Following the publication of the first print and online advertising of the Mayoral election campaign, a spokesperson for Ken Livingstone said; "This ad makes a serious point in an eye-catching way - a pickpocket is operating on public transport but unfortunately it is the Tory Mayor. He is making your pockets and purses lighter through rocketing fares. His decision to force Londoners to pay sky hi...

The story being briefed out of the year’s first Franco-German Summit is that President Nicolas Sarkozy won the backing of Chancellor Angela Merkel for a tax on financial transactions, a levy that the British government objects to and that Ernst and Young say would leave a €116bn hole in Europe’s public finances. But before the City begins building barricades and the PM puts on hi...

A hi-tech scheme which will enable more patients to monitor their health in their own homes has been launched by the health minister.

Hi all, please support this release to support the strike on november 30th - see information below. It's a fantastic idea that we can try and get in the charts for Nov 30. And the fantastic Robb Johnson was part of it so it must be good!! (Ps you can see the latest Robb song at ) Marshajane The TUC has brought together a group of public sector staff as The Workers to re-record the classic song...

David Cameron summoned all Tory special advisers to Downing Street for a meeting this afternoon. He wanted, I understand, to warn them that too much of the coalition's internal workings were being briefed out to journalists. He made it clear that he wants an end to process stories appearing in the papers.   Downing Street has been infuriated by recent reports of tensions between Steve Hi...

A disturbing documentary that uses the Holocaust as a vehicle for delving into the debate on abortion! I found the use of one of the low points in human history as a segue into the pro-life/pro-choice debate extremely disturbing and distasteful, but offer it here so that others can make up their own minds. Equally as disturbing was the seemingly widespread ignorance of a generation about one of hi...

Irish Presidential candidate Sean Gallagher claims he's an independent candidate, when in reality he is a Fianna Fail hack with a history of feeding off the public purse. Below Tommy O'Brien takes up the tale. Gallagher is not being honest with the Irish people - the evidence Sean Gallagher is not being honest with the Irish people, in my opinion. He is seriously misleading them about hi...

Tunisia is holding elections today for the 217-seat assembly that will draft a constitution and appoint an interim government. Former President Zinedine el-Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown nine months ago. Regardless of what some of the usual suspects are saying, this is not going to be some kind of signpost as to where the other elections in the region will be heading.Tunisia is unique in that a hi...

Part of the story within the story of the Occupy Wall Street protests! Who are some of the players and is the White House involved? This is from a blogger and she seems to have it all broken down. 
 "Hi everyone. It's been a while since I've written here. Been really busy with research, blogging and my radio show, but I wanted to share some info with you on the Occupy Wall Street prote...

Wednesday was a big day for John Swinney. With a working majority in Holyrood, gone was the need to win opposition support to get his budget approved. For the first time in hi