Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Rivers of destruction
New research using satellite images shows that the impact of tropical mining on rivers has increased over recent decades, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
MINING for metals has occurred for thousands of years. The organisation often described as the oldest corporation in the world, Stora Kopparberg, was a copper mining company, chartered in Sweden in 1347.
Extracting raw material that can be processed and sold as a valuable commodity creates large profits — at the expense of environmental destruction.
Today, the scale of modern mining enabled by machines powered by fossil fuels is staggering.
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