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The Promised Land

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

Anomie

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

False Summit

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

Storm Warning

The shocking standards of tabloid weather reporting.

Moral Failings

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

Captive Animals

How Natural England became the servant of the landed classes.

The Resurgent Aristocracy

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

The Estate We’re In

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

Bonfire of Promises

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

See No Evil

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

Kin Hell

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