by admin | Aug 7, 2012 | international, whistle blowing
On 11 March 2011, Japan was hit with the largest earthquake in its recorded history. The earthquake and its following tsunami crippled Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant on the east coast, about 150 miles north of Tokyo. Shocked by these events, and his...
by admin | Jul 19, 2012 | Durham Miners' Gala, media ownership, unions
Last Saturday saw the 128th Miners’ Gala in Durham (called locally ‘The Big Meeting’). It got the national headlines because Labour leader Ed Miliband attended, the first leader to do so for 23 years. (Neil Kinnock was the last.)I’ve not much to say about EM’s speech...
by admin | Jun 12, 2012 | Campaigns, international
In ‘Remember the dead – fight for the living’, I reported on Dow Chemical’s sponsorship of the ‘artistic wrap’ around the Olympic stadium in Stratford, in east London. I also reported the moving speech by Sanjay Verma from the International Campaign for Justice in...
by admin | Apr 28, 2012 | Campaigns, international, unions
Today, 28 April, is Workers’ Memorial Day (WMD). It’s when the trade union movement and safety campaigners hold a day of action to defend workers’ health and safety. Today, our health and safety is under attack in ways unprecedented in recent times, with attacks on...
by admin | Nov 29, 2011 | media freedom, Press
This afternoon the Leveson Inquiry really heard how it was, when Paul McMullan News of the World’s deputy features editor between 1994 and 2001 took the stand. He followed the Guardian’s Nick Davies, author of ‘Flat Earth News’ who has done much to expose the phone...
