Far more is at stake for the future of education than the fate of the hapless Ruth Kelly. New Labour’s White Paper on schools signals a thoroughgoing assault on the principle of comprehensive education.
An act of cold-blooded murder. Not one Western leader would dispute that if it were 18 innocent people in London or New York who were blown apart in the early hours of last Friday.
Michael Rosen argues that Richard Dawkins’ new TV series, The Root Of All Evil, misunderstands the historical role of religion and those who practise it
London Underground bosses have been forced to come up with a new offer to resolve the dispute over staffing and safety which has led to two 24-hour strikes by station staff in the RMT union.
Some 370 members of the RMT union on Virgin’s Cross Country line struck last weekend, the third time they have held a one-day strike in a dispute over Sunday working.
About 1,500 people marched through Huddersfield town centre on Saturday of last week in a protest against hospital cuts. It was larger than the first protest before Christmas.
Up to 100 demonstrators from Nottingham Student Peace Group and Nottingham Stop the War forced Tony Blair to sneak into Labour’s national policy forum meeting through the back door last Saturday.
Construction workers at Heathrow airport’s Terminal 5 site were set to strike from Friday of this week to Tuesday of next week in an ongoing dispute over bonus pay.
Members of the T&G union struck at the Nylatex textile factory in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, last week.
Some 2,500 jobs are to be slashed at three Morrisons depots in the wake of the supermarket giant’s merger with Safeway.
Highways agency Highways agency staff this week began a campaign of industrial action over pay.
Following European wide strikes and a thousands strong demonstration that confronted the European Parliament in Strasbourg this week, MEPs have voted to reject the proposed Ports Services Directive by 532 to 120.
