[Imogen Walford]
“There’s no sense of urgency”, Michael Meacher rails against the Brown government’s environmental policy. This is certainly not a complaint that could be levelled against Meacher himself. His crusading passion for improving the global environment is obvious and infectious; talking to him, it is easy to see how he managed to turn his 2005 […]
Meacher calls for an urgent change of attitude
The curse of a twenty-four hour news culture
[Edd Mustill]
We have reached the era of the limitless media, with so many outlets for information that the news is almost as much a construction of the public as it is of the journalists and corporations. So we are told. Yet a quick glance through the available twenty-four-hour news channels reveals how repetitive and shallow […]
We need an amnesty for illegal immigrants
[Carly Hilts]
The recent House of Lords report on the impact of immigration was typical of the selfish “us and them” approach to the issue predominant in certain sections of the British press. The Economic Committee effectively chose to measure the impact of immigration by asking the question: “how much richer are UK residents as a […]