Author: george

Driven Off the Roads

One in every 15 British children will be injured or killed by a vehicle before they reach 16

Britain’s direct action movements have become a force for cultural and even economic renewal

Superstores are destroying the local economy

Britain’s libel laws allow the rich and powerful to silence the excluded

Only by killing all of Haiti’s pigs could the US force its people to abandon their self-sufficiency

BSE is just one symptom of the insanity governing British agricultural policy

The direct action movement is putting the passion back into politics

Britain’s archaeology is being obliterated – often with the help of archaeologists – yet hardly anyone seems to care

The extraordinary work of the neurobiologist Antonio Damasio shows that wisdom is inextricable from emotion

Many of the world’s most pressing problems arise from the enclosure of land.

Just as we tried to ignore Germany’s preparations for war, now we refuse to acknowledge the impending global catastrophe

Genetic engineering will transfer power from the poor to the rich

Land use in Britain will always work against us, until we demand control over the decisions which govern it

We’re in danger of succumbing to the cynical politics of advertising

The National Trust must lose its attachment to aristocratic values

The Duke of Edinburgh, currently president of the WWF, is an environmental disaster area

The decision to build a road takes place before the public inquiry begins

Language barriers are good, not bad, and their loss is a disaster for hundreds of millions of people

South Africa has embarked on a brave and hazardous land reform programme

Britain’s landlords are trespassing against our right to enjoy the countryside