What does democracy mean, under governments like this?
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Bleeding Out
Thanks to systemic and deliberate underfunding, NHS Emergency departments are now a vision of hell.
Burning Shame
Woodburning stoves are a beguiling but disastrous mistake.
Protection Racket
The more destructive the business, the more likely it is to enjoy political protection.
Fermenting a revolution
I believe this is the most important environmental technology ever developed. It might be all that now stands between us and Earth systems collapse.
How About Never?
Powerful governments have no intention of preventing climate breakdown.
Silence of the Lambs
Livestock farming is responsible for more greenhouse gas pollution than all the world’s transport. Yet governments won’t touch it.
Our Path
Because Twitter threads aren’t working at the moment (thanks Elon!), I’m republishing a chain of tweets about how we should rise to the challenge of democratic collapse.
Cliff Edge
Here’s how it happened before – a mass extinction caused by fossil fuel burning. It will happen again unless we step back from the precipice.
The Oligarch’s Oligarch
Just as we need to get the money out of politics, we have been gifted a Prime Minister who represents the ultra-rich.
The Art of Life
Why is life treated as less valuable than the depiction of life?
Malignant Growth
An obsession with economic growth is driving us towards catastrophe.
Thinktanking the Country
The BBC’s promotion of dark-money lobby groups no longer looks like an accident. It looks like a policy.
The Sacking of Britain
Liz Truss’s destruction of the fabric of our nation is not an accident. It’s the design.
A Manchurian Candidate
Liz Truss has been trained and shaped by dark-money lobbyists.
The Undead
Liz Truss promises to double down on policies that have been completely discredited.
The Coming Hunger
As environmental breakdown threatens to render large parts of the planet unfarmable, how can mass starvation best be averted?
The Workaround
Without public consultation, the boundaries of freeports have been expanded to cover much of the country. What does this mean?
Unholy Cow
The world’s most damaging farm products? Organic pasture-fed beef and lamb.
Absent Minded
To this government, the duty of care is an abomination.