The government’s attempt to hide a toxic waste disaster heralds a new bonanza for organised crime.
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Muckraking Journalism
When sewage treatment goes right, it’s just as harmful as when it goes wrong. Here are the shocking reasons why.
Contagious Collapse
The global food system is in much more trouble than we think.
Politics Deniers
Those who claim that we can prevent environmental collapse without political pressure or political change are now more dangerous than climate deniers.
Social Vivisection
Across 12 years, the Conservatives have ruined countless lives and destroyed our social fabric. Why would anyone vote for them?
Tested to Destruction
What are school exams for?
Noisily Doing Nothing
The failure to adapt to new realities is not an accident. It’s the design.
Organised Lying
Almost everyone in public life participates in the assault on truth.
Payday
It’s not decarbonisation that’s unaffordable. It’s climate breakdown.
The Plough’s Share
We won’t defend ourselves from the global food crisis by destroying what remains of our wildlife.
Gastastrophe
Thanks to a series of astonishingly foolish decisions, Europe has allowed Vladimir Putin to control much of its energy supply. Here’s what it needs to do.
Putin’s Megaphone
It’s a hard truth to face, but a segment of the “anti-imperialist” left has amplified Vladimir Putin’s imperial propaganda.
The Saboteurs
If the UK government had set out to undermine and degrade our country, it couldn’t have done a better job.
Angry Men
There’s no solidarity in the ‘sovereign citizen’ protests now taking off around the world, only incoherent rage.
Blatant Opportunism
Tory MPs cynically disguise their concern for the profits of fossil fuel companies as concern for the poor.
Freedom’s Prison
It’s not us the government intends to liberate. It’s the asset strippers, money launderers, property developers and oligarchs on whose behalf it operates.
Carbon Colonialism
Predatory corporations are making a mockery of natural climate solutions, as they grab land and bamboozle the public.
Holey Ghosts
Powerful evidence suggests that fishing fleets are deliberately dumping their used nets and lines at sea, threatening the complete collapse of marine ecosystems.
Don’t Move, Don’t Stop
The Police Bill would criminalise an entire minority: it’s as if nothing has been learnt from the 20th Century.
Losing It
Faced with the gathering collapse of the biosphere, and governments’ refusal to take the necessary action, how do we stop ourselves from falling apart?