What’s wrong with our food in Britain today? Our diet increasingly consists of over-processed, nutritionally debased industrial food. It is high in fat, sugar, salt and chemicals. We are eating less fresh fruit, vegetables, meat and fish, and more packaged ready meals, snacks and fizzy drinks.
Although the treatment of staff in the warehouse is pretty bad, the general feeling is that we have it a lot easier than the shop floor staff.
ONE OF the greatest dates in our history was 18 March 1871. The story starts at the heights of Montemartre, Paris, at about 3am. The whole square is dominated by 250 cannon. The guns had just been used in a war between France and Germany in which Paris had been besieged for the whole winter.
MY ABIDING interest, to quote Bertolt Brecht, is with "those who walk in darkness".
THIRTY FIVE years ago the people of Swansea took on the massed ranks of police protecting the all-white propaganda machine of the South African apartheid state, the Springbok rugby team.
The young Olaudah Equiano was captured in 1756, and thrust down into the stinking hold of a slave ship. No doubt his captors believed him to be little more than an animal. Yet he was to utterly confound their prejudices.
Thursday 14 October International Socialist Tendency a red guide to the ESF
WE CAN agree with Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy on two assessments.
"NICE PEOPLE, No Hope" was Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee’s take on the Lib Dems’ conference—wrong on both counts.
IN POWER the Lib Dems live up to their talk of "tough liberalism" and "the supremacy of the free market".
The British National Party (BNP) won 1,072 votes (52 percent) in the Goresbrook ward of Barking and Dagenham two weeks ago.
