The man who apparently blew himself up planting a bomb in Stockholm, Taimour Abdulwahab Al-Abdaly, lived in Luton.
For far too long there has been a big gap between the anger that millions of people feel over the cuts and the timid response of most union leaders.
Democracy is one of the most abused words in the English language.
The recent artillery exchanges, and deaths, in North and South Korea raised the chilling prospect of a war involving nuclear weapons.
The release of some 250,000 US diplomatic emails stirred the world’s ruling elites into a bit of a froth.
A peace process is slowly under way on the left. United by a common enemy—the Tories and the Lib Dems—a comradely spirit is breaking out.
The National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN), which has recently got involved in anti-cuts activity, has organised a national anti-cuts conference on 22 January.
George W Bush is not an idiot. He was more dangerous than that.
Every year it is seemingly compulsory for every politician and even anyone who appears on television to wear a poppy. It is presented as a mark of respect for those who have died in war.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching the odious Phil Woolas being ejected from parliament for lying about Muslims in his election leaflets.
US president Barack Obama was elected in 2008 on a wave of hope. There was justified exhilaration that a black man had won the most powerful elected office in the world, in a country so marked by racism.
The acquittal of the publishers of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence on obscenity charges 50 years ago was path breaking. Somewhere I still have a fading copy of the uncensored edition, published by Penguin in 1960, that I bought when it came out. I can’t pretend I got it for literary reasons (I was, after all, 14 at the time). The book cracked open the stuffy, official edifice of British culture.
