How coronavirus is impacting workers in the electronics supply chain
With millions of UK workers last week told to work from home, many are finding themselves increasingly reliant on technology. The demand for electronic tablets increased in China during quarantine…
Interview: Meet the activist who brought the youth climate strike to China
The youth climate strike started when the then 15 year old Greta Thunberg decided to strike from her school in Sweden in August 2018. Since then, the movement has been…
The good, the bad and the ugly: Global Green leaders discuss the Paris climate talks
Flood Wall St West, San Francisco Financial District, September 28, 2015. The mural reads: “Stop Climate Chaos Profiteers #FloodTheSystem”. Photo by Peg Hunter On Monday, the Global Greens hosted a…
The Hong Kong test
One thing China has in common with the UK is four football teams. China, like Scotland, is older than the concept of “nation-state”. But whereas the Scots held a referendum…
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Hong Kong is Occupied – but what comes next?
Hong Kong, with its gleaming skyscrapers and an economy relatively unscathed by the 2008 global crash, is the poster boy of free market capitalism. Since its handover back to its…
Art beyond oil: on Ai Weiwei, Ali Ferzat and Ahmed Bassiouny
‘Not if but when: Culture Beyond Oil’ is a new publication from PLATFORM, Liberate Tate, and Art Not Oil which sets out to discuss oil sponsorship of the arts. In…
Export led growth, Mr Cameron?
This week sees another kick in the face for the Tory's economic strategy. Government cuts may have sucked enough demand out of the UK economy to help keep inflation down…
The Yellow and White Minstrel Show
So Jim Naughtie accidentally renamed the Culture Secretary Jeremy Cunt. And an hour after Naughtie did it so did Andrew Marr. It was the broadcasting equivalent of a motorway pile…
EXCLUSIVE: Labour’s new ad
Yesterday's debate's biggest gaffe was undoubtedly David Cameron's hamfisted 'Axis of Evil' speech, citing China (along with Iran) as the reason we need nuclear missiles. “Are we really happy to…