Dave Nellist’s speech 26 March On the day’s violence by young protesters looking at long term unemployment while the rich get obscenely richer, he said: To the union leaders and the politicians, unless you seriously have a strategy to take on this government and its austerity programme, you are going to consign another generation in […]
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An extraordinary exposé by Greg Palast tonight on the subject of BP and, among other locations, the oil company’s interests in Azerbaijan and the Caspian Sea area in Dispatches: In Deep Water for Channel 4. The Caspian region holds one of the biggest oil reserves in the world. Two interviewees state that MI6 was involved
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The march passes Fortnum & Masons, the secret target of UK Uncut The youth wing of the demo in Oxford Street Nearly half a million of us marched in London, yesterday, challenging the unelected coalition government’s policy of slashing public services. Well, it would have been ‘challenging’ had anyone on the platform laid out a
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That comatose science fiction writer and his dystopian fever dream I keep writing about has been stirring of late. Giant solar flares and supermoons exert malign invisible forces. Planet Earth splits apart and shifts its axis. Middle Eastern tyrants cling on to power while the West short-circuits itself into a state of paralysis: to act
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Anna Chen – 10 March 2011, Niall Ferguson Niall Ferguson “Killer Apps” episode, Civilisation Channel 4 Review by Anna Chen 10 March 2011 ‘Dominate, dominate, dominate.’ No, not an S&M dalek, but Niall Ferguson on the telly. I lost count of how many times this word, or variations thereof, came up in the first five
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Last night’s Camden Council budget meeting A lively 1,200-strong march from Mornington Crescent through the backstreets of Camden to the Town Hall was followed by a protest as cowardly council held their final budget meeting behind closed doors. A thick yellow line of police prevented the protesters entering the public gallery meaning that the vote
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