The fawning tributes from the Establishment have painted Prescott as a fighter for Old Labour leftism and treated his background and accent as unique eccentricities — two utterly bogus postulations, w ...

It is now five months since the new Labour government took office and a month since the Government's first budget: probably ...

Welcome though the news is of the ceasefire in Lebanon, it does nothing to settle the deep-rooted hostilities between Israel and its neighbours.