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“For as reliable an account as possible of what Shakespeare wrote, the First Folio is it – not just for scholars but for actors and directors,” says Channel 4 News Culture Editor Matthew Cain.
The Magna Carta, Shakespeare’s First Folio, Titanic telegrams – Oxford’s Bodleian Library houses some of history’s most important objects. This week Channel 4 News explains why they mean so much.
To hear Labour speak, you’d think there was a veritable stampede of women desperate to escape the clutches of David Cameron in exchange for the warm embrace of Ed Miliband. But are they right? FactCheck speaks to pollsters and asks Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts what women really want.
So from a chopper above the Thames I see a nation that used to build the world’s infrastructure that now wants the world to build ours. Infrastructure spending not by our government, but from abroad — from state guaranteed companies – from the Arab world and China paying for Britain’s infrastructure.
Youth unemployment sailed past the million mark last week, and within days Nick Clegg has a billion pounds and a plan. The same thing happened in April 2009: youth unemployment hit an all-time high, and Labour rushed out the Future Jobs Fund, pledging a £1bn. But this time it’s different, says Mr Clegg – this time taxpayers will get value for money and the jobs will last longer. Is he right or is FactCheck having a déjà vu?
On Wednesday, Britain is facing its biggest public sector strike for decades, hitting schools, hospitals and airports. Channel 4 News finds out which services are likely to be affected.
Two hundred protesters have been arrested following a raid of the Occupy Wall Street protest camp by New York police, amid reports of a “media blackout”.
As tributes are paid to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs who has died, aged 56, following a battle with pancreatic cancer, David Cameron says the world has lost a “great creative, entrepreneurial genius”.
From the Taj Mahal to Coventry Cathedral – the World Monuments Fund announces its 2012 global list of threatened cultural heritage sites. But will it change anything? Channel 4 News takes a look.
Channel 4 News learns union bosses are calling for a campaign of civil disobedience and sit-ins as well as strikes over the spending cuts, with one leader saying he is “prepared to go to jail”.
Calls for political reform spun out of the expenses scandal of 2009 and hurtled towards last year’s general election, with all three major parties promising change in their manifestos. Labour proposed a non-partisan parliamentary boundary review that would look at the rules for the redistribution of seats, as well as an Alternative Vote (AV) referendum. Its manifesto said: “The cost of politics to the taxpayer must be minimised but we reject using this as an excuse to gerrymander constituency boundaries in the interest of one political party.” The Tories meanwhile championed a 10 per cent cut in the number of MPs, while the Lib Dem manifesto stated that it would making voting fairer by introducing Single Transferable Vote (STV) for elections, the number of MPs could be cut from 650 to 500. We’ve already said no to AV, so now it’s down to the boundary changes to kick start reform. But is it fair, or are the Tories manipulating the system?
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has sent a report highly critical of the actions of government troops in the final months of Sri Lanka’s civil war to the UN Human Rights Council.
Accusations of mother’s ruin usually accompany regular drinking by older women, but a daily dose of alcohol could actually improve women’s health in old age.
A new approach to estimating the number of species on Earth could help speed up the collection of vital information about ecosystems, a leading scientist tells Channel 4 News.
“We need something hotter than Potter” warns a literacy expert, as new research shows a “polarised nation” with one in six children not reading a single book in a month.