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The Great Unmentionable

We have offshored both our consumption and our perceptions

Why are 97% of our rivers shut to the public? A millionaire minister’s amazing conflicts of interest give you a clue.

Our record-breaking petition has been dismissed as a stunt by the minister it targets. But it has a serious purpose.

Here’s one of the big ideas we need to fight the power of the elite.

The line that separates the public from the private sphere is arbitrary, but fiercely policed.

How a modern Inquisition, with the help of Pope Francis, stifled the movement protecting the poor.

Why are we exploiting unconventional gas when we can’t afford to burn existing supplies?

We have reached a remarkable and eminently decent settlement.

17 years, and the phone companies still haven’t sorted out the issue of conflict minerals

Forcing schools into the hands of unelected oligarchs is the latest contradiction of everything the market fetishists claim to stand for.

Take a ringside seat as a giant company beats the living daylights out of itself.

Companies like EDF, seeking to terrify protesters with lawsuits, are likely to become victims of their own aggression.

Billionaires are hiding behind a network of “independent” groups, who manipulate politics on their behalf.

How the government betrayed its promises to protect our seas.

Nuclear power seems to have stalled. So what happens now?

Ladbroke’s is offering odds on fish populations collapsing; the government is shortening them.

The way we are governed is inexplicable – until you understand the upbringing of the elite.

Why we need land value taxation.

In both Russia and Canada a bloodbath of wolves is now taking place.

How neoliberalism trashed your life, but made the super-rich even richer.