During the late 1970's through to the early 1990's I was a member, a section steward, a branch secretary and a district chair of a trades union known as NUPE (The National Union of Public Employees). The union represented health service employees, local government employees, the ancillary staff of Universities and weirdly, junior Anglican Clerics and Methodist Ministers. NUPE was affiliated to

No public festivities in the US and no statements from the EU &# so far. The announcement by the White House of the end of the Iraq war, which took the lives of more than 4,700 coalition troops - including many Europeans - came amid a muted atmosphere.

Public bodies and private companies will be obliged to stick to deadlines in paying their creditors to avoid high interest rates on their debt, according to a draft deal between the EU institutions on the recast of the Late Payments Directive.

The United States is behind the wall of secrecy surrounding global trade talks to combat counterfeiting, say EU policy sources, who claim that American officials are refusing to let their European counterparts publish the draft agreement online.

The debate on whether to replace First Past the Post with AV for elections to the House of Commons certainly seems to be warming up. Both sides are seeking increasing media coverage, bloggers from both sides are debating on the internet, and public interest seems to be growing on the issue. Yet there seems to

Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister, has made his first public appearance since the release on Wednesday of his memoirs.

The UK should have addressed its public deficit back in 2005, former Prime Minister Tony Blair has told the BBC.

Scotland's public sector faces the biggest reduction in public spending in generations. Managing 51 per cent of our GDP, private sector firms who trade with them are braci

Leading statistical body questions Chancellor's claim that a £5.8bn tax grab from benefits, tax credits and public service pensions is 'fair'.

Compassion fatigue. It's a well-charted phenomenon in the charity world. People can only take so much when it comes to seeing pictures of starving children, fleeing refuge