The killing of Bin Laden will not stop terrorism any more than the preceding ten years of the "war on terror" did. It may even increase it.
It looked like the rulers across the Middle East and North Africa might fall like nine-pins in January and February.
The Tories are calling the Liberal Democrats "whingers" and "yapping dogs". The Liberals are calling the Tories liars.
Greece is being buffeted around in the financial markets as speculation grows that it will default on its huge debts.
Austerity doesn’t work. The Greeks tried it—and they are now in danger of defaulting on their loans. Portugal tried it—and it has now had to ask for a bailout of up to 80 billion euros.
The media want us to believe that the revolutionary wave is over—that Tunisia and Egypt were the end of it, not the start.
Covering your face in public in France is now illegal. Muslim women in France who choose to wear a niqab, or face veil, in public face arrest and a fine of 150 euros.
There is a growing consensus in the global ruling class on the need for cuts.
The Tories are in crisis over the NHS. They are running scared of mass opposition to their plans to hand over health service funding to GPs.
The nuclear industry is dangerous, expensive and corrupt—and the Tories are hellbent on making it even worse.
Has the world gone mad? If you switch on your television and watch the news you could be forgiven for thinking so. We are faced with war, nuclear disaster and economic crisis.
Every plan to build a nuclear plant in every country across the world should be stopped—now. And all existing plants should be shut down. That’s the message we should take from the horrific events in Japan.
