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Ship-Wrecked

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.

A letter to the Travellers’ Solidarity Network.

The extremes now hammering Australia leave old perspectives stranded.

Could an astonishing explanation for the rise and fall of violent crime be correct?

2012 was the worst year for the environment in living memory.

“A sad tale’s best for winter: I have one / Of sprites and goblins.”(1)

Some dead children are mourned; others are dehumanised.

Pathological consumption has become so normalised that we scarcely notice it.

Biodiversity offsets threaten both the survival and the meaning of nature.

We cannot restrain climate change without a political fight against plutocracy.

Robbing the poor, trashing the natural world: Europe’s farm subsidies are an obscenity.

So much for Norway’s eco-friendly image.

There’s a second environmental crisis, just as potent as the first.

I have helped to malign an innocent man.