The paper said neither option would require politically-difficult changes to the existing European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), which has been approved by national parliaments after some ...

An admirer of the evasive spiv, poet Paul Henry traces his slippery archive trail. With Alan Ford and Owen Jones. From February 2014. Show more The poet Paul Henry traces the slippery movements of ...

The Apprentice star said he would donate the money to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity in London. On his Twitter account Lord Sugar posted a picture of himself Twitter holding a giant ...

Yesterday we asked readers to help us identify the euphemistic language of the shonk and the spiv, and you didn’t let us down. We can’t fit all the responses we got into one day so to start here’s a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ColfaxAvenue.com is releasing its second compilation of songs about Denver’s most storied street. And yes, it features drug addicts, hookers, and all ...

Graham Greene is one of the most acclaimed authors, commercially and critically, from the UK and one that has been adapted into film and TV more than anyone with THE QUIET AMERICAN, THE THIRD MAN, and ...

The law needs to be changed to stop ticket touts overcharging fans ahead of the Rugby World Cup, an MP has said. Nick Smith wants the UK government to give next year's tournament, which includes games ...

If there's one thing we've learned from our years of watching The Apprentice, it's that Alan Sugar (or Lord Sugar, as he is now known) is a man not to be crossed. The Daily Mail found out the hard way ...

Politicians from all parties unite to condemn the former boss of BHS before voting on stripping him of his knighthood – but does he really care? Politicians haven’t always been the best judge of ...

The hits just keep on coming. We are truly living in a golden age of spiv-speak and shonky language. Here’s a few more entries to the Crikey Spiv-tionary, courtesy of our wonderful readers: Sufficient ...

The poet Paul Henry traces the slippery movements of "The Spiv" through the archives. When Paul was a young man he was captivated by the slick, smooth-talking Private Joe Walker in the TV sitcom ...

Apprentice star attacks ‘liar rag’ on Twitter and says he will donate payment to Great Ormond Street hospital Lord Sugar has been paid £20,000 by the Daily Mail after it called him a “spiv”. The face ...