New Labour has admitted it faces heavy losses in the 4 May local elections. Ministers and MPs have been asked to go out and personally deliver the party’s leaflets.
There is a lot resting on the outcome of the pensions fight in Britain and the uprising in France against the new labour code.
It is easy to see why you would want to bung New Labour a million pounds if you were a billionaire. A dozen of them lent £14 million to fund Tony Blair’s general election campaign. Rod Aldridge, chief executive of Capita, was one. By sheer coincidence Capita gets lucrative contracts from the government.
Is this Tony Blair’s Ramsay MacDonald moment? Some 75 years ago Labour’s premier relied on Tory votes to push through cuts in unemployment benefit as the Great Depression gripped the country.
The Liberal Democrats are keen to present themselves as the "realistic" choice for those who want to express their dissatisfaction with Tony Blair, over his war in Iraq and so much more. That was the case in the recent Dunfermline West by-election, which the Lib Dems unexpectedly won by posing as a left alternative to Labour.
It is a shameful fact that 36 years after the Equal Pay Act women earn an average of 17 percent less than men.
"Not only are whites kicking us, they are telling us how to react to being kicked."
Government ministers have condemned the video that shows British troops beating Iraqi teenagers – talking about "a few rotten apples".
The Pentagon defence report this week showed the voracious appetite of the US military and its political backers.
Tony Blair doesn’t want you to read about a trial over the leaking of a secret document that you can’t read, detailing a conversation the government denies ever took place.
Tony Blair's speech on Monday, in which he stated his determination to press ahead with the planned education bill, shows he wants to use his final months in office to drive neo-liberalism into every corner of our lives.
London mayor Ken Livingstone chose a dinner at the Mansion House in the City of London last week to launch an attack on the rail union, the RMT. An audience of financiers gave him an ovation when he told them he "had not the slightest intention" of conceding to the union in the staffing dispute on London Underground as this would be "rewarding bad behaviour".
