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The Bulldozer of State

The decision to build a road takes place before the public inquiry begins

Language barriers are good, not bad, and their loss is a disaster for hundreds of millions of people

South Africa has embarked on a brave and hazardous land reform programme

Britain’s landlords are trespassing against our right to enjoy the countryside

Tourism extracts the differences between ourselves and other people

Our treatment of gypsies and travellers reveals Little England at its worst: mean-spirited, vindictive and narrow-minded.

Review of Slide Mountain, or The Folly of Owning Nature, by Theodore Steinberg

Reductionism is making science ever less relevant to our lives.

A new campaign is born

Review of: The River Stops Here: How One Man’s Battle to Save His Valley Changed the Fate of California. Ted Simon, Random House, New York.

The superstores are changing the world to suit themselves

Britain needs a liberation theology movement

There are no excuses for not joining the protest against the Newbury bypass

The Brazilian press and political system is ignoring a wholesale theft of land and the murder of its people

The Government’s official position is that we should pour our hazardous waste down the drain.

Nearly all the mahogany leaving Brazil has been taken, illegally, from protected reserves

Roads protesters are bringing art and necessity back together, sowing the seeds of cultural renewal

A disastrous project funded by the Canadian Government is destituting an African people

A fraudulent privatisation project is reducing the Maasai to little more than tourist dancers

The Government’s repressive new laws contain eerie similarities to statutes passed hundreds of years ago