The “criminal courts charge” is criminalising poverty but where’s the justice?

It’s not only the monstrous and still widening wealth inequality gap that is now the same as in 19th century Britain; it’s also our debtors’ prisons. Introduced by stealth towards the final days of the coalition government by Tory imbecile …

Kincora (Part 1): MI5 and the child abuse cover-up (video)

The Kincora Boys’ Home was a children’s home in Belfast, Northern Ireland that was the scene of a notorious child sex abuse scandal. The Belfast News Letter reported that files on Kincora were “conspicuously absent” from the routine January 2013 …

Whether conservative or progressive your Daily Mail style science denial is hurting our kids and killing our planet (video)

For years, the Daily Mail has been a leader in offering false and even dangerous health ‘advice’ to its readers.  From its infamous everything gives you cancer stories, to false claims about ‘super foods’ and of course its deadly anti-vaccination campaigns, …

MH370: The 24 hour news cycle gives us all heat but very little light (video)

For three weeks in the aftermath of the disappearance of flight MH370 we were on the receiving end of saturation coverage of the tragedy by global news organisations, often at the expense of reporting more important national and international events. This would …

World At One: Embarrassing DEFRA report on food banks finally released (video)

The DEFRA report into why there has been such a huge increase in the use of food banks in the UK was quietly released this morning, some 11 months after it was commissioned and 8 months after it was completed. …