With the general election date set for Thursday 5 May, we really have to step up the campaign. We have four weeks to reach as many people as possible.
A high Court judge has sharply criticised the government’s postal voting system as being wide open to electoral fraud and manipulation.
Rose Gentle, the mother of Gordon Gentle, a British soldier killed in Iraq in June last year, announced this week that she is standing against Adam Ingram, the armed forces minister, in the general election.
School meals have been thrust into the political spotlight recently. But how do they fit in to wider patterns of children’s food today?
A grim history Bad food produced by profit-hungry companies has been a hallmark of capitalism from the beginning.
I showed last week how Isaac Newton developed laws of motion that allowed a materialist picture of the universe to emerge. This materialism was of a mechanical kind — with matter interacting like parts in a giant clockwork mechanism set into motion by god.
The Tory leader, Michael Howard, talks about the Holocaust and how he’s Jewish, but he’s a very racist man. He’ll never be able to tell Gypsies that he’s not. He’s the man who said in 1993 to stop building council sites, and that Travellers should go and buy their own land and live on it. But now he’s twisting it all.
To mark St Patrick’s Day last week, George Bush welcomed the sisters and partner of Robert McCartney to the White House. Robert was the Belfast man murdered outside a bar in January after falling foul of a group of people, including members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
I greet visitors to the House of Commons by saying, "Welcome to the scene of many crimes," and then conduct what you could call a "Guy Fawkes" tour of parliament. That’s not because it is some kind of nihilist walkabout — interesting and important things have happened within those walls. It’s because it is a subversive tour, a look at the history that all too often remains hidden.
BBC Scotland's recent television programme The Factory brought back wonderful memories of the Lee Jeans occupation of 1981 here in Greenock.
