We can still celebrate bonfire night without burning toxic waste
November 7, 2013 12:36 pm Leave your thoughts
Dioxins released when we set fire to our junk on Guy Fawkes night are entering the food chain, writes George Monbiot.
Blitz or Bling
November 5, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The great British Blitz tradition has been replaced by the great bling tradition. We live purely on sensationalism, exaggeration, self indulgence, dishonest reporting and, sadly, undignified realities
Marxism is Real Naturalism: Galen Strawson and Panpsychism
November 5, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Sartre once remarked that the attempt to construct a philosophy that goes beyond Marxism simply recreates a pre-Marxist view that is no longer relevant to current understanding
Workfare: Hardly Fair
November 4, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Workfare has been in the news again this week. The Supreme Court ruled for Cait Reilly and against the DWP on three out of four counts, and yet IDS declared that the Department had "won" the case
Is Islam Compatible with Democracy?
October 29, 2013 11:42 pm Leave your thoughts
The Western world, used to its democratic frame of mind, is constantly telling Muslims in general and Arabs in particular, to build democratic governments
Parties to the left of Labour
October 29, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In both, the Labour votes remain solid enough to provide realistic bases for recapture in 2015. The main party that has lost ground is demonstrably the other one
A journey into the vice-ridden world of banking
October 26, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The primary objective of the world's leaders is to avoid another banking and financial crash that could be worse than the one in September 2008
New York City Mayor’s Race: Living Wage or Wage Slavery: de Blasio vs. Lhota on the Dignity of Labour
October 25, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The election for mayor of New York City is less that a month away and Bill de Blasio's lead in the polls appears insurmountable
Why bad movies keep coming out and what to do about it
October 24, 2013 12:23 pm Leave your thoughts
Unlike the babbling brook of Hollywood - with its suppression of truth, fake heroes and warmongering - a masterpiece, or just a good movie, is unforgettable, writes John Pilger.
The farce of the Hinkley C nuclear reactor will haunt Britain for decades
October 24, 2013 10:05 am Leave your thoughts We need nuclear power. But the government has plumped for outdated technology at the worst price imaginable, writes George Monbiot.