The poorest people in Britain are getting less money than when Labour won the last election. Devastating new official figures show that Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have utterly failed to combat poverty.
Three months have gone by since the Boxing Day tsunami battered the coastal regions of Sri Lanka. To mark this passage of time, the bereaved have given alms in remembrance of their loved ones. But amid the rekindled grief — and despite the talk of reconstruction — ordinary people still fear for the future.
In a new threat to civil liberties, an arms company is attempting to use anti-stalking legislation to undermine the right to protest.
The extradition hearing for Babar Ahmad, the IT worker from south London threatened with deportation to the US, resumes on Monday 18 April. Babar faces trumped up terrorism charges if deported.
The election held in Iraq in January was hailed as the birth of a new democratic process.
"They turned night into day, and day into night. We realised they are not coming to liberate this town."
BBC UNIONS are set to ballot for strike action unless director general Mark Thompson halts plans to slash 3,700 jobs.
Respect activists have hit the ground running in Sheffield. They are preparing for the general election, expected to take place on Thursday 5 May.
Campaigning in East London The campaign to get George Galloway MP re-elected to parliament on a Respect ticket in Bethnal Green & Bow, east London, started in earnest last weekend. Some 30 Respect activists set up a stall in Roman Road market, one of the most vibrant and mixed parts of the constituency. "There was a fantastic turnout from Respect activists, and our tabloids were being distributed everywhere," says Jackie Turner from Tower Hamlets Respect. The Labour Party also briefly turned up to set up a stall, but soon shuffled off. "We outnumbered the opposition by at least six to one," says Jackie.
We should have had a strike by 1.25 million workers over pensions last week. The events leading up to the decision to call off that strike show the potential, and the problems, of the British trade union movement.
Blair has conceded talks, but nothing on the substance of the pensions issue yet.
