The Poet Laureate has put a political slant on her version ot the Twelve Days of Christmas , including issues such as climate change and the war in Afghanistan. Poets holding the title previously have tended to keep away from...

The UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, was discussing action on climate change recently at a conference of young people, in the run-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference , starting in Copenhagen within the next 24 hours. One...

What’s the worst thing that can happen to a poor but self-sufficient community of indigenous people? The discovery, by others, that the land you’re living on is rich in mineral deposits – and therefore you are in the way. Amnesty has...

BBC Radio 4's Today Programme have published an audio slideshow about child slavery in Haiti, which you can see here . The report explains, with a series of photographs, how children in poverty come to be taken into slavery within the...

It could never, never, never happen here in Britain. No company would ever be allowed to operate in as negligent a way as Union Carbide did in Bhopal , India. And if there were ever a chemical disaster of a comparable scale here –...