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Lying In State

History, as the government tells it, is one long lie, airbrushing a host of atrocities.

The government intends to use a US trade deal to bypass democracy, override Parliament and rip down our public protections.

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is not so much a democratic leader as a monarch with a five-year term.

The disastrous collapse of the UK’s pandemic response has been caused by the deliberate evisceration of our health services. Worse is coming.

The government knowingly and deliberately de-prepared the UK, even as the pandemic began to bite.

Ecology and Earth systems, from which all life flows, should be at the heart of learning.

How did the radical film maker Michael Moore become a hero of the far right?

We have the opportunity to reshape our economies to support life on Earth. Governments should take it.

We have been shut out of most of the UK’s open land for centuries. It’s time this changed.

Governments attend to imaginary threats, while neglecting real ones.

All over the world, mutual aid groups have blossomed where governments have failed, as people support each other through the pandemic.

This coronavirus is the wake-up call for a complacent civilisation.

In the UK, the US and Australia, governments built on dirty money cannot be trusted to protect us from the coronavirus.

The boats supplying the fish we eat are killing dolphins so fast that they are heading towards extinction.

Our legal action against the government aims to shut down fossil fuels

The government refuses to act on toxic flame retardants in our bedding and furnishings.

Why might it be right to shoot deer, but not human beings?

Despite growing awareness, our government still allows landowners to help flood the homes of people living downstream.

When political leaders brazenly flout the law, we are heading towards a very dark place.

Climate targets seem sensible, but are actually impeding effective action. Let’s do something completely different.