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Umbrella 96 sunday, august 24th, 2008 Miliband and Darling rumoured to job swap in cabinet reshuffle...Banks defend their shareholders...Not so Innocent...Green taxes and New Labour lies...Fabian Hamilton and 42 days...Snippets...Green tip of the week

Umbrella 95 wednesday, september 26th, 2007 A rock and a hard place...Leeds West Parliamentary selection...Leeds Grammar School...Pay news...The General Election

Umbrella 94 friday, february 16th, 2007 Blair's legacy...Colin Challen, MP Rothwell and Morley...Snippets

Umbrella 93 thursday, december 21st, 2006 Who are the real fat cats?...Our NHS...Corruption and New Labour...Snippets

Umbrella 92 sunday, december 10th, 2006 Leeds Hospitals Trust...A name from the past...The Energy Saving Trust

Umbrella 91 thursday, august 17th, 2006 Nuclear Blair...Paying the price...Snippets

Umbrella 90 wednesday, july 12th, 2006 Making money...More privatisation...When will the Chinese economy overtake that of the USA?...Protecting Company Directors...Who Killed the Electric Car?...Working for a clampdown...Saving Miles Hill Primary School

Umbrella 89 tuesday, june 13th, 2006 The rich and the poor...How the rich get rich...Ming the Merciless

Umbrella 88 saturday, june 3rd, 2006 Iraq and Afghanistan...Bush to the last drop...York and Leeds Greens... Prescott

Umbrella 87 wednesday, may 17th, 2006 Global warming...Law and order...New Orleans

Umbrella 86 thursday, april 27th, 2006 Local elections...The stench of corruption...Pensions

Umbrella 85 saturday, march 11th, 2006 Blair, Berlusconi and Jowell...Kelly and Education...Snippets

Umbrella 84 tuesday, january 10th, 2006 New Labour's crisis...The retreat from Kyoto...Menwith Hill...Pensions...Snippets

Umbrella 83 thursday, april 14th, 2005 The Spring Green Fair...Brides and prejudice...Oil wells that, well, end...Iran-alam-a-ding-dong...A quick review of climate change...We are running out of time and air...See you later, alley-gater...What does Fabian Hamilton do?...Nuclear blogging

Umbrella 82 monday, february 28th, 2005 The Iraqi elections...Who stole the Iraqi oil revenues?...Making money out of Iraq and Britain...The great Iraqi pull out...Labour plans massive nuclear power expansion...New Labour Watch: Pregnancy...New Labour Watch: University students...New Labour Watch: Bradford Royal Infirmary...New Labour and freedom of information...New Labour and carbon emissions...Iran...Alan Clinton's funeral....Everyone is going to Gleneagles in July...America and Cuba...Leeds Alliance for Green Socialism News

Umbrella 81 tuesday, february 1st, 2005 Big heist in Belfast...Iraq...What is happening in Falluja...Deaths in the tsunami and deaths in Iraq....Pensions...New Labour Watch: Global Warming...Blunkett and the kite...The Royals, New Labour and fascism

Umbrella 80 sunday, december 19th, 2004 Iraq: From the sharp end...Iraq: How the troops are rewarded...Iraq: US troops start to refuse orders...Iraq: History repeats itself...Iraq: CIA workers begin to tell the truth...Iraq: The most expensive taxi drive in the world...Iraq: Death toll...The fast guide to recycling......Above the law...Winter Green Fair...The Alliance for Green Socialism...Leeds Social Services in Crisis...Leeds hospital cuts...New Labour Watch: Rich getter rich faster under New Labour...New Labour Watch: New Labour let in the killers...New Labour Watch: New Labour spins away global warming....New Labour Watch: Hilary Benn and the Accountants...New Labour Watch: New Labour and Nuclear Power

Umbrella 79 sunday, december 5th, 2004 100,000 killed in Iraq...Been here before...The reality of Falluja...Democracy and Falluja...Working for a clampdown...Impeach Blair...Confessions of an Economic Hit Man...News from the Swampies...Jack Straw: an oily past and present...Moving around Gaza...Prince Charles is in touch...New Labour Watch

Umbrella 78 saturday, november 6th, 2004 What does Blair stand for?...Beyond Iraq...Indymedia services closed down in the UK...Blair and big business...Blair and democracy...The Carbon Trust...Man Robs Bank Wearing George W Bush Mask...Wind Energy...New Labour in Leeds...The fire service in Leeds...Greening your home...A victory...A Marxist plot...Ripping off the pensioners

Umbrella 77 friday, october 1st, 2004 Corporate corruption, pensions and New Labour...Youth and Labour... Death in Iraq...Stopping Americans voting...Fylingdales...More on triangulation...Leeds West Indian Carnival...Chapel Allerton Arts Festival

Umbrella 76 friday, august 27th, 2004 "Events dear chap events"...Election fixing...Exporting electoral fraud...The US conventions...From the Commons Dreams News Center by Ted Rall...Facts about Haliburton...Peter O'Grady...Danny Freeman...Second thoughts...Sheffield Green Fair...Where or when is Bin Laden?

Umbrella 75 sunday, july 18th, 2004 Where next for the Left in Leeds?...What next for the Left in Manchester?...Round the Garden Parties...Pay up for Pensioners Rally...When will they catch Bin Laden?...South Yorkshire festival...Reclaim Chapel Allerton Park...Labour NEC results...No go areas for the BNP

Umbrella 74 friday, july 2nd, 2004 Out of Iraq?...Iraq Occupation Focus...How Bush is loved...The importance of elections...After Ridsdale close Education Leeds...The blue, yellow and green coalition

Umbrella 73 sunday, may 9th, 2004 Big hitters out for a duck...The future of Public Housing...The Church of God of Prophecy...Ridsdale must go...Vaisakhi...Chapeltown North Residents Association...Snippets

Umbrella 72 sunday, march 28th, 2004 Global warning...Where the weapons of mass destruction?...A Strange letter...Blocking the base...Peace in the Middle East...A fair trade city...Save Leeds markets...Disney Picket...Building solidarity...Leeds 'Campaign against destitution in our communities'...The Tobin Tax...Snippets

Umbrella 71 tuesday, march 9th, 2004 Crisis in Leeds New Labour...Hilary Wainwright...Stan Cohen...The War, the Truth and You Conference...The invasion in Parliament...Claire Short and the UN...Norma Hutchinson

Umbrella 70 wednesday, february 18th, 2004 Blair the liar tries diversion...Leeds: New Labour and Liberal Democrats, two peas in the same pod...The Hutton whitewash...Palestine...Snippets

Umbrella 69 friday, january 23rd, 2004 Taking responsibility on another planet...Meanwhile in Iraq...And in Yorkshire...But in Scotland...And in Leeds...Round the world. The 80 year war on drugs...EVENTS

Umbrella 68 tuesday, january 13th, 2004 The Yorkshire Evening Post and New Labour...Survivors...News from America...Stuart Bruce and the devil...Snippets

Umbrella 67 thursday, december 18th, 2003 Community radio...The struggle for peace...Buckingham Palace...The struggle against terrorism: the whole picture....Socialist Alliance RIP perhaps...Snippets

Umbrella 66 wednesday, november 26th, 2003 Colludo - Whodunnit to the World's Poor?...What is happening in Iraq?...The Law and Leeds Labour Party...Chapel Allerton Bonfire party...Chapel Allerton AGS meeting...Leeds Jamaica Society...Leeds-Hebron Friendship Link...Lawnswood School

Umbrella 65 tuesday, october 28th, 2003 A Green Chemist...Potternewton Primary School...Hiroshima and Nagasaki...Catalysis for change...Menwith Hill

Umbrella 64 saturday, october 11th, 2003 Wonderful Leeds...Middy Blogger...A Tale of Two Conferences...American law...Farewell to Mick Rix?...Chapeltown Community Nursery...Leeds West Indian Carnival Prize Giving...Chimes of Freedom...Alternative Media...Concert for Kwale...Fire on Chapeltown Road

Umbrella 63 saturday, september 6th, 2003 Leeds West Indian Carnival...Chapel Allerton Arts festival...A tale of two Barnards...A christening...The Independent Labour Party meeting...A tale of two inquests...Hoon and Kelly...Princess Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed and the baby

Umbrella 62 monday, august 25th, 2003 Fun and games in the US...Oil and war...The repercussions of the Iraqi war in the UK...Hoon Blair Brown...Bring in the police state...A great wedding

Umbrella 61 tuesday, july 29th, 2003 Where the Weapons of Mass Destruction?...Bush's Weapons of Mass Destruction...Where is Saddam?...Partying through the summer...Snippets

Umbrella 60 sunday, june 29th, 2003 Hoon and the secret treaties...The Liberal Democrats...John Reid, man of many offices...Deceptive surveillance...Surveillance

Umbrella 59 saturday, june 14th, 2003 Leeds United and Education Leeds...Round and about...The irresistible rise of Matthew Caygill...Fall out from the "chicken shoot" in Iraq?..."Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) would be ready in 45 minutes"...Quotes from Paul Wolfowitz, the US Deputy Defense Secretary

Umbrella 58 saturday, may 24th, 2003 The Bin Ladens have won...Where are the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?...Where are Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Chemical Ali?... Solomon Islands...On the campaign trail with the Alliance for Green Socialism

Umbrella 57 friday, april 18th, 2003 Truth and lies...A Warmonger Explains War To A Peacenik...War Roundup

Umbrella 56 tuesday, april 1st, 2003 The purpose......The wider view: the United Nations...The European Parliament...America...Money, oil and weapons of mass destruction...Halliburton and Vice President Cheney...Britain and paying for the war...The Prime Minister and the war...Some light relief

Umbrella 55 sunday, march 23rd, 2003 Marching for peace in Leeds...Parliamentary misrule...The fight against terrorism...Reporting the news as it is... Clare Short...A US voice of principle...The French hit back...The West Yorkshire Ambulance Service in crisis...Children's hospital...Prescott to impose fire pay deal

Umbrella 54 tuesday, march 18th, 2003 The War...Snippets

Umbrella 53 sunday, march 9th, 2003 Stopping the war...A war of torture and shadows...Paying for the war...The fire dispute...Snippets

Umbrella 52 wednesday, february 26th, 2003 15 February...Subversion in the US...Ex-President Carter...Senator Robert Byrdd...Overheard in the Last Viceroy...Snippets...White and Asian...Hilldene Hotel

Umbrella 51 saturday, february 15th, 2003 The Bradford Anti War march...The strange case of Charles Kennedy...The Florida candidate...Education Leeds...Housing...The Yorkshire Coalfields

Umbrella 50 wednesday, november 27th, 2002 Leeds explodes...Poodle...News from the Rogue state...Big Business and New Labour...New Labour and the FBU...Genetically modified crop trials...More pit closures?...Fylingdales and Menwith Hill...Where is Osama bin Laden?...Taggart for Mayor...Israel begs for more

Umbrella 49 wednesday, november 13th, 2002 Stop the War...Palestine...Snippets

Umbrella 48 tuesday, october 29th, 2002 The MPs and Iraq...Snippets

Umbrella 47 wednesday, october 9th, 2002 Stopping the war...Snippets

Umbrella 46 wednesday, september 25th, 2002 Norma Conquests...Councillor Taggart's mobility problems...Nuclear Power £400 million. Coal £0...New Labour's debt grows...Bush the part-timer...Polls...New Labour and Enron's accountants...The war on the Iraqi people has already started...Meanwhile in Afghanistan.........and in Yorkshire...A trip down memory lane...Lies, damn lies and statistics

Umbrella 45 tuesday, september 3rd, 2002 On the Warpath...Carnival...Snippets

Umbrella 44 wednesday, august 14th, 2002 The Left Alliance Garden Party...The Hebron-Leeds Friendship Link...Councillor Neil Taggart, former Chair of West Yorkshire Police...Nigerian women fight back...Snippets

Umbrella 43 wednesday, july 10th, 2002 Sneaky housing tricks in Leeds...What happened in France...Police News...Leeds North East Labour Party...Snippets

Umbrella 42 sunday, june 16th, 2002 Why Councillor Taggart does anything...The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) in Leeds...Bush...Cash Injection...The crisis in the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCSU)...Snippets

Umbrella 41 wednesday, may 29th, 2002 East Leeds local election results...Harehills...Chapel Allerton...The rest of Leeds...Morley...Leeds New Council...Where is bin Laden?

Umbrella 40 wednesday, april 24th, 2002 On the campaign trail with Garth Frankland...Spotted...A tale of two meetings