Year: 2008

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.

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.