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A Better Way to Make Money

Here’s how we could solve the credit crunch without giving anything to the banks.

A spectacular confrontation over climate change

Here are the first five of my aggressive interviews with policy-makers, conducted for the Guardian.

In the fifth and final interview in the first series of fierce encounters with policy makers, I give the chief executive of easyJet the third degree.

How did Marxist class warriors end up fighting for the bosses’ right to fly?

The freeze got me on my skates, and brought the loonies out of their holes.

I grill the chief executive of Shell in the fourth of my aggressive interviews with policy makers.

Why good people do bad things

Dr Beeching helped turn the country I’ve come to love into an outpost of empire. Now his legacy can be reversed.

A British police unit is demonising peaceful protesters to stay in business.

This is the third of my investigative interviews with policy makers.

Why does the UK retain a handful of colonies? To destroy the world’s taxation systems.

This is the second of my bare-knuckle interviews with policy makers.

For the first time, the International Energy Agency has produced a date for peak oil. And it’s not reassuring.

David Bellamy’s at it again, with even dafter claims about climate change.

This is the first in my series of interviews with those who hold our future in their hands. None of them are given an easy time.

The new climate change report falls miles short of what we need. Here are some of the emergency measures it should have contained.

The latest science suggests that preventing runaway climate change means total decarbonisation.

John Maynard Keynes had the answer to the crisis we’re now facing; but it was blocked and then forgotten.

Could the First World War have been stopped?