Features
An imperial adventure set to continue
The growing intervention in Syrian internal affairs demonstrates the West's blatant attempt to rally reactionary Arab forces in support of its continued domination of the region, says George Galloway
Martin Rowson
Friday 20 January 2012
Editorial
Time to move on
Monday 13 March 2006
CULTURE Secretary Tessa Jowell has had a rough couple of weeks.
Politicised policing
Saturday 11 March 2006
THERE is no logical explanation, apart from political pressure, for the Metropolitan Police decision to renege on its agreement with the peace movement that next week's protest should convene at Parliament Square.
New way of seeing
Friday 10 March 2006
IF Margaret Hodge, who glories in the title of Minister of State at the Department of Work and Pensions, believes that missing a target of reducing poverty among young people by a million by a clear 30 per cent is "not a failure," then a whole new vista opens up for the world.
Stand by Palestine
Thursday 09 March 2006
BRITAIN'S Anglican community has learned a hard lesson about the Church of England being this country's established church with the Church Commissioners' decision to squash the synod's call to end its investments in Caterpillar.
An utter washout
Wednesday 08 March 2006
SEVERN Trent Water's fiddling of figures to enable it to overcharge consumers is a devastating indictment of the company, the so-called industry watchdog Ofwat and a government that has embraced the Tory creed of privatisation.
Defending their rights
Tuesday 07 March 2006
VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez's firm rebuff to those plotting to dismember his country in the interests of energy transnational corporations reflects, doubtless, the sentiments of the Venezuelan people.
Why the cynicism?
Monday 06 March 2006
BARONESS Jay, who appears to have had the job of spokesperson for the Tessa Jowell-David Mills family franchised to her, describes claims that the couple's separation is an attempt to save her ministerial career as "truly cynical."
A banana republic
Saturday 04 March 2006
THE disgraceful behaviour of pro-privatisation officials in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, which has been exposed by campaigning MP Austin Mitchell, mirrors similar conduct throughout Britain.
Beyond fantasy
Friday 03 March 2006
CULTURE Secretary Tessa Jowell insists that her husband David Mills received what he thought at the time was a gift of £350,000 in 1990 but that she knew nothing about it until four years later.