Category: health & safety

Fishy Business

The ease with which I registered my dead goldfish as a waste disposer shows how total regulatory collapse has opened the door to organised crime.

Cleaning Up

Thanks to disgraceful government failures, an illegal waste-dumping mafia is now burning and burying millions of tonnes of dangerous materials.

Driven Mad

How the waste and inefficiency of neoliberalism attacks our children’s health

Covering Fire

The public inquiry into Grenfell Tower will be a farce unless it examines the long-running assault on public protections.

The Problem With Freedom

Freedom is used as the excuse for ripping down public protections on behalf of the very rich.

Fast and Loose

The anti-speed camera campaign is based on junk science.

Think inside the box

With only a little tweaking, Labour’s congestion plans could also solve the speeding problem

A Broken Network

This week’s train crash is the result of decades of political engineering

Deregulation Kills

The Government is letting companies dump their costs on the rest of us

Shooting the Messenger

The Health and Safety Executive isn’t working: so instead it tries to silence its critics

Driven Off the Roads

One in every 15 British children will be injured or killed by a vehicle before they reach 16