THE unemployment total burst through the two million mark for the first time in 12 years yesterday, with experts predicting the figure could climb as high as 3.3 million nex

A marvellous article by Simon Jenkins in the Evening Standard today, which condemns the whole fiasco that has become the G20 summit. As he writes "A day and a half of summitry, parroting meetings held by the same participants every month, will cost Londoners £7 million in police overtime and a further £12 million in other costs. That is apart from the disruption. The event displays the...

Mr Darling has three aims for the Finance Summit this weekend - to borrow more money, to borrow more money and to borrow more money. It’s a strange way of sorting out a crisis brought on by borrowing too much. His three way plan consists of 1. Countries to

Do you think the next government will be: better than this lot 12% the same 30% worse 12% eu controlled 30% not democracy 12% other 3% 33 votes total

So, it's going to be the $1 trillion summit, is it? Well, when you hear the Prime Minister hailing this huge sum of money and hinting it will now quickly be ploughed into the barren fields of the world economy, consider these words: "Let's just remember, this is money that is being made available if it is needed, as a loan to the IMF. It is not money that is handed over immediately, it i...

The three party leaders are among 392 current and former MPs who were told to repay a total of £1.12 million.

Canadian police said today that they had pulled over a car containing "dangerous materials" near the site where an international summit will be held in Toronto this weekend.

Whilst trawling the sewer that is Indymedia I found this. In the early hours of this morning (12/12/08) individuals visited a police station in the Canton area of Cardiff. Slogans in support of the Greek rioters, in memory of Alexandros and anti police were painted on the front of the building. Two Police vans outside the station were also painted and covered in paint stripper. We stand in solidar...

Do you think that the cost of returning former Guantanamo Bay detainee and alleged Jihadist doe eyed Binyam Mohamed to the UK in February, put at more than £121,000 according to figures rjust released, was money well spent? In a written reply, Foreign Office Minister Lord Malloch-Brown said the total cost of transport by air, was mr and car, including for nine accompanying police officer...

 I thought this was already known, but it's reported again today - as a country, we owe more money than we have. The total of all those loans and mortgages and credit cards now exceeds the amount of money the country generates. SInce economic growth is now fast approaching zero, the country is in much the same boat as all those individuals whose total loan repayments ...