Manufactured Famine
A new wave of food colonialism is snatching food from the mouths of the poor.
Identity Politics in Climate Change Hell
Do you want to save the biosphere or boost your own brand of politics? You can’t do both.
The Magic Pudding
Why is the US government still pouring billions into missile defence?
Picking Up the Gauntlet
Arthur Scargill has challenged me to a duel. Name your date, sir.
Hypocrites Unite!
At least we have some ideals to fall short of.
Coal Scuttled
The climate camp outside the Kingsnorth power station is contesting the biggest issue of them all
Nuking the Treaty
Iran is the least of the world’s offenders against non-proliferation.
The Lunar Conspiracy
A Proposal to Hamish Mykura, Head of Documentaries, Channel 4
Traded Away
A cunning new loophole has wrecked the government’s Climate Change Bill.
Swindled Again
A response to Channel 4’s head of documentaries, Hamish Mykura
An Ongoing Swindle
The Great Global Warming Swindle is just one example of Channel 4’s war against the greens
The Self-Justifying Myth
People love films like The Great Global Warming Swindle, because they tell us what we want to believe.
Censored by Money
England’s mediaeval libel laws are becoming a global menace to free speech
Kept Afloat on a Tide of Cash
Why are governments subsidising the destruction of the marine environment?
Green Lifeline
A radical new idea could save the world’s ecosystems. But what will it do to the economy?
Mind-Forged Manacles
Crime is down, convictions are down, but the prisons are bursting. Why?
Lost in the System
What has happened to Bush’s secret prisoners?
Small Is Bountiful
Peasant farmers offer the best chance of feeding the world. So why do we treat them with contempt?
Justice Undone
I didn’t get my man, but I helped to remind people what he’s done.
Arresting John Bolton
The Charge Sheet
Majesty, We Have Gone Mad
An open letter to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
Nothing Left to Fight For
The most rightwing government Britain has had since the Second World War does not deserve to be re-elected.
How to Build a Human Bomb
Guantanamo Bay is killing people thousands of miles away.
Travelling Light
Is the airship a viable alternative to jet travel?
The Great Consolidation
What more can the government shut down? Oh yes, doctors’ surgeries.
Anticipatory Compliance
Rupert Murdoch doesn’t even have to ask to get what he wants.
The Pleasures of the Flesh
If you care about hunger, eat less meat.
A Cunning Plot
How to grow vegetables without breaking your back
The Patient Stalkers
Beware of privatisation schemes dressed up as customer choice.
A Likely Story
As the evidence accumulates, the Evening Standard’s allegations of terrorist planning have fallen apart.
An Exchange of Souls
As government documents show, Sir Nicholas Stern accidentally launched a trade in human lives.
The Last Straw
A new generation of biofuels turns out to be another environmental disaster
Death of the Noble Idea
Big money trumps everything in politics, even the most dearly-held beliefs
Population Bombs
It’s an important issue, but nowhere near the top of the list.
Unsentimental Education
Britain’s strange private school system causes immeasurable harm
The Kings of England
The unaccountable people who launched the Iraq war have learnt nothing from it.
Hurray! We’re Going Backwards!
Bush trashed the climate talks. But look what Gore did.
Leave It In The Ground
The climate talks are a stitch-up, as no one is talking about supply.
What Is Progress?
The numbers show that this should be the real question at the Bali talks.
Three Million Homes?
Yes, I am sorry to say, we need them.
Ban the Bomb - But Only in Iran
When will Bush and Brown acknowledge that there is already a nuclear power in the Middle East?
Fast and Loose
The anti-speed camera campaign is based on junk science.
An Agricultural Crime Against Humanity
Biofuels could kill more people than the Iraq war.
The Road Well Travelled
Are we already shutting our minds to the consequences of climate change?
Libertarians are the True Social Parasites
Matt Ridley raged against the government - until he needed £16 billion
Playing in the Rough
Why won’t Gary Player answer my questions about apartheid and evictions?
The New Coal Age
A vast new opencast pit will ruin local people’s lives and wreck the government’s climate change policies. How was it allowed to happen?
Bring on the Recession
How else will the destructive effects of growth be stopped?
The Junta’s Accomplices
If you want to support democracy in Burma, phone Gary Player and the other western businessmen propping up the generals.
An Idiot’s Referendum
People of all political colours are clamouring to answer a meaningless question.
The Fat Cats Protection League
Wherever you hear the words “free market”, you’ll find massive state handouts to corporations
How Did We Get Into This Mess?
Many of our current crises are the long-term results of a meeting which took place 60 years ago
Beneath the Pall of Misery, a New Movement Is Born
The climate camp at Heathrow is materially different from protests that have taken place in Britain before.
Attack of the Baby Eaters
The press has been publishing a series of crazy scare stories about our intentions at the climate camp
Selling Ecocide
Is it time to consider a ban on the adverts which help to cook the planet?
This Is Now a Protest for Democracy
To win an injunction against protests at Heathrow airport, BAA used a law which threatens our democratic rights
Drumming Up a New Cold War
By signing up to Bush’s missile defence programme, the British government shows it doesn’t give a damn about either peace or democracy
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Union With the Devil
The trade unions still rage about the class war, but keep funding their class enemies.
A Sudden Change of State
A new paper suggests we have been greatly underestimating the impacts of climate change - and the size of the necessary response.
Heat is now out in paperback
With new material and supported by new web resources. (more…)
Not What It Says on the Tin
Even in the rich nations, the babymilk manufacturers are undermining breastfeeding
Debate with Clive Hamilton
In which we battle over carbon targets, green tokenism and the economics of climate change.
The Conspiracy Widens
A final response to Alexander Cockburn.
Someone Else’s Legacy
Everywhere they go, the Olympic Games become an excuse for eviction and displacement.