It’s done now – the new Government has been voted into power. But will anything really change for the common man?
Apart from being Shrove Tuesday, this year 8 March marks the centenary of International Woman’s Day – and women’s 100-year-long struggle for equality in the workplace, education and family life. It is a global celebration recognising the economic,
The recent dramatic events in the Middle East and north Africa have taken many by surprise. Beginning in Tunisia, the wave of protest soon crashed into Egypt, where following 18 days of protests waged by ordinary Egyptians, peaceful demonstrators were able to
The ongoing events in the Middle East can only be described as watching history unfold. During the last few weeks we’ve seen first the Tunisians, then the rapidly following Egyptians protest to oust their corrupt leaders.
The infection of 4,700 haemophiliacs with HIV and hepatitis C during the 1970s and 1980s and the subsequent death of 2,000 of these patients has long been sold to the public by successive governments as an ‘unavoidable accident’.
In France, making somebody redundant has become a game. With the new card game Plan Social (the French term for ‘downsizing’), players must get rid of their employees and relocate to a totalitarian country with cheaper labour.
Optimal Edge with Eugene Nwosu