How Britain Denies its Holocausts
Why do so few people know about the atrocities of empire?
Archive for 2005
Who Runs Britain?
I nominate the CBI.
The Anti-Social Bastards in Our Midst
The car is turning us into a nation of libertarians
The Corporate Begging Bowl
They bleat about the free market, then insist that we subsidise them.
Worse Than Fossil Fuel
Biodiesel enthusiasts have accidentally invented the most carbon-intensive fuel on earth
How Much Energy Do We Have?
Are there enough renewables to keep the lights on? The answer will be comforting to no one.
A War Crime Within a War Crime Within a War Crime
The revelations from Falluja are piling up
War Without Rules
Yes, the US has used chemical weapons
Bringing Out the Dead
The press has been minimising the death toll in Iraq
Passive Driving
Why are we still exposed to pollution that kills 39,000 a year?
Our Own Nuclear Salesman
The government’s chief scientist appears to have succumbed to politics
Are You Paying to Burn the Rainforest?
If you’re buying Brazilian beef, the answer is yes
Better off without Him
New research suggests that the Christian virtues are best represented in godless societies
Protesters are Criminals
And hardly anyone is contesting the new clampdown
Growing My Own
Boycotting the superstores means taking on five allotments
Crying Sheep
We had better start preparing for a decline in global oil supply
A World Turned Upside Down
The corporations are demanding regulation, and the government is refusing to give it to them
The Net Censors
The democratic potential of the new media is being blocked by the companies providing the technology.
The Man Who Betrayed the Poor
Even as the G8 promises fall apart, Geldof stays silent
How to Stop Civil War
Nicaragua and South Africa, not the US, should be the inspiration for Iraq’s constitution.
Burnt Out
Kenneth Clarke’s work for British American Tobacco should disqualify him from office.
A Life With No Purpose
Darwin tells us that we are no more than assemblages of complex molecules. We should celebrate this.
The New Chauvinism
Why should I love this country?
The Treaty Wreckers
In just a few months, Bush and Blair have destroyed the global restraint on nuclear weapons
Faced With This Crisis
The G8 leaders refuse to accept that anything difficult needs to be done about climate change
Africa’s New Best Friends
The corporations which helped to immiserate Africa are being given control of its development.
Going Nowhere
Review of Margaret Thatcher’s 1989 speech to the UN (extract published below).
Save us from Ourselves
Green hypocrisy means that we can’t tackle climate change without government intervention.
Our Very Own Enron?
Is the private finance initiative melting down?
Bards of the Powerful
Far from challenging the G8’s role in Africa’s poverty, Geldof and Bono are legitimising its power.
Spin, Lies and Corruption
The G8’s debt reduction plan is little better than an extortion racket
A Game of Double Bluff
The UK and EU are keeping the poorer nations exactly where they want them: beholden to their patrons
A Restraint of Liberty
Climate change’s unprecedented moral challenge demands that we restrict market freedom
Bad News from Tesco
The superstores are on the verge of cornering the news market, with disastrous implications for democracy
Junk Science
Climate change denial, as David Bellamy’s claims show, is based on pure hocus pocus
In Bed With the Killers
BP is working with a genocidal government
A Different Kind of Revolution
Wind power is a technological fix for a political problem.
Signal Your Opposition
A vote for a minor party could be the most powerful one you could cast.
A Vehicle for Equality
Would Rover not have been better off as a workers’ co-operative?
I’m With Wolfowitz
Have we forgotten what the World Bank is for?
The Business of Killing
The corporate manslaughter bill has been neutered to please employers
God of the Soil
Only when nomads settled on fertile land did the notion of progress take root
The Real Straight Banana
A coup against social Europe has been foiled - for the time being
Paid-up Members
How can MPs represent us when they earn up to 95% of their income from outside interests?
Protest as Harassment
The new crime bill permits the police to stop almost any demonstration.
Mocking Our Dreams
Climate change exposes progress as a myth
Fraud and Corruption
Where has Iraq’s money gone?
Pedigree Dogs of War
Some people who engage in foreign conflicts are called terrorists. Others are about to be licensed by the government
Media Fairyland
The US media is creating a world of make believe.
Punitive – And It Works
Sweden proves the neoliberals wrong about how to slash poverty.
Killing vs Helping
Bush and Blair no longer seem able to see the difference.