The Tories’ latest plans for cancer and terminal care in Staffordshire exposes their vision for the future of the NHS.
Bitterness and anger are raging through the pit villages of Britain. But it is not, as the press would have us believe, directed at Arthur Scargill. The hatred which the miners and their families feel is for the Tories, the TUC and the Labour Party leadership.
Labour party leader Ed Miliband tried to pitch last week’s special conference as a great historic moment in Labour’s history.
The smear campaign in the right wing media against Labour over associations with paedophiles in the 1970s appears in a new light this week.
Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman says she is the victim of a “politically-motivated smear campaign” by the Daily Mail. She is right.
There have been protests, street barricades and battles with the police in Ukraine, Venezuela and Thailand.
Nasty right wing Ukip pushed the Tories into third place in the Wythenshawe by-election in Manchester last week.
Now that parts of their beloved Eton College are under flood water, you might expect even the Tories to get serious about climate change.
Ed Miliband should have dashed any remaining hopes in him with a speech on public services this week.
Boris Johnson and Michael Gove are in competition. They think David Cameron looks weak and they each have their eye on the top job in the Tory party.
Ed Miliband is pushing ahead with his plan to weaken the union link to Labour. The proposals need agreement at a special conference but it’s pretty much a done deal.
Events in the Middle East and North Africa have posed the question of what revolutions achieve. Media commentators are keen to point out that the prospect of a new military president means Egypt is reverting to “business as usual”.
