EU politics
Social Mobility Commission of the UK: Low pay and progression in the labour market
This – once again- puts paid to the claim that Jobs with low pay lead to well paid, permanent employment. Read here
EU politics
EU politics
Left Foot Forward: Excessive and bullying police tactics show how the fracking debate is being lost in the UK
Fracking in Britain is an issue that has caused a great deal of protest at the local Level – and massive police repression. See our in depth article on the topic here Read here
EU politics
Miguel Guerra: Catalonia – Empire strikes back
Guerra describes the roots of Catalan discontent with Spain’s national government, especially with the corruption and austerity policy of the Partido Popular of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. Published in Renegade Inc. Read here […]
EU politics
Ivan Horrocks – Ideology not money is why affordable NHS healthcare is not a proposition
The crisis in the health services in many European nations has nothing to do with deficits and government debt. Austerity is a weapon to destroy social programmes, including health, not to improve them. Ivan Horrocks is […]
EU politics
Fintan O’Toole: The lie that poverty is a moral failing was buried a century ago. Now it’s back
We live again in a world of Victorian values risen from the graves in which Shaw and the other great anti-Victorians buried them. We live again in a world where the rich pleasure themselves with the […]
EU politics
George Monbiot: Referendums get a bad press – but to fix Britain, we need more of them
650 parliamentarians decide for 66 million Britons. Elections are years apart. Is that really democracy asks George Monbiot. There must be a way to improve this system: referendums. The sort of referendum used for Brexit […]
Climate Crisis
Mat Hope – How 25 Metres of Country Road Became England’s Fracking Frontline
Mat Hope of DeSmog UK travels to Lancashire and reports about the protests against fracking there. By Mat Hope, éditor of DeSmog UK Cross-posted from DeSmog UK “There’s something happening,” Nick tells me. […]
EU politics
Kelle Louaillier: Smoking Out Big Tobacco
Recent investigations have provided damning evidence of what those in the public health community have known for decades: Big Tobacco, in its relentless pursuit of profit, works hard to block and weaken consumer protections. It […]
EU politics
David Shirreff – Brexit damage limitation
There is so much white noise in the media concerning Brexit, almost all of it by people who have no idea of what is really going on behind the scenes. David Shirreff tries to make […]
EU politics
The Guardian: Young people are borrowing to cover basic living costs, warns City watchdog
The economic situation of young people between 18 and 34 in Britain is deteriorating. Their indebtedness and over-indebtedness are increasing rapidly, but not because they are necessarily living beyond their means, but simply to meet essential […]