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Dark Arts

How a dark money network is taking power on both sides of the Atlantic.

Our democracies are broken, debased and distrusted. Here are some ideas for restoring them.

Dirty industries spend more on politics, keeping us in the fossil age.

Brexit could wreck the British countryside – or it could save it. It depends on getting our voices heard.

This explains how the rough estimates of the area occupied by sheep in the UK were derived.

The terrible legacy of European farm subsidies – and how we could use Brexit as an opportunity for something better

A strange tale from the forests of West Papua

Celebrity is not harmless fun – it’s the lieutenant of exploitation.

In the first of a series of columns about possible solutions, I explore how commons could transform society and the distribution of wealth

Why is there a worldwide revolt against politics as usual? Because corporate globalisation has crushed democratic choice.

Donald Trump’s staff are drawn from an opaque network of corporate-funded thinktanks and fake grassroots campaigns

We face (at least) 13 major crises, some of which are immediate. It’s time for some hard thinking about how we confront them.

The combination of automation, complexity and climate change is dangerous in ways we haven’t even begun to grasp.

How a ruthless network of super-rich ideologues killed choice and destroyed people’s faith in politics

The High Court judgement on air pollution is an opportunity to rethink our whole transport system.

Only by crossing social boundaries and coming together can we resist the forces that threaten to crush us.

Donald Trump is not an outlier, but the distillation of our dominant values

Sorry, but you cannot build new runways and prevent climate breakdown

Why should plagues of mental illness surprise us, in a world being ripped apart?

Democracy cannot work as it is meant to; human nature does not allow it.