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Spirited Away
How the counterculture fell prey to the far-right’s conspiracy theories.
The Best-Laid Plans
The Conservatives promised that communities could reshape their own towns. As the shocking case of Totnes shows, it’s a con.
On The Cusp
Earth systems could tip before 2050. We urgently need more stringent climate targets.
Ground Rules
We cannot build our way out of the environmental crisis.
Bloodhounds
The media’s lust for blood helped march us into the disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It wants us to forget that.
Dead Line
Future corporate profits are officially more important than life on Earth.
Noble Rot
Protecting the natural world means creating tomorrow’s ancient habitats.
How to Rule Forever
Do new technologies make autocrats impossible to overthrow?
Shitstorm
Our team uncovers the remarkable, but scarcely understood, truth about river pollution.
This Stinks
Our rivers and seas are being transformed into open sewers by greedy business and useless governments.
Extinction’s Collaborators
How the media stoked the climate crisis.
The Erosion of Memory
A famine is being forced on the people of Tigray, the scene of one of the world’s greatest environmental success stories.
The Home Front
People who own second homes cause homelessness and community death. Yet the government rewards them with lavish subsidies and tax breaks.
Absolute Zero
Every new climate pledge is an attempt to distract people from the failed ones it replaces.
Borderline
The government has gone to extreme lengths to close our borders to refugees and people seeking work, yet has left them wide open to Covid-19.
Nothing Works Any More
When we get ripped off by con artists, in most cases we no longer have any recourse. It’s the result of disastrous political choices.
Breaking Point
The end of the United Kingdom is a prospect we should welcome.
The Sleep of Reason
Far from holding the government to account, as it claims, most of the media was fast asleep while massive scandals brewed.
Oil Spots
The Science Museum’s new exhibition on climate breakdown is funded by an oil company. What could possibly go wrong?