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From 29 November spouses or partners, from outside the European Economic Area, applying to come to Britain will have to pass an English language test before they come to the UK. This measure was designed by Labour but is being implemented a year early by the coalition government as a sign that it is prepared to be even tougher than its predecessor.
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In the 1930s and 1940s Van was a Trotskyist. In later years, after he had fled to France to escape the massacres being carried out by the Vietnamese Stalinists, he rejected Trotskyism and Leninism and became a supporter of “council communism”.
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Jarvis Cocker’s work with Pulp during the Britpop era did much to keep class in the public consciousness at a time when it was being written-out of the rhetoric of New Labour, and barely noticed by the Britpop crowd who were getting high on the hype of “Cool Britannia”.
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“Holyrood Could Be Calling Me Home” read the headline above George Galloway’s Daily Record column last week, in which he claimed that he was coming under increasing pressure to contest next year’s Scottish Parliament elections.
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A couple of weeks ago my daughter, aged seven, came home from school, requesting money for a poppy. With liberal indulgence, I explained why I believe wearing a red poppy linked to those who continue to make war is wrong.
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Princes, the dregs of their dull race... Mud from a muddy spring.
Percy Shelley on the princes of England in 1819.
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The enormous French strike movement of this autumn has ground to a halt. But reports suggest workers do not feel defeated, and their organisations have emerged strengthened.
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The development of anti-cuts campaigns and committees has been one of the most immediate political consequences of the government’s cuts programme.
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At the Lambeth Living [Lambeth Council’s housing “Arms Length Management Organisation”] staff conference on 8 November there was a lot of anger and nervousness at the announcement of job cuts.
