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There have been many calls recently for an end to the testing regime for pupils in our schools up to the age of 16. Because of this an opportunity has opened up for teacher activists to liberate spaces in the curriculum.

Paines Plough is one of the country’s best known touring theatre companies. It is dedicated to discovering, developing and producing new contemporary works for the theatre.

Daily Encounters is a new exhibition of British newspaper photography that has just opened at the National Portrait Gallery in central London. This, taken in 1945, shows a Daily Express journalist taking a "truth drug" as part of an investigation into CIA experiments.

Kelvedon Festival Saturday 14 July, FreeThe Recreation Ground Kelvedon, Essex

Don Letts, DJ Pioneering musician, filmmaker and DJ Don Letts made his name playing reggae to the emerging punk scene in London the mid-1970s.

The 1970s moved from intense struggle between workers and bosses to bitter disillusionment with Labour, mass unemployment and defensive fights to protect services.

Labour can’t be fixed Those former comrades of mine in the Labour Party (now New Labour), who were waiting for an opportunity to change the direction of their party, should now think carefully about how much longer they are prepared to wait.

When Michael Manley and his People’s National Party (PNP) were elected in Jamaica for a second term in December 1976, all who challenged imperialism and racism walked tall.

The pressure for a decent pay rise for more than a million workers in the NHS rose this week as Unison, the biggest health service union, announced it would ballot its members for action unless the government improved its paltry 2.5 percent pay offer.

The BBC Proms each summer offers a treasure trove of great (and sometimes rarely played) music performed by the cream of today’s musicians – with ticket prices lower than the cinema.

It was a festival with so many highlights and different features.

The war in Iraq will last over ten years according to the commander of US troops there, General David Petraeus.