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Review: Darwin’s island: The Galapagos in the garden of England – Steve Jones

Posted on September 11th 2009 | No comments
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Beyond the limits
Huw Sheridan reviews Steve Jones’s Darwin’s island: The Galapagos in the garden of England Little, Brown, 2009, pp307, £20
The anniversarial hype surrounding Charles Darwin continues unabated. The BBC alone broadcast a seemingly endless flow of programmes as part of its Darwin season.
Jones’s book is essentially a polemic against the parody of Darwin’s life [...]

The pros and cons of internet power

Posted on July 10th 2009 | 2 comments

James Turley looks at the role of new media in politics

One of the more curious features of the western media coverage of the recent events in Iran has been the prominence given to social networking websites.
In particular, Twitter – which allows users to easily distribute short and typically frivolous messages to those who sign up [...]

Politics of swine flu

Posted on May 10th 2009 | No comments

Nationalise drug companies under democratic control, says James Turley
The British media has managed to get itself into yet another incredible panic over a viral contagion.
Having stubbornly failed to be devastated by severe acute respiratory [...]

Darwin’s revolution

Posted on February 27th 2009 | 1 comment
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This year is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th of the publication of his seminal ‘On the origin of species by means of natural selection’. Huw Sheridan looks at its importance for communists

Charles Robert Darwin died on April 19 1882. Plans for the funeral in his quiet village were [...]