By Darinka Aleksic, from Labour List In 2008, the passage of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill through Parliament saw the most serious attempt to restrict abortion rights in Britain in the last two decades. Since then, apart from occasional shrieking headlines about levels of repeat abortions among teenage girls, abortion has generally fallen off the

By Stuart Lansley, from Labour List, this is an abridged version of a more substantial article in the Spring edition of Soundings. Although global imbalances, excessive bank leveraging and reckless financial risk-taking helped trigger the meltdown of 2008/09, the crisis has it roots in the rising income and wealth gap, and the way a new domestic

Blaney even takes his charges on firearms training courses. In 2008 he took activists and young Conservatives to the Blue Ridge Arsenal in Virginia, reporting that the feeling of "hot brass, gun recoil and smell of gunpowder was incredible". There...

Click the image above to launch full item VT in BBC Media Player David Cameron's claim to have only discovered that Baron Ashcroft of Belize was still a non-dom and had not taken permanent residence, opting instead for the new "long term" fudge introduced in 2008 i.e. eight years after his commitment, followed hot on the heels of William Hague's assertion that he had only become aware of...

The ten companies holding the largest number of surplus emission allowances under the EU's cap-and-trade system stand to make a profit of 3.2 billion euros in the 2008-2012 trading period, according to a new analysis of EU data.

Anti-Semitic Incidents Most On Record Worldwide Since The End Of World War II In the beginning three months of 2009, directly after the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, there were as many anti-Semitic incidents as in the whole of 2008. The trend was felt worldwide, but nowhere more clearly than in France. Incidents in 2009 were up 75% over the 2008 total, 832 to 474 ( statistics from the Jewis...

Campaign ’08: A Turning Point For Digital Media is a slim volume by Kate Kaye, senior news editor at ClickZ, taking an in-depth look at the online advertising used in the 2008 Presidential contest for the primaries and then the general election. Though the book touches on other aspects of internet campaigning, what makes it stand

The commission set up by the US Congress to probe the causes of the 2008 financial market meltdown will interview foreign regulators and put bank executives back on the witness stand

One of the most interesting developments in US politics since the election of Barack Hussein Obama in November 2008 (when we were told that the Republican Party was finished for a generation) has been the way in which the GOP regrouped so quickly. All of its Congressmen voted against Obama's wasteful "stimulus" package and all bar a handful of RINOs in the Senate did likewise. Then came the T...

This will cause outrage: The loss is down from £24.3bn in 2008 – a record for a UK company. Despite the loss, RBS said it will be paying out bonuses to reward staff for a record year for its investment banking business. Stephen Hester, RBS’s chief