Category: culture

Dead Zone

A shocking new bill threatens to make this country feel like a giant shopping mall.

Materialism promises satisfaction. It delivers despair.

The Lake District’s bid for World Heritage status shows just what a mess conservation is in.

Promoting extractive industries is seen by politicians as a proper, manly pursuit, even if it makes no sense.

The ignorance and philistinism of those who attack nature lovers knows no bounds.

Are repeated sightings of non-existent big cats evidence of a yearning for a wilder life?

When scholars sell out, the consequences are grave.

If we lose the ash tree, we’ll lose culture as well as nature.

Enclosure and dispossession have driven us, like John Clare, all a little mad.

What could be sillier and more invidious than the Observer’s “eco-power list”?

Progressive causes are failing: here’s how they could be turned around

Avatar half-tells a story we would all prefer to forget

How do we break a system which now permeates every aspect of our lives?

Why the sudden surge in climate change denial? Could it be about something else altogether?

Rising rates of teen pregnancy and STDs in the United States are the result of programmes intended to stamp them out.

The UN’s proposal for decriminalisation is senseless and destructive

How the poor were airbrushed from history

You don’t have to be a nationalist, or English, to accept the case for an English parliament.

Dr Beeching helped turn the country I’ve come to love into an outpost of empire. Now his legacy can be reversed.

At least we have some ideals to fall short of.