by Lindsay Mackie | 3 November 2017 | Blog, The Absent Corporation
Systemic corporate failures are leaving our glass of milk half empty… There’s a milk and butter shortage threatened, who would have thought it? And it’s accompanied by the usual, willfully ignorant media jokes about the French croissant becoming a...
by Lindsay Mackie | 13 October 2017 | Blog
Earlier this year my colleague David Boyle and I published a New Weather pamphlet called The Absent Corporation in which we explained our (then) daring theory that the modern giant global corporation now treats its customers with contempt and neglect as a matter of...
by Lindsay Mackie | 18 July 2017 | Blog
Today The Guardian reveals the onward march of the mega farms defined as warehouses – effectively accommodating more than 40,000 poultry birds, 2,000 pigs and 750 breeding sows. We now have almost 800 of these mega farms in the UK. In the same week Ahimsa, a...
by Lindsay Mackie | 4 July 2017 | Blog
There are now serious doubts that Sir Martin Moore-Bick, retired judge of the Court of Appeal in England, will be able to take up the role of Chairman of the Grenfell Tower fire public inquiry. Residents say they have little faith in him; the local MP has called for...
by Lindsay Mackie | 9 June 2017 | Blog
For the moment let’s leave the tactical discussion, the grim DUP, the Tory panic and the musings about Theresa May’s lack of normal antennae to one side and concentrate on what might be the early, cheering conclusions of this unbelievable General Election....
