Do you need to be posh to play cricket?
The 13-strong men’s Ashes squad taking on the Aussies tomorrow contains seven state-educated players, just over 50 per cent, yet the proportion of children in state education – 93 per cent.
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George Osborne has pledged to create a “higher wage, lower tax, lower welfare” Britain as he unveiled the first Tory-only Budget for nearly 20 years.
The 13-strong men’s Ashes squad taking on the Aussies tomorrow contains seven state-educated players, just over 50 per cent, yet the proportion of children in state education – 93 per cent.
Boko Haram militants are suspected of marking 100 days since Nigeria’s election with two bloody attacks that kill 44 people in the Nigerian city of Jos, capital of the Plateau state.
As Women in Africa’s most populous nation use social media to highlight everyday sexism Yomi Adegoke says being a woman in Nigeria is radically different from being a woman from Nigeria.
Flares, placards, whistles and a few celebrities – the streets of London are filled with protesters calling for an end to the government’s austerity cuts.
US citizens still buy in to the idea that anyone can make it from rags to riches. But research suggests social mobility could be more of an American nightmare.
The agony is over for many MPs. Elections for the select committee chairs were announced by the Commons speaker today.
As George Osborne stands in for David Cameron at PMQs we chart how the Chancellor has positioned himself as the future leader of the Conservative party
Do you have to be posh to get to the top in modern Britain? Or is a private education a waste of money? FactCheck looks at the evidence…
Jeb Bush, younger brother of George W Bush and son of George H Bush, formally declares his candidacy for president of the United States.
Driven by poverty, the gold miners of the eastern Philippines stop at nothing to dig out a few flecks of the precious metal – including risking the lives of their children.
Children in a tiny Hasidic Jewish community will not be barred from the classroom because their mothers drive, as their schools back down.
They came, they saw, they had – as one Syriza MP put it to me last night – “their balls handed to them”. For all the smiling and calm displayed by Alexis Tsipras, the Greeks know they came off the worst.
In the hierachy of sympathy, young African men come right at the bottom. Migrant children or women might be victims, but men? They can look after themselves.
The singer Charlotte Church has said she would be prepared to pay a 70 per cent top rate of tax if it would end the governments austerity measures.