After the news broke that Russell Brand will be editing a special edition of the notorious British political magazine the 'New Statesman', the 38-year-old comedian went toe to toe with the BBC's resident pit bull interviewer, Jeremy Paxman to discuss his latest job. Paxman, ...read more

Bucking the trend of European economic austerity dogma, France is ramming through a host of measures to get their economy on track that consist mostly of increasing taxes on the rich - a wildly popular prospect with the majority of French people. Some of the measures are aimed ...read more

This is getting quite boring, repeating over and over and over again that austerity measures are hurting rather than helping countries mired in recession. Q2 GDP growth figures came in for the UK economy at a shocking -0.7 per cent, far worse than predicted (the general consensus ...read more