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The Grip of Power

Cynical operators seek to divide rural and urban people. But what we want is fundamentally the same.

Driving Us Mad

A massive new road scheme will solve precisely nothing, while costing the Earth.

Four-Year Plan

Keir Starmer has accidentally given us four years in which to build a new political system. We should seize the chance.

Planning His Own Demise

Keir Starmer’s attack on our planning system is an almost-perfect repeat of Boris Johnson’s disaster. Why can’t he see that?

The Commoner-Kings

Dartmoor National Park is not dying; it is being killed, and these are the killers.

Pasturised

The cottagecore, romantic path to starvation and environmental breakdown.

Blatantly Biased Collaboration

A remarkable before-and-after experiment provides conclusive evidence: the BBC favours the right and excludes the left.

The Urge to Destroy

It’s a cast-iron relationship: the more unequal a society becomes, the better the far right does. Here’s why.

A New World

You can’t do it differently until you imagine it differently.

First Sight of Land

For the first time, the government is consulting on a Land Use Framework for England. It’s an important step, but there’s a long way to go.

RIP FFS

As deliberately-contaminated sewage sludge is spread on farmland, it feels as if humanity is on a suicide mission.

Pro-Social Hoarding

We face a potential global food crisis, and no one is secure until everyone is secure.

Fossil Record

Could Trump and Musk be seeking to end our time on Earth?

Nigel Says Thanks

By defending the UK’s draconian anti-protest laws, Labour is laying the ground for an authoritarian government.