Link Loving 17.01.11

• A group of lawyers, academics and campaigners has been deciding how to shake up our legal landscape to make the future safer for our environment.
• Guy Shrubsole wants us to restore the biosphere to its former glory.
• The rise and fall of the TV journalist.
• New campaign to stop the UK govt from persuading human rights abusers to buy weapons from UK – This Is Not OK.
• Demos report reveals that inflexible and stressful work is harming families.
• JP Morgan Chase reported a 47% jump in fourth-quarter net income – profits for 2010 were $17.4bn. What banking crisis?
• Adam Ramsay just can’t get excited about the AV vote in May.
• The story of Larry Summers and the collusion between US economists and the finance sector, and the associated degrading of economics as a profession. (h/t Ann Pettifor)
• The horrific stories of people putting themselves on fire to protest – Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt and Mauritania.