Full Coverage: United Kingdom

30.04.2007 The biggest climate change talk-in, learn-in and plan-for-action of the year. London, 12-13 May.

30.04.2007 Ethnic groups are much more likely to be poor than white Britons, says a new report - with people of Bangladeshi origin the poorest of all.
From Joseph Rowntree Foundation

29.04.2007 The British government's Climate Change Bill - which proposes a 60 per cent in the country's greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 - doesn't go nearly far enough, argues the chairman of Parliament's All-Party Group on Climate Change.

27.04.2007 Britain's National Association of Goldsmiths has pledged its support for a campaign that is calling for an to "dirty gold".

26.04.2007 Question: What happened when Olaudah Equiano, one of the most famous slaves in history, met John Newton, British slave trader and writer of the hymn Amazing Grace? Answer: Nothing - because they didn’t meet. African Snow imagines the confrontation, and shows us what might have occurred.

25.04.2007 If British politicians really want to reach voters via the Internet, argues Becky Hogge, they need to exploit the best features of the new communications environment.

24.04.2007 Despite progress in the Northern Ireland peace process, security forces are still stifling freedom of information, writes Anthony McIntyre.

23.04.2007 The way UK supermarkets do business with developing countries is locking women workers into appallingly low pay and dangerous conditions, a report claims today.

21.04.2007 What does Britain really think about global warming? Lois Rogers pinpoints an unreported gulf between the pronouncements of campaigners and politicians and British public opinion.
From New Statesman.

20.04.2007 Litter on UK beaches has increased by 90 per cent since 1994 and levels of sewage-related debris are still unacceptably high, according to a report released today.

19.04.2007 In the wake of Channel 4's rescheduling of a drama about the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British soldiers in case it endangered captured British sailors in Iran, the BBC is accused of a "craven act of censorship" for cancelling the broadcast of a short story - Weddings and Beheadings - while the fate of journalist Alan Johnston, kidnapped in Palestine, remains unknown. Read the story.

17.04.2007 Amnesty International UK is looking for a volunteer who can blog (full info HERE) to work two months on their Guantanamo campaign. This position is based at AI’s headquarters in central London (UK) but applications to work from home will be considered.

16.04.2007 Millions of chronically malnourished children are being neglected by Britain's Department for International Development and the European Commission, says a new report.

16.04.2007 London will be dotted with Beacons – 40-metre-high Y-shaped wind turbines – if Julia Barfield and David Marks get their way. Unlikely? Yes, but remember that Barfield and Marks are the husband and wife team who designed the London Eye and persevered with the idea after its initial rejection.

14.04.2007 Can bloggers be reined in by a new "enforced civility"? Or would rules kill the cut and thrust of online conversation? Some leading bloggers say whether they would consent to a code of conduct. By Padraig Reidy.

12.04.2007 Apocalyptic warnings of melting ice-caps? Millions of refugees worldwide made homeless by rising seas? Forget it. If you want to mobilise the middle-classes into action on climate change, warn them of the threat to their gardens and the country’s stately homes.
*Other climate change and global justice events

11.04.2007 A day-long attempt to discuss ways of tackling the global economy's failure to deliver to people in both the developing and industrialised world while it propels us towards catastrophic climate change, London, 16 June.

11.04.2007 Any future British prime minister and government must say "never again" to a repetition of past failures to stop genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda and to a repeat of a misadventure on the scale of Iraq, says a new Oxfam paper.

08.04.2007 A Fine Balance is moving, shocking, funny. That’s Rohinton Mistry’s spellbinding novel. Unfortunately, the play of the book (at the Hampstead Theatre, London) is not as good.

06.04.2007 From Gaddafi to Gandhi - English National Opera’s current season is bringing new figures into the spotlight, reports Daniel Nelson.