Jeremy Corbyn at the TUC: warmth mixed with disquiet
One union general secretary told me off the record: “He’s got to stop doing the Tolpuddle Allotments Society speech.”
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First there was the courgette crisis. Now iceberg lettuce and broccoli are being rationed by supermarkets,amid yet another vegetable shortage.
One union general secretary told me off the record: “He’s got to stop doing the Tolpuddle Allotments Society speech.”
A record 5m people in Britain are stuck on low-paid jobs, posing real problems with living costs but also risking longer term damage to the economy.
David Willis, the Texan tourist trapped in a London branch of Waterstones on Monday night, is the fifth reported case of a locked-in customer this year. Here are four other hapless souls.
The Co-op Group board members are “still stuck in denial” over its failings, former City minister Lord Myners says in a review published on Wednesday.
As Barack Obama and congress try to find a way out of the political stalemate that has shut down federal government, the Republican party finds its room for manoeuvre is limited by its own Tea Party.
A woman who fell from a roof becoming stuck between two buildings in Portland is rescued by specialist firefighters after three hours.
Afghanistan is not usually associated with cosmetic surgery and freedom of choice, but that is exactly what filmmakers found in a small Kabul clinic. Leslie Knott and Clementine Malpas report.
The coalition’s economic plan has failed: now families are crying out for change. That’s the view of the shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, who’s warning the UK economy could face long term damage.
Britain faces a choice between decline or renewal and should take lessons from the Olympics, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber will tell the TUC congress in Brighton.
As the Trades Union Congress meets for its annual conference, Channel 4 News looks at the issues it faces and profiles the woman who will lead it as the impact of austerity measures take effect.
Alex Thomson blogs on the arrest of two British journalists in Libya, and the various militias now in charge of of the streets.
As a man is charged with murder and the attempted assassination of a congresswoman in Arizona, Jon Snow looks at what lessons can be learnt.
US Representative Gabrielle Giffords has been wounded after being shot in the head during a public event at a supermarket in Tucson. Six others are reported to have died in the incident.
The backlash against President Obama in the US midterm elections has even spread to those who depend on the aid they could lose if the Republicans win power, as Sarah Smith reports from Kentucky.