The British establishment prides itself on its decency and its ability to stand up to dictatorships and injustice abroad.
The coalition government will have been in office for 680 days on budget day. An average of 625 public sector jobs have been lost on every one of those days, according to figures from the Unison trade union.
The Tories’ answer to unemployment is as simple as it is stupid—"get on your bike" and look for work, they say.
Picketing may seem a very strange thing to do at first.
Picketing has an important history in the trade union movement.
If you are on strike you have a legal right to picket "to peacefully communicate with and seek to persuade colleagues" not to go in to work.
ATOS, IT partner IT services will be provided by Atos, which is particularly proud of being a sponsor of the Paralympic games.
A celebration of International Women’s Day in February 1917 was the spark that ignited the Russian Revolution.
Some feminists and academics see class as just another inequality.
Tory minister Iain Duncan Smith said last week that "the government’s opponents constitute a group of modern-day Luddites". Then health minister Andrew Lansley denounced those opposed to his assault on the NHS as "Luddites" too.
Two hundred years ago last month the radical poet Byron spoke in the House of Lords against a bill to make frame-breaking a hanging offence. Bitter anger and contempt runs through his speech, made on 27 February 1812.
