THE CATASTROPHE threatened by global warming was thrown into sharp relief last week. Scientists warned that a quarter of all land animals and plants face extinction within 50 years.
'THE COUNTRY is facing its gravest crisis since the Second World War.\"
"THE MOOD against student fees was electric in Newcastle last Saturday," says Kevin Connolly.
THE MEDIA are demanding Saddam Hussein be put on trial. But the people who should be in the dock are those who brought him to power, and then armed and financed his regime for years.
The biggest global demonstration in history THIS WAS the year when we saw the ferocious brutality of the United States and its "coalition of the killing". And we also saw the rise of another great power to contest them-the global anti-war movement.
SHARON FROM Sheffield has news of a great response to the paper at a local civil service office.
"Scrounger", "Milking our generosity", "We are a soft touch".
UPRISINGS have become a regular feature of the modern world. Twice in the last two months mass uprisings have toppled governments-in Bolivia and Georgia. Similar revolts have shaken every continent in the last five years.
"Posh vice-chancellor types". That was how the Guardian this week described the people behind Blair pushing for top-up fees for university students.
SUCCESSIVE WAVES of immigrants arriving in Britain have faced racism. Every week in Britain there are attacks on asylum seekers.