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David Willetts held 12 meetings with private education firms before publishing the white paper.

A strike by health workers in Northern Ireland last week gave a glimpse of what Britain will look like during the coordinated strikes on 30 November.

Activists plan to bring the spirit of the US and Spanish demos to Britain this Saturday.

David Cameron claims the Tories are "firing up the engines of the British economy" by encouraging people to buy their own homes.

The British National Party tried demonstrating last night (Thursday) outside Liverpool Arts Centre where this week's BBC Question Time was being recorded.

IT was 1936 and fascism was spreading across Europe. Adolf Hitler had become chancellor of Germany. Benito Mussolini had seized control in Italy. Franco was on the march in Spain. And the British Union of Fascists (BUF) was trying to do the same in Britain.

Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BUF) were known as the Blackshirts because of their military-style uniforms.

The Tory plans for our schools are tantamount to going "back to Victorian times". That’s the stark conclusion of Melissa Benn, a writer and campaigner for comprehensive education.

Ten people who were imprisoned after the riots in Britain this August appealed against their sentences on Monday of this week.

Western business interests have arrived in Libya. Lord Green, minister for trade and investment, led a British delegation including representatives of BP and Shell for talks in the capital Tripoli on Monday.

The prospect of a Britain closed by a public sector general strike took a giant step forwards last week. Up to 3 million workers could strike over pensions in November after union leaders announced raft of new ballots.

The British government is at the heart of attempts to create a new system that would enable bosses to employ migrant workers on the wages and conditions of their country of origin.