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Netflix is the best-known TV streaming service in the UK. So how ethical is this entertainment giant?

Google is one of the best known brands and one of the five largest tech companies in the world. So how do its ethics measure up?

Holland & Barrett is probably the UK's best known health store. It's on most high streets and sells many brands marketed as vegan and organic. But how well do you really know this company? We look behind the brand reviewing the company's ethical policies and ownership.

The NatWest Group is one of the biggest high street banks in the UK.  As the fifth largest bank in the country, it has 19 million customers and assets worth almost £700 billion. But how ethical is this popular giant?  

Tesco is the UK's largest supermarket chain. From sales of live turtles in China to the treatment of suppliers, the company has been the target of many campaigns over its approach to business.  Tesco says it is doing all it can on sustainability but how do the company's ethics really stack up? 

Many of us are doing our best to avoid Amazon due to their tax avoidance, workers’ rights abuses and huge climate impacts.  Below, we run through seven of the most ethical booksellers as an alternative to Amazon. 

Amazon is notorious for its tax avoidance practices, but it’s not the only retailer dodging their responsibilities.  In this article we look at tax avoidance amongst large retailers, and ask what alternatives there are.

Find out why we are campaigning for public bodies to be able to take into account the tax behaviour of companies like Amazon who are bidding for their contracts.

Shell plc is one of the world’s largest oil and gas multinationals. In 2023 it was voted “Worst Company of the Year” by Ethical Consumer readers.* It’s recently been in the news over its gargantuan profits and massive executive pay offers during the cost of living crisis.  In this company profile we outline these, and other ethical issues.

Nabila Ahmed looks at Biden's proposed new 15% global minimum tax rate and what it means for Ethical Consumer's Covid Tech Tax Campaign and Amazon Boycott.

Here at Ethical Consumer we believe in sharing the ethical Christmas spirit, providing information on everything from where to shop on the high street to individual products from Best Buy Label companies. Plus you can use our Alternatives to Amazon guides to ditch the online giant once and for all. 

The global pandemic has forced a lot of change, and for many people job satisfaction and working conditions have become more important.  With more revelations of poor conditions for Amazon staff and garment workers for Boohoo, we discuss what to look for in an ethical employer and how to find an ethical job.

Looking for ethical alternatives to Spotify, Amazon, and YouTube?  Our guide rates and ranks 13 music streaming services and digital music download platforms, offering Best Buys advice, recommended brands, and brands to avoid. Discover the best options for ethical music consumption. 

We examine reasons to boycott Black Friday, the tax-avoiding activities of companies most likely to profit from the sales, ways to protest against Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and other ethical alternative events you can support instead.

Tech giants have profited from the global pandemic, particularly from online shopping but many of them are still not paying a fair amount of tax. We outline some recent figures and what you can do to help our tax campaigns.

Indigenous people in Brazil have launched a new campaign targeting companies that they say are complicit in deforestation in Latin America.

Online shopping currently accounts for 16.3% of all UK retail, and is growing fast. Some people have deep fears about the shift online, while others are excited about it. We examine the evidence here. 

Listed below are five of the lowest ranking companies across our product guides.  All these companies score poorly across our rating system for failing to address issues including human rights, animal rights and environmental concerns. 

In June, Microsoft made a multi-million-dollar investment in AnyVision, whose surveillance technology is used in Israeli checkpoints in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The investment has been condemned by Human Rights Watch.

Activists have called for a ‘BlackoutDay' on 7th July in protest against racism – “one day of solidarity in America where no one black person in America spends a dollar.”