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Empty Promise

Could scientists have got the impacts of climate change on food supply wildly wrong?

Heart Rot

If we lose the ash tree, we’ll lose culture as well as nature.

The Heart of the Matter

This is by far the most interesting and challenging debate about nuclear power I have had to date.

The Empire Strikes Back

Imperialism did almost as much harm to the ruling nations as it did to their subject peoples.

Angle of Descent

The justifications for airport expansion turn out to be bogus.

Plutocracy’s Boot Boys

We’re getting a better idea of how billionaires and corporations capture government policy.

Romnesia

A potent myth is being used to justify economic capture by a parasitic class.

The Mind Thieves

The evidence linking Alzheimer’s disease to the food industry is strong and growing.

Hidden Claws

Could the rubbish published in the Observer about birds of prey be related to the author’s undisclosed interests?

Hunger Games

The rich world is causing the famines it claims to be preventing.

The Promised Land

This is the fate of young people today: excluded, but forbidden to opt out.