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Poverty is a political choice. It’s time we chose to change

This week the United Nations launched an inquiry into rising levels of poverty and hardship across the UK, exploring the human consequences of austerity cuts that have ravished parts of the country under the Conservative government. Philip Alston, the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, will spend ...

Why are we ignoring the obvious?

I’m sure you are aware that in October of this year the IPCC released a devastating report that was picked up by media from around the world. It scared the living daylights out of us (and rightly so) for it mapped out how our future will look if we do ...

US Midterms: A tale of two chambers

With the final results pouring in the US Midterms look be a tale of two chambers. The Democrats took control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 2010, and Republicans held the Senate, results which were celebrated on both sides. At 1:27 am US time Donald Trump posted ...

Maybe it’s time the anti-vegan critics just got over themselves

William Sitwell’s resignation from the Waitrose in-house magazine last week, after making some seriously ill-advised comments about veganism, generated the usual explosion of opprobrium from those who also see vegans as the devil incarnate. Writer Selene Nelson’s Twitter feed was jumping with trolls queuing up to castigate her for robbing ...

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