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The Great Pay Robbery

Here’s why the government’s proposals on executive pay won’t work – and why we need a maximum wage.

In this and other nations, there are groups of children who can be abused with impunity.

The government is ensuring that we can mount no effective protest against the banks and corporations.

As soon as it encounters environmental issues, the ideology of the new right becomes ensnared in its own contradictions.

How weather forecasts became a political issue.

Rightwing libertarians have turned “freedom” into an excuse for greed and exploitation.

Why is it so easy to save the banks, but so hard to save the biosphere?

The corporate newspapers are the elite’s enforcers, misrepresenting the sources of oppression.

The Spectator has allowed me to rebut Nils-Axel Morner’s rubbish about sea levels.

Why bury nuclear waste, when it could meet the world’s energy needs?

It is hard to think of a bigger cock-up than the one the magazine’s editor has just made.

Now the government intends to strip away protection from our most treasured places

The poorest taxpayers are subsidising the richest people in Europe: and this spending will remain uncut until at least 2020.

One man, now embroiled in a shocking scandal, may have done the movement incalculable damage.

Despite the crisis, it’s still socialism for the 1%, capitalism for the rest.

Intelligence? Talent? No, the ultra-rich got to where they are through luck and brutality.

Could it be true that resource use is reduced by economic growth?

The Corporation of the City of London has harmed you more than you know.

Population is much less of a problem than consumption. No wonder the rich are obsessed by it.

Advertising trashes our happiness and trashes the planet. And my income depends on it.