In an extraordinary coup, farmers’ unions and the UK government have torpedoed the European Soil Framework Directive
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Homesick
The point of current housing policy is to sustain a system built on injustice.
The Impossibility of Growth
Why collapse and salvation are hard to distinguish from each other.
Highland Spring?
Will Scotland please get off its knees and challenge the people who claim to own it.
Are We Bothered?
The more we consume, the less we care about the living planet.
Land of Impunity
Politicians and government contractors now seem to be able to get away with almost anything.
The Pricing of Everything
The belief that we can save the living planet by putting a price on it is a delusion.
The Shooting Party
As the food queues lengthen, the government is giving our money to the super-rich.
Brilliance and Bunkum
The terrible howlers in James Lovelock’s new book show that genius is no defence against being wrong.
Reframing the Planet
People who think they are protecting nature by costing it are stepping straight into the destroyers’ trap.
Loved to Death
By embracing their critics and colonising governments, corporations engineer a world of conformity and consumerism.
Like a Demon from a Mediaeval Manuscript
Some speculations about one of the most extraordinary mammals to have roamed the Earth.
Loss Adjustment
When people say we should adapt to climate change, do they have any idea what that means?
Destroyer of Worlds
New research suggests there was no state of grace: for two million years humankind has been the natural world’s nemesis.
Smoke-Filled Rooms
How the media gives Big Tobacco everything it wants.
The Biogas Disaster
How the perverse consequences of a great idea are destroying the natural world.
All Give and No Take
Do those negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership have any interest in democracy? Here’s a test.
The Benefits Claimants the Government Loves
Corrupt, irrational, destructive, counter-productive: this scarcely begins to describe our farming policy.
Torpedoed
The results of a crowd-sourcing appeal prove that Discovery Channel engaged in fakery.
Up Sh*t Creek
Tracing the UK’s floods back to their source – in a canoe.