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Perceptionware

How to create an appearance of progress while doing nothing.

The weird, uncanny consistencies of far right politics.

It’s ridiculous that governments leave it to people like me to communicate the need for environmental action.

The livestock industry is furiously lobbying to shut down alternatives, and tame politicians are giving it what it wants.

Why are peaceful protesters getting longer sentences than violent rioters?

For 14 years, the Conservatives and their friends in the media whipped up racism and Islamophobia. These riots are the result.

Tax the billionaires or their oppressive power will only grow.

An interview with The Ink, about where we are, how we got here and where we need to go.

The obscene thing I witnessed was like a parable of the madness of extreme wealth.

Labour must repeal the laws that led to shockingly disproportionate prison sentences for environmental protesters.

Here’s why the government should tax the rich and tax them hard.

The US, always a questionable friend, threatens, if Trump wins, to become our greatest threat.

Oligarchy is the default state of politics, and it is surging back. How do we stop it?

How Britain’s oldest animal welfare charity became a byword for cruelty on an industrial scale.

The crucial green policies missing from Labour’s manifesto.

The Greens are the only party with a chance of winning seats that is not beholden to oligarchic power.

An election is a device for maximising conflict and minimising democracy.

By appointing extremists to set the limits of free speech, the government protects powerful interests from challenge.

There’s a new asset class being traded between corporations. It’s called children in care.

Thanks to neoliberalism, government in the UK feels like one long trick played on the people.