Friday, February 29, 2008

New drugs 'strategy', same result

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Another week, another government “10-year strategy” aimed at grabbing the tabloid headlines with get-tough policies that might even pull in ...
Thursday, February 28, 2008

'More like Mafia than democracy'

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As Russia moves towards its coronation – sorry, presidential election – this Sunday, the clampdown on the autocracy’s political opponents co...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Making money out of unhappiness

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Global drug corporations have been making make millions out of people’s unhappiness. Now it turns out that the drugs don’t work and the 40 m...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Global food crisis grows

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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is warning that it will be forced to abandon millions of people to starvation, as sharp increa...
Sunday, February 24, 2008

Heathrow eco-vandalism

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The government’s plans to expand Heathrow Airport have succeeded in one respect. They have created a veritable mass movement in opposition t...
Friday, February 22, 2008

Crime and punishment

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Perhaps it could be a two-part question set for those taking a “citizenship test” to prove that they know about British values before gettin...
Thursday, February 21, 2008

Debt tsunami builds

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The emergency legislation to allow a temporary period of public ownership of what now seems are the most worthless parts of Northern Rock, i...
Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Cuba at the crossroads

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The chorus from the White House and Downing Street was entirely predictable (and so hypocritical). On hearing about the retirement of Fidel ...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008

A 21st century Balkan powder keg

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Birth should be a happy event. But the declaration of a new state in Kosovo, which according to the United Nations is still nominally part o...
Monday, February 18, 2008

Darling going down with the ship

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“Floundering - SS Corporate Globalisation taking on heavy water – pumps failing.” That was the essence of the emergency message relayed to t...
Friday, February 15, 2008

Bird flu good for business

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One thing is certain when bird flu strikes in developing countries: small poultry keepers will suffer to the advantage of major producers. T...
Thursday, February 14, 2008

The judges hit back

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The Appeal Court’s decision to strike out the convictions of five young Muslim men is part of a continuing struggle between the government a...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Non-doms have their way

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The government’s ignominious retreat over modest proposals for taxing super-rich, non-domiciled foreigners – the so-called “non-doms” – is a...
Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Crucifying the Archbishop

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A World to Win’s editors are not for any religion or the supremacy of one “belief system” over another. But we can see how those who want to...
Monday, February 11, 2008

Staring at 'economic calamity'

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The world’s financial ministers are all in a dither, and it is not surprising. At the weekend meeting of the G7 – the world’s richest econom...
Friday, February 08, 2008

A week of intolerance

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Another bad week for civil liberties and human rights in Britain, courtesy of the New Labour government and their supporters around the coun...
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Thursday, February 07, 2008

Democrats tried and trusted

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Lest anyone gets too excited about the prospect of the first woman or the first black person entering the White House as president, it is we...
Wednesday, February 06, 2008

The nightmare Olympics

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The Beijing government is struggling to hide the truth about how ordinary people in China are paying for this summer’s Olympic Games by muzz...
Tuesday, February 05, 2008

The lives of others

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The bugging of MP Sadiq Khan’s conversations with a constituent in prison shows once more that Britain is a fully-fledged surveillance state...
Monday, February 04, 2008

When corporations rule the world

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Google’s owners are not the only ones troubled by Microsoft’s unsolicited bid for rival search engine Yahoo. No less than the right-leaning,...