mansfield MP wrote: Sorry but how many children you have is a choice; if you can't afford them, stop having them! Vasectomies are free. Theresa May and new Conservative Party appointments He added: Families who have never worked a day in their lives having fo...