Amid ongoing creative protests over BP's sponsorship of the British Museum, Danny Chivers wants to know - why the harsh security tactics? Why the searches, exclusions and arrests, all for a paltry 1% or less of the Museum's funding? Is this their policy, or is it BP that's calling the shots?
… British Museum - is BP driving your … was arrested by police on the say-so of a British Museum security guard - for his fake … protests over BP's sponsorship of the British Museum, Danny Chivers wants to know - …
Africa is being opened up like a tin of sardines to a new wave of resource extraction, writes Colin Todhunter. Masked under the soubriquets of 'investment', 'growth' and 'free trade', a handful of vast global corporations are systematically plundering the continent's mineral wealth and leaving desolation in their wake, backed to the hilt by that ever-faithful servant of capital - the UK government.
… resources ' that highlights the role of the British government in aiding and abetting the … the report reveals the degree to which British companies now control Africa's key … London Stock Exchange (LSE) - most of them British - have mining operations in 37 …
British Airways' commercial partnership with SeaWorld condones the physical and psychological suffering of orcas in captivity, writes Kathleen Haase, who meets the company's executives today. Her aim - to stop the sale of package holidays to SeaWorld parks and expose cetacean captivity as cruel and unethical.
… British Airways - stop selling trips to … Cetaceans Aviation orca-jump-trainer-cut.jpg British Airways' commercial partnership with … business model. When I found out that British Airways sells trips to SeaWorld I was …
With Trump denying climate change and threatening to reject the Paris Agreement, it's more important than ever for society to hold a firm ethical line, writes Chris Garrard. The last thing we need is our most revered museums and galleries muddying the water by courting the sponsorship of leading climate criminals.
… a poignant creative protest throughout the British Museum's iconic galleries. It marked the close of the British Museum's latest BP-sponsored … it has become even more crucial that the British Museum makes clear which side of …
British taxpayers are forcing private health care and schooling onto many of the world's poorest countries including Nepal, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Mozambique, writes Nick Dearden - backing a huge neoliberal experiment whose only certain outcomes are high costs, low standards and massive corporate profits.
… Coca-Cola schools - British aid pushing corporate education and … Africa Nepal coca-cola-school-cut.jpg British taxpayers are forcing private health … hundreds of thousands of people - thanks to British aid money. Turning basic needs into …
The UK is to create a fully protected marine in the South Pacific more than three times bigger than the UK itself, covering some 830,000 square kilometres. The move may herald further huge designations in the UK's 'overseas territories' which encompass over 6 million square kilometres of ocean.
… entire marine area of the Pitcairn Islands British Overseas Territory, apart from waters … and scientists launched the Great British Oceans campaign to encourage the … such as Ascension." Members of the Great British Oceans coalition "now look forward to …
It's time for UK citizens to #takebackREALcontrol by challenging the anti-democratic powers that control our country, our economy and our lives, retiring Green Party Leader Natalie Bennett told her party conference this weekend in this barnstorming speech. And that's a challenge only the Greens are prepared to take on.
… can. Once again we're the trailblazers in British politics As you might expect, I've … woman as a leader of a political party in British history. Now the Green Party has made … Once again we're the trailblazers in British politics, proving that the Green Party …
Last week BP's Peter Mather - who claims to have 'green and yellow oil' flowing in his veins - took to the airwaves on Radio 4's The Bottom Line'. Evan Davies asked some tough questions, writes Chris Garrard - but failed to mention the shocking case of Colombian trades unionist Gilberto Torres, kidnapped and tortured for 42 days by paramilitaries employed by BP's joint venture partner.
… been a festival of performance protest in the British Museum, musical mischief at the Royal … world-renowned cultural institutions - the British Museum, the Royal Opera House, the … Earlier this year, BP was the sponsor of the British Mueum's 'Indigenous Australia: …
This week the people spoke - and a tad under a quarter of them voted to put the Conservatives in power for another five years, writes Jonathan Cook. Was it an act of collective insanity? No, it's much worse than that. It's because our politics, media and ultimately our minds are controlled and manipulated by billionaires.
… the Lib Dems. According to the rules of the British system, he has won a supposed mandate … highlighted. Although this refers to the British election, the lessons apply equally to … - given that Brand had shaken up British politics over the previous 18 months …
Visit the British Museum's hugely successful Vikings exhibition, and you can't miss the BP branding - a fair price for their sponsorship? No way, writes Chris Garrard, who will join a 'flash-horde' at the Museum next Sunday and give BP its last rites in a Viking longship.
… Mr Nice Guy! Photo: Hugh Warwick. Visit the British Museum's hugely successful Vikings … does it take to bring a longboat into the British Museum? It may sound like the start of … to hold a 'Viking Funeral' for BP inside the British Museum's main atrium. In keeping with …
How can progressive movements rise above merely being right, to mount effective mass opposition to corporate rule and the dictatorship of the super-wealthy? By learning from Gandhi, writes Colin Todhunter, and devising new campaigns that engage with people's everyday concerns - like access to safe, wholesome, affordable, 'open source' food.
… shore. His message of resistance against the British Empire revolved around a simple … and prominent figures on his side (even the British weren't much concerned about a march … about salt), who felt that protest against British rule in India should for instance …
Lewis Pugh, the UN Patron of the Oceans, has swum 530 kilometres having set out from Land's End on 12 July. Pugh calls on the UK government to urgently strengthen Marine Protected Areas around the UK and Overseas Territories. MARIANNE BROOKER reports
… current UK policy. Lewis is calling on the British Government to urgently protect the seas around the UK coast and British Overseas Territories by introducing … – we now need to see urgent action from the British Government to protect the seas along …
Fish from the high seas are too valuable to be eaten, as they lessen climate change through the carbon they carry down to the ocean depths. The carbon benefits are worth $150 billion every year - almost ten times the value of high seas fish landings.
… to Rashid Sumaila of the University of British Columbia in Canada and Alex Rogers … in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B , British and Irish researchers argue that deep … of carbon dioxide just from waters around the British coasts and the Irish Sea. If this …
Britain has a huge role in effecting the global energy transition to renewables, new shadow energy secretary Lisa Nandy told the Labour Party Conference. But that will mean a complete reversal of Tory policies to attack wind and solar, lock us into polluting fossil fuels and overpriced nuclear power, and maintain 'big six' profits at consumers' expense.
… climate and environment He's right. It is a British legacy. And it's a Labour legacy. And … support. Pulled the rug out from under the British solar industry just at the moment that … in the world to invest in clean energy. A British industrial success story deliberately …
Rising temperatures are now affecting countries' ability to wage war, writes Richard Galustian, with Britain's new Type 45 destroyers left without power as warm Gulf and Mediterranean seas close down their engines. Will this, finally, force our politicians to understand that climate change is real and dangerous?
… themselves felt. Some of a group of six British Royal Navy Type 45 destroyers , … session. Like other modern navies, the British had designed the ship, each with a … another area where American, Russian, French, British and Italian ships manouvre, with …
Israel desperately covets Gaza's gas as a 'cheap stop-gap' yielding revenues of $6-7 billion a year, writes Nafeez Ahmed. The UK's BG and the US's Noble Energy are lined up to do the dirty work - but first Hamas must be 'uprooted' from Gaza, and Fatah bullied into cutting off its talks with Russia's Gazprom.
… were in " secret talks " for months with the British Gas Group (BG Group), which owns the … personal envoy Yitzak Molcho and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in his … - 'Israel won't pay the full whack' Official British Foreign Office (FCO) documents …
As protestors gather to oppose yet another illegal war in the Middle East, Colin Todhunter asks why David Cameron is so keen to bomb. Of course there's access to oil and routes for gas pipelines, but beyond that, it's about re-entrenching militarism into our national culture, and re-asserting the dominance of capital over people.
… the dominance of capital over people. British Prime Minister David Cameron has said … action against ISIS. Cameron has told the British public that such action is vital to … in Syria on other business... I met with top British officials, who confessed to me that …
Log books from British whaling ships more than 200 years ago have given new insights into the history of the Arctic sea ice, reports Tim Radford. A new study reveals that the scale of ice melt in the Arctic over the last few decades is new and unprecedented.
… northern_whale_fishery.jpg Log books from British whaling ships more than 200 years ago … last few decades is new and unprecedented. British whaling ships from Tyneside in the … appropriate to a trade abandoned by the British more than a century ago. For Ayre, the …
Green sea turtles are endangered worldwide. So does the Cayman Islands' sea turtle farm, which raises the sea reptiles as a luxury food, assist their conservation? Quite the reverse, argues Rachel Alcock.
… to the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean - a British Overseas territory which falls under the jurisdiction of the British Government. On the menu Here … important wildlife This view is echoed by British MPs who recently issued the …
Why are we so surprised at the Google tax heist? It's not because there's anything new about it, writes Donnachadh McCarthy. It's because our own political class have long their noses in the trough, and the tax-dodging billionaires that own our mainstream media are anxious to hide the swindle that's keeping them rich, and us poor.
… are four pillars supporting the corruption of British democracy. One of those pillars is the … almost 50% of which are under some form of British jurisdiction e.g. Bermuda, Cayman and … stop the European Union from cracking down on British Bermuda where Google has stashed its …
G4S, the UK government outsourcer that supports Israeli security functions in the West Bank, will now supply 'custodial services' to Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, writes Clare Sambrook. Shocked? You shouldn't be. G4S is impervious to public criticism and defies international law with impunity.
… the US military base at Diego Garcia , the British territory in the Indian Ocean. Like … 'extraordinary rendition' flights - as the British Labour government, after years of … jury found that Jimmy Mubenga, who died on a British Airways plane in 2010 as three G4S …
The new JustPay! campaign is asking investors and individuals alike to activate their money and demand that support staff, such as cleaners, at the UK's top corporations are ensured a Living Wage
… struggle to get by on poverty wages while British supermarkets make huge profits NEWS … group. Tom Levitt reports NEWS Barclays Bank, British Gas and RBS implicated in ‘scandalous’ carbon trading scheme British companies accused of profiting from …
Following scientific confirmation of the severe hazards to health caused by residues of glyphosate weed killers in food, the Soil Association is calling on bakers and retailers to stop 'pre-harvest' spraying on arable crops. The SA's Peter Melchett just sent out this letter - adapt as necessary and send to retailers, bakers, makers of cereals, pasta, biscuits and others.
… Warburtons, the National Association of British and Irish Millers and Allied Mills for … eliminate exposure to glyphosate from eating British bread. The main route of exposure: … in the UK, the main source of glyphosate in British flour and bread comes from the …
A British exit from the EU wouldn't liberate us from the extreme neoliberalism epitomised by TTIP, writes Caroline Lucas. On the contrary, UK governments have been the strongest drivers of the EU's 'free trade', pro-corporate agenda. Despite all the EU's faults - and they are many - it is protecting us from much, much worse.
… Trade Corporations cameron-eu-cut.jpg A British exit from the EU wouldn't liberate us … the EU too often reflects the current British government's zeal for privatisation … launches in London. The progressive case for British membership of the EU, which has been …