The Labour Party cannot live in the past. It's time to ditch the neoliberal drift of the Blair era, and return...
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
All news reporting is biased. Once a newspaper selects some facts, chooses certain kinds of headlines and where to place them, it is making...
If you self identify as left wing or 'progressive' then its likely you have protested against the inequities and ideological...
The Guardian has become a liberal frosted version of The Daily Mail. You think not? Read on... Like the BBC...
*Boondoggle: ‘a project that is considered a useless waste of both time and money, yet is often continued due to...
The Haze watches with incredulity the daft campaign being run by internet petition mongers 38 Degrees in aid of the 'independent' BBC' - a supposed...
This morning Greece has come to an agreement with the so called troika of the IMF, ECB and the EU and...
I believed it myself for a few hours - after decades of media rumblings about corruption at FIFA, the FBI finally...
The battle to shape our society never sleeps - it doesn't end on election night and lie dormant for...
So Labour lost and were all but wiped out in Scotland. Ed Milliband fell on his sword quickly and took full responsibility...
David Cameron is a ruthless man - and the regressive neoliberalism that he and his party champions, has this morning, secured five more...
After Ecuador issued a permit to drill for oil in Yasuni National Park in May, there's already been one of...
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a comprehensive free trade and investment treaty currently being negotiated – in...
Nestlé's water privatization push Across the globe, Nestlé is pushing to privatize and control public water resources. Nestlé's Chairman...
Protest and dissent are the foundation stones of modern societies and have helped secure a measure of democracy and human...
No sector has lobbied the EC on the proposed EU-US trade deal (TTIP) more than Agribusiness, according to Corporate Europe...
A new report from the Centre for Labour and Social Studies highlights the failure of the Banking Reform Act to...
Last week, a letter signed by 18 organisations was published in the Nigerian media. The letter focussed on a new piece...
A new wave of corporate trade deals threaten to increase global inequality, undermine democracy and hand public service provision to...
Today, the Natural Environment Research Council (Nerc) signed a ‘memorandum of understanding’ with Shell. Thanks to Greenpeace for the tip....
A new report by People & Planet, Platform and 350.org has exposed the extent to which the fossil fuel industry...
The estimated £50m daily cost of London’s Tube strikes is based on a 2007 survey of just 315 businesses. Since...
A new book chronicles the failure of the mainstream media--and most especially the business press, including publications like Forbes, Fortune, and The...
In modern Britain, today, right now, the basics of survival are being withdrawn from people whom British society deems unworthy. Vulnerable people, often...
Shocking story from Democracy Now in the US of how thousands of children in Pennsylvania were jailed by two corrupt judges who...
Regulatory capture – the process by which government bodies come under the thumb of the industries they are set up...
Vodafone paid no corporation tax and reduced its UK tax bill by a fifth last year. The company defends its...
Much of the heated political debate in the UK at the moment revolves around benefits and the welfare state - specifically poor people who are...
.. Plans for the NHS to SELL patient care records to big pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies and research institutions are a national...