INTERVIEW When I heard about Julian, this hero, I thought: ‘I have to do something’ VIVIENNE WESTWOOD talks to Miles Ellingham about why she’s fighting to defend Julian Assange, land taxes and anti-capitalism, subsidies to industrial fishing, how playing cards can save the world, high street fashion and William Wordsworth
Features | Thursday 21st May 2020 “It’s a war on the poor” — why the war on drugs is still sweeping the globe
Features | Monday 02nd Mar 2020 'I’m sorry… I’m afraid I can’t do that': Bloomberg and the pod bay doors of capital
Wednesday 19th Feb 2020 Oventic: a postcard from Zapatista-land From the jungle regions of of Chiapas, southern Mexico, MILES ELLINGHAM visits a village in the autonomous territory held by the Zapatistas, 25 years into their revolution
Tuesday 28th Jan 2020 ‘Always finding nice things in a tragic situation’ - Robert Wyatt at 75 MILES ELLINGHAM meets the unique left-wing singer with his partner and muse Alfreda Benge at their Lincolnshire redoubt
Thursday 09th Jan 2020 Worse than you think: Reasons a US war with Iran would not go well In the wake of Qasem Suleimani’s death, MILES ELLINGHAM describes the momentous drawbacks involved in a head to head US conflict with Iran
Friday 24th Jul 2020 The shadow hand of HSBC: from drug lords to the House of Lords Cartel drug money, pernicious Saudi financial bodies, tax evasion and the Opium Wars. MILES ELLINGHAM outlines the moral apathy of Europe’s biggest bank, and the Conservative government’s failure to reprimand.
Wednesday 11th Dec 2019 Remembrance for El Mozote: a story of brutality, duplicity and Elliott Abrams MILES ELLINGHAM tells the story of the 1981 massacre in El Salvador, the subsequent US cover-up and its malign relevance today
Sunday 17th Nov 2019 ‘Narco country’ — the battle for Mexico’s north After the police and the army were forced to surrender under a hail of bullets in Culiacan, MILES ELLINGHAM asks if the state will ever regain control
Thursday 14th Nov 2019 ‘I’m all out of bubble gum!’ — how advertising is ruining your life MILES ELLINGHAM examines the ‘malignant ghost’ of commercial advertisement, and why it should be banned
Wednesday 23rd Oct 2019 Hell’s blue sky: the story of drone warfare Since 2004 there have been a minimum 6,786 US drone strikes killing up to 12,105 - with a possible 1,725 of those killed being civilians. MILES ELLINGHAM asks — how did we get here, and where are we going?
Monday 26th Aug 2019 Infiltrating the hidden world of the London super-rich Artist and writer MILES ELLINGHAM decided to go undercover to discover the city we don’t see
Wednesday 10th Jul 2019 The Long Desertion: how the right came to turn their backs on the planet MILES ELLINGHAM explores the political right’s long-held role as wardens of the climate crisis and discusses how conservatives came to abandon conservation
