Новости за 15.06.2016

Businessman tells select committee: 'If you look at the trustees, there have been some stupid, idiotic mistakes made'

Only by a brutally rigorous enforcement of the law will capitalism win the popular support it so desperately needs – and which it is currently losing

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A simple look at the maths - and political logic - shows how a budget of the kind he's threatened really wouldn't make any sense

To those asking if it's time Placido Domingo made his final bow, one answer came via the box office: all his performances in the title role of Nabucco are booked solid.

By claiming that a post-Brexit emergency budget could include raising income tax and inheritance taxes and cutting the NHS budget, Osborne was saying to the voters who wish to leave the EU – you stupid people, you really don't get it…well, wait and see, I will punish you

The Beecroft report, which suggests employers should be able to fire their staff at will, was buried by the coalition government. If we leave the EU, the Conservatives have a blueprint for scrapping workers' rights

A vote to leave the EU next week is a vote for a right-wing Boris Johnson government which would try to deliver its land of milk and honey amid economic turmoil, a recession and a £30bn black hole in the public finances

Many of our Peshmerga are needlessly dying from injuries of the sort that British soldiers have routinely survived for decades

Aggressively marketing gambling as some kind of laddish pastime which could bag you a small fortune means that gambling addiction is on the rise. My dad himself admits he was lured to bet many more times than he wanted to by constant advertising

This time round, Corbyn caught his opponent completely off guard with his unexpected questions on Leveson, Rupert Murdoch and the privatisation of the NHS

The first five years in particular of a child's life are vital. Intellectual vibrancy, phonic stimulation, and huge emotional support – love, in other words – can set a pattern that will bring health and happiness for years

Some argue that technology has an immensely positive influence on our closest relationships

The longer couples have been together, the better they think they know each other

Millions of Arabs are well aware that Palestinian officials speak daily to Israel military and political leaders, so why the focus on Amin Maalouf for speaking to Israeli i24 channel?

Hooligan 2.0 carries a mobile phone to make sure he doesn't miss any action, but he's driven by the same instincts that have governed humans for billions of years – and that are driving us in the EU referendum too

The Quran states no instruction for punishment or action to be taken against homosexuals, unlike the Old Testament's orders to "put them to death" in the Bible

Since Sandy Hook, there have been an astonishing 998 mass shootings in America. Two of the perpetrators were Muslim, but all were men

Imogen Edwards-Jones spent the summers of her teenage years in Tuscany, but hadn't returned since her wedding. Would a holiday with her children offer a new perspective?

One day we need the left needs to decide whether to make or break the EU but an exit on 23 June would represent an exit the Little Englander's terms, not ours

Nothing says 'it's over' like a sachet full of belly button lint