Whatever the outcome of the elections in Israel, one thing is guaranteed – the Palestinians will find no respite from the endless war and oppression they face.
One is in jail for fraud. One is a convicted perjurer. One is a convicted arsonist and insurance fraudster. Some 92 are there only because of their thieving ancestors.
With the elections in Iraq behind them, warmongers in Britain and the US have been quick to declare once again, "mission accomplished". Iraq, they say, should become a model for democracy across the Middle East.
The Good Childhood Inquiry report commissioned by the Children’s Society tries to explain why children in Britain are the unhappiest in the developed world.
The Roman Catholic church has never been averse to taking reactionary positions on a whole range of political issues.
Foreign secretary David Miliband has welcomed Barack Obama’s decision to close Guantanamo Bay.
BBC executives came up with a thoroughly disingenuous excuse to justify their shameful refusal to broadcast the Disasters Emergency Committee’s appeal for Gaza. They claimed that broadcasting the appeal would have compromised the corporation’s "impartiality".
In a speech marking the tenth anniversary of the Macpherson report into the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, the equalities and human rights commissioner Trevor Phillips argued that the police should no longer be accused of institutional racism.
How our unions respond to job losses matters. Too often there is "disappointment" but little thought of action.
Herschel Grynszpan, a young Jewish man, walked into the German embassy in Paris in November 1938 and shot a Nazi diplomat dead.
No apology can alter the simple fact that Prince Harry calling one army colleague a "Paki" and another a "raghead" is racist and unacceptable. Thousands of people have heard those words as they became victims of racist violence and harassment.
Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyhu wrote that "militant Islam threatens us all". The Israeli state has lost the political and moral argument over its assault on Gaza just as it did over its invasion of Lebanon in 2006.
