Corporate high flyers and Zooming

Corporate high flyers 83% In a study of 328 global companies, nonprofit Transport & Environment said this is the share that do not have credible plans to reduce their employees’ emissions from flying. Why not Zoom instead? “Years after the corporate world learned to connect and collaborate with fewer flights, many companies are yet to lift a finger

Good and bad news for the second part of February 2024

Essential reads Microplastics found in every human placenta tested in study Microplastics have been found in every human placenta tested in a study, leaving the researchers worried about the potential health impacts on developing foetuses. The scientists analysed 62 placental tissue samples and found the most common plastic detected was polyethylene, which is used to

Disinformation and demagogues mean the future of the climate is on the ballot in 2024

Fiona Harvey This year has been called the biggest election year in history. More than four billion people around the world – a majority of the global population – will go to the polls in national and regional elections from the US and Brazil to India and Korea. One big factor in many of those

Why British farmers aren’t revolting like their European counterparts

Protesters hold a banner reading ‘Without the countryside, your table is empty’ as tractors block a street in front of the agriculture ministry in Madrid CREDIT: OSCAR DEL POZO/AFP/GETTY Why British farmers aren’t revolting like their European counterparts By James Crisp Europe Editor Europe’s farmers brought the Continent to a standstill over recent weeks but

Romanian, Latvian and Polish farmers protesting against Russian and Ukrainian import of food products

Romanian government reaches agreement with farmers, truckers to end protests at Ukrainian border. Romania’s coalition government reached an agreement with the country’s farmers and truck drivers to end a weeks-long protest against the import of products from Ukraine and other non-EU countries, the Romanian government announced on Feb. 2. Latvian farmers protest Russian, Belarusian food

Farmers lay seige to Paris to stop France from ‘shooting itself in the foot’

By Henry Samuel France Correspondent, in Chennevières-les-Louvres The sun was setting on the A1 motorway outside Paris and Franck Kesteman, 55, and Denis Poiret, 45, both farmers from the Oise, 60 miles north of the capital, were preparing for an impromptu aperitif of wine and crackers behind their van. They proudly showed the mattresses stuffed

Germany’s top court banned public funding for neo-Nazi party

Germany’s top court banned public funding for neo-Nazi party The Federal Constitutional Court in Germany stripped the neo-Nazi party Die Heimat, which means the Homeland, of the right to public financing and the tax advantages normally extended to political organizations. The decision could provide a blueprint for government efforts to head off a resurgence of

Israel committing genocide to steal tens of billions of dollars worth of natural resources

Not many journals or television stations want to criticise Israel for committing genocide in furtherance of a criminal conspiracy to steal tens of billions of dollars worth of natural resources. Philip Weiss worked in print journalism for more than 30 years. He has worked for many magazines and newspapers, and for a time his whole

To remember in the third week of January 2024

Jamaican who was saved from deportation by BA passengers is a violent drug dealer Jamaican who was saved from deportation by BA passengers is a violent drug dealer, jailed for his role in a gun battle on the streets of Birmingham. Labour pledges money from private school VAT raid for seven different policies Sir Keir

Why did it take a TV drama to clear 736 wrongly convicted Post Office managers?

Hundreds of subpostmasters wrongly convicted in one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history are to have their convictions quashed after an ITV drama prompted a public outcry.   Following a two-decade battle for justice, those caught up in the Post Office scandal will finally have their good names restored by the end of the