democracy

King of corruption from cassandra05 255 days old

Anyone notice this creep popping up on Comment Is Free today? No? Well, consider the various pies in which this car industry shill and PR man has found ...

Quotes o’t’ day from cassandra05 259 days old

Some fresh thinking on constitutional reform (from the 17th Century): “If the very existence of arbitrary powers take away freedom, because they take ...

“Who elected you?” from cassandra05 262 days old

Nice promotional video from the US-based media reform campaign group Free Press: In the words of Robert McChesney: “The real issue is, ...

Who makes the news? Not journalists from cassandra05 273 days old

An insight, courtesy of the lovely people at pro-aviation lobby group Flying Matters, into a vital outsourced arm of the modern news factory: “Michelle ...

That Gaza appeal from cassandra05 297 days old

And Tony Benn had a go earlier in the week If you've been awake at all over the last few days, you'll have noticed that this issue has now ...

And so it begins ... from cassandra05 309 days old

Here’s the ugly truth no-one is mentioning: the climate now appears to be a lot more sensitive than we thought. In terms of the atmospheric “stock” ...

PROTESTS PLANNED: 3 January, central London and across the UK. from cassandra05 322 days old

Be there.

What do they even hope to achieve? Er, rather a lot, as it turns out from cassandra05 341 days old

Direct action gets the goods. Let me repeat that: direct action gets the goods. And once more for luck: direct action gets the goods. All we need ...

A reality check from cassandra05 397 days old

[ ... ] for economic justice and industrial democracy as the only real basis for a peaceful economy and society. You can read more from Peace News here.

Who killed the Climate Change Bill? from cassandra05 402 days old

“Our concerns include that [Climate Change] Bill amendments attempt to move away from rolling five year targets, tighten the 2020 target, increase ...