Northern Ireland Unionism’s Dangerously Fascistic Tendency
January 9, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
After a lull over the Christmas period there have once again been violent protests on the streets of Belfast reports Conor
President Chavez
January 6, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Millions of people around the world are wishing President Hugo Chavez a quick recovery so he can continue to improve the lives of Venezuelans and show the world that there is an alternative to the ravages of disaster capitalism
New Year Misery in Spain
January 4, 2013 12:18 am Leave your thoughts
On the second day of the new year a 57-year-old family man in Malaga set fire to himself because he has no work, no money and no future says Michael S
Teachers’ Low Morale
January 4, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
For the first time in my life, if a youngster were to ask me if s/he should become a teacher, I would find myself feeling intensely uncomfortable repeating the old mantra about teaching being an honourable profession, a caring profession says Elizabeth Ellis
New Year Resolutions in the Arab Spring
January 2, 2013 10:13 pm Leave your thoughts
Regrettably 2013 has started in a most ghastly realisation of my pessimistic forecast, writes Faysal Mikdadi. The Egyptian comedian, Bassem Youssef, has dared to poke fun at President Morsi and a charge has been filed against him for parodying the President's speeches
Ain’t football grand?
January 2, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
For most of us an annual salary of £70,000 would be the stuff of dreams but for some young adults an offer of that nature would be considered a gross insult, says Felix McHugh
The year we did our best to abandon the natural world
January 1, 2013 12:49 pm Leave your thoughts
Emissions are rising, ice is melting and yet the response of governments is simply to pretend that none of it is happening, says George Monbiot.
Was the Bahraini ambassador trying to bribe British MPs?
January 1, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
It is interesting to receive two different news stories on the same day both mentioning the Gulf state of Bahrain and the UK Parliament, writes Iqbal Tamimi.
The day my inner anarchist lost out to the bourgeois me
December 31, 2012 1:19 pm Leave your thoughts A winter's day, some years back: a fall on the ice landed George Monbiot in A&E - and that's when he met the man with tattoos on his neck and knuckles.
Proportional Representation in the UK
December 31, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
After the disaster that was Nick Clegg's attempt at electoral reform it appears that reforming the voting system may be off the agenda for at least a generation, longer if the two main parties have their way, writes Bobby Gant.