Not very long ago, being a "professional" in a public service – like social work, teaching, or nursing – generally meant that you were less likely to be a trade unionist than if you were a skilled worker in a manufacturing industry.
A deal to hand over hundreds of acres of beautiful coastline in north east Scotland to golf-loving US billionaire Donald Trump is causing what started as a local planning dispute to spill over into a major crisis about the nature of democracy in Scotland.
Turkish warplanes launched air raids on Iraqi Kurdish villagers in an escalation of its war on Kurdish militants. The raids were conducted with the connivance of the US military.
Labour's housing minister Yvette Cooper is taking her stated aim of wanting "to widen access to home ownership and help more people build up assets" literally.
Pro-choice campaigners are preparing for a battle to defend abortion rights. Abortion rights have recently come under attack from two amendments put to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, currently in the House of Lords.
Lord Levy, former prime minister Tony Blair's personal fundraiser, tried to stop publication of a crucial piece of evidence in the cash for honours affair.
Former MSP and long standing socialist campaigner Tommy Sheridan has been arrested and charged with perjury.
The Nato occupation of Afghanistan is in deep trouble with the Western military alliance facing defeat unless it sends thousands more troops, tanks and warplanes to crush the resistance.
A Muslim teenager was stabbed to death in Dewsbury on Saturday of last week.
Some 14,000 people have been randomly stopped and searched under anti-terror laws in Scotland since the attack at Glasgow airport in June, according to figures released last week.
World leaders had ample opportunity to make serious commitments to tackle global warming at last week’s climate change summit in Bali, Indonesia. But they failed to take that chance.
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