Mark Thomas
Articles by Mark Thomas
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Society
Mark Thomas goes on trial for criminal damage
- 26 April 2004
Together with three others, I was charged with criminal damage to a minibus. We were all acquitted, but our two-day trial cost the taxpayer roughly £10,000
Politics
Mark Thomas starts his own think-tank
- 12 April 2004
My new think-tank will cure voter apathy: we will offer prizes and air miles and allow you to swap your vote here for one in America, so you can have a say in British foreign policy
Society
Mark Thomas urges the unions to take on Coca-Cola
- 29 March 2004
Turning the decent tap water in Dasani into a cancer scare - causing smokers to demand that fellow workers drink it on the office steps - is the least of Coca-Cola's crimes
Society
Mark Thomas sees Foxtons taking over prisons
- 15 March 2004
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Blunkett is trying to deduct the cost of B&B from compensation for wrongfully convicted prisoners. So why not now introduce the right for inmates to buy their own cells? Asks Mark Thomas
Politics
Mark Thomas wonders why the police fear frisbees
- 01 March 2004
Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire? Asks Mark Thomas
Politics
Mark Thomas fears a US invasion of Wales
- 16 February 2004
If water has become a scarce resource, then the Americans will invade Wales and the PM will defend them by insisting that Wales could launch a water-borne chemical attack
Politics
Mark Thomas - finds Indians who won't drink Coke
- 02 February 2004
In India, pressures on the water supply created by a Coca-Cola plant have caused wells to dry up. Is it just a politically motivated thirst that has led local people to protest?
Politics
Mark Thomas thanks Hilary Benn for his interest
- 19 January 2004
The first thing that Hilary Benn has done at International Development is to support a democracy-crushing, conflict-sponsoring, climate-changing, US-backed oil pipeline
World Affairs
Mark Thomas wants to see the Queen in court
- 15 December 2003
The aristocracy need only worry about gout, syphilis and falling off polo ponies - industrial accidents are what happen to the servants, and the crown is immune from prosecution
