Geography Archives: England

CROOKED companies dishonestly presenting their products as safe. Corporate incompetents engaged in a merry-go-round of buck-passing.

What just happened?

Is there a migration crisis in England? Yes, there is, says John Wight. And it’s not the fault of the migrants.

As the annual marches commemorating William of Orange’s ascension to power draw to a close, Mark Hackett reflects on how the events of 1688 shaped the modern bourgeoise state.

The following is the transcript of a speech delivered by UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell on 10 April 2024 at Chatham House in London, England.

The threat of immediate extradition has been lifted in today’s ruling against the U.S. government, reports John Rees from the court.

The recent report borrows from DeSantis bans on transgender care in Florida and appears designed to provide political justification for further attacks on transgender care.

Only this month, the near comatose U.S. President, Joe Biden, made a casual, castaway remark that his administration was “considering” the request by Australia that the case against Julian Assange be concluded.

Insulated from popular discontent, independent central banks have free reign to undermine workers’ rights and further the neoliberal agenda, argues John Clarke.

Hundreds of trade unionists have blockaded major arms factories in England and Scotland today (March 21, 2024) demanding the UK Government halt arms supplies to Israel.

Alex Roberts examines the multiple ways that the far right has responded to the climate crisis.

The report in The Wall Street Journal makes public what Consortium News had learned off the record, namely that the U.S. is engaging Julian Assange’s lawyers about a deal that could set the imprisoned publisher free.

The paltry new fund embraced by the Church of England is nowhere near what real justice demands: handing over the estimated £1.3 billion derived from trafficked Africans to their descendants, explains STEVE CUSHION.

Ken Loach talks to Hilary Wainwright about his latest film, The Old Oak, and his long career dignifying the lives and struggles of ordinary people.

The Bishops of the Church of England urge ‘Israel’ to comply with the rulings of the International Court of Justice, and guarantee that Palestinians have access to necessities such as food, water, healthcare, and safety.

WHEN an economy shrinks, as did the British economy last month, it triggers an alarm bell to all those who live not by their labour but by ours.

The protesters spoke with one voice—“Ceasefire now!”—directing their message at the Tory government which licenced the sale of weapons from Britain now being used by Israel in the accelerating massacre.

Jonathan Healey’s The Blazing World gives a vivid and illuminating account of the revolutionary seventeenth century in Britain, finds Waseem Ahmed.

Katherine Connelly outlines how the events and context of their times shaped the partnership and ideas of Marx and Engels.

When I sat down with Eric Huntley it was under the premise of interviewing him about the new community garden that he has established—along with filmmaker and organiser Sukant Chandan—in the London borough of Ealing, just minutes away from where he and his late-wife, Jessica Huntley, ran their bookshop and publishing house.