Hopes of a new agreement to replace the soon-to-expire 1997 Kyoto treaty on carbon emissions were fading this week.
When riots broke out in August, the Tories and the press rushed to explain them away. It was just looting by gang members, they declared, or "criminality, pure and simple" as David Cameron put it.
People from ethnic minorities who face court are more likely to be sentenced to prison than their white counterparts for certain categories of crime.
School managements in privatised academies can teach children for as many or as few days as they like.
The government’s constantly shifting plans for higher education funding have thrown students into chaos.
The gap between the rich and poor is soaring in rich countries—and it’s growing faster in Britain than anywhere else.
Banking giant HSBC has been fined £10.5 million. It will have to pay almost £30 million in compensation after one of its subsidiaries scammed thousands of older people out of their life savings.
The government has doubled the budget for ceremonies at the Olympic and Paralympic games. It has thrown another £41 million into the pot for shows on the opening and closing nights.
Christmas has come early for energy companies. They are paying the lowest wholesale rate for gas for a year. But the rest of us have seen a 21 percent increase in energy costs over the same period.
On Wednesday 30 November 2011 some 50,000 strikers and their supporters marched through central London to a rally on Embankment
It was a historic day. Britain’s biggest strike since 1926 saw the working class march firmly on to centre stage of the political arena.
George Osborne spat into the face of the working class last Tuesday.
