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Towering Lunacy

Green enthusiasm for vertical farms shows that no one is untouched by magical thinking.

Talking has so far done nothing to protect the world’s biodiversity. So we’re launching a new campaign to get governments to act.

How good planning can make us slimmer, fitter, safer and less lonely.

The Conservative war on road safety has begun

If the police can get away with killing Ian Tomlinson, there’s no justice in Britain.

The results of our competition to name England’s threatened species are stunning.

The government’s disastrous new deregulation programme means that the poor will be fouled by the rich.

Was I right, when the hacked climate emails were released, to call for Phil Jones to resign?

The climate change deniers are digging themselves an ever deeper hole over ‘Amazongate’

How could the intent of today’s column have passed so many people by?

Here’s how the UK should pursue its war against young people.

The companies now threatening to sue BP have only themselves to blame.

Matt Ridley only digs his hole deeper as he attempts to justify his distortions.

The Tea Party movement is steeped in misinformation and denial. But it has a lot to teach the left.

Lord Monckton’s increasingly extravagant claims threaten to destroy the movement he champions

The oil industry’s decommissioning costs will dwarf those of nuclear power. The money being made now should be put aside to meet them.

Matt Ridley’s irrational theories remain unchanged by his own disastrous experiment.

Here’s a simple means of transforming the UK’s universities, schools and society

A new report shows how the UK could tap into vast renewable resources, without any of the aggro caused by existing wind farms.

Before the UK commissions a high speed rail network, we should ask ourselves some big questions.