09.06.07 - 09:40am
Nothing epitomises the disaster that is the invasion of Iraq more than the fact that, four years on, the US is not only still bombing the country daily but actually bombing densely populated urban Baghdad neighbourhoods.
09.04.07 - 09:28am
A scheme that should have provided two upgraded hospitals at a cost of £30m has ballooned to £410m. And the reason the original plan was changed was purely to provide a profit-motive to entice corporations to get involved. And the kicker is, of course, that PFI schemes are long term deals, locking the taxpayer into yearly payments while the British Labour/Conservative dichotomy continues to morph into two wings of a single business party, US-style, with neither the desire nor the will to do what is necessary in the public interest.
09.02.07 - 05:53pm
British military scientists tested mustard gas on Indian soldiers in the years leading up to the the Second World War, it has been revealed. The soldiers were sent into gas chambers as part of experiments to measure the effects of the terrifying gas, according to newly discovered documents at the National Archives. The Indian soldiers were under the command of the British military at the time, with the nation subject to colonial rule.
