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A hospital trust is planning to extend a scheme under which dozens of unpaid jobseekers help deliver patient care in its wards.
Trade union opposition to the government's austerity programme will be stepped up this week as two of Britain's most powerful private and public sector unions prepare to deepen their alliance, while the Trades Union Congress will confirm that a massive protest march will be held in London on 20 October.
David Cameron has called on the eurozone to take a leaf out of the UK's book in order to overcome its current crisis, insisting that the British economy was "moving in the right direction".
The last 60 years have been the hottest in Australasia for a millennium and cannot be explained by natural causes, according to a new report by scientists that supports the case for a reduction in manmade carbon emissions.
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Greece's radical leftist SYRIZA party is consolidating gains and on track to becoming the biggest group in parliament when voters return to the polls next month, while pro-bailout parties continue to suffer, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday.
Ed Miliband's new policy chief is backing demands for an “immediate” referendum on whether Britain should leave the European Union.
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London mayor calls BBC 'statist, corporatist, defeatist, anti-business, Europhile and overwhelmingly biased to the left'
Tonight’s YouGov poll for the Sun has topline figures of CON 31%, LAB 45%, UKIP 8%, LDEM 7%. The 14 point lead is the biggest Labour lead YouGov has ever shown since starting regular polling in 2002 (though other companies showed a lead of that size back in 2003).
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Caroline Lucas, who was elected in the 2010 general election as the UK's first Green MP, has announced that she is to stand down as leader of the party.
The current crisis is not a natural accident; it was caused by the greed of those who would bring the world down, with the help of an economics that is no longer about management of the common good, but has become an ideology at the service of financial power.
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The leader of Greece's far-left Syriza bloc, Alexis Tsipras, says he is abandoning effort to form a government. Pasok leader Evangelos Venizelos is now expected to try to form a coalition. But if he fails, Greece could face fresh elections within weeks.
The annual Sunday Times Rich List yields four very important conclusions for the governance of Britain (Report, Weekend, 28 April). It shows that the richest 1,000 persons, just 0.003% of the adult population, increased their wealth over the last three years by £155bn. That is enough for themselves alone to pay off the entire current UK budget deficit and still leave them with £30bn to spare.
Green candidate Jenny Jones has come third in this year's London Mayoral elections. The Green vote on the London Assembly was also the third highest, meaning the party has overtaken the Liberal Democrats to become London's third party.
The official assessment of the risks involved in the government's NHS shakeup will never be published after the cabinet exercised its rare right of veto to keep it secret.
Those who warned at the time that the coalition risked double-dip recession by over-suppressing demand have been proved right. The chancellor, George Osborne, raised VAT to 20%, tightened benefits and allowed banks to restrict credit (while saying the opposite). He declared that private sector growth would more than compensate for public sector contraction. He meant well, but he was wrong.
A would-be "underwear bomber" involved in a plot to attack a US-based jet was in fact working as an undercover informer with Saudi intelligence and the CIA, it has emerged.
Senior batshit rightwing Tory backbenchers will today demand tax cuts and two referendums on Europe in an ‘Alternative Queen’s Speech’ designed to urge David Cameron to give voters more traditional Conservative measures.
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New Democracy and Pasok see support drop dramatically, as voters turn to parties who had opposed austerity measures
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François Hollande has won power in France, turning the tide on a rightwards and xenophobic lurch in European politics and vowing to transform Europe's handling of the economic crisis by fighting back against German-led austerity measures.
Despite the recession, Britain's largest companies have been enjoying booming profits. As a result they have accumulated cash reserves at record levels. These reserves now stand at close to 6% of the size of the economy – that's around £70bn. Far from the economy having run out of money, Britain's biggest companies are awash with it. Yet, apart from feeding ever-rising executive pay, these reserves are mostly standing idle.
Rumours of a Smiths reunion are flying around the web today...
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Nice work George.
A spectre of social cleansing is looming over London as fears about the Con-Dems' housing benefit cap prove to be dead on target.
Newham Council in east London - one of the most deprived areas in Britain and home to the Olympics - said on Tuesday it is being forced to move some of its poorest tenants to homes miles away.
There is one thing you can say for the Holocaust deniers: at least they know what they are denying. In order to sustain the lies they tell, they must engage in strenuous falsification. To dismiss Britain's colonial atrocities, no such effort is required. Most people appear to be unaware that anything needs to be denied.
As a joint parliamentary committee unveils its plans for a mainly elected second chamber, a YouGov poll commissioned by Unlock Democracy found that 69% of voters support a reformed House of Lords. The poll found that just 5% of voters favour the status quo – a fully appointed second chamber.
Where would Google be today without the state-funded investments in the internet, and without the US National Science Foundation (NSF) grant that funded the discovery of its own algorithm? Would the iPad be so successful without the state-funded innovations in communication technologies, GPS and touch-screen display? Where would GSK and Pfizer be without the $600bn the US National Institutes of Health has put into research that has led to 75% of the most innovative new drugs in the last decade?
François Hollande on target to become president of France after defeating Nicolas Sarkozy in poll which saw extreme-right candidate Marine Le Pen receive record support
