There can be little doubt that Margaret Thatcher’s election as Conservative prime minister 30 years ago and her period in power have had a major impact on British society – both politically and economically.
I’m not clear what "myth" Bob Fotheringham thinks he is challenging here. I agree that Thatcher was always deeply unpopular with most of the working class and was highly vulnerable down to the defeat of the Great Miners’ Strike – points in my original article. It is not helpful, however, to underestimate our enemies or refuse to recognise their achievements for the capitalist class, which in Thatcher’s case were considerable.
The case of Daniel Fitzsimons, a former British soldier facing the death penalty in Iraq, reveals a lot about the chaotic hell in which that country is mired.
ArmorGroup is just one of the "private security" contractors that have descended on Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime. These companies have won millions of pounds of contracts from the US and Britain, and private firms, to provide "security" in Iraq.
CIA agents carried out mock executions and threatened a prisoner with a gun and a power drill as part of the "war on terror".
Wootton Bassett, a market town near Swindon in the south west of England, is now synonymous with the terrible reality of Britain’s war in Afghanistan.
The European Union’s (EU) chief observer described last week’s elections in Afghanistan as "fair" but not "free".
One of London’s free newspapers, the London Paper, is to close.
Anxious students gathered outside Sir George Monoux College in Walthamstow, east London on Thursday of last week, as they did at colleges and sixth forms up and down Britain.
Staff at Brighton Housing Trust (BHT), a homeless people’s charity employing more than 200 workers across Sussex, walked out on a one-day strike on Wednesday of last week.
