The political turmoil in France sends us a chilling warning about what we could face in Britain under a Labour government led by Ed Miliband.
Ukip announced details of proposed polices last week. They include tax cuts for the wealthy and retaining the benefit cap which makes ordinary people suffer.
Despite having a black president and a black attorney general the US state remains profoundly racist.
Everyone who has seen footage of the terrible plight of the Yazidi people trapped on a mountainside in northern Iraq will have been moved.
The row over drugs pricing this week may have wiped six months off the lives of 1,500 women.
The news has been dominated by the outbreak of the First World War and Israel’s assault on Gaza.
David Cameron and Tory home secretary Theresa May posed for TV cameras last week in a house that the UK Border Agency had just raided.
The world is recoiling in horror at Israel’s mass murder in Gaza. More than a million people have marched in anger around the globe. Even some of Israel’s staunchest backers have gone pale at the scale of the bloodshed.
The Tories are boasting that the British economy has bounced back to where it was before the economic crash.
The Labour leadership’s pitch to voters for next year’s general election is that we need “big reform, not big spending”.
The news seems to drip with horror wherever you look.
Millions of people across the globe are rightly furious at Israel’s latest attacks on Gaza. They want to see an end to the killing.
