The government’s insistence that market reforms are the way forward for the NHS was exposed as the ideologically driven nonsense it is last week. Details emerged of how one of the flagship foundation hospitals sunk into financial crisis. Bradford Teaching Hospitals trust is over £11m in the red. Its chair has already been forced out.
MICHAEL HOWARD marked the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by calling for the reintroduction of quotas on refugees—the same policy that denied thousands of Jews refuge from persecution and the death camps.
THE SOUNDBITE that launched Blair’s election campaign last week—" an unremittingly New Labour third term"—is one that should send a chill down the spine of anyone who wants a just and fair society.
The feud between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown supposedly symbolises a historic clash of principles. Some union leaders and charities are pinning their hopes on the outcome. The feud is symptomatic of the crises that have beset New Labour’s inner core since it took us into the disastrous war on Iraq. But as for principled differences, there are none.
The speed and scale of the generosity of millions around the world in response to the tsunami disaster has been astonishing. Stories are emerging all the time of the lengths ordinary people have gone to in showing their solidarity.
George W Bush has authorised a major escalation of the war in Iraq.
THE IRAQI resistance is a response to the bitter reality of US and British occupation.
JOHN KERRY is fighting to rescue his bid for the US presidency. Incredibly, he has fallen behind George Bush in the opinion polls. This fall in support for Kerry hasn’t stopped a group of leading figures from the US left issuing an endorsement of Kerry, and a demand that independent candidate Ralph Nader stands down from the presidential race.
THREE YEARS on from 11 September 2001, three years after the declaration of George Bush’s "war on terror"—and the television screens are full of the horrors of Beslan.
Tony Woodley, the general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, has called for a "united front to win the next election" between the New Labour leadership and the trade unions.
The Anglo-American occupation of Iraq grows bloodier by the day. The shadow of a massacre is hanging over the city of Najaf, where thousands of Iraqis have rallied to prevent an assault by US forces.
HUNDREDS OF Iraqis dead. US and British troops under heavy fire. Oil prices shooting up. That’s not a description of the height of the war on Iraq. It has occurred during the last week in the "peace" that we are told reigns.
