Wednesday, March 28, 2012

The Conservative donor scandal shows why public funding of all candidates at elections would save taxpayers a fortune

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I’m about to say that all candidates at elections should have their campaigns publicly funded and that we should make taking private politic...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Free Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye

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According to American and British journalists who know him a Yemeni journalist called Abdulelah Haider Shaye who is in jail in Yemen on c...
Friday, March 23, 2012

Alfie Meadows charges parallel Mark Kennedy tactic of charging victims of police violence

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Alfie Meadows, the student who almost died after having his skull fractured by a policeman during the student protests – and who other pol...

Hundreds of MPs and Lords with financial interests in private healthcare firms revealed showing conflict of interest on NHS ' reforms'

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The excellent Social Investigations blog  has found hundreds of conflicts of interest and financial interests of MPs and Lords who have vo...

Texas study actually shows fracking industry does contaminate water - and Institute which conducted it is funded by fracking company

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Much of the media are reporting that a new study has supposedly shown that there is no evidence of fracking contaminating water. If you re...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

The failure to charge Trayvon Martin's killer shows racism is still endemic in the Southern states of the US

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Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17 year old black boy, was shot dead by George Zimmerman, a latino member of an informal neighbourhood watch gr...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

We need tax havens closed down to avoid another financial crisis and increase revenues , the 50p tax rate is a side issue, the mansion tax a gimmick

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Chancellor George Osborne's cut in the 50p top rate of tax is supposed to bring in extra revenue by making the wealthiest pay tax in the...
Monday, February 20, 2012

There's no public or professional support for the NHS privatisation reforms - and the LSE Study's indicators can't measure quality of patient care

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David Cameron’s planned NHS reforms are opposed by more than twice as many people as support them. A YouGov poll this month found 48% opp...
Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Power sharing in Syria could avoid Libyan revenge and civil war – but it and ending Assad’s crimes require a deal with Russia

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Assad's government and military in Syria are definitely guilty of torturing and killing civilians , including children , as well as t...