Jon McClure, lead singer of Sheffield band, Reverend and The Makers, hosted the recent Love Music Hate Racism Rotherham Carnival. He speaks to Lee Billingham about his music and politics.

SchNEWS reports on the on-going protests against a new Shell pipeline being constructed in Ireland, and the heavy-handed police and Shell-security response.

The climate camp must succeed. In the absence of political backbone, our only hope is an avalanche of public revulsion, writes George Monbiot.

An extensive interview with Medialens’ David Edwards on Buddhism and the left.