Northern Europe
British government mounts new bank bailout amid warnings of economic collapse
By Jean Shaoul, January 21, 2009
Britain’s Labour government announced another massive bank bailout on Monday, just months after the same banks received a £500 billion “aid” package from the treasury.
Britain: Government report calls for scrapping cap on university fees
By Robert Stevens, January 20, 2009
A report commissioned by the British government has called for the scrapping of the current cap of £3,145 a year on university tuition fees.
Students at two London universities occupy campuses in protest at Gaza attacks
By Paul Mitchell, January 17, 2009
Students at two London universities occupy campuses in protest at Gaza attacks By Paul Mitchell 17 January 2009
Britain: Prince Harry and the “P” word
By Julie Hyland, January 15, 2009
With Prince Harry again embroiled in controversy over his latest “unroyal” behaviour—referring to a fellow Sandhurst cadet with a racial epithet—politicians, army brass and the media lined up ...
Britain: Free school meals denied to one million children
By Liz Smith, January 15, 2009
Free school meals are being denied to one million children whose families are among a growing number of the “working poor”.
Britain: Brown’s “New Deal” scuppered as it is launched
By Julie Hyland, January 10, 2009
On Monday, British Prime Minister Brown unveiled initiatives aimed at creating “tens of thousands” of jobs. But thousands of job losses and warnings of hundreds of thousands more, showed his “Ne...
Britain: Financial pain and insecurity for millions of families in 2009
By Julie Hyland, January 2, 2009
A report from the British Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development said that 2009 will be the worst for job losses in at least 20 years, with some 300,000 workers laid off in the months leadin...
Britain: A revealing exchange on a national unity government
By Julie Hyland, December 24, 2008
A revealing exchange took place in the Guardian newspaper earlier this month between former Labour minister Frank Field and veteran Labourite Tony Benn on the prospects for a government of national un...
Iceland faces rising unemployment and rampant inflation
By Jordan Shilton, December 20, 2008
Protests continue in Reykjavík to demand the resignation of the government and central bank chiefs and the holding of fresh elections. Opposition has also been expressed to the privatisation drive re...
British economy sinks like a stone
By Jean Shaoul, December 18, 2008
Every day brings new indicators that the economic crisis engulfing Britain is much worse and developing far more rapidly than either the government or the economic pundits have acknowledged. This has ...
Britain: Brown announces pull-out from Iraq, more troops to Afghanistan
By Harvey Thompson and Julie Hyland, December 18, 2008
Prime Minister Gordon Brown made a “surprise” visit to Iraq yesterday, to announce a withdrawal of UK forces by July 2009.
Britain: Jury verdict over killing of Jean Charles de Menezes demolishes police lies
By Paul Mitchell, December 16, 2008
Jurors have rejected police claims that Jean Charles de Menezes was lawfully killed and returned an open verdict. The decision was the most damaging outcome possible for the Metropolitan Police after ...
