November 2011
£200m of aid budget to be spent on St Helena airport – after lobbying from Lord Ashcroft
The government has approved £200 million of the aid budget to be spent building an airport for St Helena - after lobbying from £127m tax dodger Lord Ashcroft.
Why is the BBC promoting scam merchants?
Alex Hern covers the questionable business model of Unbound, a company which has got huge amounts of free publicity from Sky and the BBC.
Memo to Cameron: The rich give less to charity
The rich give less to charity than the poor, making David Cameron’s Tory mission to roll back the frontiers of the state are deeply, deeply regressive.
Hutton repeats his big fat lie on public sector pensions
Alex Hern rebuts the Conservative government’s pensions tsar John Hutton’s lies, lies and lies over public sector pensions.
The rotten borough of the City of London needs to be dragged into the 21st century
The City of London, the rotten borough at the heart of our capital, is not going to reform on its own - we need to make it reform, writes Jenny Jones AM.
A toxic cloud over London 2012
Barry Gardiner MP calls for the London 2012 Olympic Games to drop Dow Chemical’s sponsorship until they accept responsibility for the Bhopal disaster.