Mining The Past
September 9, 2012 11:09 pm Leave your thoughts
Paul Lloyd looks back at the findings of a coroner's inquest that investigated the deaths of seven Cumbrian miners nearly a century ago.
Tag Archive: Domestic (UK)
Allan Horsfall 1927-2012: In remembrance
September 5, 2012 11:39 am Leave your thoughts
Peter Tatchell recalls the contribution of LGBT rights pioneer Allan Horsfall, who died from heart failure on 27 August 2012, aged 84-years-old.
A Step Towards the Dock
September 3, 2012 6:22 pm Leave your thoughts
Desmond Tutu has helped us see the true nature of what the former prime minister did to Iraq and increased pressure for a prosecution, writes George Monbiot.
Dance With the One Who Brung You
August 5, 2012 7:32 pm Leave your thoughts Protecting the environment, like protecting the welfare of a nation's poorest and weakest people, requires a sweeping reform of political funding, on both sides of the Atlantic, writes George Monbiot.
Scorched Earth Economics
August 1, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts The model is dead; long live the model. Austerity programmes are extending the crises they were meant to solve, yet governments refuse to abandon them and the UK provides a powerful example, writes George Monbiot.
Beer, Vomit And Lipstick: Revolting Acts In An Age Of Crisis
August 1, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
'Freedom' within the confines of what increasingly resembles an open prison isn't much to celebrate. The actual reality in Britain is economic meltdown and social crisis, writes Colin Todhunter
Tribunals, tigers and dogs
July 29, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Felix McHugh, author of the book Damned Scroungers, is back with more stories about his daily struggle to ensure disability claimants receive the money to which they are rightly entitled
A new front opens up in the war against nature
July 27, 2012 3:34 pm Leave your thoughts George Monbiot says that the Countryside Alliance's campaign against a ban on lead shot strikes him as motivated by the age-old attitude of reactionary members of the landowning classes: that they will not be subject to the laws or considerations that affect lesser members of society.
Blair, Olympic deals and the glimpse of another Britain
July 23, 2012 8:52 am Leave your thoughts
John Pilger reports on two letters that illuminate two very different Britains, and on how the London Olympics is being used to rehabilitate Tony Blair, the invader of Iraq.
The Promised Land
July 21, 2012 8:21 pm Leave your thoughts To be young in the post-industrial nations today is to be excluded. Excluded from the comforts enjoyed by preceding generations; excluded from jobs; excluded from hopes of a better world; excluded from self-ownership, says George Monbiot.