No Quick Fix

Re-engineering the atmosphere could be as dangerous as climate change

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Peace Is For Wimps

Real men in government use their position to sell weapons.

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The Generals’ War

In victory or in defeat, the military leaders who dominate Israeli politics can’t lose. (more…)

Israel’s Attack Was Premeditated

Hizbullah’s capture of Israeli soldiers provided the excuse for an assault planned for months.

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The King of Fairyland

Bush’s view of the Middle East rests on pure fantasy.

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Thanks, But We Still Don’t Need It

Some of the arguments against nuclear power are no longer valid, but it remains the wrong technology.

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Willy Loman Syndrome

Young people are being torn apart by the gulf between expectation and reality. Is it any wonder that rates of mental illness are rising?

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Not Enough Fish in the Sea

Not Enough Fish in the Sea

We need omega-3 oils for our brains to function properly. But where will they come from?

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Still Drilling

The rebranding of Shell and BP is a fraud.

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Occupations Brutalise

The atrocities in Iraq surprise us only because we ignore colonial history.

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The Inspectors Who Look the Other Way

Why won’t anyone enforce our building standards?

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Britain’s Most Selfish People

Owning a second home during a housing crisis ensures that other people are homeless.

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A Well of Hypocrisy

One man uses gas and oil money to help the poor. The other uses it to buy guns. Guess who gets vilified.

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An Easter Egg Hunt

The £95 million that private companies extracted from a hospital project was not a mistake, but a deliberate gift from the government.

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Feeding Crime

If governments really want to improve law and order, they should ban adverts for junk food

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A Fondness for Fossil Fuels

If we’re to have a hydrogen economy, we have to secure our supplies of natural gas.

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Lady Tonge – an Apology

I was wrong. She is not a bully, a fool or a stooge. She is a comedian.

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A Bully in Ermine

Lady Tonge is using her unelected position to persecute some of the world’s most vulnerable people.

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Beholden to the Mob

The UK’s competition authorities still seem to be working for the superstores

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We Are All Killers

Until we stop flying

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Children of the Machine

New technological advances could make us susceptible to perpetual surveillance

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A Good Model for a Mugging

Labour’s first full-scale privatisation involves the multiple fleecing of the taxpayer

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Smoke Rings

The tobacco industry duped both academic journals and the media.

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Property Paranoia

Wealth is beginning to reduce our freedoms

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A Self-Vindicating Policy

Building new nuclear weapons creates the threats they are supposed to avert.

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Buying Complacency

The trade in “carbon offsets” is based on bogus accounting

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How Britain Denies its Holocausts

Why do so few people know about the atrocities of empire?

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Paul Smith and Safe Speed - the Self-Exposure of a Crank

A footnote.

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Who Runs Britain?

I nominate the CBI.

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The Anti-Social Bastards in Our Midst

The car is turning us into a nation of libertarians

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The Corporate Begging Bowl

They bleat about the free market, then insist that we subsidise them.

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Worse Than Fossil Fuel

Biodiesel enthusiasts have accidentally invented the most carbon-intensive fuel on earth

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The Struggle Against Ourselves

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How Much Energy Do We Have?

Are there enough renewables to keep the lights on? The answer will be comforting to no one.

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A War Crime Within a War Crime Within a War Crime

The revelations from Falluja are piling up

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War Without Rules

Yes, the US has used chemical weapons

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Bringing Out the Dead

The press has been minimising the death toll in Iraq

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Passive Driving

Why are we still exposed to pollution that kills 39,000 a year?

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Our Own Nuclear Salesman

The government’s chief scientist appears to have succumbed to politics

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Are You Paying to Burn the Rainforest?

If you’re buying Brazilian beef, the answer is yes

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Better off without Him

New research suggests that the Christian virtues are best represented in godless societies

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Protesters are Criminals

And hardly anyone is contesting the new clampdown

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Growing My Own

Boycotting the superstores means taking on five allotments

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Crying Sheep

We had better start preparing for a decline in global oil supply

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A World Turned Upside Down

The corporations are demanding regulation, and the government is refusing to give it to them

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The Net Censors

The democratic potential of the new media is being blocked by the companies providing the technology.

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The Man Who Betrayed the Poor

Even as the G8 promises fall apart, Geldof stays silent

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How to Stop Civil War

Nicaragua and South Africa, not the US, should be the inspiration for Iraq’s constitution.

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Burnt Out

Kenneth Clarke’s work for British American Tobacco should disqualify him from office.

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A Life With No Purpose

Darwin tells us that we are no more than assemblages of complex molecules. We should celebrate this.

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The New Chauvinism

Why should I love this country?

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The Treaty Wreckers

In just a few months, Bush and Blair have destroyed the global restraint on nuclear weapons

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Faced With This Crisis

The G8 leaders refuse to accept that anything difficult needs to be done about climate change

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Africa’s New Best Friends

The corporations which helped to immiserate Africa are being given control of its development.

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Going Nowhere

Review of Margaret Thatcher’s 1989 speech to the UN (extract published below).

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Save us from Ourselves

Green hypocrisy means that we can’t tackle climate change without government intervention.

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Our Very Own Enron?

Is the private finance initiative melting down?

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Bards of the Powerful

Far from challenging the G8’s role in Africa’s poverty, Geldof and Bono are legitimising its power.

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Spin, Lies and Corruption

The G8’s debt reduction plan is little better than an extortion racket

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A Game of Double Bluff

The UK and EU are keeping the poorer nations exactly where they want them: beholden to their patrons

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A Restraint of Liberty

Climate change’s unprecedented moral challenge demands that we restrict market freedom

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Bad News from Tesco

The superstores are on the verge of cornering the news market, with disastrous implications for democracy

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Junk Science

Climate change denial, as David Bellamy’s claims show, is based on pure hocus pocus

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In Bed With the Killers

BP is working with a genocidal government

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A Different Kind of Revolution

Wind power is a technological fix for a political problem.

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Signal Your Opposition

A vote for a minor party could be the most powerful one you could cast.

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A Vehicle for Equality

Would Rover not have been better off as a workers’ co-operative?

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I’m With Wolfowitz

Have we forgotten what the World Bank is for?

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The Business of Killing

The corporate manslaughter bill has been neutered to please employers

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God of the Soil

Only when nomads settled on fertile land did the notion of progress take root

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