The Bank of England says it will keep interest rates low until 750,000 more jobs are created.

That would be good, if low interests rates created jobs. There was a time when that was to be expected, but I don't think that's the case any more.

Thus, all the plutocrats need to do, to continue to borrow cheaply, is to avoid creating jobs in the UK.

NSA spying has torpedoed the US Internet freedom agenda.

I, like the author, support that agenda, but Snowden's revelations show we need to apply it to the US as well.

President Obama's Disastrous Counterterrorism Legacy.

Mining figures show that fracking in the US has not resulted in any decrease in CO2 emission.

Global heating is pushing marine species towards the poles at around 4 miles a year.

It will get a lot faster in a few decades.

Since the poles are warming fastest, species that are now too hot at polar latitudes, such as polar bear and harp seals and penguins soon won't have any place to go.