The Home Secretary has admitted in a Parliamentary answer that the Identity and Passport Service is collecting National Insurance numbers from every person who applies for an ID card, and storing them on the National Identity Register
Yemen’s foreign minister rejects possibility of US intervention in its battle against al-Qaeda, suggesting fears that US support might do more harm than good. Aid agencies warn of return to war in southern Sudan. Indian security forces bring day-long siege in Srinagar to an end with death of two m
Funny old world, politics. Two of the nastiest and most unhelpful Labour Party officials (and that is putting it mildly) while I was editing New Socialist, the party's
Despite the failings of the neo-liberal model, the media still uses its advocates in City institutions, financial bodies and agencies associated with them to explain and analyse the crisis
I don't know if I am being fair to Nick Clegg, but I read a short piece in the Guardian today on his condemnation of Labour and the
President Barack Obama criticises intelligence agencies for security failings as airport security undergoes review worldwide. The UN food agency suspends operations in south Somalia. A suicide attack in Dagestan kills six people. Egyptian police clash with Gaza aid activists. Britain and France re
Perhaps I am unreasonably angry and disturbed on learning that academy schools are not open to public scrutiny through the freedom of information law. After all, it is a lapse
It's not just the end of a year and of the decade. I suspect 2008-9 will go down as the end of an era: a pivotal transition point
As Copenhagen stutters to its conclusion, our attention should return again to what individual countries can do to tackle climate change absent a global deal sufficient to the problem. Most
The ESRC's 'Britain in...' series - dry, humourless, safety-first academics spend pages saying nothing
Don't be fooled again - or perhaps you knew? Anyway, I live in Cambridge which the Lib Dem MP David Howarth has just abandoned for life in an
