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Vote Green today! 4 May 2012 | 02:22 am
Reasons to be cheerful and vote Green! For real jobs, protecting our green spaces, safer streets and defending the public services we all rely on. We stand for a more equal society and a strong, stabl...
Still 6,000 too many houses on the green belt 8 Mar 2012 | 01:35 pm
We may have won a victory in getting Newcastle Council to remove the Salters Lane site from the plan and to cut the number of houses to go on green belt, but they are still planning to allow the devel...
Food coops – taking back control 27 Feb 2012 | 02:33 pm
Delighted to have a guest blogger! Lucy who was on the Food Programme: Continuing along the theme of food cooperatives, I am going to write a bit about my experiences and thoughts as a member of Sout...
Tackling food poverty – coop style 20 Feb 2012 | 02:00 pm
More on ways people are coping with the increase in food poverty in today’s Food Programme on radio 4 about food clubs. A truly inspirational example is True Foods who won a Food and Farming Award las...
Spirit Level 6 Feb 2012 | 02:05 pm
Spirit Level co-author Richard Wilkinson concluded his lecture last Thursday with an impassioned plea for a reduction in the appalling and widening inequality in this country – stressing that another ...
Geordies against mega dairies! 18 Nov 2011 | 02:31 pm
Well, one notable one, Ruth Archer! My light relief is The Archers and their current story line about the local agribusiness fat cat’s plan for a mega dairy has had me shouting at the radio in horror....
And more fuel poverty … 24 Oct 2011 | 12:46 pm
Fuel poverty was back in the news last week with the further exposure of the effective cartel of the big six energy companies, their disgustingly exorbitant profits and just how little they are actual...
Jarrow 75 years on 10 Oct 2011 | 11:41 am
Marching behind one of the original Jarrow Crusade banners from the Town Hall to Christ Church today really did feel like being part of a long chain of protest across the years. Then sitting in the ch...
Consumerism doesn’t make our children (or us) happy 15 Sep 2011 | 10:06 am
Spirit Level author Kate Pickett in today’s Guardian CiF argues “How to make children happy? Reduce social inequality”. She is welcoming the UNICEF report exposing the damage that high income inequali...
Food poverty – and tax again 12 Sep 2011 | 11:20 am
Food poverty and food banks – more evidence of the widening of the gap between rich and poor – on Radio 4′s Food Programme today. Exposing how the government is stepping back from any responsibility t...
