Trouble in Tel Aviv
How the US-Israel relationship has recently turned sour
Welcome to fantasy land
There's a growing trend in light entertainment towards fantasy fiction, on television, in the printed word and even across the internet.
4 reasons not to vote Tory
One can only hope that the British electorate is following the economic news carefully - although it's a faint hope, given that it's put out in a way designed to confuse the reader hopelessly.
Parroting Tory propaganda
Unite political director Charlie Whelan announced last week that the union was using a virtual phone bank to contact 100,000 Unite members in 90 marginal parliamentary seats to win support for Labour.
Getting clearer every day
We are increasingly living in a world divided against itself, with a growing gulf between rich and poor.
Shield young from racists
Government acceptance of the Maurice Smith review recommendation not to ban British National Party members from working in state schools is a dereliction of duty.
Whose side are you on?
In the aftermath of Gordon Brown's attack on the wages of civil servants, it's pleasant to see that not everybody sees hacking back on workers' jobs and wages as the answer to all the economy's ills.
Pruning the wrong branch
There seems to be no bottom to the pit of hypocrisy that this new Labour leadership wallows in.
Dances to the market fiddle
Over the last few years, there has been a trend of companies altering their pension schemes from final salary schemes to the less beneficial and far riskier — to the pensioner — money purchase schemes.
Harsh reality of onslaught
When former South African judge Richard Goldstone wrote his report into the Israeli armed assault on Gaza, which claimed 1,400 Palestinian lives to just 13 Israelis, he warned that, each time a report is published without consequent action, this "emboldens Israel and her conviction of being untouchable."