Features
More folly in the Middle East
The government wants to ramp up Western involvement in the Syrian conflict but the cost will be more violence and instability in the region
Martin Rowson
Friday 02 November 2012
Editorial
A right pig's ear
Wednesday 19 October 2005
IT must be wonderful to be a member of this government - to be able to wash your hands of anything that you don't like, to have the power to get your own way no matter how silly your opinions are and to be completely unaccountable to anyone.
Complicit in torture
Tuesday 18 October 2005
LAWYERS representing Amnesty International and 13 other organisations went to court yesterday to ask the Law Lords to overturn a Court of Appeal judgement which had the effect of making evidence gained by means of torture abroad admissible in British courts.
A military two-step
Monday 17 October 2005
BRITISH and US pressure on Iran to bring it into line over its nuclear programme is taking on the character of a mudfight - if enough dirt is thrown, some of it must stick.
Hooked on subsidies
Saturday 15 October 2005
WHENEVER the Tories launched a privatisation of yet another publicly owned asset, they always stressed that the value of shares could go up or down.
Saved by rail unions
Friday 14 October 2005
AS with the Hatfield and Potters Bar disasters on Britain's national rail system, so the chaos on London Underground's Northern Line is the inevitable consequence of the government's obsession with privatisation.
Justice for pensioners
Thursday 13 October 2005
ACCORDING to Tony Blair, "the worst aspects of pensioner poverty have been tackled as a result of policies pursued by this government."
Our rights in danger
Wednesday 12 October 2005
FOREIGN Office Minister Kim Howells has nailed his colours to the mast of reason best exemplified by religiosity-addled Pat Robertson.
Strain of contempt
Tuesday 11 October 2005
IT takes a peculiar strain of contempt for working people to deride incapacity benefit claimants as preferring the delights of daytime television to going out and finding a job.
Unhealthy policies
Monday 10 October 2005
FORMER Labour Health Secretary Frank Dobson has always been one of the more cogent critics of the new Labour privatisation agenda in the National Health Service.