Author: george

Going Naked

This is why I’ve declared my financial interests, and why I believe other journalists should do the same.

This planning battle is a fight between the people and a totalitarian model of capitalism.

Should wider sanctions be imposed on Syria?

The wild boar cull should be halted, and we should stop confusing conservation with gardening.

The “free market thinktanks” and their secret funders are a threat to democracy.

The government’s claim that local people will have more say over planning is an outright lie.

Read the small print and you find that the government wants a total abandonment of the planning system.

Why is the government spending £1.6m on a geo-engineering experiment whose results can never be used?

It looks as if the UK government is allowing shale gas fracking companies to regulate themselves.

How did academic publishers acquire these feudal powers?

Now is the time to start planning for a new economy, not dependent on growth.

The EU, Norway, Iceland and the Faroes all blame each other for smashing the last great fish stock. All are wrong.

My response to Jonathon Porritt’s arguments – and to his highly personal invective.

Why is Top Gear, alone among BBC programmes, allowed to keep breaking editorial guidelines?

How a group which claims to defend human rights turned into an apologist for genocidaires and ethnic cleansers.

The US deficit reduction plan makes no sense – until you remember who’s behind the Tea Party movement.

To prevent climate breakdown, we need to declare most of the fossil fuels in the earth’s crust off-limits.

The government and the industry promised that they had dealt with aminopyralid poisoning. They haven’t.

What do we do about the power of the corporate media? Here’s one answer.

Have I just witnessed the beginning of the end of vertebrate ecology?