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For Those Who Love Life

The people cutting open bluefin tuna nets are heroes

Enclosure and dispossession have driven us, like John Clare, all a little mad.

We were wrong about peak oil: there’s enough in the ground to deep-fry the planet.

So now what do we do to defend life on Earth?

The Rio Declaration rips up the basic principles of environmental action.

The summits which promise to save the world keep us dangling, not mobilising.

The shocking standards of tabloid weather reporting.

How moral psychology has been used to create a new and toxic political myth.

How Natural England became the servant of the landed classes.

Rural policy is once again the preserve of the elite, and wildlife and people suffer as a result.

I accuse the energy secretary of misleading us about his disastrous new bill.

Thanks to an aristocratic minister, state spending is being used to support pheasant shoots and destroy birds of prey.

The government’s new energy bill puts a match to its climate change commitments.

How did genocide denial become a doctrine of the internationalist left?

This is supporting material for the article See No Evil.

This is supporting material for the article See No Evil.

The history of family life has been wildly misrepresented by conservatives.

Education policy under this government exacerbates social injustice

The UK’s marine reserves offer no meaningful protection to the life of the sea.

This is my reply to a former colonial official denying British atrocities in Kenya