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Obstinate Questionings

The Lake District’s bid for World Heritage status shows just what a mess conservation is in.

A radical challenge to British conservation and its bizarre priorities.

It’s time we confronted the National Farmers’ Union and the millionaires it works for.

How Britain has been shagged by the white plague.

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

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

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

How Natural England became the servant of the landed classes.

This is supporting material for the article See No Evil.

The government and the industry promised that they had dealt with aminopyralid poisoning. They haven’t.

Here are the biodiversity challenges we’ll be pressing governments to meet

A new book has forced me to reconsider my views on food.

Here are the emails I’ve exchanged with the climate change denier Ian Plimer.

Here comes the latest utopian catastrophe: the plan to solve climate change with biochar

The economic crisis is petty by comparison to the nature crunch. But they have the same cause.

They baled out of the bail-out, but the money will still have to come from us. It always has.

A new wave of food colonialism is snatching food from the mouths of the poor.

Peasant farmers offer the best chance of feeding the world. So why do we treat them with contempt?

An insane European ruling will be the final straw for the English apple