Friday, February 27, 2009

How to 'rescue' the banks from the owners

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On the day the Royal Bank of Scotland reported the biggest annual loss in UK corporate history - a mind-boggling £24 billion - and news em...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

Only so much oil in the ground

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Native Americans from the Cree clan will today announce a legal challenge to the Alberta government’s issuing of permits allowing oil corpor...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Stripping away our rights

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If the state strips away basic freedoms and civil liberties, what do you have left? And is this then a state worth preserving? These questio...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Behind the Royal Mail sell-off

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As postal workers gather outside Parliament today to lobby the government over plans for a partial sell-off of the Royal Mail, as a prelude ...
Monday, February 23, 2009

Torture on New Labour's hands

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With the expected arrival back today of Binyam Mohamed, the young British resident held for four years in the notorious Guantanamo Bay priso...
Friday, February 20, 2009

A global protection racket

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Global car maker General Motors is demanding an additional $18 billion in addition to the $13.4 billion in loans already received from the U...
Thursday, February 19, 2009

Policies for the global food crisis

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The food crisis may have slipped from the headlines, but almost a billion people face starvation in 2009. Drought and high prices, along wit...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Looking after our own interests

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Those with money can; those without are expected to take the punishment. If you’ve got resources, you move them out of stocks and shares and...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

New Labour flounders as old order crumbles

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When the prince of darkness – aka Lord Mandelson – tells his fellow New Labour ministers not to panic, you can be sure that is exactly what ...
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Monday, February 16, 2009

In praise of Russian revolutionary art

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Tate Modern’s exhibition of art from the Russian Revolution has received ecstatic critical acclaim. And rightly so. The two artists in the ...
Friday, February 13, 2009

Hoping for the best - preparing for the worst

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When the Governor of the Bank of England says it out loud, it’s because it has already happened. As Mervyn King said himself, he’s not paid ...
Thursday, February 12, 2009

Adapt to climate change - on our terms

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Climate scientists have called an emergency meeting in Copenhagen next week to demand that world leaders take immediate action to reduce gre...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Draw up the charge sheet!

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If you were drawing up an indictment of those responsible for the present Great Crash, it would embrace more than just a few bankers deliver...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Balls spills the beans

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There are at least two conclusions you can draw from the admission by Ed Balls, the schools minister, that Britain is facing its most severe...
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Monday, February 09, 2009

The agony of the Tamils

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The agony of 250,000 or more civilians trapped in 67 square miles in the north east of Sri Lanka as the army closes in on the Tamil Tiger mo...
Friday, February 06, 2009

The only thing we have to fear is capitalism itself

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The dispute over the use of imported labour at a UK oil refinery looks like a minor side show compared to the global disquiet over a key par...
Thursday, February 05, 2009

The sound of breaking glass

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Waterford Crystal was established in 1783 by the brothers George and William Penrose with the aim of creating crystal “as fine as any in Eur...
Wednesday, February 04, 2009

In praise of Charles Darwin

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The imminent 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution at a stroke revolutionised the way we see nature an...
Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Painting by numbers

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Is there a connection between the purchase by the National Galleries of Scotland and England of a masterpiece by the 16th century Venetian p...
Monday, February 02, 2009

Unite against our common enemies

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The angry walk-outs by engineers and construction workers at refineries and power plants around Britain in defence of their livelihoods is t...