Editorial: BP's ecological vandalism is capitalist business as usual. So end it

World in brief: February 21, 2025

SOUTH SUDAN: The government announced the closure of all schools for two weeks today due to an ongoing extreme heatwave that has c

Starmer’s latest con job

The government’s nuclear power expansion plan is a hollow betrayal of working people that panders to wealthy corporations and will rip off consumers, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Government cash ‘nowhere enough’ to deliver fair transition to green energy, unions warn

NEW public cash for green energy may be a “step in the right direction” but is “nowhere near enough” to meet the government’s own jobs and manufac

Heathrow expansion cannot be quick fix to economy, campaigners warn

HEATHROW expansion cannot be the quick fix to the economy, campaigners warned today after the government backed a new multibillion-pound investment

‘A spectacular misuse of public land and public funds’

Furious campaigners claim that Oxford University is colluding with the council to squander £10m of public funds for a new bridge that wrecks a nature reserve, reports BERNY TORRE

Voices of Scotland The neoliberal approach to energy is failing Scotland

There is little benefit coming to Scotland or the wider UK from projects like Rosebank or Jackdaw – or indeed renewables – as profits are siphoned out of the country by foreign companies, writes PAULINE BRYAN

Pledge-breaking Labour's corporate love-in reheats policies discredited over and over again

BERNIE EVANS despairs of a government that is asking the crooks sucking Britain dry how to get the economy back on track

Climate protester Gaie Delap has been told that she must serve a further 20 days in prison

A CLIMATE campaigner has been told she must spend an extra 20 days in prison after being jailed because a security firm did not have an electronic

Chancellor all but backs Heathrow expansion amid union support

CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves all but confirmed plans to endorse a third runway at Heathrow today, following renewed support from the GMB and Community