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Purging Dissent

The real enemies of press freedom are in the newsroom.

Buried in the Infrastructure Bill is an astonishing and hitherto-unnoticed contradiction.

Is the government preparing to dispose of our forests and other public land?

We cannot reach people by terrifying them; there has to be a positive agenda.

How to ensure that nations slide ever further into selfishness, and ever further to the right.

In an extraordinary coup, farmers’ unions and the UK government have torpedoed the European Soil Framework Directive

The point of current housing policy is to sustain a system built on injustice.

Why collapse and salvation are hard to distinguish from each other.

Will Scotland please get off its knees and challenge the people who claim to own it.

The more we consume, the less we care about the living planet.

Politicians and government contractors now seem to be able to get away with almost anything.

The belief that we can save the living planet by putting a price on it is a delusion.

As the food queues lengthen, the government is giving our money to the super-rich.

The terrible howlers in James Lovelock’s new book show that genius is no defence against being wrong.

People who think they are protecting nature by costing it are stepping straight into the destroyers’ trap.

By embracing their critics and colonising governments, corporations engineer a world of conformity and consumerism.

Some speculations about one of the most extraordinary mammals to have roamed the Earth.

When people say we should adapt to climate change, do they have any idea what that means?

New research suggests there was no state of grace: for two million years humankind has been the natural world’s nemesis.

How the media gives Big Tobacco everything it wants.