- This prison in Norway is on an island where inmates live in bungaloes, cook for themselves, and have jobs. It has the lowest re-offending rate of any prison in Europe.
- After a long campaign for the government to pay more attention to the power that supermarkets have over suppliers, a bill to create a new supermarkets watchdog is in its final stages. Ethical Consumer magazine has a good introduction.
- Shell have called off any further Arctic oil drilling this year, pending safety concerns. The safety issues they list make a compelling case for why they should drop it altogether.
- The longer a blog runs for, the more common it is to find your work picked up in odd places, but this one’s kind of a surprise. This article about arms sales to Madagascar on Iranian news network PressTV lifts sentences word for word from my blog, with some made up and not entirely accurate bits in between.
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