As anyone who is paying attention knows by now, the slap-on-wrist "fines" being levied against criminal corporations aren't doing much...
Energy companies in profiteering (non) shock. Households may have paid over the odds for their electricity for three years because energy...
Coalition meddling in the NHS puts lives at risk. .. The Independent carries a shocking (though unsurprising) story on...
There IS an alternative to blaming the poor for the woes of the economy and endless austerity. .. We all...
Paul Buchheit reports on ALTERNET on the fruits of neoliberalism- naked greed and rampant inequality, both rife in Obama'a America.The...
The New Statesman carries this illuminating insight into how political parties use figures. .. Since the election the Lib Dems...
Its the new sport everybody is talking about! Blameball! . First a quick bit of the history of BLAMEBALL. Recently the...
The truth will out - drones are inaccurate offensive weapons. Heather Linebaugh served in the United Stated Air Force...
We thought it a good moment to re-visit the conclusions of the report produced by Church Action on Poverty and...
A few quick dispatches from the on-going war against the poor which is the distraction technique being deployed by the...
Once again economists blunder around in the dark. . A report out from the Resolution Foundation makes predictable but sobering...
The Guardian carries this piece. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/20/conservative-groups-1bn-against-climate-change The anti-climate effort has been largely underwritten by conservative billionaires, often working through secretive...
The former MP and Europe minister Denis MacShane has been sentenced to six months' in jail after admitting making bogus expense claims...
Every day the politicians of all sides bang the war drums and the media faithfully pumps out the message -...
So much for George Osborne's war on debt. A select group of MP's has blasted Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs...
Just as The Haze and others forecast, the government is to renege on its promise of an independent judge-led enquiry...
A policeman was caught on film 'allegedly' punching protester Tony Jones, 24, smacking him to the ground with a punch in the...
Abdel al-Hakim Belhaj - did Britain collude in his torture? David Cameron's promise of a judge-led inquiry into evidence that Britain...
Its a scenario straight out of the American crime fiction TV series 'The Wire'. In this article in The Telegraph...
Another illuminating day for those of us not entirely convinced that we live in a functional democracy. .The Mirror, The...
The Guardian carries a comment piece by the blogger Jack Monroe today. In it she defends her decision to star...