"This is the most serious financial crisis we’ve seen, at least since the 1930s, if not ever," Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, admitted last week.
Blue Labour is not dead. That is the message of a new book that lifts the lid on just how influential Baron Maurice Glasman is inside the Labour Party.
In the aftermath of their Tower Hamlets debacle, one of the more thoughtful supporters of the racist English Defence League (EDL) wrote about how they "got it so wrong".
An air of unreality accompanied coverage of the International Monetary Fund/World Bank meeting in Washington DC last weekend.
The execution of Troy Davis was nothing short of murder. And the sheer brutality of his killing has left many grasping to understand what kind of nation the US has become.
The call from last week’s TUC congress to coordinate strikes across public sector unions on 30 November—including Unison, Unite and the GMB—is of huge significance.
The so-called "second Greek bailout" is up in the air. Negotiations between the Greek government and representatives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the EU and the European Central Bank (ECB) have been suspended.
There are days when our side wins an outright victory. Tower Hamlets on 3 September 2011 was one such day.
Ten years ago, lower Manhattan became the Sarajevo of the "war on terrorism". Although conscience recoils against making an equation between the assassination of a single Archduke and his wife (28 June 1914) and the slaughter of almost 3,000 New Yorkers, the analogy otherwise is eerily apt.
In the 1880s, east London became known as the East End. It is an area that has long housed some of the greatest poverty in the capital.
"Racism is an unspoken language—which is why it is so easy to deny.
Stock markets have been in turmoil for the past two weeks, reflecting concerns about a new global slowdown.
