SIMON TISDALL’S latest column in the Guardian is a remarkable document. Its complaint, running through every paragraph, is not that the West has been too aggressive towards China, but that it has not ...

A MONTH ago, the government announced the formation of the Defence Universities Alliance which will “bring together academia and the Armed Forces.” A hundred universities rushed to join, of which only ...

HEAT strikes, like those due to begin this Friday by London bus drivers organised in the Unite union, will become more common as long as governments shut their eyes to the scale of climate adaptation ...

A MASSIVE tropical storm dumped heavy rain on eastern China today, causing flooding in some places and disruption to daily life and transport. Dolphin had forced at least 760,000 people to evacuate, ...

Indian students have fought for the right to education, schooling us all in the process. Comrades from the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) — UK comment on the resistance and its ripples here COST ...

AT LEAST 2,000 people have died of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), whose current outbreak of the disease is the fastest growing on record, according to government data published today ...

Meanwhile, more than 1,500 London bus drivers set for heatwave strikes this Friday, demanding air-conditioning and better working condition ...

MOST local council by-elections turn out short of a third of the electorate with elected councillors barely scraping past ...

CORPORATE spies who attempted to intimidate environmental protesters outside London’s “Walkie Talkie” building today are ...

PRIME Minister Andy Burnham rejected calls to set a maximum workplace temperature by a coalition of unions and climate activists today, as the Met Office predicted this summer will become Britain’s ...

V&A MUSEUM director Tristram Hunt’s refusal to attend union talks was branded “shocking” and “disrespectful” today. The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) and Prospect said the fact the former ...

PROBATION officers were expected to back industrial action as an indicative ballot on government plans to release more prisoners early closed today. Proposals under the Sentencing Act to ease ...