Hidden in the detail of the UK’s carbon capture and storage scheme are unlimited financial liabilities and huge environmental costs.
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Without Mercy
Why do the mass killers of the fossil fuel industry walk free while the heroes trying to stop them are imprisoned?
Cod Science
An astonishing thing is happening at sea, but the government, backed by an entire “scientific” discipline, seems determined to stifle it.
Soaked
The bodies meant to protect us from floods are unaccountable, self-serving and feudal in character. No wonder they keep failing.
Perceptionware
How to create an appearance of progress while doing nothing.
The Past Is Orange
The weird, uncanny consistencies of far right politics.
Nationalise Us
It’s ridiculous that governments leave it to people like me to communicate the need for environmental action.
The Shock of the New
The livestock industry is furiously lobbying to shut down alternatives, and tame politicians are giving it what it wants.
Stir Crazy
Why are peaceful protesters getting longer sentences than violent rioters?
The Instigators
For 14 years, the Conservatives and their friends in the media whipped up racism and Islamophobia. These riots are the result.
Minority Rule
Tax the billionaires or their oppressive power will only grow.
How to Change Everything
An interview with The Ink, about where we are, how we got here and where we need to go.
The Dead-Eyed Rich
The obscene thing I witnessed was like a parable of the madness of extreme wealth.
Breaking the Butterfly
Labour must repeal the laws that led to shockingly disproportionate prison sentences for environmental protesters.
Until the Pips Squeak
Here’s why the government should tax the rich and tax them hard.
Independence from America
The US, always a questionable friend, could, if Trump wins, become our greatest threat.
The Fight Against Oligarchy
Oligarchy is the default state of politics, and it is surging back. How do we stop it?
For the Promotion of Cruelty to Animals
How Britain’s oldest animal welfare charity became a byword for cruelty on an industrial scale.
Nature Abhors a Vacuum
The crucial green policies missing from Labour’s manifesto.
Green Shoots
The Greens are the only party with a chance of winning seats that is not beholden to oligarchic power.