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Zwarte Piet: blackface is the colonial hangover that's lasted too long

Radhika Patel

05 December 2018
General

I open the curtains to see fairy lights twinkling in my neighbour’s house. I open the kitchen door and see little crumbs on the table, traces of a mince pie eater. And then I open Facebook to see the annual arguments about blackface. Yep. It’s nearly Christmas.

Leading the world backwards: Governments are merely agreeing to disagree on trade and global warming

Dorothy Grace Guerrero
Dorothy Grace Guerrero

04 December 2018
Trade
Climate and energy

As world leaders finalised the Group of Twenty’s (G20) Agreements in Buenos Aires, Argentina, government and civil society climate representatives started arriving in Katowice, Poland for the 24th Conference of Parties (COP24) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

It's time to get privatised medicines out of our public health system

Radhika Patel

03 December 2018
Pharma

It’s good news for the NHS and patients. After years of big pharma having patent control over a medicine and hiking up its price extortionately, a drug that treats rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease, adalimumab, is being replaced with much cheaper alternatives.

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The G20 are driving the world’s problems – people are crying out for fundamental change

General

  • May risks giving support to repressive regimes in desperation for trade deals

  • Climate change, arms sales and financial instability driven by G20 countries

The most powerful countries in the world are driving climate change, violent conflict and a deeply unequal global economy, campaigners claimed today, as the leaders of those countries meet in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Government must ‘rein in’ drugs companies to tackle spiralling NHS medicines bill

Pharma

Health campaigners have warned that the NHS drugs bill will continue to spiral unless the government takes action to tackle the exploitative behaviour of pharmaceutical companies, after NHS England statistics released today showed the NHS spent a record £20.2 billion on prescription drugs last year based on list prices.

‘Hostile environment’ to be put on trial in London this weekend

Migration

Jurors from across Europe will meet in London this weekend to rule on Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’ and its effect on migrants and refugee peoples of all backgrounds.