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.
Category: health & safety
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.
They Got Their Bonfire
The Grenfell Tower inferno is what deregulation looks like.
The Problem With Freedom
Freedom is used as the excuse for ripping down public protections on behalf of the very rich.
A Real-Time Experiment With Human Lives
We can now see what the impact of has been of the police decision to turn off Oxfordshire’s speed cameras.
Tory Boy Racers
The Conservative war on road safety has begun
The Patron Saint of Charlatans
How does Christopher Booker get away with it?
Fast and Loose
The anti-speed camera campaign is based on junk science.
The Business of Killing
The corporate manslaughter bill has been neutered to please employers
The Real Straight Banana
A coup against social Europe has been foiled – for the time being
The Myth of Compensation Culture
Big business is seeking the freedom to kill its workers
Too Soft on Crime
The government is letting the corporate killers walk free.
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
Life in the Balance Sheet
Corporations in Britain get away with murder
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