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.
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.
Without Principle
New revelations show that Blair’s government is as corrupt as any of those it criticises.
Breast Beating
The G8 has the interests of the rest of the world at heart - until they conflict with its own.
Alexander Cockburn and the Corruption of Science
This is a response to Alexander Cockburn’s articles on global warming. You can find all the articles, and other responses, here: http://www.zmag.org/debatesglobalwarming.html (more…)
Marooned in the Suburbs
When planning laws are relaxed, it is the poor who suffer most.
What if the Oil Runs Out?
Though the government is planning a massive expansion of transport networks, it has never considered this question.
Car-nage
We need a global campaign for road safety, but not one controlled by the motor industry.
In the Company of Wolves
The members of the Council of Europe have agreed to overlook each other’s abuses. (more…)
Giving Up On Two Degrees
Have we already abandoned our attempts to prevent dangerous climate change? (more…)
No More Ventriloquists
A world parliament allows the poor to speak for themselves
The Emperor of Africa
Tony Blair cannot let go of Britain’s inordinate global powers
The Real Climate Censorship
It’s happening, it’s systematic, and it is precisely the opposite story to the one the papers are telling.
Feeding Frenzy
Why is it still acceptable to eat the endangered large predators of the sea? (more…)
Correspondence with Hamish Mykura
Head of History, Science and Religion, Channel 4 (more…)
A Lethal Solution
We need a five-year freeze on biofuels, before they wreck the planet. (more…)
Untroubled by Democracy
The consultations surrounding the Olympic Games are a stitch-up.
The Target Wreckers
Two ministries seem determined to scupper the government’s plans to combat global warming. (more…)
Channel 4’s Problem with Science
It doesn’t give a damn about whether the facts stack up - as long as it creates a controversy. (more…)
A Plague of Lawyers
Their over-representation in politics is partly responsible for a long sequence of oppressive laws.
Just a Lot of Hot Air
An audit of the government’s planned carbon cuts shows they will achieve only half of what it claims.
Bayoneting a Scarecrow
The 9/11 conspiracy theories are a coward’s cult. (more…)
A Parallel State
For how much longer will BAE be allowed to run its own secret service and overrule the armed forces?
Short Changed
9/11 conspiracism is dragging activists away from the real issues
Another Species of Denial
The Bush administration will do anything except cut the consumption of fuel. (more…)
The New Friends of the Earth?
The superstores are suddenly competing to be green. Can we trust them?