Monthly Archives: February 2019
EUROPEAN Council President Donald Tusk dropped his mask of reasonableness yesterday in Brussels when he declared that there is a ‘special place in hell’ for those who campaigned for Brexit to leave the EU. Tusk also hit out at those who failed to persuade the British people to stay in...
Israeli settlers vandalised a mosque in Deir Dibwan, a village to the east of Ramallah, on Monday. The Mayor of Deir Dibwan, Mansour Mansour, said settlers stormed the village and spray-painted anti-Palestinian slogans on the walls and asphalt of the mosque and vandalised several vehicles. Israeli media reported that among...
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday that he will not betray his country by yielding to Washington’s plan for regime change in Caracas, adding that he will not let history remember him as a traitor. In an exclusive interview with RT Spanish, he said: ‘I’m not going to be a...
ENFORCED debt collection, aggressive bailiffs, aggressive customer service tactics, breaches of confidentiality and hiking the size of the debt are just some of thousands of complaints the ombudsman has received, prompting the service to put out a new statement yesterday calling for ‘empathy and flexibility’. Caroline Wayman, chief ombudsman and...
TORY PM Theresa May pledged in a speech to business leaders in Belfast yesterday to confirm her commitment ‘to deliver a Brexit which ensures no return to a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, which is unshakeable.’ However, she revealed that she was not asking for the Backstop...
ZIMBABWE’S teaching unions are striking for better salaries from today, Tuesday, with 100,000 expected to join the action. Most Zimbabweans, already struggling to put food on the table, rely on the cheaper public schools for their children’s education and the Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) and the Progressive Teachers Union...
THE LATEST scandal over the obscene profits of giant pharmaceutical companies emerged this week with the news that campaigners are demanding that the Tory government intervene over the sky-high price of a drug, Orkambi, that could prolong the life of cystic fibrosis sufferers. The patent for Orkambi, a drug aimed...
FIREFIGHTERS are at risk not only from running into burning buildings to save lives but through daily exposure to carcinogens, mutagens and reprotoxics; and their union, the FBU, is demanding greater protection as this exposure can kill. The FBU said yesterday: ‘Several studies show that public authorities and employers are...
ANYTHING less than a 5% pay increase for teachers ‘is a kick in the teeth,’ Geoff Barton, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders said after the news broke that the Tories were holding pay at 2% for another year. The Government’s Department for Education (DfE) submitted...
AFTER the news that over 3,000 troops were being mobilised for action after Brexit Day on March 29th, we have now been told that Whitehall officials are drawing up plans to evacuate the Queen and the Royal Family from London in the event of rioting triggered by a no-deal...
HUNDREDS of Germans have donned yellow vests to match protesters in France, demonstrating in the bastion of Germany’s car industry in Stuttgart against a recent driving ban on older diesels. The protest came after organisers asked people to hit the streets clad in the yellow high-visibility vests that have defined...
TORY MP Steve Baker, deputy chairman of the Eurosceptic group the European Research Group (ERG), warned yesterday there is ‘trouble ahead’ for May. He tweeted: ‘Leave-backing MPs voted to support alternative arrangements in NI but with grave misgivings about the whole agreement. ‘Now the PM co-opts us into accepting everything...
SYRIA’S Ambassador to Lebanon, Ali AbdulKarim, has affirmed that the Venezuelan people will ‘triumph’ over the US conspiracy. Meeting the Venezuelan Ambassador to Lebanon, Jesus Gregorio Gonzalez, at the headquarters of the Venezuelan Embassy, Ambassador AbdulKarim indicated that the foreign pressures and using force will not succeed in toppling the...
TEACHERS unions reacted angrily to the news yesterday that the Tories are once again to hold their wage ‘increase’ at just 2%, well below inflation, which means that the government are attempting to impose yet another real-terms pay cut. This ‘derisory’ offer, ‘adds insult to injury’ the National Education...
RESEARCH for the Institute of Directors showed yesterday that a third of UK businesses are considering moving abroad after Brexit. The IoD said that 16% already had relocation plans while a further 13% were actively considering doing so. The IoD, after this blatant attempt to intimidate the working class into...
THE CONTINUED economic collapse of the EU was highlighted yesterday when it was officially acknowledged that Italy, the third largest economy in Europe, has plunged into recession. Italian Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the measure of the wealth generated by a country, fell by 0.2% in the final three months of...
ISRAELI authorities delivered demolition notices and halt of construction orders to several homes and schools in Masafer Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron, on Wednesday. Coordinator of a local popular committee against the separation wall and settlements, Rateb al-Jbour, said Israeli authorities stormed the Masafer Yatta...
UP TO THREE children are being crammed into single rooms in council homes, with families packed into flats like sardines, new figures confirm, with more than 300,000 households squ-eezed into too few rooms. As the social housing crisis escalates, there are examples of teenagers sharing a room with toddlers and...