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THE THREAT of a strike over the bank holiday weekend has forced British Airways (BA) management to give significant concessions over pay.

THE FAMILY of Gordon Gentle, a 19 year old British soldier from Pollok in Glasgow who was killed in Iraq on 28 June, launched a campaign last week demanding that all British troops leave Iraq.

‘I think anger is a good word to describe how we feel. He’d gone there thinking it was not a war zone.

KEY WORKERS at British Airways (BA) have called a one-day strike over the bank holiday period unless the company improves its pay offer.

HUNDREDS OF Iraqis dead. US and British troops under heavy fire. Oil prices shooting up. That’s not a description of the height of the war on Iraq. It has occurred during the last week in the "peace" that we are told reigns.

IT ISN’T just Britain that is experiencing a crisis of New Labour style politics.

SkinnyMan has been a stalwart of the underground British hip-hop scene for years, working with his crew Mud Family.

INEQUALITY IN Britain today is much worse than when New Labour came to power—and that’s according to figures from a Blairite think-tank.

NOT EVEN 10 Downing Street can pretend that democracy is working in Britain. Just 59 percent of those eligible to vote did so at the last general election—the second lowest figure in Europe.

PILES OF rubbish, blood and vomit left on floors, filthy wards—that is the legacy of privatisation in Britain’s hospitals.

TONY BLAIR says 5,000 British troops are poised to intervene in Darfur, western Sudan.

IT’S MERCURY Music Prize nominations time again. So the papers have been gushing about how music in Britain is incredibly rich and varied.