As Britain prepares to farewell Margaret Thatcher with a paramilitary funeral, Guy Rundle asks the questions about her legacy that the Labour Party is failing to.
The British county of Kent appointed a new youth commissioner -- who turns out was acting like a bit of a youth on Twitter. The scandal is a top tabloid fodder across the nation.
Margaret Thatcher is dead. Forget the the fiction that Thatcherism was the only way to modernise a Western economy -- it was a second-rate, shoddy approach that left British neighbourhoods in ruins.
The Iron Lady found herself in the lyrics of many UK songs over the years, from Morrissey to raps about the 1981 anti-unemployment riot. Crikey chronicles the best of them.
Eight million Italians used their votes to send a message to the major parties by voting for comedian Beppe Grillo. But no one expected he would win. Rome-based journalist Josephine McKenna asks Italians: what now?
Change is afoot in the ABC's network of foreign bureaux: Moscow is out and a second Middle-East position is on the way.
Even the raciest tabloids in the UK are refusing to identify the household name arrested on suspicion of sexual offences. Australian media has done the same thing. So what's going on?
David Cameron has shaken up benefits for Britain's most needy. Is it the end of the social state as we know it, or have the Tories not gone far enough? Well, both ...
Cyprus is in tatters following the disastrous bank bailout offer a few weeks ago and this week's new economy-"saving" bailout. Is this the new face of the eurozone? And could the Cyprus crisis bring down the entire economy?
