The Guardian published today a full page article on the MAI, only about the second or third appearance in a UK broadsheet I am aware of. The angle taken by the author was essentially that of we might as well tear up our voting cards if the MAI goes through, as corporations would be promoted to a status of "supercitizens" with rights that were greater than government at local or national level, and transcended the ordinary person in the street. This point was forcibly made. In addition, the arguments about environmental and employment or local development measures being outlawed were also well put. Apart from Monbiot's rather emotional outburst in the Guardian last year (he does do that sort of thing, bless his little cotton socks) this is the most trenchantly political argument I have seen put in a UK mainstream publication. Interesting in terms of how (comparatively) strongly it was made in what is a liberal paper, hardly a radical rag. If someone has access to a scanner and OCR it would be worth posting onto the 'web/list.
