Previously unseen records have disclosed the true scale of Britain’s involvement in slave trade, revealing how wealthiest families, including those of the British Prime Minister David Cameron, reaped the benefits of the disgraceful practice. According to a study by Dr Nick Draper who has examined 46,000 compensation papers in...
In his chapter for this book ,Meirion Jones writes: "Take the junior doctors’ strike this month. Newsnight, to its credit, ran a MORI poll showing 66% public in favour, 18% against. But on the day of the action Today trawled for anti-strike patients, and the BBC News at Ten...
Over a thousand people will take action against Npower and other Big Six energy companies on day that Winter Death statistics are released. Anti-austerity groups including Fuel Poverty Action, UK Uncut, Disabled People Against Cuts, and the Greater London Pensioners Association reveal Npower as key target (Npower Supply and...
Below is a letter I have written to a national newspaper on the subject of fair and equal treatment of the Paralympics on behalf of a group of disabled people, and as a part of a growing internet campaign. To Whom it may concern, It has come to my...
The government's welfare reform minister has suggested lone members of parliament, bank bailout claimants and other people on benefits are too comfortable not having to work for their income, saying they are able to "have a lifestyle" on the state. In an interview with House Magazine, Lord Freud is...
The nuclear power industry is suing Germany because it's phasing out its unpopular nuclear power stations. Tobacco giant Philip Morris is suing Australia for billions of dollars in lost profits because the government took action to reduce teenage smoking. And pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly is suing Canada for $500 million,...
Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I was with Robert Kennedy when he was shot and I saw his assassin, preparing to kill him. It was a baptism in the American...
It just gets weirder: They really are clueless in their manufactured establishment bubble. Just check out this part of the interview with Press Gazette: 'While her coverage of Brexit has won her acclaim, Kuenssberg’s reports on embattled Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn have earned her critics, largely from Corbyn’s fervent...
The Focus E15 Mothers and Residents, a housing campaign based out of Newham, East London, have gone into occupation of an empty block of flats on the Carpenters Estate and turned it into a vibrant, politically charged social centre. The campaign was formed one year ago out of the struggle of...
It’s been announced that the new governor of the Bank of England is going to be Mark Carney, currently governor of the Bank of Canada, when his term expires in 2013. George Osborne – who knows Carney through their membership of the secretive ‘Bilderberg group’ of power-brokers – considers...
