If Kim Howells’ recent photo op is anything to go by, solidarity with the torturers and executioners of trade unionists is now one of Labour’s core values.

The UN’s latest Human Development Report could scarcely be more damning with regard to Britain’s record on climate change.

Good on the Guardian for having the courage to publish the latest evidence that Iran’s President is Worse Than Hitler.

Stop the War are now gathering pledges of resistance against the mounting possibility of war with Iran.

It is sometimes quite extraordinary how political myths can be revived and made to flourish at the most convenient moments.

Leafing through some of the papers this week, I was rather struck by the words of one “senior UK source”, quoted in the Independent.

From reports of “suspect packages” to “militant infiltrators”, to the unalloyed joys of aeronautical flight, the real “silly season” seemed to have begun in earnest when the media got its hands on the Camp for Climate Action.