Alexander Cockburn and the Corruption of Science
This is a response to Alexander Cockburn’s articles on global warming. You can find all the articles, and other responses, here: http://www.zmag.org/debatesglobalwarming.html (more…)
Marooned in the Suburbs
When planning laws are relaxed, it is the poor who suffer most.
What if the Oil Runs Out?
Though the government is planning a massive expansion of transport networks, it has never considered this question.
Car-nage
We need a global campaign for road safety, but not one controlled by the motor industry.
In the Company of Wolves
The members of the Council of Europe have agreed to overlook each other’s abuses. (more…)
Giving Up On Two Degrees
Have we already abandoned our attempts to prevent dangerous climate change? (more…)
No More Ventriloquists
A world parliament allows the poor to speak for themselves
The Emperor of Africa
Tony Blair cannot let go of Britain’s inordinate global powers
The Real Climate Censorship
It’s happening, it’s systematic, and it is precisely the opposite story to the one the papers are telling.
Feeding Frenzy
Why is it still acceptable to eat the endangered large predators of the sea? (more…)
Correspondence with Hamish Mykura
Head of History, Science and Religion, Channel 4 (more…)
A Lethal Solution
We need a five-year freeze on biofuels, before they wreck the planet. (more…)
Untroubled by Democracy
The consultations surrounding the Olympic Games are a stitch-up.
The Target Wreckers
Two ministries seem determined to scupper the government’s plans to combat global warming. (more…)
Channel 4’s Problem with Science
It doesn’t give a damn about whether the facts stack up - as long as it creates a controversy. (more…)
A Plague of Lawyers
Their over-representation in politics is partly responsible for a long sequence of oppressive laws.
Just a Lot of Hot Air
An audit of the government’s planned carbon cuts shows they will achieve only half of what it claims.
Bayoneting a Scarecrow
The 9/11 conspiracy theories are a coward’s cult. (more…)
A Parallel State
For how much longer will BAE be allowed to run its own secret service and overrule the armed forces?
Short Changed
9/11 conspiracism is dragging activists away from the real issues
Another Species of Denial
The Bush administration will do anything except cut the consumption of fuel. (more…)
The New Friends of the Earth?
The superstores are suddenly competing to be green. Can we trust them?
Preparing for Take-Off
The government knows that its airport plans will cancel out all its efforts to tackle climate change.
The Darkest Corner of the Mind
US interrogators have devised a new form of torture. It debases the democracy they claim to be defending.
Life Coaching
The most miserable of transport modes, the coach, could be used to transform the way we travel.
Defence Against What?
The Iraq disaster has eliminated the last major function of our armed forces. So let’s pay ourselves a war dividend. (more…)
Asserting Our Right to Kill and Maim Civilians
At the talks beginning in Geneva today, the British government will fight attempts to ban cluster bombs.
Here’s the Plan
For fast and effective action on climate change (more…)
The Cult of the Heroic Animal
The Disneyfication of war allows us to ignore its real savagery
Selling Indulgences
The trade in carbon offsets is an excuse for business as usual
Putting the State on Trial
Protesters who have damaged military equipment are walking away from the dock
The Water Boom Is Over
Global freshwater supplies could start to determine whether or not we can feed ourselves.
Small is Useless
Micro generation can’t solve climate change.
Defend Our Ranting Homophobes
People should be as offensive as they wish. But in Britain the police can decide whose views to ban.
Who’s Paying?
When pundits discuss contentious issues on air, they must reveal their financial interests.
How Much Reality Can You Take?
Does anyone really want to stop climate change?
An 87% Cut by 2030
That’s what we need in the United Kingdom to avoid catastrophic climate change
The Smoke Behind the Deniers’ Fire
It isn’t just Exxon which has funded the climate change deniers - Big Tobacco has also played a strange and disturbing role.
A Catalogue of Idiocy
The emerging disaster at Dounreay is a powerful argument for open government. (more…)
A World Without Men
An untold story from Greenham Common (more…)
Still the Rich World’s Viceroy
If the IMF wants to reform itself, why not try democracy?
No Quick Fix
Re-engineering the atmosphere could be as dangerous as climate change
Peace Is For Wimps
Real men in government use their position to sell weapons.
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.
The King of Fairyland
Bush’s view of the Middle East rests on pure fantasy.
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.
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?
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?
Still Drilling
The rebranding of Shell and BP is a fraud.
Occupations Brutalise
The atrocities in Iraq surprise us only because we ignore colonial history.
The Inspectors Who Look the Other Way
Why won’t anyone enforce our building standards?
Britain’s Most Selfish People
Owning a second home during a housing crisis ensures that other people are homeless.
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.
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.
Feeding Crime
If governments really want to improve law and order, they should ban adverts for junk food
A Fondness for Fossil Fuels
If we’re to have a hydrogen economy, we have to secure our supplies of natural gas.
Lady Tonge – an Apology
I was wrong. She is not a bully, a fool or a stooge. She is a comedian.
A Bully in Ermine
Lady Tonge is using her unelected position to persecute some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
Beholden to the Mob
The UK’s competition authorities still seem to be working for the superstores
We Are All Killers
Until we stop flying
Children of the Machine
New technological advances could make us susceptible to perpetual surveillance
A Good Model for a Mugging
Labour’s first full-scale privatisation involves the multiple fleecing of the taxpayer
Smoke Rings
The tobacco industry duped both academic journals and the media.
Property Paranoia
Wealth is beginning to reduce our freedoms
A Self-Vindicating Policy
Building new nuclear weapons creates the threats they are supposed to avert.
Buying Complacency
The trade in “carbon offsets” is based on bogus accounting
How Britain Denies its Holocausts
Why do so few people know about the atrocities of empire?