Category: corporate power

Mincing Our Words

The absolute madness of the proposed new food rules.

Corporations and oligarchs are using offshore courts to tear down democratic decisions – and our governments say “welcome”.

Astonishingly, the Tufton Street junktanks that shaped Liz Truss’s agenda are still operating at the heart of government.

The government’s proposed new rules will allow a flood of toxic chemicals to be sold in the UK.

This is how Labour’s war on regulations will stymie its own policies. It is irrational and self-destructive.

Hidden in the detail of the UK’s carbon capture and storage scheme are unlimited financial liabilities and huge environmental costs.

There’s a new asset class being traded between corporations. It’s called children in care.

Thanks to neoliberalism, government in the UK feels like one long trick played on the people.

Why do so many people obsess about false conspiracies, but ignore the real ones?

How do HS2 and other white elephants get commissioned? It’s clientelism – the subtle form of corruption.

Why do we put up with daily assaults on our health? It has everything to do with corporate power.

The remarkable story behind the disciplining of a major charity shows how power really works.

Fossil fuel companies walk away from the lands they have devastated, often without paying a penny to restore them.

This government runs on dirty money. That’s why it’s torching the planet.

Pumping water from one messed-up catchment to another solves nothing. We need to fix our problems at source.

The more destructive the business, the more likely it is to enjoy political protection.

Without public consultation, the boundaries of freeports have been expanded to cover much of the country. What does this mean?

Bereavement is bad enough, without a predatory phone company refusing to cancel a dead person’s account.

The steps the company should take to change the way it closes accounts.

If the UK government had set out to undermine and degrade our country, it couldn’t have done a better job.