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The Real Expenses Scandal

It’s a thousand times bigger than the one we’re talking about, so why doesn’t it ignite public anger?

As BA reports massive losses, isn’t it time to scrap the airport expansion programme?

Why has policing in Britain gone so mad?

The funding for academic research has been taken over by business

Here are some estimates for how much fossil fuel we can use, and a call for a global moratorium on new prospecting.

My video interview with Hazel Blears gives us a glimpse of what might be coming if she seeks to replace Gordon Brown

The British government’s business department exists to undermine democracy.

The rightwing press has briefly turned against the police, but normal service will soon resume.

Why does the government refuse to make contingency plans for peak oil?

Why are plastic bags treated as the root of environmental evil?

The widening of the M25 is a private finance initiative scheme that requires little private finance. Or initiative.

James Lovelock says the government’s enthusiasm for wind farms approaches fascism. What is he on about?

The debate over biochar hots up.

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

If you think preventing climate change is politically difficult, look at the political problems of adapting to it.

Pay drivers to scrap their cars? We might as well burn ten-pound notes in power stations.

The US and British governments have created a private prison industry which preys on human lives.

How the poor were airbrushed from history

An unsentimental appraisal of our energy choices doesn’t boost your popularity.

You don’t have to be a nationalist, or English, to accept the case for an English parliament.