"Home by Christmas" was how Gordon Brown’s announcement of troop withdrawal was spun following his visit to Iraq.
The British media heralded the capture of Musa Qala, a town in Helmand province which has been under Taliban control for ten months, as a decisive turning point in the war in Afghanistan.
James Yee served in the US army and was posted as a Muslim chaplain to Guantanamo Bay.
Family and friends of Omar Deghayes – the Brighton man incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay for six years – are greeting with cautious optimism media reports that he and three other British detainees are soon to be released.
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Up to 80,000 workers in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) struck for two days last week, bringing jobcentres, the pensions service and the Child Support Agency grinding to a halt.
"Things have started to change on the buses in the last year," says a driver at the East London Bus Company. "There seems to be a bit more courage for a fight."
Mental health workers in Manchester reacted with anger to the decision of their NHS trust this week to uphold the sacking of leading union activist and psychiatric nurse Karen Reissmann.
Gordon Brown’s government is pushing ahead with plans to further extend the period that terrorism suspects can be held without charge.
The first shots in a battle to roll back women’s rights to abortion have been fired in the House of Lords.
Gordon Brown and his chancellor Alistair Darling are breaking another promise – this time over 120,000 pension robbery victims.
The Newcastle businessman at the centre of the Labour party donations scandal had a planning application fast tracked under a scheme the government is now pushing across the country.
