It’s not uncommon for the Nobel Prizes to be surrounded by controversy. Last year, the Nobel Literature Prize was postponed due to one of the committee members, Jean-Claude Arnault, being imprisoned for two counts of […]
The Digest – 17/10/14
Former Tory Becomes First UKIP MP Last Friday, UKIP candidate Douglas Carswell won the party’s first parliamentary seat. Carswell, who won the same Clacton seat as a Conservative candidate in 2010, eased to victory with […]
Nobel Intentions?
Contentious though it may be that the European Union has been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, it’s hardly a departure from precedent. That respected peace campaigners from Mahatma Gandhi to Václav Havel have been […]