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A Likely Story

As the evidence accumulates, the Evening Standard’s allegations of terrorist planning have fallen apart.

Religious conservatives are responsible for high abortion rates

As government documents show, Sir Nicholas Stern accidentally launched a trade in human lives.

A new generation of biofuels turns out to be another environmental disaster

Big money trumps everything in politics, even the most dearly-held beliefs

It’s an important issue, but nowhere near the top of the list.

Britain’s strange private school system causes immeasurable harm

The unaccountable people who launched the Iraq war have learnt nothing from it.

Bush trashed the climate talks. But look what Gore did.

The climate talks are a stitch-up, as no one is talking about supply.

The numbers show that this should be the real question at the Bali talks.

Yes, I am sorry to say, we need them.

When will Bush and Brown acknowledge that there is already a nuclear power in the Middle East?

The anti-speed camera campaign is based on junk science.

Biofuels could kill more people than the Iraq war.

Are we already shutting our minds to the consequences of climate change?

Matt Ridley raged against the government – until he needed £16 billion

Why won’t Gary Player answer my questions about apartheid and evictions?

A vast new opencast pit will ruin local people’s lives and wreck the government’s climate change policies. How was it allowed to happen?

How else will the destructive effects of growth be stopped?