Full Coverage: United Kingdom

27.02.2009 England People Very Nice is designedly not very nice. Funny, sharp, chaotic, focused; but not very nice.

27.02.2009 The charity Palestinians Relief and Development Fund did not take sufficiently rigorous steps to investigate allegations that some of their partner organisations might be promoting terrorism, the Charity Commission has ruled.

26.02.2009 Hordes of poverty and green campaigners from groups representing hundreds of thousands of people will join the largest British event to confront the global economic crisis at a free, all-day event on Saturday.

24.02.2009 Indian police guard woman after video of her undressing appears on internet says the newspaper headline. It's a case of life following art, says reviewer Daniel Nelson.

24.02.2009 Greenwash is a political farce, complete with custard pie and didactic dialogue, reports Daniel Nelson.

23.02.2009 The next Human Rights Watch film festival (19-27 March) will be the thirteenth, so it is not surprising that the festival’s deputy director, Andrea Holley, is looking for new styles, “which we need if we are to pull in new people”.

23.02.2009 In Costa Rica, municipal authorities compete with each other to plant the most trees. UK cities seem to be more concerned about removal of chewing gum from the pavements. Does this reflect cultural diversity or just muddled priorities?

23.02.2009 British mosques contribute to their local communities through a wide range of services and activities, from sport and leisure activities to healthy living programmes and assistance for senior citizens, says a new survey.

22.02.2009 With Afghanistan set to be a key focus of British, European and US foreign policy for many years, the Tricycle Theatre is staging a festival of plays, exhibitions, films and discussions on the country.

22.02.2009 England is ruled by the Scots! George Monbiot digs into the faultlines of UK democracy. Guardian

20.02.2009 London Fashion Week opens today facing development charity accusations that garment workers are paid poverty wages producing clothing for some of Britain’s largest retailers.

19.02.2009 Efforts to tackle the global food crisis will fail without urgent action to support small farmers in developing countries, says the Fairtrade Foundation in a report launched today.

17.02.2009 Young filmmakers from Canada, Senegal, South Africa, the UK, and the United States tackle child labour, women’s and indigenous rights, and persecution of immigrant communities in a special section of this year's Human Rights Watch film festival.

16.02.2009 Christian Aid is urging supporters to recruit their local MPs in a bid to bring tax justice to developing countries.

15.02.2009 Christopher Caldwell suggests that it's time to move on from hangups over bankers' bonuses. We should have made a fuss a long time ago. Financial Times

14.02.2009 The British supermarket chain Asda came under fire today over claims that workers earn a living wage supplying Valentine’s flowers on sale in its stores for £2 a dozen.
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11.02.2009 The shocking, hidden lives of refused asylum seekers whose bids for sanctuary have been rejected by the government are revealed for the first time in a photo exhibition in London.

11.02.2009 Greenwash is an up-to-the minute comedy about public and private deception, about sex, lies and climate change.

11.02.2009 The Church of England's decision to disinvest from Caterpillar is welcomed by a development agency that urges institutional investors to pull out of a company whose bulldozers have been used to build Israel's Separation Wall and destroy Palestinians’ homes.

10.02.2009 To charges that his new book is an example of “climate porn”, Labour MP Colin Challen yesterday retorted he was fed up with politicians “prettifying” global warming by telling the public that individual actions such as switching to eco-light bulbs would solve the problem.