Monday, March 31, 2008

Unions should act on asylum rights

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The sinister underside of New Labour’s racist, dehumanising immigration policy came to light at a trade union and community conference over ...
Friday, March 28, 2008

Send for Dr Who!

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Regulate! Regulate! Regulate! This is the cry heard with increasing stridency on both sides of the Atlantic as the global financial crisis c...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

An Anglo-French nuclear nightmare

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The very concept of a “nuclear renaissance” is such an assault on the senses that it seems that only a madman could come up with it. Yet tod...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Credit chain breaks at weakest link

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Hedge funds are not just investment opportunities open only to wealthy individuals. They also apparently come in the shape of Iceland. Now, ...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

The hidden unholy alliance

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The backlash from senior religious figures against the human fertilisation and embryology Bill before parliament should not be allowed to ob...
Thursday, March 20, 2008

No security against climate change

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New Labour’s characterisation of climate change as a “security threat”, second only to terrorism in the pecking order, indicates how the sta...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Iraq: America's nightmare

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Exactly five years ago, US and British forces embarked on an illegal pre-emptive war on Iraq with the stated aim of bringing “freedom and de...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Policies for a crisis without precedent

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The global financial crisis, which this weekend claimed the giant investment bank Bear Stearns and led to a hysterical response on world sto...
Monday, March 17, 2008

Tibet: Brown puts trade before human rights

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While China is desperate to present a benign image to the world in anticipation of the summer Olympics, the brutal crackdown on Tibetans det...
Friday, March 14, 2008

Prayers as 'the great unwinding' claims another casualty

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Guests on last night’s Newsnight (BBC2) talked about a ‘crumbling house of cards built by the capitalist financial system’. They weren’t tal...
Thursday, March 13, 2008

E.ON calls the tune

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Alistair Darling’s failure to keep his pledge to put “sustainability at the heart of his budget” may have disappointed campaign groups like ...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Goldsmith's allegiance to the state

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As we approach the fifth anniversary of the occupation of Iraq, it is indeed ironic that the man who now tells us that an oath of allegiance...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

The surveillance Olympics

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If gold medals were awarded for surveillance, then Britain will win a hatful at the 2012 Games. The Metropolitan Police hopes to use no fewe...
Monday, March 10, 2008

Clegg sounds the alarm bells

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Media pundits made fun of the Liberal Democrats’ new leader, Nick Clegg, when he split his party over the European Union treaty referendum v...
Friday, March 07, 2008

American dream in tatters

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The first fall in US household wealth in five years reveals the growing impact of a financial and economic crisis that will be felt by every...
Thursday, March 06, 2008

Shelter strike for the homeless

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The charity Shelter was founded 1966 in response to the television play ‘Cathy Come Home’. The powerful drama brought to a head widespread a...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

A profit-and-loss government

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You can’t argue that this government hasn’t got its priorities clear. New Labour commits up to £100 billion to propping up the failed Northe...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

The railroading begins

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With Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama facing a crucial day in their campaign to win the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, organise...
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Monday, March 03, 2008

A murderous smokescreen

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The Israelis have done this so many times before that it’s hard to find the appropriate words to describe their latest murderous onslaught i...
Friday, February 29, 2008

New drugs 'strategy', same result

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Another week, another government “10-year strategy” aimed at grabbing the tabloid headlines with get-tough policies that might even pull in ...