Scientists studying climate change are taking quite a battering.
An enormous amount of nonsense is talked about China these days. Generally it takes the form of what Perry Anderson has described in the London Review of Books as "Sinomania". This is the proclamation of China as a new superpower that will soon displace the US at the top of the global pecking order. That’s if it hasn’t already.
Preston City Council was presented with a "Delegation of Powers" report at our full council meeting on Thursday of last week.
The Edlington case has reopened the debates around the nature of childhood, "broken Britain", and the role of the state in keeping children safe.
The Nakba, or "catastrophe", of 1948 saw the creation of the state of Israel by the forced expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes.
The Chilcot inquiry was set up to whitewash the Labour government’s lies over the 2003 Iraq war. But it isn’t all going to plan.
In a way John Denham’s statements are an advance on previous New Labour positions, in that he emphasises the need to look at racial disadvantage in class terms.
"Brutus is dead." That was the text message that woke me up on Boxing Day morning.
Yemen began to be described as a "failed state" almost as soon as a link had been established between the failed Christmas bomb attempt over Detroit and the existence of an Al Qaida cell in that country.
The first anniversary of Barack Obama’s inauguration as US president comes on 20 January.
Sections of the right wing media have gone on the offensive – over snow.
A recent report condemning British schools for damaging learning reminded me of a great educational project I took part in last year.
