As the British Labour Party struggles with a preselection battle in a Scottish seat, the Left in Britain and Australia tries to reinvent itself ... with or without unions.
Founded guilty of sex with an underage prostitute, Silvio Berlusconi has moved closer to going to jail on a charge that almost by coincidence tells us a lot about his record, writes Charles Richardson.
Edward Snowden sent a plane-load of journalists on a wild goose chase, as the debate in the United States over spying and the pursuit of leakers got sillier and sillier.
The collapse of the Co-operative Group banking firm in the UK shows the banking sector remains the biggest worry in a still faltering European economy.
Remember Greece? We've heard a lot about Cyprus in recent times, but Greece is still a basket case and going from bad to worse.
Crikey's writer-at-large mediates on life, death, love and loss in London's most iconic urban neighbourhood. It's not what it used to be, and never will be again.
Power is changing hands, flipping on its head, ebbing away, growing ever stronger. Guy Rundle on why (lazy cliche of a Yeats poem not withstanding), things are very much falling apart.
The response to the Woolwich terrorists' attack on drummer Lee Rigby was exactly what the killers were aiming for. Was it a crime or an act of terror?
With Australia's royal commission into child sex abuse dominating national headlines -- and senior Catholic George Pell facing a similar state enquiry today -- will the faithful stop going to church? Ireland offers some clues.
