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Russia was booted out of the elite club of rich economies on Monday of this week. 

This roller coaster of a play will have you crying one minute then howling with laughter a few minutes later.

This spin-off of spoof Olympics documentary Twenty Twelve takes on the BBC. There’s fun skewering of bureaucracy’s love of jargon, particularly from narrator David Tennant, and of petty workplace tyrants. But W1A might be letting a scandal-ridden institution of the establishment off too lightly. The first episode even pokes fun at those who speak out about discrimination.

Punk rock trio S*M*A*S*H made a song about killing the hated and discredited Tory government into a top 30 hit 20 years ago.

Cleaners and other outsourced workers at King’s College London are finally to be paid the London Living Wage of £8.80. The university initially agreed to pay staff the living wage in November 2010.

Some 200 people gathered at Sandwell Council in the West Midlands to lobby against significant cuts to youth services on Wednesday of last week.

Trade unionists and migrants took to the streets of London, Glasgow and Cardiff, reports Ken Olende

Unison union members in Glasgow City Council’s residential homes for older people have voted to accept an improved offer by 69 percent to 31 percent. 

The fascist Front National (FN) achieved its best ever results in a first round of France’s local elections last weekend.

Unison, Unite and GMB, the local government unions, are to begin an immediate consultation of their members over employers’ lousy 1 percent pay offer.

Staff in the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) in London and Manchester began a three-day strike on Tuesday of this week.

More than 100 probation workers in the Napo and Unison unions rallied in the centre of Sheffield on Thursday of last week against privatisation.