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Great British Bake Off star Makbul ‘Mak’ Patel has chosen this week to bake his favourite cake.

It’s an occasion to remember three people who exemplify the need to speak the truth: Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame and Julian Assange of WikiLeaks;

We celebrate World Press Freedom Day in May as a reminder that the role of news organizations is to speak truth to power. Not for manufacturing consent—to

Between them, the kleptocrats and the neoliberals protect the privilege of the few against the claims for justice on the part of the many

Ignorance, incompetence and corruption plague our so-called "democracies" — no matter who one votes for, one gets a neoliberal-oriented gov

Ignorance, incompetence and corruption plague our so-called "democracies" — no matter who one votes for, one gets a neoliberal-oriented government with variations on a theme.

Benjamin Franklin once mused that one of life’s only certainties was death. Across the Atlantic from him, on the British Isles, is a rich tapestry of

The Scott Trust, the foundation that owns the British newspaper, will allocate £10 million to a restorative justice program for descendant communities

The Guardian today apologised for its founders links to the slave trade and announced it would be paying £10million in reparations as part of a decade-long programme of restorative justice.

The Guardian newspaper was founded as the Manchester Guardian in 1821 by cotton merchant John Edward Taylor (pictured) (1791-1844) after seeing the Peterloo Massacre in 1819.