This is how Labour’s war on regulations will stymie its own policies. It is irrational and self-destructive.
Category: corporate power
Money Pit
Hidden in the detail of the UK’s carbon capture and storage scheme are unlimited financial liabilities and huge environmental costs.
How to Sell a Child
There’s a new asset class being traded between corporations. It’s called children in care.
The Day That Never Comes
Thanks to neoliberalism, government in the UK feels like one long trick played on the people.
Looking The Other Way
Why do so many people obsess about false conspiracies, but ignore the real ones?
Trainwreck
How do HS2 and other white elephants get commissioned? It’s clientelism – the subtle form of corruption.
What’s Your Poison?
Why do we put up with daily assaults on our health? It has everything to do with corporate power.
The Bird Cage
The remarkable story behind the disciplining of a major charity shows how power really works.
Hell Holes
Fossil fuel companies walk away from the lands they have devastated, often without paying a penny to restore them.
Arsonists
This government runs on dirty money. That’s why it’s torching the planet.
Pipe Dream
Pumping water from one messed-up catchment to another solves nothing. We need to fix our problems at source.
Protection Racket
The more destructive the business, the more likely it is to enjoy political protection.
The Workaround
Without public consultation, the boundaries of freeports have been expanded to cover much of the country. What does this mean?
Judgement Call
Bereavement is bad enough, without a predatory phone company refusing to cancel a dead person’s account.
My Demands of Vodafone
The steps the company should take to change the way it closes accounts.
The Saboteurs
If the UK government had set out to undermine and degrade our country, it couldn’t have done a better job.
Freedom’s Prison
It’s not us the government intends to liberate. It’s the asset strippers, money launderers, property developers and oligarchs on whose behalf it operates.
For Your Eyes Only
The opaque and secretive networks on which Boris Johnson builds his power.
Contract Killers
Coronavirus deals worth billions of pounds have been awarded by the government to “unusual” companies, without advertising or competition.
Road to Perdition
How did wildlife groups start collaborating in the destruction of nature?