Help Addicts, But Lock Up the Casual Users of Cocaine
The UN’s proposal for decriminalisation is senseless and destructive
Stop Building Tanks
Let’s divert the money spent on arms to addressing the real strategic threat.
Outsourcing Unrest
The 300 year colonial adventure is over at last, which is why Britain is in political crisis.
Blue Desert
Why is no one brave enough to stand up to the fishing industry?
The Real Expenses Scandal
It’s a thousand times bigger than the one we’re talking about, so why doesn’t it ignite public anger?
Crash Landing
As BA reports massive losses, isn’t it time to scrap the airport expansion programme?
The Barbarians at the Gate
Why has policing in Britain gone so mad?
Captive Knowledge
The funding for academic research has been taken over by business
How Much Should We Leave in the Ground?
Here are some estimates for how much fossil fuel we can use, and a call for a global moratorium on new prospecting.
Watch Out World!
My video interview with Hazel Blears gives us a glimpse of what might be coming if she seeks to replace Gordon Brown
Mandelson’s Fifth Column
The British government’s business department exists to undermine democracy.
Printing Police Lies
The rightwing press has briefly turned against the police, but normal service will soon resume.
Cross Your Fingers and Carry On
Why does the government refuse to make contingency plans for peak oil?
Plastic Fetish
Why are plastic bags treated as the root of environmental evil?
The Biggest, Weirdest Rip-Off Yet
The widening of the M25 is a private finance initiative scheme that requires little private finance. Or initiative.
An Attack of the Bellamoids
James Lovelock says the government’s enthusiasm for wind farms approaches fascism. What is he on about?
Pyrolising the Planet
The debate over biochar hots up.
Woodchips With Everything
Here comes the latest utopian catastrophe: the plan to solve climate change with biochar
A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
If you think preventing climate change is politically difficult, look at the political problems of adapting to it.
Scrap It
Pay drivers to scrap their cars? We might as well burn ten-pound notes in power stations.
The Proceeds of Crime
The US and British governments have created a private prison industry which preys on human lives.
The Propaganda of the Victor
How the poor were airbrushed from history
Nuked by Friend and Foe
An unsentimental appraisal of our energy choices doesn’t boost your popularity.
Someone Else’s England
Someone Else’s England
You don’t have to be a nationalist, or English, to accept the case for an English parliament.
You Stand for Nothing But Election
An open letter to Hazel Blears MP, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
The Christopher Booker Prize for Climate Change Bullshit
Today I launch a prestigious and coveted award. Who will the lucky winner be?
From the Bottom Up
A new mobilisation could revitalise politics in the UK - but only if you get involved.
Squandered
This is how a government elected to stamp out sleaze became worse than its predecessor.
A Better Way to Make Money
Here’s how we could solve the credit crunch without giving anything to the banks.
David Bellamy Challenged
A spectacular confrontation over climate change
The Bare-Knuckle Videos
Here are the first five of my aggressive interviews with policy-makers, conducted for the Guardian.
Andy Harrison Challenged
In the fifth and final interview in the first series of fierce encounters with policy makers, I give the chief executive of easyJet the third degree.
Flying Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
How did Marxist class warriors end up fighting for the bosses’ right to fly?
Skating on Thin Ice
The freeze got me on my skates, and brought the loonies out of their holes.
Jeroen van der Veer Challenged
I grill the chief executive of Shell in the fourth of my aggressive interviews with policy makers.
Shell’s Game
Why good people do bad things
The Open Veins of Wales
Dr Beeching helped turn the country I’ve come to love into an outpost of empire. Now his legacy can be reversed.
The Paranoia Squad
A British police unit is demonising peaceful protesters to stay in business.
Shaun Spiers Challenged
This is the third of my investigative interviews with policy makers.
Pin-Striped Pirates
Why does the UK retain a handful of colonies? To destroy the world’s taxation systems.
Fatih Birol Challenged
This is the second of my bare-knuckle interviews with policy makers.
At Last, A Date
For the first time, the International Energy Agency has produced a date for peak oil. And it’s not reassuring.
A Beardful of Bunkum
David Bellamy’s at it again, with even dafter claims about climate change.
Yvo de Boer Challenged
This is the first in my series of interviews with those who hold our future in their hands. None of them are given an easy time.
Whistling in the Wind
The new climate change report falls miles short of what we need. Here are some of the emergency measures it should have contained.
One Shot Left
The latest science suggests that preventing runaway climate change means total decarbonisation.
Clearing Up This Mess
John Maynard Keynes had the answer to the crisis we’re now facing; but it was blocked and then forgotten.
Lest We Forget
Could the First World War have been stopped?
The Triumph of Ignorance
Why morons succeed in US politics.
Free the Unborn!
A proposal for slowing down politics.
This Is What Denial Does
The economic crisis is petty by comparison to the nature crunch. But they have the same cause.
The Other Bail-Out
Another set of corporations is pressing for public money. Governments should let them die.
Congress Confronts Its Contradictions
They baled out of the bail-out, but the money will still have to come from us. It always has.
The Patron Saint of Charlatans
How does Christopher Booker get away with it?
The Price of Free Speech
A grotesque case of legal bullying using a 13th-Century law shows that in some respects we still haven’t shaken off feudalism.
Protect and Survive
Peter Mandelson is bullying the world’s poorest nations into following a development route that can’t work.
Strange Fruit
A hard commercial logic dictates that the only way to get good fruit today is to grow your own.
An Inside Job
Who brought down the cooling towers in South Yorkshire?
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