A teenager who stole sweets and ice cream worth £5, a woman found begging in a car park and a...
Guest Articles
*Boondoggle: ‘a project that is considered a useless waste of both time and money, yet is often continued due to...
The Haze watches with incredulity the daft campaign being run by internet petition mongers 38 Degrees in aid of the 'independent' BBC' - a supposed...
One thing we’ve learned in the years since the financial crisis is that seriously bad ideas — by which I...
I’ve spent nearly a decade thinking about why people get stuck on climate change: stuck in debates, denial, what looks...
Millions of children are engaged in paid or unpaid domestic, manual, agricultural and other forms of work worldwide, leaving them...
They’re hidden behind sewing machines or swinging hammers. They’re selling snacks street side or swinging machetes in sugarcane fields. They’re...
Israeli writer and journalist Gideon Levy has been called the "the most hated man in Israel". For three...
When Funghi, the unemployed alcoholic featured in the recent Benefits Street television series, disclosed that he had been abused...
MPs are being handed huge subsidies to rent second homes in London whilst thousands of the capital’s poorest residents are...
After Ecuador issued a permit to drill for oil in Yasuni National Park in May, there's already been one of...
You've got to hand it to Israeli spinners like Mark Regev. They are masters of PR. In fact, as the...
After the massive loss of the Alternative Vote referendum in 2011, I spent a lot of time saying to downcast electoral...
WHERE was Middle East peace envoy last week as Israel invaded Gaza and committed horrific war crimes, killing over 1000...
Israel has a pathological disregard for the humanity of Palestinians and you can't use human shields against an enemy...
Hilik Bar (A thirst for Israeli blood, 21 July) reduces the charge against Israel to killing too many Palestinians....
One of the Tories’ biggest donors and a major contributor to the Scottish “No” campaign runs a vast oil-trading company...
Approximately 5,000 protesters gathered outside the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) studios on Tuesday to protest the news outlets coverage of...
Undercover police gathered intelligence on grieving families who were battling the Metropolitan police for justice, including the relatives of Jean...
So now we know what the Conservative manifesto will say about industrial action. Strike ballots will require a 50% turn out to...
Some of the UK’s largest charities have a dirty little workfare secret and one of the best known has...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Noam Chomsky, Ken Loach, Brian Eno, many more call for comprehensive military embargo on Israel, like...
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a comprehensive free trade and investment treaty currently being negotiated – in...
The number of parents forced to represent themselves before the family courts jumped by 20,000 last year following the withdrawal...
Our government is blasting a new law onto the books, out of the blue. Under the guise of a pincer...
Prime minister David Cameron loves to portray himself as the defender of British sovereignty in his dealings with the EU....
Three months ago we discussed in detail the growing anti-dollar hegemony alliances that were building across the BRICS countries (Brazil,...
In rediscovering the value of wielding influence rather than power, the Lib Dems should reconnect with their social democratic heritage....
Since 1945, the welfare state has protected people in the UK from falling below an essential threshold of decency due...