Blogs

Budget day, eh? Not being fantastically fiscally-minded, I can’t claim to have waded through the news in full. But clearly it was a bad day for cider drinkers (though a good day if you were wondering what had happened to The Wurzels...

I shall never die As I have sowed the seed of words. Ferdowsi, 10th century Iranian poet. It was 8 March 1979, a month after the Iranian revolution had overthrown 2500 years monarchy and was about to set a date for the referendum to...

The first ever ILO Commission of Inquiry resulting from complaints by both worker and employer organisations has found evidence of systematic – and indeed systemic – violations of trade union rights in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe. The...

A Panorama special on 24 March 2010, Chocolate – the Bitter Truth , went undercover in west Africa. How much do we know about the people who produce the cocoa that goes into our chocolate? Some who are working long hours may be...

I was struck by a number of things today, which got me thinking about justice, and whether delayed justice loses a degree of its value. The life imprisonment ot former SS leader Heinrich Boere, at age 88, might not have been witnessed...