By Michael Roberts As I fry in record temperatures in the south of France, the concept of a short sunny vacation away from the vagaries
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By Sam Gleaden What if the very way that we understand mental illness is also a major contributor to our society’s mental health crisis? In

Asbestos: “Miracle material” – slow killer!
Mike Kennard (former trade union heath and safety rep) examines an appalling threat to health and safety (see sources at end of article) In Britain

By Dave Putson [Before he stood down as a councillor in the London Borough of Bexley, Dave Putson moved a motion on climate change in

Saturday, April 22 is designated as Earth Day by the United Nations, and in keeping with its underlying purpose to protect the global environment and

By Michael Roberts ChatGPT is being heralded as a revolution in ‘artificial intelligence’ (AI) and has been taking the media and tech world by storm

Energy giants profiteer at workers’ expense – and the planet’s
By John Pickard It is hardly surprising that there are calls being made for additional taxes on oil and gas corporations, given that they are

By Andy Ford Alfred Russell Wallace, who was born two hundred years ago, is today remembered, if at all, as a sort of shadow of

Forgotten heroes of the Covid frontline
Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye Labour member) reviews the recent Panorama documentary (which can be seen here). Reporter, Catherine Burns, investigated the effects of Long

By Sam Gleaden, mental health worker The ‘low serotonin’ hypothesis has been the backbone of the psychiatric approach to depression for the past 40 years.