Mark Thomas

World Affairs

Mark Thomas reveals shady business in Africa

• 16 September 2002

Why are we using taxpayers' money to arm dictators and to back projects that destroy the environment and displace thousands of men and women from their land?

World Affairs

Mark Thomas fails to envy America

• 22 July 2002

Britain's anti-Americanism is blamed on jealousy. This must mean we want the highest obesity rate in the world and a leader who can't string two sentences together

Politics

Mark Thomas on death in the workplace

• 08 July 2002

The government is determined to fight crime by introducing ID cards. Yet it shrugs off deaths at work and industrial accidents. Why? Because the rich would be found guilty

Society

Mark Thomas on why the vicar should read your e-mail

• 24 June 2002

Blunkett revels in playing the hard man: he's the Millwall FC of Labour. For him to say he got it wrong is to enter new emotional territory, like admitting a need to read Iron John

World Affairs

Mark Thomas on why the Turks are popular at No. 10

• 10 June 2002
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New Labour backs the Turks over the Kurds because Turkey is the Richard Desmond of the British arms and construction world: it earns bad publicity but puts money in the right places reports Mark Thomas

Politics

Mark Thomas searches for buried truths in Tanzania

• 27 May 2002

Were more than 50 Tanzanian miners buried alive? The mine owners deny it, but local people claim they lost loved ones. Clare Short should support those who want the truth reports Mark Thomas

World Affairs

Mark Thomas

• 20 May 2002

President Bush has declared a War on Hormones and is set to do battle with every teenage erection, secretion and moistening in the world reports Mark Thomas

Politics

Mark Thomas considers the colour of Blunkett's dog

• 13 May 2002

New Labour ministers say "bogus asylum-seekers" so often that I think they've been sponsored to say it to raise money for charity

World Affairs

If I were a US citizen seeking to be reassured of my government's probity and diligence, I would now head for the hills with a hunting rifle and a do-it-yourself nuclear bunker

• 29 April 2002

UK Politics

A death to care about

• 15 April 2002

In memoriam, the Queen Mother - MPs can do nothing about the death of a 101-year-old, but they could make firms liable for the deaths of young workers