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A Life With No Purpose

Darwin tells us that we are no more than assemblages of complex molecules. We should celebrate this.

The Treaty Wreckers

In just a few months, Bush and Blair have destroyed the global restraint on nuclear weapons

Faced With This Crisis

The G8 leaders refuse to accept that anything difficult needs to be done about climate change

Going Nowhere

Review of Margaret Thatcher’s 1989 speech to the UN (extract published below).

Save us from Ourselves

Green hypocrisy means that we can’t tackle climate change without government intervention.

Bards of the Powerful

Far from challenging the G8’s role in Africa’s poverty, Geldof and Bono are legitimising its power.

A Game of Double Bluff

The UK and EU are keeping the poorer nations exactly where they want them: beholden to their patrons

A Restraint of Liberty

Climate change’s unprecedented moral challenge demands that we restrict market freedom

Bad News from Tesco

The superstores are on the verge of cornering the news market, with disastrous implications for democracy

Junk Science

Climate change denial, as David Bellamy’s claims show, is based on pure hocus pocus