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Giving Up On Two Degrees

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

We need a five-year freeze on biofuels, before they wreck the planet.

The consultations surrounding the Olympic Games are a stitch-up.

Two ministries seem determined to scupper the government’s plans to combat global warming.

It doesn’t give a damn about whether the facts stack up – as long as it creates a controversy.

Their over-representation in politics is partly responsible for a long sequence of oppressive laws.

An audit of the government’s planned carbon cuts shows they will achieve only half of what it claims.

The 9/11 conspiracy theories are a coward’s cult.

For how much longer will BAE be allowed to run its own secret service and overrule the armed forces?

9/11 conspiracism is dragging activists away from the real issues

The Bush administration will do anything except cut the consumption of fuel.

The superstores are suddenly competing to be green. Can we trust them?

The government knows that its airport plans will cancel out all its efforts to tackle climate change.

US interrogators have devised a new form of torture. It debases the democracy they claim to be defending.

The most miserable of transport modes, the coach, could be used to transform the way we travel.