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Death Denial

Why the sudden surge in climate change denial? Could it be about something else altogether?

His bid for the EU presidency gives us the best chance we’ll ever have.

Why has Mr Justice Eady been allowed to conduct a one-man campaign against free speech?

A damning judgement on army killings suggests that officials at every level have covered up torture and murder.

People who claim that population growth is the big environmental issue are shifting the blame from the rich to the poor

The Spectator’s new editor has lost it before he even had it.

The Trafigura scandal is just one of thousands of cases of the rich world’s fly-tipping

As the Plimer affair shows, climate change deniers are all leaf and no plums

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

Here are the emails I’ve exchanged with the Spectator over the Plimer affair

Impeded by Gordon Brown, the G20 has decided that bankers won’t be properly regulated.

We need a radical new approach to cutting greenhouse gases, and it might have arrived.

I set out to catch all my own fish, and live the wild life again

A debate with Paul Kingsnorth

The fight against the superstores is a struggle for democracy

Why was the Big Green Gathering shut down by the authorities?

Rising rates of teen pregnancy and STDs in the United States are the result of programmes intended to stamp them out.

Here is the simple mathematical reason why large scale carbon offsets can’t work

Why have government agencies been paying to increase the number of flights?

The UN’s proposal for decriminalisation is senseless and destructive