The Rhodes Must Fall campaign’s focus on the removal of a statue is bound up with a political agenda that utilizes racial rather than socialist politics to conceal the pro-capitalist orientation of its leading figures.
The human cost of the severe flooding in large parts of northern England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland over the last week is emerging.
The most vicious measure is the deportation of 30,000 or more non-European Union workers who fail to earn more than £35,000 per annum after being in Britain for six years.
The documentary exposes the extent to which Britain’s National Health Service has been privatised.
The Natural History Museum in London is holding an exhibition on the human occupation of Britain that runs until September 28, 2014.
Romanian and Bulgarian students are taking the British government to court over its decision to end financial support while they study in the UK.
Hampshire County Council in England plans to reduce demand for services, including social care of the elderly and disabled, which accounts for more than one-third of council’s budget.
The crisis in home care visits in the UK is a direct result of drastic cuts to local government budgets.
A Welsh government spokesman hypocritically declared, "We are committed to reducing the number of cancelled operations across Wales.”
Pharmaceutical conglomerates Merck and GlaxoSmithKline have won contracts to supply some of the world’s poorest countries with cancer vaccines.
An eight-month-old baby, born in the UK and requiring a critical operation, has been denied National Health Service treatment because of her parents’ immigrant status.
Alfie Meadows, who was brutally beaten by police during the anti-tuition fees protests in 2010, was cleared of violent disorder.
Archaeologists have discovered a mass grave of decapitated Vikings on the southern coast of England dating from AD 910-AD1034. Scientists think they may have been caught and killed by locals.
The alternation of glacial and warmer periods conditioned the prehistory of what is now Britain.
