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Democratic Revolution

Full-scale participatory democracy would change everything. It has the same revolutionary potential as the universal franchise and women’s suffrage.

The UK’s economic and political life revolves around corruption.

The opaque and secretive networks on which Boris Johnson builds his power.

The obsession with the birthrates of the poor has a grim history, and is used by the rich to transfer blame.

Landed power, built on theft, slavery and colonial looting, crushes our freedoms. It is time to reclaim them.

Across the UK, our rivers are being turned into filthy, dead gutters, at astonishing, heartbreaking speed.

The great majority of people do not want to return to business-as-usual after the pandemic, but our governments are determined to make us do so.

Coronavirus deals worth billions of pounds have been awarded by the government to “unusual” companies, without advertising or competition.

Are Trump and Johnson paving the way for fascism, or for something different, but just as bad?

How did wildlife groups start collaborating in the destruction of nature?

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.