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How the Greens Were Misled

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.

We have a democratic right to know who is funding public advocacy.

Christopher Booker’s latest cock-ups almost match his all-time record.

If this analysis is correct, a Great Depression is all but inevitable.

A new road-building programme will drain money from essential services.

The government is burning the money that could save public services.

This is why I’ve declared my financial interests, and why I believe other journalists should do the same.

This planning battle is a fight between the people and a totalitarian model of capitalism.

Should wider sanctions be imposed on Syria?

The wild boar cull should be halted, and we should stop confusing conservation with gardening.

The “free market thinktanks” and their secret funders are a threat to democracy.

The government’s claim that local people will have more say over planning is an outright lie.

Read the small print and you find that the government wants a total abandonment of the planning system.

Why is the government spending £1.6m on a geo-engineering experiment whose results can never be used?