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Talking Cure

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.

Is music an answer to the epidemic of loneliness?

It’s a simple choice: stop all fossil fuel prospecting, or break the Paris agreement on climate change.

There are plenty of brilliant plans for getting us moving without trashing the planet. So why aren’t they happening?

Consumerism occupies a sacred and inviolable space, while the wonders of the living world are dispensable.

Corporate lobbyists and their captive governments try to wear down our resistance with one fake trade treaty after another.

The fake grassroots campaign run by grouse shooters is just one instance of the way democracy is being bypassed

Why I took the plunge at last and converted (almost) to veganism

The climate crisis is here, now, but a compromised, corrupted media doesn’t want to know.

To this government, “taking back control” means handing Britain to a different set of foreign powers

Want to cast someone into the outer darkness? Then give them the environment department, that should be the most important portfolio of all.

If we saw it anywhere else, we would recognise our political funding system as utterly corrupt

The Chilcot report is utterly damning; but it’s still not justice.

The Labour Party can survive, but only if it’s prepared to form an alliance with other parties

The decision to leave the EU is a disaster, but also a great opportunity for renewal

Those who want to leave the EU refuse to make the most crushing argument against it. Here’s why.