No matter how terrible the BBC is, it constantly manages to get worse. The BBC News this evening appears like...
Corporate Capture
Politics, the Civil Service, the media, the police, the EU Commission – the list of organisations that should bat for us but instead bat for corporate power is depressing – we chart the slide and the fightback. We follow the money, the cushy appointments, the backroom deals all the way to the top
Corporate control on both sides of the Atlantic will be solidified should the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership be passed....
The Ecuadorean government is being forced to use money that could go toward relief efforts to instead pay off a...
Greenpeace have leaked 248 pages of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiating texts, confirming worst fears of environmentalists...
Is the UK sinking into authoritarian rule? That's how it looks, writes Jonathon Porritt, as the government joins with right...
In my archives there is a column or two that introduces the reader to John Perkins’ important book, Confessions of...
Today the Groceries Code Adjudicator (which is jargon for one woman, Christine Tacon, whose job it is to monitor the...
A scientist whose research has been used by prominent climate science denialists Lord Matt Ridley and Rupert Murdoch to claim...
Recent revelations about VW cheating emissions tests have underlined the obvious fact that private business interests are not the same...
With honourable exceptions, those in the media are now absorbed into a system of propaganda that is no longer journalism....
Earlier this summer, the world watched Greece try to resist a disastrous neoliberal diktat and get a painful thrashing in...
Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt are alienating The Guardian's readership and destroying what remains of their reputation for journalism and integrity. Here...
Not many people enjoy the existence of poverty. Some think it’s inevitable, others that tackling it is politically impossible. But...
Often referred to as the Switzerland of South America, Uruguay is long accustomed to doing things its own way. It...
In autumn 2002 the Observer newspaper’s correspondent Ed Vulliamy found confirmation of a terrible truth many of us already suspected. In a world-exclusive,...
There couldn’t be a more stark illustration of what is wrong with our current political system – and why Jeremy...
Following Jeremy Corbyn's landslide election as new Labour leader his new shadow cabinet is taking shape, and there are many...
Tick, tick, tick - BOOM! Jeremy Corbyn has done it - he is the new leader of the Labour Party,...
Noam Chomsky and other serious critics on the left often have to contend with dismissals from opponents (including most in...
This autumn may see anti-austerity coalitions gain power in Portugal, Spain and Italy, while Marine le Pen’s National Front in...
Will The Labour Party allow me to vote for in their leadership election? As a lifelong Labour voter until the Iraq War...
"Our governments care more about the concerns of big business than scientists' warnings about climate change." Two weeks to save...
The Guardian's columnist David Hill wrote an article on recent opposition riots in Ecuador. It is one-sided and full of...
They must think we are all stupid. Not even four months into the new conservative administration and the BBC (whose...
The corporate media and the loony right are desperate to discredit Jeremy Corbyn and to present the notion of him leading the...
"Never presume to know, therefore, for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee" The political graveyard where Labour's loony right and...
Dear Harriet Harman, Who am I to be writing to an important woman such as yourself? I am just a...
Headfuck (Noun) Anything confusing, that interferes with the usual functioning of the brain - particularly something that is offered as...
Tony Benn remarked that were two kinds of politicians signposts and weathervanes. Signposts indicate the way ahead, resolute and unchanging...
Every picture tells a story. Here is a snapshot of The Guardian's politics section this morning. Puff piece interviews with...