WHO is going to win the US presidential election? That’s the $64 million question being asked across the world with just a fortnight to go until the vote ...
DECENT people across the world have been horrified by the events they have witnessed in Israel and Gaza over the past 12 months. Millions of us have marched in protest at the killing of both 1300 innocent Israelis and 40,000 innocent Palestinians.
AS the 10th anniversary
THE National is to be congratulated on running a series on PFI, the revival of which in a far greater and more pervasive form is at the heart of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s economic plan.
FIGURES released by NHS England this week show the country has one of the highest per capita incidences of dementia anywhere in the world ...
AMID the hullabaloo at Westminster last week, it could be argued that Labour forfeited any claim to have “beaten” the Tories politically when they purged all vestiges of socialism from the party and adopted the central tenets of Thatcherism – the privatisation of public services, the warmongering and the redistribution of wealth and power from the poor to the rich.
‘GOOD riddance to the Tories” the British people said last week, impatient to be rid of them after 14 years. That was the over-riding sentiment of the 2024 General Election.
MY dad is 89 years young this month. From time to time, he reminds me of advice his grandfather gave him: “If you have a reputation for getting up at 6am every day, you can lie in until 9am.”
THE forthcoming General Election is likely to be dominated by the cost of living crisis and an impatient desire to get rid of the self-serving Tories ...
‘IT’S time for change.” “Communities are crying out for change.” “People are yearning for change.” “Voters want change and the way to get that change is to vote Labour.”
