Britain’s debt rises to £2tr
Britain's national debt has been calculated at up to £2tr after the Office of National Statistics added the liabilities from two part-nationalised banks - Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland - to existing debts. The additional liabilites would, on paper, raise Britain's national debt to 150 per cent of... [continued]
Bankrupt Britain: how it could happen
FBI find Stanford in Virginia
Texan cricket Tycoon Sir Allen Stanford has been tracked down by the FBI in Virginia. The billionaire was discovered in Fredericksburg, about 50 miles south-west of Washington, after the American financial regulators has issued charges against Stanford on Tuesday without being certain of his whereabouts. Stanford is accused... [continued]
People: where has Allen Stanford gone?
People: Allen Stanford's knighthood challenged
Primary schools are ‘deficient’
Many children are being given a "deficient" start to their schooling according to the biggest review of the British primary school curriculum for 40 years. The report says schools are focusing too much on maths and English, and that too much reliance is put on testing, which it describes... [continued]
Will Self: for better state education we need a better state
Politicians not teachers are to blame for Britain's decline in education
Iranian uranium stocks revealed
Iran has a third more unranium at its disposal that it had previously stated and more than enough to build an atomic bomb, according to the UN. In their first assessment of the Gulf nation's nuclear project since Barack Obama became president of the US, the International Atomic Energy... [continued]
Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's new hard man
The Obama White House: Ahmadinejad ready to talk, but is he buying time?
Iran's Gulf stranglehold
Four acquitted over Politskovskaya
Four men accused of helping to organise the murder of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in 2006 have been acquitted by a court in Moscow, prompting calls for the investigation into her death to be renewed. Two Chechen brothers, Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov, and a former Moscow policeman, Sergei... [continued]
Moscow murders are a new blow against press freedom in Russia
Berezovsky implicated by the Kremlin
The truth can be fatal in Putlinland
Argentina expels holocaust bishop
A British bishop who has questioned the Holocaust has been ordered to leave Argentina or face expulsion. The move comes after global controversy over his views and the Vatican's attitudes towards them. The Argentinian interior ministry said Richard Williamson, a conservative Catholic who headed a seminary near Buenos... [continued]
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