The fascist British National Party (BNP) has attempted over the past few years to rebrand itself as a "respectable" party of the mainstream.
These are turbulent times for the government’s deeply unpopular national ID card scheme.
The largest manufacturer of wind turbines in the world is going to close its only factory in Britain. Is it because the company, Vestas, isn’t profitable? No – the firm’s quarterly profits have risen by 70 percent.
The end of the British occupation of southern Iraq was accompanied with the usual pomp and circumstance.
New Labour is openly saying it expects a drubbing in next month’s European elections. Socialists and anti-fascists have to make every effort to stop the BNP benefiting from growing unemployment, and the establishment parties championing cuts in services.
Events in Pakistan last week offered a stark reminder of why the "war on terror" will not go away.
Western politicians and journalists were queuing up to denounce the speech delivered by the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at the United Nations anti-racism conference earlier this week.
The 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster has led to renewed calls for official documents relating to the day to be made public.
Transport minister Lord Adonis was travelling round Britain by train this week to get "first hand experience" of the rail service.
One of the first scandals to hit the New Labour government came in 1998. Members of Tony Blair’s inner circle were caught on tape boasting about how they could sell access to government ministers and create tax breaks for their clients.
Workers occupying to save jobs are hit with eviction orders and court summons. Even workers who have voted by 83 percent for strikes find themselves threatened with the courts.
Western leaders love to lecture countries in the Global South about "good governance". Corruption, they say, is holding you back.
