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Occupations show democracy is in demand I have noticed that the media seem determined to downplay the continuing protest at St Paul’s Cathedral. They have dismissed it as left wing oddballs, clueless anti-capitalists, or just jobless bums. Well I was there last Saturday and the following Wednesday, and the amount of tents was still growing.

"Utter filth and depravity" shouted the Daily Mail. This brilliant play, in which the Marquis de Sade stages scenes from the French Revolution in an insane asylum, has seen people walking out of performances.

If you’ve ever watched the news and wondered why the demonstration you’ve just been on wasn’t on it, then don’t worry.

The constant demand for mobile phones has meant an ever-increasing demand for raw materials.

The Kandhamal district of the eastern Indian state of Odisha saw some of the worst examples of communal violence in the country’s history in 2008.

This spectacular new series gives the full David Attenborough treatment to the icy extremities of earth.

Workers at Park Cakes in Bolton and Oldham have voted for strikes over new contracts.

Tube drivers have voted by a four to one margin for industrial action short of a strike in a safety dispute on London Underground.

Workers in the Unite union at API Holographics in Salford have ended their dispute over pay.

Vik Chechi, the Unison union branch secretary at London’s Queen Mary University, was suspended from work last week.