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Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has said that the British government gave "tacit approval of whatever we were doing" when torturing British citizens as part of the "war on terror".

Len McCluskey, general secretary of the Unite union, says he has held "positive" talks with new British Airways (BA) boss Keith Williams.

Unite, Britain’s biggest union, will hold key elections from Friday of next week.

Muslims are demonised for every ill in society. We are told that they refuse to fit in, don’t speak enough English, don’t adopt British values and harbour extremists.

From the "diplomatic team" of spies captured in Libya to the senior common rooms of elite universities, the role of corporations and imperialism in propping up Colonel Gaddafi has come to light.

A key link in the complex relationships is the LSE Ideas centre. None of the Libyan cash ended up there, but it is nonetheless an interesting establishment.

The new BBC series The British at Work is infuriating.

Thousands of people have taken to the streets across Britain again in the last week to protest against government and council cuts.

People have protested in many parts of Britain against their councils’ plans to make massive budget cuts, which would devastate lives.

University lecturers across Britain have voted for strikes to defend their jobs, pay and pensions.

Support for Arab revolt helps fight in Britain A packed meeting in solidarity with the Egyptian revolution at my work last week shows the strength of feeling about the issue in Britain—and I’m sure others could follow our example.

This is the first of a four-part series, exploring the post-war British workplace covering seven decades of turbulent change.