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There’s a world food crisis which has left countries like Haiti with a population dependant on eating mud to survive, there’s a financial crisis that’s forced a careless world to think about it’s endless consumption yet our supermarkets continue to throw away perfectly good food. It’s estimated that you guys, without the help of the supermarkets, throw away 3.6m tonnes of food each year just in England and Wales. In families with children that amounts to 27% of all of your food going in the bin, or to put it another way, you’re throwing £27 out of every £100 spent into the bin. Some estimates put your waste as much as 50%. I decided to take a look for myself just how much food is being wasted. Read more »

As of Monday 6th of April the UK Government keeps track of every website you visit, every email you send, and every VOIP phone call you make for a minimum of one year. The government waived your right to privacy on the farcical promise of additional security. Critics argue this has nothing to do with security and everything to do with surveillance. It seems clear that no matter how much we disapprove of these spy tactics we won’t ever change them, feeding on apathy and ignorance our government does whatever they like. It’s time to be pro-active and not re-active and claw back our right to privacy from the grasp of a government who coerced us into handing it over. They know you’re reading phillyharper, follow these instructions and in 15 minutes time they’ll have no idea who you are or what you’re looking at.  Read more »

On Wednesday the 1st of April 2009, a man died whilst in police custody. He was being held against his will, without charge and without having committed any crime. That night, the leading images on the BBC News in reference to the protests were those of windows being smashed at the RBS building on Bishopsgate in London. Read more »