Nick Hallett

A former banker at Merrill Lynch has given up his lucrative career to launch a radical new business model to save the traditional British pub. Noah Bulkin, 37, has acquired hundreds of struggling pubs and is using detailed, intricate data

The privatisation of Britain’s Royal Mail was blighted by a fear of failure and poor advice from banks, a committee of MPs has said. The UK’s formerly state-run postal service was sold for £2bn in October last year, priced at

Christians should marry Muslims to tackle Islamophobia, a senior former judge has said. Lord Scott, who formerly served in the Supreme Court, said that his own family, in which two of his children married Muslims, is an example of how

Extreme Islamist group ISIS have seized 90lb (40kg) of radioactive uranium in Iraq which could be used to make a dirty bomb. The Times reports that the militants seized the material after overrunning a university in the city of Mosul,

The UK Independence Party has one the best ‘brands’ in Britain, ranking them alongside companies such as Apple and Coca Cola, and charities such as the Red Cross, according to a major marketing survey. The ‘Storytelling Survey’ by firm Aesop

Rumours were swirling today that London Mayor Boris Johnson may stand for Parliament in the seat of Uxbridge at next year’s General Election. The London Evening Standard reports that current MP Sir John Russell announced earlier that he intends to

The head of an inquiry into historic sex abuse by politicians and other powerful figures has said she will not quit, despite her brother being linked to an Establishment cover-up of the same paedophile ring she will be investigating. Baroness

Two British schoolgirls who ran away to join jihadis in Syria were model students who scored top marks in their school leaving exams. The Mail reports that Zahra and Salma Halane, both aged 16, were among the best students at

European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has said that Britain will be able to claw back certain powers from Brussels ahead of an in-out referendum on the country’s continued EU membership, the Telegraph reports. British Prime Minister David Cameron failed last

The BBC has admitted that pictures of alleged Israeli airstrikes on Gaza and their aftermath may be inaccurate. A little-known division of the corporation called BBC Trending says that many of images being shared on social media under the #GazaUnderAttack

Climate change is not to blame for the disappearance of the Caribbean coral reef, an environmental group has admitted. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has issued a report saying that the blame instead lies in the

Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond has been accused of personally pressuring the chairman of Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE), the body that represents the country’s financial services, to drop a report on independence. The Daily Telegraph says that Mr Salmond telephoned

More than half the British public think the television licence fee should be scrapped, and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) forced to find new ways to subsidise itself. According to a poll by ComRes, 51 of the British public would

The memorial commemorating the victims of the July 7 bombings in London was defaced just hours before a memorial service was due to be held on the ninth anniversary of the attacks. The memorial, which consists of stainless steel columns

An academic conference at the University of Cambridge last July was told that paedophilic interest is “natural and normal for males”, and that “at least a sizeable minority of normal males would like to have sex with children… Normal males

Former UK foreign secretary, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, has said that Britain is under threat from Islamist terrorists who have “devilish technical skills.” Sir Malcolm, who now chairs the Commons Intelligence and Security Committee, said he has “no doubt” that extra

A top environmentalist in the United States has been exposed as a hypocrite after it emerged that he has invested in fossil fuels. Tom Steyer, a billionaire hedge fund manager who has pledged $100m to defeat Republican candidates who are

British Prime Minister David Cameron has ordered an investigation into what happened to a dossier that contained allegations of paedophile activity within parliament in the 1980s. Sky News reports that Cameron has ordered Mark Sedwill, permanent secretary to the Home

A British-born jihadi who claims to be fighting in Syria has branded his former country “pure evil” and said he will only return to the UK when the “black flag of Islam” is hanging outside Buckingham Palace. According to the

Fracking has led to a greater reduction in carbon emissions than all the world’s wind turbines and solar panels put together, the Council of Europe heard last week. Speaking at a meeting of the council, which promotes co-operation between all