Despite the avalanche of propaganda from Western media outlets, not least the disgraceful coverage by our own BBC, attempts to paint Palestinians on the Gaza strip as aggressors and terrorists are failing. Instead, growing revulsion at Israel’s continuing bombardment of the most densely populated area on earth is almost...
UNISON members at Southampton Council may have won their hard-fought battle over pay this year. But they now face a new crisis. In order to bridge a £23m drop in government grant, the new Labour administration is proposing to reduce its workforce by up to 325. Some services are...
Hats off to fullfact.org for their tireless exposure of the lies in the gutter press about there being 120,000 ‘problem’ families in the UK. By gutter press, I’m referring of course to The Sun, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Daily Star, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Daily Express,...
Today the Mail on Sunday did a hatchet job on the child abuse victim Steven Messham in an attempt to discredit him as a witness after he mistakenly identified Lord McAlpine as his attacker – a mistake which it now seems was a direct result of misleading information given...
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New research published today by JRF leaves us wondering whether there is enough political will to fix the broken housing market. Last week saw a new housing minister, Mark Prisk, and a welcome new wave of housing announcements. With a promised £10 billion of Government guarantees to fund new...
I’ve come across an interesting email among the FOI disclosures from the member Trusts of the South-West NHS pay cartel. I believe that this is the first time that it has been made public, but I can’t say so for certain. Since its official formation in June and the...
We have confirmation that the DWP is actively considering axeing employment and support allowance (ESA) payments for claimants who challenge a decision that they are fit for work. Instead, claimants will have to try to sign on for jobseeker’s allowance, where they will face a harsh new regime which,...
The first achievement highlighted by the Prime Minister in his Sunday Times article was deficit reduction: "We’ve got the deficit down by a quarter already" This statement is true. But what the Prime Minister didn't say was that the economic outlook the Prime Minister inherited was for precisely this...
This week, a British youth named Azhar Ahmed was found guilty of the crime of causing offence. Following the massacre of Afghans by, according to the eye witnesses, a group of US soldiers, the young Bradford man in question did what we all do occasionally and wrote a stupid...
