In light of anticipated attacks on the Abortion Act of 1967 and an imminent visit from Ann Widdecombe to our university union as part of her "Passion For Life" tour, we organised a public meeting on Abortion: A Woman’s Right to Choose. Over 30 people turned up and out of this we built a picket of well over 100 to protest against the Widdecombe meeting.
London is a divided city. It contains some of the richest people in the world, but most Londoners see little of the wealth.
A journalist’s lot is not a happy one. I like protests and I go to quite a few but I just wasn’t sure about this one.
Some 15,000 police officers were expected to march through London on Wednesday of this week against plans to cap their pay rise at 1.9 percent this year.
In public it’s the war that is being won, but behind the headlines there is a growing realisation that the battle for Afghanistan has been lost and a new phase in the "long war" is about to begin.
Gordon Brown’s government confirmed an earlier U-turn last week when it backed plans for a new generation of building of new privately built and run nuclear power stations in Britain.
When corruption stories emerge, they are usually presented as being about individual rotten apples. While a few together create a general atmosphere of sleaze, there is always the search for the specific bribe.
The "Children’s Plan" is a bold attempt by Gordon Brown’s allies to present a new child-friendly image. It will take time to digest it properly, since it contains hundreds of proposals, ranging from positive but token measures to others which are suspect and downright harmful.
The government’s Children’s Plan focuses on child poverty and nursery provision, as well as education. The government aims to halve child poverty by 2010 and eliminate it altogether by 2020.
Having a disability changed my way of life. I used to work as a community artist, teaching art to groups of children in schools or in schemes run by the council, but I had to give all that up when I developed osteoarthritis in my spine.
As delegates gathered in Bali, Indonesia for the latest United Nations (UN) talks on climate change, millions of people hoped they would kick start the urgent action that the world desperately needs.
British labour law fails to protect agency workers, and many face discrimination in the workplace.
