There is a land where New Labour stands for socialism, a land where the party’s founder Keir Hardie is held up as an icon.
George Bush arrived in Romania for a Nato summit this week backing applications from Ukraine and Georgia to join the US-led military alliance. The expansion of Nato to Russia’s borders has been key to the "new Cold War" between the US and Russia.
You know the economy is in trouble when even the Bank of England starts to panic. Mervyn King, the Bank’s governor, did just that this week.
Tory leader David Cameron has appointed a trade union envoy. Richard Balfe, a former Labour MEP, has been sent off to talk to general secretaries and sell the Tory message to the eight million plus union members in Britain.
New Labour has a well deserved reputation for "burying bad news". During budget week earlier this month the government released its report into health inequalities in Britain since 1997. Its damning verdict was that life expectancy and child mortality for poorer people has got worse since Labour came to power.
It was just one more crisis in the constant turmoil in the financial sector – last week Britain’s biggest mortgage lender, HBOS, nearly went bust. Someone started rumours that the bank was in trouble – and then bet on the falling share price. One speculator is thought to have made £100 million.
The chief inspector of prisons called last week for a privately run child prison to be shut due to alarming levels of restraint used against children.
Every politician in Britain proudly proclaims himself or herself a democrat.
In the days leading up to the invasion of Iraq five years ago, while much of the media was banging the drums of war, the anti-war movement warned of coming catastrophe.
This week has seen a disgraceful betrayal of disabled workers at Remploy. Some 28 factories are closing and thousands are losing their jobs.
Home secretary Jacqui Smith has announced that ID cards are to become compulsory for "foreign nationals" – people in Britain from outside the European Union.
People across the world are rightly horrified at the appalling violence and cruelty that has been meted out by Israel’s armed forces against the Palestinian population of Gaza.
