The formation of a "grand coalition" government of the social democrats and Tories in Germany is a sign of the crisis gripping Europe’s elites.
New Labour announced this week that it will decide on whether to press ahead with a new generation of nuclear power plants by the end of the year.
Will Gordon Brown’s future replacement of Tony Blair as prime minister mean more than a change of decor at Number 10 and the inevitable ministerial purge?
To clear the way for proposed legislation threatening prosecution for anyone who "glorifies" or "justifies" terrorism, home secretary Charles Clarke is now burrowing through the history books working out what can be described as "terrorism" and what can be termed a justified rebellion against tyranny.
The immediate cause of last weekend’s loyalist riots in Northern Ireland was the prevention of an Orange Order march entering a Catholic area. These marches are about upholding sectarianism and reminding Catholics that they are traditionally second class citizens in the Northern Irish state.
Life had a price in New Orleans last week. The rich survived. The poor — and especially the black poor — were abandoned to their fate.
Tony Blair jetted back from holiday this week. Unabashed by his growing unpopularity, the New Labour spin factory was working overtime announcing that his return heralded a super-Blairite agenda for the coming year.
As the lies and disinformation put out by the Metropolitan Police are exposed the establishment is increasingly desperate to defuse the anger at the execution of Jean Charles de Menezes.
When you read of bullying Gate Gourmet bosses planning to sack a workforce, engineering a dispute, dismissing staff by megaphone, or delivering dismissal letters to workers off sick — does it ring a bell?
How many times must Tony Blair have daydreamed about how much easier life would be if Iraq and the anti-war movement went away? The draconian policies he announced last week are measures to cow and silence his critics. Britain already has a raft of policies to deal with terrorist offences.
Eight bullets pumped into a Brazilian electrician, a Sikh barrister wearing a turban stopped and searched on his way to court, other hourly injustices and humiliations.
IN THE wake of the London bombings on 7 July the political establishment and mainstream media declared war on anyone who dared to link bombs at home to bombs abroad, or to give a historical context to what had happened.
