Everyone seems to be struggling for money right now, don’t they? Everywhere you turn. There’s nothing more isolating than discovering you’ve got no money, or not enough money to get you through to pay day if you’re lucky enough to have a job. But remember, the very rich are f...

It turns out that construction firms have been buying private data on employees , and using it to blacklist union activists . I can only think that practises like this must be fairly widespread, even in those industries where unions are generally banished. Informal spying on potential employees is u...

Let’s have another example of Gordon Brown’s much heralded ‘fairness’ shall we? This is from the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns (NCADC)… *** Dear All, We are writing to you to ask for your help and support. We may have previously contacted you concerni...

Labour was not tough enough in regulating the banking sector in the years before the credit crisis Gordon Brown's closest Cabinet ally Ed Balls has admitted....

Immigration minister Phil Woolas’ cojones are so enormous they exert their own gravitational pull. Neither satire nor sense can escape them. His balls must be huge or else why would he had the nerve to accuse the Office of National Statistics of ‘playing politics’ with immigration ...

3000 applicants travel from across the country for just 150 jobs at Twycross Zoo. A picture old Gordon 'Jinx' Brown most definitely doesn't want to see. Full story in the Screws...

The courage and morality of New Labour laid bare: David Miliband and Jacqui Smith have both refused to appear before Parliament’s human rights committee to answer questions about allegations of British collusion in the torture of British citizens and residents detained during counter-terrorism...

Image by Beau Bo D'Or You have to admit it’s elegant. The Foreign Secretary who was instrumental in making the fraudulent case for an illegal war in which hundreds of thousands of people were killed is now the Justice Secretary suppressing documents detailing the making of the fraudulent case ...

This is one of those weeks if we find out if there's anything at all left worth preserving in the Labour Party. The Royal Mail pension fund is in danger of collapse if ministers do not press ahead with plans to sell a stake to a private company, trustees say. In a letter seen by BBC News, Jane Newel...

The government, you will be heartened to learn, has something else on its mind aside from prominently displaying its mean streak toward the disabled and single mothers. The cabinet has been sick with worry about your welfare in this recession. For this reason, the nationalised bank Northern Rock, ha...