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Union With the Devil

The trade unions still rage about the class war, but keep funding their class enemies.

A new paper suggests we have been greatly underestimating the impacts of climate change – and the size of the necessary response.

With new material and supported by new web resources.

Even in the rich nations, the babymilk manufacturers are undermining breastfeeding

In which we battle over carbon targets, green tokenism and the economics of climate change.

A final response to Alexander Cockburn.

Everywhere they go, the Olympic Games become an excuse for eviction and displacement.

New revelations show that Blair’s government is as corrupt as any of those it criticises.

The G8 has the interests of the rest of the world at heart – until they conflict with its own.

This is a response to Alexander Cockburn’s articles on global warming.

When planning laws are relaxed, it is the poor who suffer most.

Though the government is planning a massive expansion of transport networks, it has never considered this question.

We need a global campaign for road safety, but not one controlled by the motor industry.

The members of the Council of Europe have agreed to overlook each other’s abuses.

Have we already abandoned our attempts to prevent dangerous climate change?

A world parliament allows the poor to speak for themselves.

Tony Blair cannot let go of Britain’s inordinate global powers

It’s happening, it’s systematic, and it is precisely the opposite story to the one the papers are telling.

Why is it still acceptable to eat the endangered large predators of the sea?

Head of History, Science and Religion, Channel 4