Rachel Lewis

The government have this week claimed that more than three million women will increase their earnings as a result of George Osborne’s National Living Wage. However, this statement disguises the fact that most working females, despite a wage increase, stand to financially lose out due to tax increases and...

In light of the revelation that some UK restaurant chains – Côte, Bills and Las Iguanas to name a few – are withholding tips meant for their staff, the government has launched an investigation into tipping practices in UK restaurants. Trade union Unite has hit back saying the scope...

Reputable right-of-centre thinktank Policy Exchanged has this week suggested that schools whose pupils fail Maths and English GCSE should be fined, and this levy should be paid to further education (FE) colleges to help them pay for obligatory subsequent exam resits. The proposition, if enacted, will hinder schools that...

In the run up to this year’s Republican Presidential candidate election, Donald Trump has hogged the media limelight with his weekly liners – all of them consistently politically incorrect and often archaically brutish. He is best described as a professional controversialist, intending to hike up his own publicity, especially since...

Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn recently announced that he would be willing to consider the introduction of women-only carriages on British trains, a proposal which was instantly ridiculed by Corbyn’s opponents both within and beyond the party. However, beneath the cheap political scandal that is stirred up around seemingly...

“Life’s too short, have an affair”, taglines the pay-as-you-go infidelity website Ashley Madison, brought to the world’s attention after hackers stole the personal details of around 37 million registered users and dumped them online. The website’s digitised denigration of monogamous relationships is wrong, yet this form of vigilante justice...

Around 3,000 migrants are thought still to be camping out at Calais in the hope of crossing the English Channel, with 240,000 believed to have already crossed the Mediterranean this year. Now, after a month of unrest, French and British governments are joining forces to combat the migrant issue....