27/01/2011   Kalahari Bushmen win victory for ancestral water rights

©Survival International©Survival InternationalWith support from Survival International, the Bushmen have at last overturned a 2010 High Court judgment that denied them access to water on their ancestral lands.

 19/01/2011   Attempt to silence campaign against industrial pig farming

The Soil Association has objected to a planning application for an indoor pig factory for 2,500 sows and 20,000 piglets. But Midland Pig Producers have used libel lawyers to stifle their objections.

 18/01/2011   Stop the Arms Fair!

UK weapons were “almost certainly” used in Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. 350 children were killed. The government says it has no “embarrassment” about arms exports, and wants to do even more to promote arms sales.
04/01/2011   HMRC cuts make tax avoidance even easier

There’s never a taxman around when you need one. Like when HMRC can’t recover £120bn in tax because its budget has been slashed and 1000s of jobs will be cut.