As the number of home repossessions rises, the scandal of empty homes is also increasing – there are almost 900,000 empty homes in Britain.
US president-elect Barack Obama has put forward a "stimulus" package for the US economy that makes chancellor Alistair Darling’s pre-budget proposals taste like weak milky tea.
The Tories and the Murdoch press are crying out that Britain will face bankruptcy in a few years thanks to Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling’s supposed extravagance in this week’s pre-budget report. They claim our children’s future is threatened.
Over half of adults in Britain believe that children behave like "animals" and over a third think that "something needs to be done to protect us from children".
New figures showing the complete failure of Labour's policies on equal pay were released last week.
Sixteen top police officers responsible for a vicious raid and the illegal detention and torture of scores of anti-G8 campaigners in Genoa eight years ago walked free from an Italian court last week.
When Gordon Brown condemned excessive bonuses, perhaps he meant the £10 million bonus given to consultancy firm CLM last year.
The Bank of England announced a record interest rate cut of 1.5 percent last Thursday – cutting interest rates to their lowest level since 1955.
On Tuesday of last week – the night of the US elections – Ehud Barak, the Israeli defence minister, ordered an attack on the Gaza Strip designed to scupper a truce that gave a welcome respite to the suffering of Palestinians.
As unemployment mounts, the refrain from management and media pundits is that you are lucky to have a job and should, therefore, accept below-inflation wage increases.
The people of the US were heading to the polls to vote for their new president as Socialist Worker went to press. All the early indications were that Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate, is set to sweep aside his Republican rival John McCain.
British justice last week delivered another blow against the Chagos Islanders when the law lords voted by three to two against their right to return home.
