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Channel 4’s Problem with Science

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.

The Iraq disaster has eliminated the last major function of our armed forces. So let’s pay ourselves a war dividend.

How to stop the planet burning

At the talks beginning in Geneva today, the British government will fight attempts to ban cluster bombs.

For fast and effective action on climate change

The Disneyfication of war allows us to ignore its real savagery

The trade in carbon offsets is an excuse for business as usual.

Protesters who have damaged military equipment are walking away from the dock

Global freshwater supplies could start to determine whether or not we can feed ourselves.

Micro generation can’t solve climate change.