In this issue
In this issue
- Poverty is about income – everything else is a distraction
- Wilful ignorance and staggering hypocrisy – David Cameron objects to cuts.
- Remembrance Day: Why should former soldiers have to rely on charity?
- Remembering well in the cause of peace
- UK military recruitment policy ‘counter’ to UN Rights of the Child
- Cameron urged to promote safe refugee routes at Valetta summit
- Work commutes over two hours up by 72% in decade, says TUC
- Illicit drugs changing national economies and governance
- Number of children seeking asylum in Europe almost doubles
- Campaigners warn of ‘debt iceberg’ at private finance summit
- Logging gang arrested close to uncontacted Amazonian tribe
- Pakistan executions set to hit 300 since December 2014
- Remembrance – Where do we go next?
- My Name is Legion:The British Legion and the control of Remembrance by Ron Tweedy
9 Nov 2015
Poverty is about income – everything else is a distraction
When the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) Read more
10 Nov 2015
Wilful ignorance and staggering hypocrisy – David Cameron objects to cuts.
Yesterday’s Daily Mirror ran an interesting article about a very public
6 Nov 2015
Remembrance Day: Why should former soldiers have to rely on charity?
I recently blogged about how the Royal British Legion – who produce the red poppy – insist that Remembrance Day should honour only the British military dead.
7 Nov 2015
Remembering well in the cause of peace
War is failure. The failure of diplomacy, of politics and, in John Steinbeck’s words, of man “as a thinking animal.” If we lose sight of this, we cannot remember well.
Thursday 12 November 2015
10 Nov 2015
UK military recruitment policy ‘counter’ to UN Rights of the Child
ForcesWatch has expressed concern that the UK Government is pursuing policies which run counter to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child by increasing the promotion of the military within schools.
11 Nov 2015
Cameron urged to promote safe refugee routes at Valetta summit
David Cameron must use a key meeting of EU and African leaders in Malta today (11 November) to urge international cooperation on establishing safe and legal routes for refugees and to commit the UK to taking its fair share of those already in Europe, says Amnesty International.
9 Nov 2015
Work commutes over two hours up by 72% in decade, says TUC
The number of commuters spending more than two hours travelling to and from work has increased by 72 per cent over the past 10 years, according to a Trades Union Congress analysis of official figures published today.
9 Nov 2015
Illicit drugs changing national economies and governance
The illicit drugs trade is now so powerful that it is virtually shaping the economies, governance and social fabric of entire nations, says a new report commissioned by Christian Aid.
9 Nov 2015
Number of children seeking asylum in Europe almost doubles
The number of children who have sought asylum in the European Union has almost doubled compared to last year according to Unicef UK.
12 Nov 2015
Campaigners warn of ‘debt iceberg’ at private finance summit
Campaigners protested outside a conference in London on 9 November to warn of the dangers to government finances of public-private partnerships.
12 Nov 2015
Logging gang arrested close to uncontacted Amazonian tribe
A band of loggers has been arrested close to the territory of an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon basin. They were found by a Brazilian government task force, which also confiscated forty truckloads of illegally-felled timber.
10 Nov 2015
Pakistan executions set to hit 300 since December 2014
Pakistan has hanged 299 people since resuming executions in December last year, and could pass the 300 mark any day, according to research by international human rights organisation Reprieve and Justice Project Pakistan.
11 Nov 2015
Remembrance – Where do we go next?
This paper looks at media coverage and developments around Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day in 2015, noting some new trends and issues.
11 Nov 2015
My Name is Legion:The British Legion and the control of Remembrance
In this paper Ron Tweedy explores how the Royal British Legion’s status as the self-appointed “national custodian of Remembrance” has been compromised through its collaboration with some of the world’s most controversial arms dealers, its increasingly militarised presentation of Remembrance, and its commercialised and trivialising corporatisation of the poppy “brand”.