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LEAVING the EU could lead to the break up of the UK, said former Tory leader and former Foreign Secretary, William Hague yesterday. Since the...

ISRAELI authorities issued administrative detention orders, without charge or trial, against 22 Palestinians on Wednesday, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) reported. PPS said that 16...

THE Taleban armed forces are now retaking Sangin town in Helmand Province, which was taken over as a British responsibility after the retreat from...

BRITISH public finances worsened in November, meaning that Tory Chancellor George Osborne will spectacularly fail to hit his budget deficit target for this year...

THE Royal College of Nursing yesterday slammed government cuts over the NHS staffing crisis. Janet Davies, RCN Chief Executive and General Secretary said: ‘The RCN...

TWO videos, one by the FBI and one by the British police, have just been issued giving advice to people about actions they should...

PLO Executive Committee member, Hanan Ashrawi, last Thursday condemned Israel’s unwillingness to punish the ‘terrorists’ responsible for the arson attack in Duma village, south...

THE Oil and Gas Authority on Thursday awarded a raft of new licences to explore for oil and gas on the mainland of the...

THE US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by 0.25 of a percentage point – its first increase since 2006. This is after years of...

DISINVESTMENT in general practice by successive governments has drastically hampered doctors’ ability to provide safe care, BMA GPs committee chair Chaand Nagpaul has warned...

ON 30 January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded outside the Banqueting House in Whitehall as a man of blood, and an enemy of...

‘COLLECTIVE punishment is never permissible under any circumstances,’ human rights charity Amnesty International said, in response to Israeli forces demolishing yet another family home. ties...

THE UK is ready to back up the newly founded Saudi coalition ground army, with air support in Syria, British military sources told the...

US SECRETARY of State John Kerry arrived in Moscow yesterday to see Russia’s Foreign Minister Lavrov and also President Putin. His mission, during which he...

A VITAL Refugee Centre in Sheffield is facing immediate closure, right at the time it is needed the most. Tory cuts have ravaged the ...

AS schools prepare to break up for the Christmas holidays, new analysis by the Labour Party reveals the impact of the chronic shortage of...

THE determined drive by the Tory government to cut the pay and conditions of every NHS worker, as a prelude to the ultimate aim...

EX-LABOUR Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and ex-Labour Foreign Secretary Jack Straw ‘must have known’ about the torture of British prisoner Shaker Aamer by the...

SNP foreign affairs spokesman Alex Salmond spoke up for millions of British people yesterday when he highlighted the role that one-time Labour PM Blair...

‘STOP bombing Syria! Welfare not warfare! David Cameron shame on you! Hilary Benn shame on you!’ shouted crowds at the end of a 10,000-strong...

THE ruling class state machinations that secured the jailing of a number of Shrewsbury pickets after the first national building workers strike in...

THE government has rejected calls to release confidential files relating to the Shrewsbury 24, who were charged with various offences after the first national...

MONDAY night’s Channel 4 Dispatches programme claimed the Next shopping chain has slashed £2.5m off its wage bill by employing hundreds of low-earning apprentices,...

‘NO ONE should have to experience the conditions that the refugees are living in,’ civil servants union PCS member Wayne Harrison said yesterday after...

OUTSIDE Downing Street yesterday, special forces veteran Ben Griffin read out a message on behalf of disabled veteran Dave Smith. Griffin said: ‘Dave Smith can...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has called talks on Syria in New York for December 18-19. Kerry said that the United States and its...

THE Engineering Employers Federation (EEF), the body that represents the manufacturing industry in Britain, has produced its latest forecast which spells out how the...

THE Oldham by-election did not go according to the ruling class-Tory script. There was no collapse in the Labour vote. Corbyn was not sacked...

THE PRIVATE company UnitingCare has collapsed after only eight months and pulled out of running care for the elderly in Cambridgeshire. The company won an...

THE disarray and panic that is a permanent state for the central banks of Europe and America was on open display yesterday. In the US,...

PARTY leader Jeremy Corbyn has said Labour’s win in the Oldham West and Royton by-election shows its ‘strength and the appeal of its anti-austerity...

MPs on Wednesday overwhelmingly backed UK air strikes against the Islamic State in Syria, by 397 votes to 223, with a total of 66...

PRIME minister Cameron repeatedly refused to apologise, as he opened the debate on bombing Syria, for calling Labour MPs who oppose the bombing ‘a...

The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ and EFJ) call on the Turkish authorities to immediately release journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül...

THE United States is poised to step up the war in Iraq and Syria with the sending of more US ground forces. Speaking to...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn announced yesterday that he will give Labour MPs a ‘free vote’ on the crucial issue of whether the UK joins...

A STUDY published this week in the British Journal of General Practice shines a searchlight on one of the main causes of ‘health inequality’...

‘DON’T bomb Syria! Don’t bomb Syria!’ chanted a crowd of over 4,000 that blocked Whitehall opposite Downing Street on Saturday. The mass protest was one...

BOMBING Raqqa will see a large number of civilians killed, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn warned yesterday. He was asked by Andrew Marr: ‘What do...

‘INCOHERENT and dangerous’ – Stop the War responds to David Cameron’s case for bombing Stop the War believes that David Cameron’s incoherent proposals for action...

PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday claimed it is ‘in our national interest’ for the UK to launch air strikes on Syria. He made a statement to...

TRADE union leaders responded weakly, without any call to action, to Chancellor Osborne’s Autumn Statement on Wednesday, in which he announced a massive extension...

IN August 2013, MPs rejected by 285-272 votes UK military intervention by the Cameron government to bomb President Bashar al-Assad’s government out of power,...

‘PATIENT deaths do not increase during doctor strikes,’ research has shown, as junior doctors prepare for their three days of action. The junior doctors are...

CHANCELLOR Osborne was forced to make a humiliating retreat over working tax credits in the House of Commons yesterday after facing massive resistance to...