Another three soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan. Cameron says that Britain is paying a “very high price” in Afghanistan. Yet few here in the UK believe that it is a price worth paying. The soldiers killed by a roadside bomb were Cpl William Savage and Fusilier Samuel Flint from the Royal Highland Fusiliers, the … Continue reading
Licence-fee payers should be handed a stake in the BBC by becoming its shareholders, Tessa Jowell has proposed. The former secretary of state for culture, media and sports called for the BBC to be transformed into a publicly owned mutual in order to ensure more accountability and responsiveness. The mutualisation of the BBC was one … Continue reading
ONE OF the central tenets of bioregionalism is scale, and specifically human scale. The reason is that the love and care for a place on the earth – which is what bioregionalism is all about – can happen only when the human community knows and becomes part of the natural systems and seasons of the … Continue reading
THE latest issue of Liveable Nation is out now! LN describes itself as the ‘Newsletter and Think-Tank of Progressive Nationalism’ and is dedicated to ‘National Ecology, Social Justice, Monetary Reform and Peace’. Issue 2 has been a long time coming, but the wait has definitely been well worth it. Edited by Wayne Sturgeon, it boasts … Continue reading