Northern Rock Rescue £57Bn or £1,800 each

More pain on the way for the British tax payer with this latest announcement. Why didn't Gordon Brown listen? "The Northern Rock crisis is threatening to cost every taxpayer up to £1,800, as it emerged Gordon Brown was warned a year ago that "urgent action" was needed to...

Chelsea ease pressure on Avram Grant with 4-0 win

"Chelsea last night eased the pressure on beleaguered manager Avram Grant and ended one of the most stressful weeks in their recent history with a 4-0 Carling Cup win at Hull City.Potential embarrassment was avoided as Chelsea clinched their first victory in five matches and...

Unions out in force to mark Labour Day

From the home of the originators of Labour Day , Canadian workers had plenty to say."Thousands of workers took to the streets across the country Monday to remind Canadians of the true meaning behind the last long-weekend of summer. In downtown Toronto, the annual parades...

Abbas dissolves Palestinian government

This commentary was originally published in IntelligentaIndigena Novajoservo: Blissful Arrogance: The exploitation of the legacy of the European Holocaust and what it means for Jews as well as Arabs in Occupied Palestine 6.15.2007 "Israel, like South Africa, is an...

Who Will Govern Israel After Ehud Olmert? by Patrick Seale

"Ever since the fiasco of last summer’s war in Lebanon, Israel’s beleaguered prime minister, Ehud Olmert, has been living on borrowed time. His leadership has been fatally tarnished and his popularity is at rock bottom. The Winograd Commission condemned him severely for...

Israel FM calls on prime minister to resign

"Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign on Wednesday over a damning Lebanon war report, upping the pressure on the beleaguered premier to step down. "I expressed my opinion that his resignation is the right thing to do," Livni, a...

NH1 plate may be worth £250,000

''Not only should Northampton Borough Council sell this number plate, they should also sell any other council owned cars, property and asset's which are not really necessary to carrying out the function of managing the Town. It's called cutting your cloth to fit the...

Will postal reform deliver for small business?

It's been 30 years since Congress tackled comprehensive changes to the United States Postal Service (USPS). A legislative effort to reform the beleaguered system is now picking up steam, but does any of this matter to small business? Businesses, particularly small businesses,...