Year: 1995

It’s Happening

Just as we tried to ignore Germany’s preparations for war, now we refuse to acknowledge the impending global catastrophe

Genetic engineering will transfer power from the poor to the rich

Land use in Britain will always work against us, until we demand control over the decisions which govern it

We’re in danger of succumbing to the cynical politics of advertising

The National Trust must lose its attachment to aristocratic values

The Duke of Edinburgh, currently president of the WWF, is an environmental disaster area

The decision to build a road takes place before the public inquiry begins

Language barriers are good, not bad, and their loss is a disaster for hundreds of millions of people

South Africa has embarked on a brave and hazardous land reform programme

Britain’s landlords are trespassing against our right to enjoy the countryside

Tourism extracts the differences between ourselves and other people

Our treatment of gypsies and travellers reveals Little England at its worst: mean-spirited, vindictive and narrow-minded.

Review of Slide Mountain, or The Folly of Owning Nature, by Theodore Steinberg

Reductionism is making science ever less relevant to our lives.

A new campaign is born

Review of: The River Stops Here: How One Man’s Battle to Save His Valley Changed the Fate of California. Ted Simon, Random House, New York.

The superstores are changing the world to suit themselves

Britain needs a liberation theology movement

There are no excuses for not joining the protest against the Newbury bypass

The Brazilian press and political system is ignoring a wholesale theft of land and the murder of its people