University: is it worth it?
The average student debt after a three year degree course in England is £50,000. It’s a large sum that can be off-putting when you hear tales of jobless graduates and self-made entrepreneurs. Student ...
14 Aug 201920min
Jeffrey Epstein: how much do we really know?
The financier Jeffrey Epstein was in a Manhattan prison awaiting trial for sex trafficking when he was found dead in his cell last weekend. The multi-millionaire moved in the richest social circles wi...
13 Aug 201923min
How did gambling take over football?
Last week Championship side Derby County announced Wayne Rooney, the former England captain, would be joining the team as a player-coach on a reported £100,000-a-week contract and will wear the number...
12 Aug 201919min
Cyntoia Brown: did Kim Kardashian get her out of prison?
Cyntoia Brown was 16 when she was jailed for life for murder. This week she walked free after the Governor of Tennessee granted her clemency. She was backed by a number of powerful celebrities includ...
9 Aug 201920min
No deal: will it happen?
“There is no plan for no deal because we are going to get a great deal.” That’s what Boris Johnson, then Foreign Secretary, said in July 2017. A no-deal Brexit was once a fringe idea, but it’s now wha...
8 Aug 201921min
No deal: what’s going to happen to our food?
Boris Johnson’s government is “turbo-charging” plans for leaving the EU without a deal at the end of October. People are asking each other if we’re going to have enough food, whether they should be st...
7 Aug 201921min
What happens when you run out of water?
The World Health Organisation predicts that by 2025 half of the world’s population will live in water-stressed areas. This means the demand for water will be more than the supply. This is already happ...
6 Aug 201916min
US shootings: can you shut down the white nationalists?
Two mass shootings in 24 hours have shocked America: the first in El Paso, Texas and the other in Dayton, Ohio. 29 people have lost their lives. The El Paso shooter opened fire in a Walmart store only...
5 Aug 201921min
