The media rightly vilified right wing evangelist Terry Jones over his plan to burn Qurans on the anniversary of 9/11.
The TUC trade union congress meets from this weekend in the context of an onslaught of cuts from the Tory government. The key question it faces is how to respond to government attacks.
Tory education secretary Michael Gove’s flagship policies are a flop.
Bob Holman has a point about the Labour Party.
War criminal Tony Blair enjoyed a high-level dinner with US president Barack Obama as his memoirs, titled A Journey, were published this week.
The Daily Express newspaper lied about climate change once again this week.
THE DEPUTY prime minister and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg was extolling the virtues of social mobility last week. He chose to do so while making pizzas at a children’s centre in Shepherd’s Bush in West London.
In the last week we have seen those with power scapegoating those without it—over the proposed mosque in New York, the Notting Hill Carnival, the Roma expulsion in France and attacks on the welfare state in Britain.
Israel’s barbaric attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla at the end of May caused outrage around the world. Many more people realised Israel was an aggressor, not a victim.
The Tories’ U-turn over free milk for under-fives made the government look weak and disorganised last weekend.
Derek Simpson, joint general secretary of the Unite union, believes it’s better to abandon the working class to the pain of the Tory cuts than to fight back with strikes.
