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February 15, 2016
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Christine Berry from the New Economics Foundation on TTIP

we’re concerned that buried in the small print of this there’s some quite sinister stuff going on that could fatally undermine our ability to act collectively to do things like protect the environment, protect our rights as workers as consumers in the safety of our food clean air clean water if doing that is likely […]

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February 15, 2016
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Annual London Oil Conference

This year’s International Petroleum Conference took place last week. Russia Today were there: As the oil industry’s annual conference takes place in London predicting the price of oil remains a difficult task. Crude prices hit a twelve year low they stabilized on Wednesday but the market is still very much volatile — prices strengthened after […]

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February 15, 2016
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UK Finance Minister defends Google deal

Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne was recently asked to defend Google’s tax deal at the World Economic Forum in Davos. How much tax does Google pay in the UK? Transcript: This is a real vindication of this goverment’s approach. When I became chancellor there were some companies that paid little or no tax. […]