Bring Them Back

We should welcome the return of the big wild mammals

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The Alternative Media

Undercurrents and Schnews are both ten years old, and still blooming.

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Road Hogs

Even the government’s private finance success story turns out to be a roaring failure

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Feeding Cars, Not People

The adoption of biofuels would be a humanitarian and environmental disaster

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The Myth of Compensation Culture

Big business is seeking the freedom to kill its workers

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Religion of the Rich

There is a precedent for the Bush Project, but it’s not fascism

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Fallen Fruit

An insane European ruling will be the final straw for the English apple

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Exploitation on Tap

Why is Britain using its aid money to persuade South Africa to privatise its public services?

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No Longer Obeying Orders

Transcript of lecture.

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Too Soft on Crime

The government is letting the corporate killers walk free.

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Expose the Tax Cheats

The best way of dealing with tax avoidance is to publish everyone’s returns.

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The Paradox of Transition

How does the Global Justice Movement become effective without becoming New Labour?

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Proliferation Treaty

Of course Iran wants the bomb, and the international system has given it everything it needs to build one.

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Class War on the Hoof

If we want a classless society, banning hunting might be a step towards it.

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Two Kinds of Mass Death

The argument for nuclear power has strengthened, but it’s still not good enough.

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Adventure playground

Africans have good reason to be suspicious of British involvement in their affairs

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Living with the Age of Entropy

Is a life without fossil fuel possible?

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Correspondence with David Bellamy

Letters following the publication of the article Goodbye, Kind World (filed under Climate Change)

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The Bad or the Terrible

Those who insist that Nader supporters should vote for Kerry are holding back US democratisation.

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Goodbye, Kind World

We’ve never had it so good, and we never will again.

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A Thousand Dusty Codicils

Little by little, democracy is being banned

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Think inside the box

With only a little tweaking, Labour’s congestion plans could also solve the speeding problem

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The Lies of the Press

The newspapers must also be held to account for the decision to invade Iraq.

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Greasing Up to Power

Our journalists bear as much responsibility for the misinformation about Iraq as the intelligence agencies.

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War x 4

Any government concerned about global security and climate change should be banning 4×4s

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Losing the Battle with Entropy

Without cheap oil, the only safe option is to start dismantling our complex economies
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Empire of Denial

My old housemate has devised a new and terrifying myth of power
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The Age of Consent

Text of lecture given to the Royal Society of Arts, and printed in their magazine

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The Immigrants the Tabloids Love

The rightwing campaign against economic migrants may not be as irrational as it appears.

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Costing the Earth

Costing the Earth
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This Is What We Paid For

Britain’s foreign aid has been used to bankroll a programme for mass starvation
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Just Fade Away

It’s time to lighten up about falling birthrates.
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Born Yesterday

Review of The Day After Tomorrow
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Waging War with the Virgin Soldiers

Abstinence teaching is a disaster for teenagers.
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The Fossil Fools

The dismissal of climate change by journalistic nincompoops is a danger to us all
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Apocalypse Please

US policy towards the Middle East is driven by a rarefied form of madness. It’s time we took it seriously.
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Victim’s Licence

Our fairytale version of Rwanda’s genocide has allowed us to overlook the government’s own crimes against humanity
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The Bones of the Saint

Remarks at the launch of Scott Lucas’s book The Betrayal of Dissent
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Jump on our Bandwagon

The corporations’ Achilles heel is the environment. It’s time for the left to hit it.
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The British Threat

By hardening its position on nuclear weapons, Labour is encouraging proliferation
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Battle of the Manifestos

Battle of the Manifestos
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A Charter to Intervene

We need new international laws to tell us whether or not force is justified.
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Low Hanging Fruit

The superstores are mopping up the last pockets of resistance
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Seeds of Distraction

The biotech companies want us to consider everything except their motives.
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Extreme Measures

We can’t rely on the Establishment to topple Tony Blair: we must do it ourselves.
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The Sleaze Behind Our Science

The conflicts of interest revealed by the MMR story are everywhere.
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Mighty Mouse

Disney’s infantilisation of our culture masks a hard, hegemonic will
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Letter of Resignation

Letter of Resignation
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Natural Aesthetes

Wildlife is wonderful. We don’t need any other excuse to protect it.
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On the Edge of Lunacy

British foreign aid is being directed to countries willing to sell off their assets to big business
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A Weapon With Wings

The centenary of the Wright brothers’ flight should be a day of international mourning.
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Invasion of the Entryists

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December Debate - part 2

December Debate - part 2
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December Debate - Part 1

Online debate with Guardian readers

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The Bottom of the Barrel

Oil is running out, but no one wants to talk about it.
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The Moral Myth

Superpowers act out of self-interest, not morality.
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Rattling the Bars

Something very big is stirring among Europe’s young people
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George Bush, The Anti-American

Our protests are against the policies, not the people
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Dreamers and Idiots

Bush and Blair did everything necessary to prevent the outbreak of peace
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Acceptable Hatred

Beneath the enduring hostility to Gypsies lies an ancient envy of the nomadic life
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Tony Blair’s New Friend

He made the moral case for war - but backs a dictator who boils prisoners to death
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The Flight to India

The jobs Britain stole from the Asian subcontinent 300 years ago are now returning. Is this a good thing or a bad one?
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Back to Front Coup

The military is being invited into the heart of politics in the US.
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The Age of Consent

A manifesto for a new world order

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The Enemies of Science

Nothing damages science more than forcing researchers to develop GM
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No Man’s land

An Investigative Journey through Kenya and Tanzania

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Captive State

The corporate takeover of Britain

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The Patient is Dying

The Labour Party has 24 hours to save the National Health Service
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The Philosophy of Cant

Europe wrecked the world trade talks, but it may accidentally have forced the poor world to assert its power. Final installment of the series on trade.
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