In 2006, Cpl Donald Payne was the first British soldier to be convicted of a war crime in this country under the International Criminal Court Act 2001. His crime was the inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners held by British Forces in Southern Iraq in September 2003. He received...
I beg your indulgence, a few paragraphs following are history, but persevere and you’ll see the relevance soon. The world changed in the eighties. Until then, the world was a better, more compassionate place. People were happy to do their job for satisfaction’s sake, and a living wage. Greed...
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Reasons for optimism
A weak pound made British products cheaper, helping exporters.
A powerful stock market rally boosted confidence .
Unemployment rises have been smaller than forecast.
Markets have welcomed Coalition efforts to tackle the deficit.
Reasons for pessimism
The Government has embarked on savage public spending cuts that...
Dramatisation of Columbine Massacre
On Friday morning, 27 people were reportedly shot and killed at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, CT. According to sources, 18 of these casualties were children. This is the second mass shooting in the US this week, after a gunman opened fire in an Oregon...
This is a difficult post to write, but I think it has to be written. So please, don’t make the mistake of thinking what I’m about to say means my heart isn’t breaking at the tragic loss of lives in yet another US school shooting. As I write, the...
Employee voice is becoming increasingly important in the modern economy. If a company does not listen to its workforce, it will not succeed. As Brendan Barber explains “the voice of employees, individually and collectively, represents the day to day experience and views of those who really do know what...
07415 063231 | 07572 594128 UK Uncut successfully targets Starbucks over tax avoidance and impact of government cuts on women Over 40 protests across the UK take place at Starbucks shops today, in UK Uncut’s biggest day of action Protesters stage sit-ins and transform Starbucks into refuges, crèches and...
Self-regulation of the press isn't working, as Lord Justice Leveson has conceded. But while his proposals would certainly be an improvement on the status quo, providing the new regulatory body has sufficient resources to do investigations and deliver prompt judgements, like many I feel uneasy with the suggestion that self-regulation...
It’s very obvious why David Cameron doesn’t want to implement the Leveson recommendations. Whatever he says about wanting to protect the freedom of the press, his motives are anything but altruistic. As I understand them, Lord Justice Leveson’s recommendations appear to protect the press from government control and undue...
Lambeth Council leader Steve Reed’s comprehensive victory in last night's Croydon North by-election gave the Co-operative Party its highest ever total of sponsored MPs at Westminster. Standing as the Labour/Co-op candidate in the election caused by the death of popular former MP Malcolm Wicks, Mr Reed took almost 65...
