The mass release and shooting of pheasants trashes our ecosystems – and our humanity.
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The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death
Trainwreck
How do HS2 and other white elephants get commissioned? It’s clientelism – the subtle form of corruption.
What’s Your Poison?
Why do we put up with daily assaults on our health? It has everything to do with corporate power.
Shining a Light
Our forthcoming film about the undisclosed interests trashing our lives.
Unspeakable
How our lives came to be dominated by a few dozen plutocrats and their thousands of concierges.
The Bird Cage
The remarkable story behind the disciplining of a major charity shows how power really works.
Six Legs Good
My very amateur photos of some magnificant creatures in the French Alps.
The Unhowled Land
Without wolves or lynx, our ecosystems remain barren, depleted and overrun by proliferating deer.
The Mingling
How sea kayaking sustains me.
Running Amoc
It’s because the climate crisis is now visible to everyone that governments are giving the fossil fuel industry everything it demands.
All Hat and No Cattle
The spectacular implosion of a popular delusion about livestock farming.
The Door Is That Way
The striking new plan to let voters reclaim democracy in a profoundly undemocratic system.
Scapegoat Season
Instead of addressing our multiple ecological disasters, those with power are attacking wildlife defenders.
All-Consuming
The power of the very rich prevents us from addressing our two greatest existential threats.
Thinking about Thinking
How can education rise to the massive challenges young people will face?
A Blatant Injustice
Corporations have found a way to punish people for disagreeing with them.
Sacré Vert
French environmental action puts the UK to shame.
Thriving on Catastrophe
Why the climate crisis and the global rise of fascism are inextricable.
Hell Holes
Fossil fuel companies walk away from the lands they have devastated, often without paying a penny to restore them.