Lively pickets were out in force as 600 social care workers in Glasgow started an indefinite strike on Tuesday. The mood was very confident as up to 30 strikers joined each picket line across the city.
Around 200 residential and daycare workers working for Fremantle in Barnet, north London, struck for 24 hours on Monday and Tuesday of this week. This follows another 24 hour strike earlier this month.
There is tide of change against the war among the families of US soldiers serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Anger is growing at the government's handling of the recent floods. Gordon Brown staged a high profile visit to flood-hit areas earlier this week. He promised help for those affected.
A parliamentary committee has rung alarm bells over Afghanistan, warning that the occupation faces defeat unless the war is escalated.
George Galloway was barred from defending himself in parliament after questioning the motives of those conducting a witch-hunt against him.
The government's much heralded green paper on housing was finally released on Monday. Behind ministers' talk of new homes and "social housing", the reality is the same reliance on the market and private finance that created the housing crisis in the first place.
A North Yorkshire NHS trust has announced plans to axe 600 staff – a third of its workforce – in a bid to save more than £28 million.
New Labour won the Ealing Southall by-election on Thursday of last week, but its majority was slashed almost in half. The Tories came a humiliating third.
It's not often that I agree with Gordon Brown, but I was amazed to read in June that he said, "In the fourth richest country in the world, it is simply wrong that any child should grow up in poverty." I couldn't agree more.
