Peter Mandelson has a history of working for and in the interests of big business and the financial industry. Gordon Brown’s remarkable decision to bring him back into the government suggests, writes Andy Rowell, that Labour’s long term economic approach will be more of the same.

“It is difficult to imagine a Cabinet appointment more calculated to dismay or outrage Labour supporters than that of Peter Mandelson….”

George Monbiot exposes the new wave of food colonialism practiced by the EU, and several other rich nations, that is snatching food from the mouths of the poor.