"Torture flights", carrying US detainees overseas to be tortured, are passing through Glasgow Prestwick Airport, Ayrshire.
The Turner report on pensions has unleashed a key battle in British politics.
While the full details were not completely clear at the beginning of this week there is no doubt that the government has announced a very serious attack on the local government pension scheme.
Millions of pensioners abandoned It's not just tomorrow’s pensioners that Turner savaged. Pensioners groups hit out as the full details became clear.
"It’s my business so why should I do it as a charity? If you asked the Hilton just to run the food and beverage side of a hotel, they would say no and in education we will say no."Sunny Varkey, whose Gems company runs 13 private schools and now wants to run state schools for profit, on why he rejects accepting charity status which limits profits
This weekend's International Peace Conference in London must be a springboard for extending the anti-war movement into the New Year.
One of the activists coming to Britain for the International Peace Conference is Cindy Sheehan, whose son — US soldier Casey Sheehan — was killed in Iraq.
I was one of a delegation of trade unionists that joined up to 100,000 people marching in Dublin on Friday of last week in support of the workers occupying two Irish Ferries ships in Welsh ports.
Workers at Irish Ferries occupied two ships last week to prevent the company’s attempt to sack 550 staff and replace them with agency workers from Eastern Europe working an 84-hour week for £2.40 an hour.
Campaigners to save Omar Deghayes, the British Guantanamo detainee currently on hunger strike, went to the US embassy on Tuesday of last week. They delivered documents and a petition calling for him to be charged or released into British jurisdiction.
The student union at Imperial College, part of the University of London, voted on Thursday of last week to oppose the new dress code being imposed on campus by university authorities.
Striking caretakers in the Unison union at Huddersfield Technical College entered their fourth week of indefinite action on Monday.
