The Chinese army is invading the US through tunnels beneath the Pacific Ocean and is planting atomic bombs under military bases. So ran the plot of a 1967 B-movie, Battle Beneath the Earth.
This week saw the release of the Reach report into "raising the aspirations and attainment of black boys and young black men".
The crisis caused by last week’s foot and mouth outbreak shines a light on the chaos of food production.
How to appear to be a breath of fresh air after the bad old days of Tony Blair – while maintaining the hated man’s policies? That’s the central conundrum of Gordon Brown’s premiership.
Four rich people lent millions to the Labour party. They were nominated for peerages. No crime was committed.
If you lie through your teeth and unleash hell on the people of Iraq and Afghanistan you receive a standing ovation in parliament and are appointed "peacemaker for the Middle East".
A debate on US withdrawal from Iraq has suddenly erupted inside the White House. Support for the Iraq war is haemorrhaging among Republican senators – forcing Pentagon chief Robert Gates to cancel a trip to Latin America.
The South African mass public sector workers’ strike ended last week with much improved pay rises for over a million workers.
"China overtakes the US in carbon dioxide emissions," ran the headlines last week after a Dutch environmental agency released a report placing China as the world’s number one producer of greenhouse gases.
The news that child poverty is once more on the rise is a tribute to Gordon Brown’s decade at the treasury.
If anyone thought that Margaret Hodge's recent jibes against immigrants were a one-off, a series of pronouncements last week by senior New Labour figures should tell you which way the wind is blowing.
As the G8 leaders gather on the Baltic there is a growing realisation that we face two threats to the future. One is from global warming. The other is the renewed threat of a nuclear war.
