Lester Hammond

Film industry professionals vehemently argue against plans to fund commercial movies over arthouse fare, calling it ‘Miri Regev 2’ Actors, filmmakers, directors and film industry professionals have banded together to…

France taken by surprise by scale and fury of grassroots demonstrations amid crisis in organic sector Pierre Bretagne woke at 4am to feed the cows on his organic farm near…

A cash-strapped Essex council needs to “cut back on everything”, its cabinet member for finance said. Graham Snell said Thurrock Council needed to sell off assets and investments worth £1bn.…

Ex-home secretary claims Tories will ‘die’ if flights don’t start – as her cabinet ally Robert Jenrick put on resignation watch Rishi Sunak made a desperate bid to head off a…

The prime minister may have hoped a reshuffle would reset his government and re-energise his party. After a King’s Speech privately dubbed by some Conservative MPs as “lacking in vision” and bitter briefings between Rishi…

A group of Conservatives elected in 2019 will set out their own manifesto ideas, including banning “gender ideology” from being taught in schools and slashing taxes. They are two points from the…

The Tories have always had a genius for knowing their voters, says Tim Bale, but playing to the gallery is limiting their appeal According to Enoch Powell, “There is one…

From Israel and Iran to China and France, massive protests are making international headlines. So too are the violent government crackdowns against them.  Around the world, people are taking to the streets to protest on a scale…

The general rule about consumer boycotts is that they rarely work, at least in terms of taking a real bite out of a company’s bottom line. Take some recent examples. Plenty of…

Britain’s beleaguered Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffered a damaging political blow on Friday as voters rejected his party in two parliamentary elections it could ordinarily have expected to win. The Conservatives lost…