Are you a ‘premium loyal’, a ‘loyal low spender’, a ‘can’t stay away’… or don’t you care? Tesco does, and uses the data collected from your loyalty card to dictate what you buy, when you buy and how much you buy.
Every little helps: TESCO Jeremy Smith | 1st September 2004 News Tesco Tesco TV Loyalty Cards Selling Lifestyles Companies Food And Farming Society Investigates_24.jpg Are you a ‘premium loyal’, a …
3D printing machines such as the 'RepRap' already allow people to design and 'print out' products at home. Could this be the beginning of the end for traditional, capitalist manufacturing?
Will the RepRap machine bring a new manufacturing and the end of consumerism? Ann Danylkiw | 20th July 2010 News Science And Technology Reprap 3d Printing Manufacturing Capitalism Marx Localisation …
The failure of the COP26 climate conference reminds us that capitalism is the driver of ecological breakdown. But what does that mean for environmental activists?
COP26 and the future of capitalism Simon Hannah | 8th December 2021 | News Capitalism Economics COP26 Climate Breakdown Trade Unions 2.63712062.jpg The failure of the COP26 climate conference reminds …
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) says no convincing evidence to cause it to ban or further restrict exposure to the controversial chemical bisphenol-A used in plastic bottles and containers
Dismay over EU decision not to ban baby bottle chemical bisphenol-A Tom Levitt | 1st October 2010 News Bispenol-A BPA Health Cancer babybottle.jpg Campaigners want a ban on the use of BPA in babies …
What do Mr Blobby, Spiderman and Dumbledore have in common? And Bez from 80s rock band Happy Mondays, local residents, farmers, students and solidarity groups from around the UK? These characters assembled for a climate carnival in Lancashire, reports LYDIA NOON
Cuadrilla 'takes risks' as fracking resistance rolls on Lydia Noon | 2nd August 2017 News Cuadrilla Fracking Carnival Lancashire Climate direct action 2.jpg What do Mr Blobby, Spiderman and …
Recycling efforts of thousands wasted as new figures reveal extent of putrid problem in the war on preventable plastic waste.
#BinYourNappy campaign Staff Reporter | 10th July 2019 News Nappies Waste And Recycling screenshot_2019-07-09_at_15.37.41.png Recycling efforts of thousands wasted as new figures reveal extent of …
The gorilla photoshoot and where human exceptionalism takes us.
Humans: are we exceptional? Matthew Chalmers | 18th September 2020 | News Connection With Nature Biodiversity Gorilla baby The gorilla photoshoot and where human exceptionalism takes us. When I read …
In the four years since the Deepwater Horizon blowout there's been a lot of regulatory activity, writes Jacqueline Lang Weaver. Yet the regulatory framework today is weak, complex, under-funded, industry dominated - and it's uncertain that the Gulf of Mexico is really any safer than in 2010.
Four years after Deepwater Horizon: has offshore safety improved? Jacqueline Lang Weaver | 23rd April 2014 News Oil Oceans Pollution Regulation USA Fossil Fuels deepwater-horizon.jpg In the four …
The best way to deal with embarrassing, inconvenient facts is to ignore them, writes Guy Horton. And this is precisely what the international community is doing over Burma's demographic anomaly - 9 million people who ought to be there, but aren't. Their absence is prima facie evidence of genocide - but as we all celebrate the 'brave new Burma', no one wants to know.
… of them. Nearby in a burning village two toddlers had been thrown into the flames. …
As Israel violates its own 'ceasefire' to murder yet another child in Gaza City, the poet Heathcote Williams delves into aspects of Israel, Palestine and the lethal war now under way that rarely surface in the mainstream discourse - and amid the horror, cruelty and rising tide of fascism, finds grounds for long term hope.
… have them swallowing His party line that toddlers are terrorists if they're Arab, And …