National Union of Journalists members at Reach plc to strike over pay
Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) are set to go on strike over pay at newspaper publisher Reach plc. Reach is the largest commercial news publisher in the…
Campaigners slam Tory move to privatise Channel 4
The government is seeking to go ahead with plans to privatise the publicly owned broadcaster Channel 4. According to reports, Channel 4's broadcaster’s chief executive, Alex Mahon, told staff on…
Is the right wing press changing its tune on climate change?
The Economist newspaper has cultivated a self-image of being the paper of rational capitalist elites for nearly two centuries. In many ways diametrically opposed to the Green movement that challenges…
What Vanessa Nakate being cropped out of a photograph tells us about climate change and race
The wider environmental movement has been criticised time and time again for being too ‘white’ and born from too much privilege. Many times, I have jumped to the defence of…
This election has proven that we need to overhaul our rigged democracy
Image credit: Young Greens There we go. Another general election, and this time things have really gone wrong. Johnson and his gang of extreme right wing Tories have got the…
What do Greens and the billionaire press have in common?
Monday morning began with some confusion for Labour activists as Barry Gardiner, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade, responded poorly when questioned about Labour’s decarbonisation plans on Radio…
Too much soul-searching, not enough action
The 2015 Conservative election victory, the Brexit vote and now Trump's victory, have all been painful for the left. We need a plan of action, and we need to execute…
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Crisis in the Scottish media: finding the phoenix
The exception that proves the rule: following its lone support for independence the Sunday Herald is the only Scottish paper not in terminal decline. Image: Ric Lander. The Scottish media…