Help Addicts, But Lock Up the Casual Users of Cocaine
The UN’s proposal for decriminalisation is senseless and destructive
The UN’s proposal for decriminalisation is senseless and destructive
Let’s divert the money spent on arms to addressing the real strategic threat.
The 300 year colonial adventure is over at last, which is why Britain is in political crisis.
Why is no one brave enough to stand up to the fishing industry?
It’s a thousand times bigger than the one we’re talking about, so why doesn’t it ignite public anger?
As BA reports massive losses, isn’t it time to scrap the airport expansion programme?
Why has policing in Britain gone so mad?
The funding for academic research has been taken over by business
Here are some estimates for how much fossil fuel we can use, and a call for a global moratorium on new prospecting.
My video interview with Hazel Blears gives us a glimpse of what might be coming if she seeks to replace Gordon Brown
The British government’s business department exists to undermine democracy.
The rightwing press has briefly turned against the police, but normal service will soon resume.
Why does the government refuse to make contingency plans for peak oil?
Why are plastic bags treated as the root of environmental evil?
The widening of the M25 is a private finance initiative scheme that requires little private finance. Or initiative.
James Lovelock says the government’s enthusiasm for wind farms approaches fascism. What is he on about?
The debate over biochar hots up.
Here comes the latest utopian catastrophe: the plan to solve climate change with biochar
If you think preventing climate change is politically difficult, look at the political problems of adapting to it.
Pay drivers to scrap their cars? We might as well burn ten-pound notes in power stations.
The US and British governments have created a private prison industry which preys on human lives.
How the poor were airbrushed from history
An unsentimental appraisal of our energy choices doesn’t boost your popularity.
Someone Else’s England
You don’t have to be a nationalist, or English, to accept the case for an English parliament.
An open letter to Hazel Blears MP, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Today I launch a prestigious and coveted award. Who will the lucky winner be?
A new mobilisation could revitalise politics in the UK - but only if you get involved.
This is how a government elected to stamp out sleaze became worse than its predecessor.
Here’s how we could solve the credit crunch without giving anything to the banks.
A spectacular confrontation over climate change
Here are the first five of my aggressive interviews with policy-makers, conducted for the Guardian.
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.
How did Marxist class warriors end up fighting for the bosses’ right to fly?
The freeze got me on my skates, and brought the loonies out of their holes.
I grill the chief executive of Shell in the fourth of my aggressive interviews with policy makers.
Why good people do bad things
Dr Beeching helped turn the country I’ve come to love into an outpost of empire. Now his legacy can be reversed.
A British police unit is demonising peaceful protesters to stay in business.
This is the third of my investigative interviews with policy makers.
Why does the UK retain a handful of colonies? To destroy the world’s taxation systems.
This is the second of my bare-knuckle interviews with policy makers.
For the first time, the International Energy Agency has produced a date for peak oil. And it’s not reassuring.
David Bellamy’s at it again, with even dafter claims about climate change.
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.
The new climate change report falls miles short of what we need. Here are some of the emergency measures it should have contained.
The latest science suggests that preventing runaway climate change means total decarbonisation.
John Maynard Keynes had the answer to the crisis we’re now facing; but it was blocked and then forgotten.
Could the First World War have been stopped?
Why morons succeed in US politics.
A proposal for slowing down politics.
The economic crisis is petty by comparison to the nature crunch. But they have the same cause.
Another set of corporations is pressing for public money. Governments should let them die.
They baled out of the bail-out, but the money will still have to come from us. It always has.
How does Christopher Booker get away with it?
A grotesque case of legal bullying using a 13th-Century law shows that in some respects we still haven’t shaken off feudalism.
Peter Mandelson is bullying the world’s poorest nations into following a development route that can’t work.
A hard commercial logic dictates that the only way to get good fruit today is to grow your own.
Who brought down the cooling towers in South Yorkshire?
A new wave of food colonialism is snatching food from the mouths of the poor.
Do you want to save the biosphere or boost your own brand of politics? You can’t do both.
Why is the US government still pouring billions into missile defence?
Arthur Scargill has challenged me to a duel. Name your date, sir.
At least we have some ideals to fall short of.
The climate camp outside the Kingsnorth power station is contesting the biggest issue of them all
Iran is the least of the world’s offenders against non-proliferation.
A Proposal to Hamish Mykura, Head of Documentaries, Channel 4
A cunning new loophole has wrecked the government’s Climate Change Bill.
A response to Channel 4’s head of documentaries, Hamish Mykura
The Great Global Warming Swindle is just one example of Channel 4’s war against the greens