Today is Earth Overshoot Day. It’s the day when, as a planet, we collectively reach the limit of how much...
Neoliberalism
The dominant ideology of modern times is hard to pin down but its influence is global and catastrophic. A mixture of bogus economic theory, direct assaults on behalf of class power and a Trojan horse to subvert democracy – everyone needs to understand the nature and influence of neoliberalism.
Dear Harriet Harman, Who am I to be writing to an important woman such as yourself? I am just a...
In July 2014, a member of the Disability News Service sent a Freedom of Information Inquiry to the Department of Work...
Headfuck (Noun) Anything confusing, that interferes with the usual functioning of the brain - particularly something that is offered as...
The Haze says: This story is so typical of Tory Britain and yet rarely gets reported in the corporate media. A woman...
The Labour Party cannot live in the past. It's time to ditch the neoliberal drift of the Blair era, and return...
A disabled woman has lost the car she relied on to attend vital hospital appointments, after the government decided she...
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...
This morning Greece has come to an agreement with the so called troika of the IMF, ECB and the EU and...
One thing we’ve learned in the years since the financial crisis is that seriously bad ideas — by which I...
Millions of children are engaged in paid or unpaid domestic, manual, agricultural and other forms of work worldwide, leaving them...
They’re hidden behind sewing machines or swinging hammers. They’re selling snacks street side or swinging machetes in sugarcane fields. They’re...
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...
Modern politicians love talking about aspirational people and families, but offer only the narrowest and most poisonous view of human aspiration and vision...
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...
When Funghi, the unemployed alcoholic featured in the recent Benefits Street television series, disclosed that he had been abused...
After Ecuador issued a permit to drill for oil in Yasuni National Park in May, there's already been one of...
One of the Tories’ biggest donors and a major contributor to the Scottish “No” campaign runs a vast oil-trading company...
So now we know what the Conservative manifesto will say about industrial action. Strike ballots will require a 50% turn out to...
Some of the UK’s largest charities have a dirty little workfare secret and one of the best known has...
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a comprehensive free trade and investment treaty currently being negotiated – in...
On the front page of the World Justice Movement are two taglines. The first says they are 'world justice campaigners'...
The number of parents forced to represent themselves before the family courts jumped by 20,000 last year following the withdrawal...
Nestlé's water privatization push Across the globe, Nestlé is pushing to privatize and control public water resources. Nestlé's Chairman...