Waitrose signs ‘charter for nature’ – but still sells chemicals lethal to wildlife In March, John Lewis chairwoman Sharon White announced that the partnership had become the first retailer to sign up to a charter that asks industry to put nature and the environment at the heart of its activities. She was referring to …
Nearly two years after UN rapporteur’s ‘psychological torture’ warning, WikiLeaks founder remains in top security jail IT WAS in November 2019 that the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer, delivered a stinging rebuke to the British government over the continued detention of Julian Assange, warning that the WikiLeaks founder showed “all the symptoms typical …
MELANIE PHILLIPS, who glories in notoriety as a markedly wild member of the UK media’s neocon faction, sliced through her already threadbare reputation for journalistic accuracy during an appearance on Sky news on 19 May. Within moments of declaring that Johnson’s government could hardly be blamed for the proliferation in Britain of the Indian …
POOR LABOUR’s problem is that there’s hardly anyone left to vote for it. Partly because too many people have become too prosperous. Modest houses once occupied by solid phalanxes of Labour voters now have front gardens concreted over to provide parking plots for two BMWs and are occupied by new Tory voters who now …
Lest we forget… Four years ago, in March 2017, at least 150 non-combatant men, women and children were killed when US-led coalition bombing destroyed a cluster of houses where a handful of terrorists battling Iraqi forces had positioned themselves on roof-tops in the city of Mosul. The following was Bronterre News’s take on the tragedy …
THE hostile-shading-into-abrasive BBC presenter Emma Barnett, who earlier this year supplanted the notably civilised duo of Jane Garvey and Jenni Murray at Woman’s Hour, is apparently under orders to soft-pedal when it comes to interrogating government ministers, presumably from a fear that the programme might otherwise face a Downing Street boycott, replicating the 2019 sanction …
Enable resurgence by scrapping business rates for locally-owned shops – then town centres will be freed to carve out fresh identities ABERYSTWYTH councillor and shopkeeper Ceredig Davies points out that multinational chain-stores now busy deserting the town have been responsible for driving up commercial rents and, consequently, business rates. But he’s being unnecessarily gloomy …
In refusing, and then relenting on, extra cash, Wales first minister may not have keenly appreciated huge importance of Aberystwyth collection of cultural treasures WITHOUT fully functioning national libraries, countries are in danger of becoming disconnected from a multiplicity of reference points essential for a firm grasp of their historical, and current, identities and cultures. …
The grinding tyranny of low pay and uncontrolled rents: an uncivilised combination that mustn’t be allowed to continue WHEN PEOPLE stood on their doorsteps cheering NHS staff they weren’t applauding the resilience of nurses eking out a life on low pay. Perhaps they should have been or, more to the point, maybe they should …
THAKEHAM, the Sussex house-builders planning, outrageously, to build over thousands of acres of prime Cambridgeshire farmland, has gone into hiding. After a fleeting foray into the public gaze in early December to announce its awful intention to plonk 25,000 homes across a vast swathe of countryside amounting to half the size of Cambridge, the …
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