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Why disaster capitalists are praying for a no deal Brexit. Read more.
The UK government is flagrantly flouting its own rules, allowing our scrap tyres to be sent to India for burning. Read more.
A world-changing experiment in London’s poorest borough shows how to break out of our disastrous spiral of alienation. Read more.
Fearful masculinity harms both men and women. There are better ways of growing up. Read more.
Pollution is now the biggest threat to children’s health. So why is it so neglected? Read more.
Researchers at public universities are developing new ways of shutting down our capacity for independent thought. Read more.
The remarkable story of how the hard-right Koch brothers funded a Trotskyite splinter group. Read more.
The world’s most powerful nations endorsed the Indonesian occupation of West Papua 50 years ago. Now they have a duty to help bring it to an end. Read more.
No effective means of stopping climate breakdown is deemed “politically realistic”. So we must change political realities. Read more.
By downplaying and misrepresenting our environmental crisis, David Attenborough and the BBC have generated complacency, confusion and ignorance. Read more.
What if we abandoned photosynthesis as the means of producing food, and released most of the world’s surface from agriculture? Read more.
When governments abandon us, we must step up Read more.
The government’s Agriculture Bill seeks to replace regulation with public money. Who will contest this new protection racket? Read more.
The media’s spotlight systematically distorts the way we see the world Read more.
We need to get embarrassing about climate breakdown Read more.
How an animal welfare charity ended up endorsing seal killing – and what this says about our age Read more.
How one young woman broke down the gates of knowledge Read more.
The problem is not plastic. It is consumerism. Read more.
The crucial decisions about major infrastructure are made behind closed doors. Read more.