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Looking The Other Way

Why do so many people obsess about false conspiracies, but ignore the real ones?

Secret funding, offshore donors, control by the ultra-rich. Sorry, but this is not democracy.

The tricks and scams which enable the offshore owners of England’s water companies to clean up, while leaving us with their mess.

Peaceful protesters are facing extreme and multiple punishments for the same offence: the offence of trying to defend Earth systems.

What we want to believe and what is true are seldom the same thing.

There is no natural law stating that bullies have to dominate our lives.

A remarkable political innovation in Devon could be the beginning of a new politics.

Outside the European Union, the UK is becoming a dumping ground for toxic substances.

The appalling mistreatment of ME/CFS patients continues, based on the myth that it’s all in the mind.

The mega-droughts in Spain and the US are a portent of a gathering global water crisis.

What led the Prime Minister to join a protest against his own government’s policies?

Here are the big green policies Labour should adopt.

This could be not only Labour’s last chance but, if the party doesn’t recover some courage, British democracy’s.

Corporate lobbyists are demanding a ban on protest – and getting it.

The deep and crucial reason why Trump could win again.

Farmers’ protests are being embraced by the far right. The precedents are chilling.

Privatisation and austerity don’t cut costs: they just pass them on to us.

A shadowy network of dark-money junktanks is delivering the same disastrous political package around the world.

The meat industry’s misinformation tactics are even worse than the fossil fuel industry’s.

The structure of the climate summits ensures that the most lethal interests prevail, by design. Here are some better models.