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Lady Tonge – an Apology

I was wrong. She is not a bully, a fool or a stooge. She is a comedian.

Lady Tonge is using her unelected position to persecute some of the world’s most vulnerable people.

The UK’s competition authorities still seem to be working for the superstores

Until we stop flying

New technological advances could make us susceptible to perpetual surveillance

Labour’s first full-scale privatisation involves the multiple fleecing of the taxpayer

The tobacco industry duped both academic journals and the media.

Wealth is beginning to reduce our freedoms

Building new nuclear weapons creates the threats they are supposed to avert.

The trade in “carbon offsets” is based on bogus accounting

Why do so few people know about the atrocities of empire?

A footnote.

I nominate the CBI.

The car is turning us into a nation of libertarians

They bleat about the free market, then insist that we subsidise them.

Biodiesel enthusiasts have accidentally invented the most carbon-intensive fuel on earth

Are there enough renewables to keep the lights on? The answer will be comforting to no one.

The revelations from Falluja are piling up

Yes, the US has used chemical weapons