IN DECEMBER last year, a supposedly public consultation began with a curious lack of publicity. This was government’s launch ...

INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day and the TUC Women’s Conference are opportunities for women in the labour movement to come together and discuss the challenges ahead for working-class women. Women make up the ...

WE ARE in a time of Wag the Dog on super-strong steroids.Wag the Dog is a film from 1997 starring Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman and Woody Harrelson, among others. I don’t remember actually ever ...

THERE should be the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath for chancellors. It might have saved a lot of pain over the last 15 years, given the damage that austerity has done over the period.This seems to ...

TUC president Steve Gillan addressed the union body’s women’s conference on its first day today, urging male trade unionists ...

POLICE testimony in the trial of two Palestine movement leaders has revealed a lack of communication and co-ordination among ...

RAIL union RMT called on the government today to introduce a specific criminal offence for assaulting public transport ...

SOUTH AFRICAN anti-apartheid hero and former defence minister Mosiuoa “Terror” Lekota has died at the age of 77 after a long ...

ISRAEL’S military ordered residents of dozens of border villages in southern Lebanon today to evacuate “immediately” as air ...

MORE than two dozen Doctors Without Borders (MSF) workers remain unaccounted for a month after attacks in South Sudan, the medical charity said on Tuesday.Two facilities operated by the group were ...

The Weston Studio★★★★☆BASED on a collection of narratives and poems from children in Gaza (A Million Kites, Maqam Books, £12 playwright Elias Matar has woven their different contributions into an ...

DEFENDING champion Jack Draper insists he is a contender for the Indian Wells title again.The British number one lifted the biggest trophy of his career in the Californian desert 12 months ago but ...