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The Bad or the Terrible

Those who insist that Nader supporters should vote for Kerry are holding back US democratisation.

We’ve never had it so good, and we never will again.

Little by little, democracy is being banned

With only a little tweaking, Labour’s congestion plans could also solve the speeding problem

The newspapers must also be held to account for the decision to invade Iraq.

Our journalists bear as much responsibility for the misinformation about Iraq as the intelligence agencies.

Any government concerned about global security and climate change should be banning 4x4s

Without cheap oil, the only safe option is to start dismantling our complex economies

My old housemate has devised a new and terrifying myth of power

Text of lecture given to the Royal Society of Arts, and printed in their magazine

The rightwing campaign against economic migrants may not be as irrational as it appears.

Britain’s foreign aid has been used to bankroll a programme for mass starvation

It’s time to lighten up about falling birthrates.

Review of The Day After Tomorrow

Abstinence teaching is a disaster for teenagers.

The dismissal of climate change by journalistic nincompoops is a danger to us all

US policy towards the Middle East is driven by a rarefied form of madness. It’s time we took it seriously.

Our fairytale version of Rwanda’s genocide has allowed us to overlook the government’s own crimes against humanity

Remarks at the launch of Scott Lucas’s book The Betrayal of Dissent