Passive Driving
Why are we still exposed to pollution that kills 39,000 a year?
Why are we still exposed to pollution that kills 39,000 a year?
The government’s chief scientist appears to have succumbed to politics
If you’re buying Brazilian beef, the answer is yes
New research suggests that the Christian virtues are best represented in godless societies
And hardly anyone is contesting the new clampdown
Boycotting the superstores means taking on five allotments
We had better start preparing for a decline in global oil supply
The corporations are demanding regulation, and the government is refusing to give it to them
The democratic potential of the new media is being blocked by the companies providing the technology.
Even as the G8 promises fall apart, Geldof stays silent
Nicaragua and South Africa, not the US, should be the inspiration for Iraq’s constitution.
Kenneth Clarke’s work for British American Tobacco should disqualify him from office.
Darwin tells us that we are no more than assemblages of complex molecules. We should celebrate this.
Why should I love this country?
In just a few months, Bush and Blair have destroyed the global restraint on nuclear weapons
The G8 leaders refuse to accept that anything difficult needs to be done about climate change
The corporations which helped to immiserate Africa are being given control of its development.
Review of Margaret Thatcher’s 1989 speech to the UN (extract published below).
Green hypocrisy means that we can’t tackle climate change without government intervention.
Is the private finance initiative melting down?
Far from challenging the G8’s role in Africa’s poverty, Geldof and Bono are legitimising its power.
The G8’s debt reduction plan is little better than an extortion racket
The UK and EU are keeping the poorer nations exactly where they want them: beholden to their patrons
Climate change’s unprecedented moral challenge demands that we restrict market freedom
The superstores are on the verge of cornering the news market, with disastrous implications for democracy
Climate change denial, as David Bellamy’s claims show, is based on pure hocus pocus
BP is working with a genocidal government
Wind power is a technological fix for a political problem.
A vote for a minor party could be the most powerful one you could cast.
Would Rover not have been better off as a workers’ co-operative?
Have we forgotten what the World Bank is for?
The corporate manslaughter bill has been neutered to please employers
Only when nomads settled on fertile land did the notion of progress take root
A coup against social Europe has been foiled - for the time being
How can MPs represent us when they earn up to 95% of their income from outside interests?
The new crime bill permits the police to stop almost any demonstration.
Climate change exposes progress as a myth
Where has Iraq’s money gone?
Some people who engage in foreign conflicts are called terrorists. Others are about to be licensed by the government
The US media is creating a world of make believe.
Sweden proves the neoliberals wrong about how to slash poverty.
Bush and Blair no longer seem able to see the difference.
Why have we paid £93m for a £15m bridge?
Bush’s attempt to wreck the climate talks follows an established pattern of self-destruction
Why does no one care that the world’s worst conflict has broken out again?
We should welcome the return of the big wild mammals
Undercurrents and Schnews are both ten years old, and still blooming.
Even the government’s private finance success story turns out to be a roaring failure
The adoption of biofuels would be a humanitarian and environmental disaster
Big business is seeking the freedom to kill its workers
There is a precedent for the Bush Project, but it’s not fascism
An insane European ruling will be the final straw for the English apple
Why is Britain using its aid money to persuade South Africa to privatise its public services?
Transcript of lecture.
The government is letting the corporate killers walk free.
The best way of dealing with tax avoidance is to publish everyone’s returns.
How does the Global Justice Movement become effective without becoming New Labour?
Of course Iran wants the bomb, and the international system has given it everything it needs to build one.
If we want a classless society, banning hunting might be a step towards it.
The argument for nuclear power has strengthened, but it’s still not good enough.
Africans have good reason to be suspicious of British involvement in their affairs
Is a life without fossil fuel possible?
Letters following the publication of the article Goodbye, Kind World (filed under Climate Change)
Those who insist that Nader supporters should vote for Kerry are holding back US democratisation.
We’ve never had it so good, and we never will again.
Little by little, democracy is being banned
With only a little tweaking, Labour’s congestion plans could also solve the speeding problem
The newspapers must also be held to account for the decision to invade Iraq.
Our journalists bear as much responsibility for the misinformation about Iraq as the intelligence agencies.