I set out early Wednesday afternoon to the alternative summit in Rostock. At the station, I was told the train wasn’t running – why, they didn’t know.
Notwithstanding the global hype associated with reversing aid, debt and trade injustices during the past few days, it hasn’t been an easy time for the huge Non-Governmental Organisations at the centre of the action.
It’s Monday at the GMB union’s annual conference in Brighton – and the air is thick with calls from senior Labour Party figures to strengthen workers’ rights and build more council housing.
I’m sure UCU will be bold in recognition that you don’t necessarily get what you deserve, you get what you fight for.
Gordon Brown's government will push ahead with the building of new nuclear power plants.
Supplying clean energy and cutting carbon emissions are both technologically feasible and economically possible.
Something historic happened last week. It wasn’t Gordon Brown’s coronation. That – and the inability of the Blairites to mount a serious challenge – was entirely predictable.
The Palestinian resistance movement is under attack once again, but this time the Israelis have been joined by a new ally – the Palestinian Fatah organisaition.
The mood among Europe’s ruling classes has taken a turn for the better of late.
‘Returning from the refugee camp I came to Bushra’s family home. A relative gave me a picture of her, a commemorative card marking her death.
"More migrants please" – so read the headline of last week's Investors Chronicle magazine.
The procurement of school and hospital buildings by government – how the contracts for their design and construction are drawn up, and how the buildings are paid for – sounds like the driest of subjects, of interest only to professional bean counters.
