The naturalist and broadcaster Chris Packham is warning that we are presiding over “an ecological apocalypse” and that Britain is increasingly “a green and unpleasant land”. The BBC presenter claimed that British people have normalised a “national catastrophe” and that we only see a wealth of wildlife in nature reserves, with the wider countryside bereft of life. He told The Guardian newspaper; “It’s catastrophic and that’s what we’ve forgotten – our generation is presiding over an ecological apocalypse and we’ve somehow or other normalised it.”  Packham received a lot of attention recently, when tweeting about the absence of insects in the New

A nine-year-old girl is in rehab after becoming addicted to a video game. The child, who obviously cannot be named, was so obsessed with playing that she wet herself to avoid stopping. She became violent and even hit her father when he tried to intervene. The game is Fortnite, which was launched last summer and has been downloaded over 40 million times. The child would play during the night, resulting in her falling asleep in school. Her mother told The Sunday people; “We had no idea, when we let her play the game, of the ­addictive nature or the impact it

Sensational headline. The question is, can I back it up? The policies of austerity have resulted in 4 million of my fellow citizens going to a food bank to stave off starvation. So is it the result of bad planning, bad politics or is destitution, degradation and widespread poverty the agenda itself? I’ve come to understand that it most certainly is the agenda and I’m not alone. This week, The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) labelled the government’s social security policy changes as “destitution by design.” By design eh? People are starting to wake up to it. They are deliberately marginalising,

Scene. You’re having lunch with a pal and you ask her where she’s going on her summer holiday. She says Marbella and asks you where you’re heading. You say that you don’t know, but that a work colleague went to Croatia last year and won’t shut up about it. Lunch ends, you hop in a taxi back to work and open Facebook on your phone to pass the journey. Lo and behold, there’s an ad for Croatia on your news feed. Although this is the first time that you’ve noticed this “coincidence” the reality is that it happens all the

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Is a brilliant journalist, old school to the bone and marrow. He’s The Telegraph’s business editor, but was once the paper’s Europe correspondent and spent years in Brussels. I’ve always liked him. He’s been steadfastly opposed to austerity policies and has written extensively over the years about the devastation such policies cause to communities. He was always opposed to the EMU (Economic & Monetary Union of the EU) too. In fact he accurately predicted the crises we have seen in Southern Europe. You might not know this, but he once wrote a book about Bill Clinton in which