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Money’s Reach

The European Union looks thoroughly rotten – until you compare it to the alternatives.

Crisis after crisis is being caused by a failed ideology. But it cannot be stopped without a coherent alternative.

Academic standards go up in smoke in a wildly biased paper on burning in the British uplands.

I’m still alive – but keeping quiet about it.

I am starting to hate the European Union. But I will vote to stay in.

Oil, the industry that threatens us with destruction, is being bailed out with public money

My interview, in his 90th year, with Sir David Attenborough

I see the people on trial for occupying a runway at Heathrow as democratic heroes.

National park authorities inflict mass destruction on wildlife and habitats, then call it conservation

Who is most responsible for high abortion rates? The religious right.

How the government learnt absolutely nothing from the recent floods.

An ability to contest the circumstances of our birth is an essential element of our humanity.

How public money and crazy policies speed water off the land and into our homes

The joints of meat that do more damage than a long-haul flight

Rewilding, hillwalking and the extraordinary history of these islands.

The remarkable decline in violence between humans suggests that we could also restrain our violence against the planet.

The COP21 climate talks in Paris were not the success that governments claim, but a disastrous failure.

Censoring official advice, stripping the hills and rivers, the government ensures that disasters like the Cumbria floods will keep recurring.

There are plenty of real problems with aircraft emissions. But thousands of people are obsessed instead with a fairy tale.

Why is the government so quick to bomb, yet so slow to act on climate change?