Monthly Archives: September 2011
A report issued yesterday outlining proposals to establish in Manchester an army-run ‘free school’, has given yet another sinister twist to the campaign by Tory education secretary, Michael Gove, to smash up the state education system and demonise both pupils and the teaching profession. The report was co-authored by a...
SAIF al-Islam al-Gadaffi said on Wednesday on Al-Ra’y TV, speaking from ‘the outskirts of Tripoli’: ‘I would like to reassure our brother Libyans everywhere that resistance is continuing. ‘We have seen, thank God, that the morale of the people is high. Youths have come to see me even from...
LORD Crisp, who was NHS chief executive in England from 2000 to 2006, has said there is over-capacity in the ‘hospital sector’ and that many hospitals should be closed or merged, which amounts to the same thing. His position is that care, particularly for the elderly, must be shifted to...
RUSSIA has recognised the counter-revolutionary Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) as the only legitimate power in the country, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. Ahead of the imperialists’ cynically titled ‘friends of Libya’ gathering in Paris, Russia hailed the NTC’s ‘course on reforms, including the establishing of a new constitution, carrying...
PUBLIC sector union Unison yesterday condemned former NHS Chief Executive from 2000-2006, Nigel Crisp’s call to close or merge hospitals. Now Lord Crisp, he told the BBC that ‘the challenge’ is ‘dealing with the numbers of older people and those with long-term conditions. They need supporting in the community. ‘That means...
THE Libyan government’s Information Minister Moussa Ibrahim has scornfully rejected a ‘rebel’ ultimatum to surrender or face an all-out military assault on the city of Sirte. In response to a demand by the counter-revolutionary ‘Transitional National Council’ that forces loyal to Colonel Gadaffi have until Saturday to surrender, Moussa...
HOMELESSNESS is spreading to the middle class, homelessness charity Crisis is warning, as mass sackings of public sector workers along with the government’s onslaught on welfare benefits lead to a ‘flood’ of people on the streets. In a report to be published next week, Crisis states: ‘Any significant reduction of...
IF the government’s proposed changes go ahead, ‘private companies would be entitled to run much of the NHS’ and ‘market forces would determine the way many health services are provided’, says public interest lawyer Peter Roderick. Roderick reached these conclusions following a report issued by the Department of Health which was...
ON Tuesday Foreign Minister Hague told Sky TV that he would not tell the counter-revolutionaries to cancel their planned assault on the city of Sirte. The city has over 100,000 inhabitants, and is very strongly defended. To stand a chance of taking it there will have to be very...