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Occupations Brutalise

The atrocities in Iraq surprise us only because we ignore colonial history.

Why won’t anyone enforce our building standards?

Owning a second home during a housing crisis ensures that other people are homeless.

One man uses gas and oil money to help the poor. The other uses it to buy guns. Guess who gets vilified.

The £95 million that private companies extracted from a hospital project was not a mistake, but a deliberate gift from the government.

If governments really want to improve law and order, they should ban adverts for junk food

If we’re to have a hydrogen economy, we have to secure our supplies of natural gas.

I was wrong. She is not a bully, a fool or a stooge. She is a comedian.

Lady Tonge is using her unelected position to persecute some of the world’s most vulnerable people.

The UK’s competition authorities still seem to be working for the superstores

Until we stop flying

New technological advances could make us susceptible to perpetual surveillance

Labour’s first full-scale privatisation involves the multiple fleecing of the taxpayer

The tobacco industry duped both academic journals and the media.

Wealth is beginning to reduce our freedoms

Building new nuclear weapons creates the threats they are supposed to avert.

The trade in “carbon offsets” is based on bogus accounting

Why do so few people know about the atrocities of empire?

A footnote.

I nominate the CBI.