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Emergency grants should be available to impoverished countries in response to disasters like Idai, especially those linked to the climate breakdown primarily caused by richer countries in the global North, says Jubilee Debt Campaign.

Quakers in Britain have become the first church in the UK to announce it will not invest any of its centrally-held funds in companies profiting from the occupation of Palestine.

The National Education Union will protest against Pearson’s investment in education-for-profit company Bridge.

Privatisation hurtles on in the UK, regardless of the damage. Even David Cameron and George Osborne acknowledge that we have been badly served by the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), under which companies build hospitals, schools and prisons, then lease them back to the state, locking taxpayers into decades long maintenance contracts. Clare Sambrook exposes the underside of the privatising business, looking at who profits, who loses, who benefits and who decides.