Last month, I wrote a piece for The Times of India on the impact of the over consumption and production of meat on the environment. Recently, I came across this article by farmer Eliot Coleman, arguing that the problem is not meat consumption itself, rather corporate/industrial agriculture and its methods. It is Coleman’s contention that [...]
For a long time now, I have been meaning to sit down and have a long and proper look at the money I give to charity. Alas, a lack full-time permanent employment has been a steady defence of my inability to act upon this until this now. This can’t go on indefinitely – its time to make some decisions. But there are a lot of tricky questions to consider.
Last week, I reported on the case of Dana Ali, an Iraqi immigrant being held in Oakington detention centre because of an apparent Home Office mix-up in his paperwork. Tonight, Dana has been released and has been allowed to return home while his case is considered. He has not yet been granted leave to remain [...]
Guest post by Ed Mustill It’s no surprise that a hot topic on the Left at the moment is anti-fascism. The recent success of the BNP in getting two of their members elected to the European Parliament, and the emergence of groups like the English Defence League require us to consider carefully our tactics for [...]
The proms don’t normally get much in the way of political coverage. In fact the last time they did was about a year and a half ago when Margaret Hodge decided to make some stupid announcement about them not being inclusive enough, so it was a real joy to have such a politically charged concert [...]
Iraqi immigrant, Dana Ali, faces deportation after an alleged Home Office blunder fails to recognise his marriage to a British citizen. Dana Ali was born in 1975. He grew up in Halabja, the Kurdish town in northern Iraq that the world first heard about on March 16th 1988 when 5,000 people were massacred by Saddam [...]
A-Level Results in England and Wales were released to students and the wider public today, indicating a rise in both the number of A-grades and the number of overall passes. Now, no doubt this will be claimed by some as a fall in standards, and by others as a major achievement. There will be the traditional [...]
Watch how Barney Franks reacts to a woman pushing the Obama=Hitler line.
India must invest in green technology, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said yesterday. Like China, India is a rapidly developing country. With the world’s second largest population, a rising economy and falling poverty, the country’s energy use is set to explode. India, however, cannot afford to follow the Western model of high-carbon industrial growth. Neither India, [...]
I never imagined that I would make a post here commending Rupert Murdoch. Yet while virtually the entire blogosphere has scorned his expressed intention to charge for online content, I feel inclined to say that it’s a bloody good idea. Free access to all manner of online content is brilliant. Yet it is also a [...]
