Wednesday, July 04, 2012

Extreme weather set to get worse

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The UK has just experienced record rainfall in June – double the average. Until now, scientists would only go so far as to say that this ...
Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Barclays shows how they are all in it together

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Yes, they are all in it together: Barclays, the Bank of England, the Financial Services Authority, Tories and especially the previous Labo...
Monday, July 02, 2012

London 2012 corporate sponsors cash in

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Human sporting talent and achievement? Inspiration? Yes, that’s the Olympic spirit – or rather what’s being exploited to the hilt by corpo...
Friday, June 29, 2012

Rigging markets par for the course

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The way Barclays and several other banks colluded to fix inter-bank interest rates is a blatant example of what is actually par for the co...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

Nature's final frontiers fall to the corporations

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The Rio +20 final document is so shocking and the risks it poses so great that it bears revisiting. "Ecosystem services", and ot...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Infinity and beyond is Bank's view of crisis

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Who’d be an economics forecaster at a time of chaos and crisis? Only six weeks ago, Bank of England experts thought they had the situati...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

New Labour's PFI legacy poisons NHS

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Placing a major healthcare trust in Whitehall-led administration could signal the break-up of the NHS under the cover of a financial crisi...
Monday, June 25, 2012

Schools becoming cultural deserts

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What kind of education you get - and the chance to participate in music, film, theatre and other forms of culture – is more than ever depe...
Friday, June 22, 2012

Miliband plays the race card

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The euro is heading for collapse, major banks were downgraded overnight, the global economy is plunging into depression and Ed Miliband ch...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

Rio earth summit 'epic failure' warning

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"Abandon hope all ye who enter here" should have been written over the entrance to the   Rio +20 summit. For the draft text ...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Global economy 'off the rails'

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No one any longs thinks that piling on the pressure through austerity, grinding millions into the dust, can possibly make any difference t...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Poverty and inequality: the real State of the Union

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As the leaders of the major economies gather for crisis talks in at the G20 in Mexico , they’ll be pondering how they can save capitalism f...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Divide and rule in Greece and Egypt

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The sigh of relief expressed by the financial markets and the major capitalist governments over the outcome of the Greek election reveals ho...
Friday, June 15, 2012

New financial meltdown under way

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The potential for a second, more catastrophic breakdown of the global financial system is the reality behind emergency support for the ban...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Hypermarket nation trumps Danny Boyle's vision

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Film director Danny Boyle’s central vision for the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony is a representation of idealised rural life, with cows an...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

State is the enforcer of austerity

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Q . Why did the 100 billion euro loan to bailout Spanish banks recycled from the 27 members of the European Union via the European Financi...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Another Reformation anyone?

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If the Church of England really wanted to attack the government, there are plenty of issues it could seize on: child poverty, homelessness...
Monday, June 11, 2012

Health check reveals electoral politics is sick

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Parliamentary election results across the Channel indicate that Francois Hollande’s Socialist Party will gain a majority in France’s Nation...
Friday, June 08, 2012

Wanted: a democratic alternative to Merkel and Cameron

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The choice between living in a European so-called “super state”, as advocated by German chancellor Angela Merkel, or an independent, “sove...