There is talk of a renewed "Brown bounce" ahead of next week’s Glenrothes by-election as polls show increasing support for Gordon Brown’s handling of the economic crisis.
Our rulers are using the global recession as an excuse to cut back on measures to tackle climate change.
Some commentators have taken recent noises emanating from Downing Street as an indication of a "leftwards shift" by the government.
In May 2004, Tony Blair told MPs that neither he nor any member of his government knew anything about the torture of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison.
We are all Keynesians now, it seems. Last week chancellor Alistair Darling proclaimed, "Much of what Keynes wrote still makes sense." Not so long ago this would have been heresy.
New Labour’s love affair with big business goes back a lot further than Gordon Brown’s bailout for the banks.
Last Friday several hundred demonstrators in the City of London grabbed headlines in Britain and around the world.
In what has been billed as the greatest comeback since Lazarus, Gordon Brown has been hailed as the architect of the latest international rescue plan for global capitalism.
You would think that the middle of an economic crisis would be the worst time to argue to lift the cap on top-up fees for students.
It would cost roughly $375 billion to clear the debt of the world’s 49 poorest countries and $2.9 trillion to end all "Third World debt", according to Jubilee Debt Campaign figures.
An intractable economic crisis. A discredited Labour government. A pervasive sense of bitterness, anger and fear across the working class. It’s no wonder that many commentators are comparing current events with those of the late 1970s.
You might have thought George Bush’s administration had enough on its hands with the financial meltdown, but last week it was announced that the US air force is pressing ahead with a new generation of "intelligent" cluster bombs.
