Some of the tabloids are attacking model and escort Josie Cunningham for wanting an abortion. She has judged that having another child will get in the way of her career. She’s right. And that’s the real problem.
The Tories are leading an attack on workers to pay for a crisis that the rich caused.
The United Nations panel of climate change scientists has urged rapid action to bring down greenhouse gas emissions or face disaster. Yet to read much of the British press, you’d think they’d thrown their weight behind David Cameron’s plans to roll out fracking for shale gas across Britain.
When the police are in trouble, the establishment is in trouble.
Warmonger and former prime minister Tony Blair showed his contempt for ordinary people this week.
The success of the NUT union’s national teachers’ strike last week shows what’s possible when workers get organised. There was a mood of confidence and defiance on picket lines, rallies and demos in many towns and cities.
The first same sex marriages in Britain took place last week after it was finally legalised. Thousands of LGBT people will have celebrated after years of being denied the right to take part in a ritual that is held up as the greatest thing two people can aspire to, simply on the basis of their sexuality.
Labour party leader Ed Miliband has said that he “relishes” the close fight with the Tories in the run-up to next year’s general election. Some polls now put Labour and the Tories only one point apart. This is after four years of devastating cuts by a government of millionaires regularly seen to be acting in the interest of millionaires.
The crisis over police corruption won’t go away. Revelations that a lorry-load of secret files detailing corruption was shredded have kept police chiefs in the spotlight. Former Met commissioners Lord Stevens and Lord Blair have been asked by the Home Affairs Select Committee how much they knew about the shredding.
Whatever the Tory spin all we are offered is more of the same—cuts. Chancellor George Osborne only has one plan, and that’s piling years more of austerity on ordinary people.
Ed Miliband says he has declared war on inequality. The Labour leader hopes to benefit from the widespread anger at the growing gap between the rich and poor in Britain.
There had already been a series of racist murders in south east London when Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in Well Hall Road over two decades ago.
