This week saw several hundred EDL supporters arriving in Bradford on buses from numerous towns and cities, including Hull, Merseyside, Manchester, Stoke, Southport, Dudley, Wigan and Stockport. They were kept away from a group of anti-racism demonstrators by a large force of police, some with riot shields and helmets. The two groups of protesters hurled [...]
Steelworkers are celebrating following the news that a plant mothballed earlier with the loss of more than 1,000 jobs is to be sold to a Thai company. The Corus plant on Teesside was partially closed when a four-nation international consortium suddenly walked away from a long-term contract to buy its products. More than 1,000 workers [...]
In a poll one in seven of 2,000 people polled by Labour leadership contender Ed Balls and the Communication Workers Union said they supported privatisation. Just over half of Conservative voters and two-thirds of Liberal Democrats supported a fully publicly-owned Royal Mail. The union has already mounted a fresh campaign after the Government signalled [...]
Police said they had found the body of the man aged in his 30s in the top floor flat in the upmarket Pimlico area of London. The victim, named as Gareth Williams, had not been seen for some time and officers had gone to the flat after he was reported missing. A post mortem to [...]
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is considering not standing in elections due next January but will make his intentions known by the end of the month, a presidency source told Reuters on Tuesday. An election bid by Jonathan, who is from the southern Niger Delta, could split the ruling party due to an agreement that [...]
The government announced it is to abolish the UK Film Council as part of its plan to cut costs, a decision the council’s chairman described as “a big mistake.” Since its creation in 2000, the council has helped promote the UK film industry at home and abroad by funding British filmmaking and raising the [...]
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Helen Thomas has survived attacks from every president of the United States, from Eisenhower to Obama, but alas, the champion of Middle East truth could not stand up to the country’s pro-Israeli media and movement. It was an amazing display of what Israel and its power players consider important in this world. They didn’t hesitate [...]
Final results showed Aquino won nearly six million more votes than his nearest rival. The Philippine congress has proclaimed Benigno Aquino III the country’s new president. A joint senate and House of Representatives session voted on Wednesday 9th June to formalise Aquino’s landslide victory in the country’s first national automated elections last month… To [...]
Britain is about to experience a most alien but yet, interesting period in its political history. For the first time for more than 60 years the country is going to be governed by a coalition government. Not since the days of Winston Churchill, when the country needed to come together after the soul-destroying devastation of [...]
