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A Stealthy Truce

A new, unnoticed trade agreement will destroy the laws protecting human health and the environment.

Acceptable Cruelty

Why is it still acceptable to send young children to boarding school?

Green Grave

The environment succumbs to Labour’s cynical realpolitik

Go on, Trespass

Why are we waiting for an official right to roam, when we can start walking now?

Cuckoos in the Nest

The corporate capture of the National Health Service means that it can only shrink, not grow.

Secrets or Lies?

The Department of Trade and Industry is misleading us about the Multilateral Agreement on Investment.

Dinosaur Foresters

The Timber Trade Federation is trying to turn back the clock on forest protection

Crimes Against Nature

A new Channel 4 series would be laughable, had it not been given three hours of prime time TV.

Building on Sand

Hong Kong’s financial difficulties are partly due to land speculation. Britain has the same unhealthy patterns

A Tax on Information

Government agencies are making us pay throught the nose for our right to know

Social Engineering

Watch out for Monsanto – this obscure company is trying to take over the foodchain