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Home secretary Theresa May has brought in an immediate cap on the number of workers able to enter Britain – and suggested that in future employers might have to get private health insurance for migrant workers.

British Airways is recruiting a new workforce so it can get rid of existing cabin crew.

The cuts planned by the Tories will cause up to 38,000 extra deaths in Britain over the next ten years due to their impact on poor people’s health and stress levels.

Human Rights Watch published a report this week that says Britain has "pursued a series of counter-terrorism policies that undermine the absolute prohibition on torture".

The conflict in Northern Ireland did not begin with Bloody Sunday in 1972. It didn’t even begin with the partition of Ireland into north and south fifty years earlier.

The annual conference of Britain’s biggest public sector union, Unison, met last week.

Some think that British history is one of peaceful, gradual reform. This feeds the myth that we have benevolent rulers who act in our interests—or who can be pressured into acting in our interests.

The death of the 300th British soldier in Afghanistan this week marks yet another milestone in a bloody pointless war that has killed thousands of Afghan civilians.

If David Cameron seriously believed that slaughtering unarmed civilians is wrong, he would cancel the imminent deployment of the Parachute Regiment to Afghanistan, where in the past year, around 2,000 civilians have been killed by US and British troops.

BT workers across Britain in the CWU union are voting on strikes over pay.

The Unite union is to ballot cabin crew at British Airways for a third round of strikes.

Thousands of trade unionists, anti-cuts campaigners, students and pensioners protested across Britain on Tuesday against the Tories’ budget cuts.