Today we focus on the declared front runners for the Labour leadership election. In an unsurprising move, Labour has decided to...
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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...
Hundreds of children that were alive a few short weeks ago in Gaza are dead - their deaths were no accident or an act...
Surely the UK complicity in the slaughter in Gaza is something that no ethical Briton should tolerate? .. We all know that money and realpolitik drive UK...
On the front page of the World Justice Movement are two taglines. The first says they are 'world justice campaigners'...
Is consumerism related to our private lives? Many people have noted the inevitable way that sex is sold, through pornography,...
Sodium Haze has been closed for a few months. We had hassle from a dodgy landlord and we had to...
The heterodox economist Steve Keen wrote in his book 'Debunking Economics' that the modern world has been made in the...
I was struck powerfully by an article by the environmental campaigner and journalist George Monbiot in yesterday's Guardian - it...
We live in an economic and political era created by the fantasies of adult children. .. In this childlike world one...
A new wave of corporate trade deals threaten to increase global inequality, undermine democracy and hand public service provision to...
Criss-crossing the wealthy shires of flooded Southern England go the media, with tearful presenters comforting the normally comfortable about damp sofas...
Recent legal judgements may make the collection of the hated bedroom tax all but impossible. .. Crucial definitions of what...
Some of the richest people in the UK are getting lucrative hidden tax breaks that cost ordinary taxpayers dear. Initial estimates suggest that tax perks...
In modern Britain, today, right now, the basics of survival are being withdrawn from people whom British society deems unworthy. Vulnerable people, often...
Hate attacks against poor people are fashionable at the moment. Even people in the most dire of circumstances are fair game for bigoted attacks and...
Much of this video is very relevant to the UK too, as we race towards the neoliberal bottom along with...
.. Plans for the NHS to SELL patient care records to big pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies and research institutions are a national...
The Gagging Bill effectively became the Gagging Law last night when the vote in the House of Lords was a tie - in...
.. Professor Richard Werner, Director of the Centre for Banking, Finance and Sustainable Development at Southampton University, gave a presentation at the Transforming...
.. Two images stay in my head which refuse to go away. Both occurred on the debate on the explosion in the use of food...
.. .. Shale gas executives and government officials have been caught colluding to undermine protests and public resistance to fracking. E-mails released under freedom of...
.. The coalition's benefit cuts, bedroom tax and aggressive welfare sanctions are forcing many Britons into "forced penury" as they mark an increasing return...
.. Another day and another hatchet job in the media aimed at poor people - this time in the form...
.. AlterNet today reports on the rapid demise of the middle class in the U.S. The gaps between the rich...
.. HSBC a now familiar name in the British retail banking sector has received a settlement deal from U.S. Assistant Attorney General...
"There is always some new horrible thing happening. The other day someone wrote to me about the Bangladesh Muslims trying to get rid...
Another illuminating day for those of us not entirely convinced that we live in a functional democracy. .The Mirror, The...