FairPensions has just published a report looking at ethical investment funds. These funds, which are worth £6.5 billion, are usually used by socially and environmentally conscious people who want to save for the future. If you chose the ethical option on your workplace or personal pension...

It's probably fair to say that the re-election of James Murdoch onto the board of BSkyB doesn't seem like the biggest scandal facing the media at the moment. With the shocking allegations of abuse at the BBC and the issuing of 'privacy claims' over alleged hacking at the Daily Mirror,...

On Monday almost a million workers received a pay rise, sort of. These workers, most of whom are women, are those who occupy the many jobs up and down the country that pay the National Minimum Wage (NMW). For anyone scanning the job centre website you'll see plenty of these...

On Sunday morning Shell began a new phase in its latest attempt to quench the world's appetite for plentiful and cheap oil. The company's drill-ship, 'The Noble Discoverer', began the cutting of an eight and a half inch 'pilot hole' into the seabed off Alaska in its first step towards...

It's near-impossible to imagine that this time last year the streets of Britain were the scene of arson, looting and violence on a mass scale. The feel-good factor from hosting the Olympics, alongside the deployment of a huge chunk of the country's security forces in the capital, has rendered the...

Hardly a week seems to go by without news of a new challenge facing the poorest in Britain's. This week we were told that pay for the bottom tenth of workers grew by a miserable 0.1%
over the last year. This meagre rise, when inflation is running at...