News In Brief – Sarandip Singh Batt

News in Brief – Week Beginning 12th March 2012 The UK Plans to legalise Gay marriage in 2015 were formally introduced by the Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone despite the Archbishop of Canterbury quitting over the issue. Network Rail has been fined £1m for failures that led to the deaths of 2 teenage girls at a level crossing in Essex. Liberal Democrat activists defied... Read More

News in Brief – Sarandip Singh Batt

The UK  As pressure builds on the Lib Dems to either vote down or dilute the NHS bill, Nick Clegg is ready to ignore his own party if it votes to kill off the Government’s controversial NHS reforms at a policy-making conference next week. David Cameron was accused of playing a game of ‘smoke and mirrors’ to avoid imposing an outright immediate ban on wild animals in travelling... Read More

Who’s who of the Republican Candidates

by Sarandip Singh Bat The 2012 American Presidential Election contest, has so far proved to be an international sideshow, generating fodder for satirists both at home and abroad. Mitt Romney or Ron Paul have thus far been earmarked as President Obama’s most likely opponent. But the other contenders, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry and Rick Santorum, look set to put up a fight. From... Read More