See the Amnesty ad the FT haven’t the balls to run

Over 2,000 Amnesty International supporters donated to place this advert in the Financial Times, Metro and Evening Standard. Northcliffe House has many a vice but reluctance to accept cash is not one of them – the ad appears in their free papers today. But the FT pulled the ad at the last minute, presumably in [...]

bailed-out RBS lead near billion pound deal for Uganda war zone oil company

Yesterday I posted a story about how we had just launched a legal action against the Treasury over their failure to stop RBS misusing public money. Right after I posted it, I heard about RBS’ latest deal, and wrote the below for our website. I can think of few worse uses for public money than [...]

UK climate leadership comes a cropper in Shetland

Last month, the UK government was claiming to lead the world on climate change. Ed Miliband genuinely seemed to be working hard to get a deal at Copenhagen. But today Alistair Darling announced substantial tax breaks for oil companies wishing to drill off the west of Shetland. According to the FT, The Chancellor is offering [...]