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Why Libertarians Must Deny Climate Change

As soon as it encounters environmental issues, the ideology of the new right becomes ensnared in its own contradictions.

Matt Ridley raged against the government – until he needed £16 billion

Without public consultation, the boundaries of freeports have been expanded to cover much of the country. What does this mean?

Brexit isn’t about Europe, and isn’t about the UK. It’s the outcome of a civil war within capitalism.

This proposed new law would make us strangers in our own nation, by criminalising trespass.

Why are so many nations now led by extravagant buffoons? Because the nature of capitalism has changed.

The remarkable story of how the hard-right Koch brothers funded a Trotskyite splinter group.

How a secretive network built around a Nobel prizewinner set out to curtail our freedoms

Digital technologies could be used to destroy democracy, or to save it.

Crisis after crisis is being caused by a failed ideology. But it cannot be stopped without a coherent alternative.

Who killed the plan for cigarettes to be sold only in plain packets?

Is environmentalism compatible with social justice?

Rightwing libertarians have turned “freedom” into an excuse for greed and exploitation.

We have a democratic right to know who is funding public advocacy.

Why is Top Gear, alone among BBC programmes, allowed to keep breaking editorial guidelines?

The right-wing denial of the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda is bad enough; the new left-wing denial is even worse.

Online astroturfing is more advanced and more automated than we’d imagined.

The internet is being captured by organised trolls. It’s time we fought back.

The Tea Parties didn’t arise spontaneously: they were boiled up by big business.

The car is turning us into a nation of libertarians