The lack of any firm commitment to upholding labour rights and employment conditions in any of the Government’s job plans is worrying. By Frank Groome.

The reduction of public policy issues to simple economic calculus is a practice that needs to be challenged. By Frank Groome.

If one recognises water as a basic human right - a concept endorsed last year by the UN - then the decision to allow it be taken out of public control and given to private interests is reprehensible, writes Frank Groome.

Obama's rhetoric of change may have been seductive during his 2008 campaign, but American foreign and national security policy has remained much the same as it was during the Bush years. By Frank Groome.