By Ray Goodspeed The last week has seen an orgy of spiteful glee from the conservative right and their allies in the right-wing media as
Category: Science & Environment
Dear Victoria Atkins and Amanda Pritchard, We are writing as NHS staff members to express our dismay and disbelief at your decision to cut back
2023: the hottest year on Earth for 100,000 years
By John Pickard While Gaza is burning and its population deliberately starved, and while the Tory government is slowly collapsing into a stinking cesspit of
Meet JDAM, Israel’s murder weapon of choice
By Andy Ford The JDAM is the Joint Direct Attack Munition. It is the weapon of choice for the IDF in their demolition of Gaza
by John Pickard What do the Zinoviev Letter, US pop-star Taylor Swift and cute puppies have in common? It all has to do with information.
French farmers’ protests – Small farmers trapped by the capitalist system
By Chloé S. (Communist Party of France (PCF) – from Seine Maritime). [This article has been taken from the French socialist website La Riposte and
Review by Andy Ford, biomedical scientist The late Stephen Jay Gould is known for his large output of books on popular science, particularly in regard
COP28: business as usual
By Michael Roberts The COP28 conference on what to do about global warming and climate change held in Dubai finished last Thursday. Attended by a
Editorial: Cop28, the biggest circus in the world
The Cop26 meeting in Glasgow two years ago was described at the time by Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg, as just “more blah, blah blah”.
Review by Andy Ford The BBC Radio 4 series, The Life Scientific, gave a good summary on November 7 of the work and views of