The recent media furore about the legal substance mephedrone—dubbed "meow meow" by the media—is another indication of the distance between government drugs policy and scientific fact.
Barack Obama’s health bill is the biggest welfare reform in the US since the 1960s. Another 32 million people will have health insurance.
The English Defence League (EDL) hoped that last Saturday in Bolton they could repeat their racist rampage in Stoke and the strutting arrogance of their march to parliament.
The Daily Mail claimed this week that, "Brown daren’t confront the BA union bullies. The reason? His party’s totally sold out to the red barons."
The shape of the main parties’ election campaign gets clearer every day. Gordon Brown will try to sound slightly less keen on cuts than the Tories.
DIVIDE AND rule is a key weapon in the bosses’ armoury. We must not let them use it in their battle to impose cuts.
The return of Jon Venables to jail for breaching his parole licence has created a storm in the right wing media. Venables and Robert Thompson killed two year old James Bulger in 1993, when they were just ten.
THE TORIES are far less certain of winning the election than they were a month ago. Opinion polls have shown their lead over Labour falling as low as 2 percent.
Monday is International Women’s Day. It’s a chance to assess the struggles in the past and those yet to come.
The prime minster does not hit people, he says. It says something about the state of British politics that Brown not hitting people has dominated the news for days.
There's a chance to pull together the fightback over cuts and job losses early next month.
The results of a survey this week about rape led to much media comment—and baffled reactions about the attitudes it recorded among people in Britain.
