Features
Running out of political steam
The rise and ultimate demise of the formidable Ken Livingstone
Martin Rowson
Friday 04 May 2012
Editorial
The fires of fear
Monday 18 September 2006
WHAT a mean, spiteful and petty-minded position the government has adopted over the provision of medical assistance to Guantanamo Bay prisoners who are normally resident in Britain.
You must be joking
Sunday 17 September 2006
THERE are occasions in the Morning Star newsroom when the news editor, on picking up a story from a reporter, explodes: "You couldn't make it up!"
Time to say No
Friday 15 September 2006
ACTIVISTS will be stepping up resistance to government plans to close dozens of accident and emergency departments and maternity services.
A gross deceit
Thursday 14 September 2006
AT the TUC in Brighton this week and in the pages of this newspaper, National Union of Journalists general secretary Jeremy Dear voiced his members' growing worries over the deteriorating standards in journalism being fuelled and encouraged by avaricious newspaper proprietors with an eye exclusively on the bottom line.
A breath of stale air
Wednesday 13 September 2006
A YEAR ago, a breath of fresh air blew into TUC thinking on matters European, with the adoption of a motion moved by transport union RMT.
No debate, no retreat
Tuesday 12 September 2006
IF anyone had expected Tony Blair to retreat an inch from his single-minded dedication to imperialist war and private profit during his performance at the TUC, they would have been disappointed.
All out of patience
Monday 11 September 2006
THE strike action decision announced by UNISON leader Dave Prentis at Monday's TUC confirms the growing anger that health service workers feel about increasing privatisation in the NHS.
Rewriting history
Sunday 10 September 2006
TONY Blair's weekend speech to the Progress new Labour think tank in which he described last week's eruption of discontent among MPs as "irredeemably old-fashioned" was a classic Blairite rewrite of history.
Pawns in their game
Friday 08 September 2006
IF teachers' unions were to walk out and leave school students untaught for an afternoon, their names would be mud in the right-wing media.