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The Conservative war on road safety has begun

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If the police can get away with killing Ian Tomlinson, there’s no justice in Britain.

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The results of our competition to name England’s threatened species are stunning.

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The government’s disastrous new deregulation programme means that the poor will be fouled by the rich.

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Was I right, when the hacked climate emails were released, to call for Phil Jones to resign?

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The climate change deniers are digging themselves an ever deeper hole over ‘Amazongate’

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How could the intent of today’s column have passed so many people by?

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Here’s how the UK should pursue its war against young people.

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The companies now threatening to sue BP have only themselves to blame.

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Matt Ridley only digs his hole deeper as he attempts to justify his distortions.

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The Tea Party movement is steeped in misinformation and denial. But it has a lot to teach the left.

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Lord Monckton’s increasingly extravagant claims threaten to destroy the movement he champions

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The oil industry’s decommissioning costs will dwarf those of nuclear power. The money being made now should be put aside to meet them.

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Matt Ridley’s irrational theories remain unchanged by his own disastrous experiment.

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Here’s a simple means of transforming the UK’s universities, schools and society

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A new report shows how the UK could tap into vast renewable resources, without any of the aggro caused by existing wind farms.

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Before the UK commissions a high speed rail network, we should ask ourselves some big questions.

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Industrial civilisation is trashing the environment. Should we try to reform it or just watch it go down?

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This hung parliament is the first and possibly last chance we have to transform politics. We must seize it.

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Almost half the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions have gone missing. Here they are, and here are the amazing implications.

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It’s time we stopped voting fearfully, and rewarding the most right-wing government the UK has had since 1945.

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Grassroots campaigns could break Britain’s corrupt political system

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Why are radical politics electable in Wales but not in England?

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Has our society become too complex to sustain?

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International law presents a radical challenge to the powerful: they could be judged by the same standards as the rest of us.

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We explore the mutual incomprehension across the climate emails divide

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Science and humanities students view each other with incomprehension: blame our dumb, narrow schooling.

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The police treat protests and festivals as a threat to their power

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What are our nuclear weapons for, and who controls them?

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I learn, once again, that telling brutal truths isn’t the best way of winning friends

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Here’s one small way in which the collapse of biodiversity could be slowed

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The scheme for supporting renewables that the UK is importing from Germany has been a disaster there.

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In fighting for science, we subscribe to a comforting illusion: that people can be swayed by the facts.

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I’m being hounded for taking a stand against feed-in tariffs: here’s a riposte to the critics.

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A TV debate about whether climate change is happening

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The feed-in tariffs about to be introduced here are extortionate, useless and deeply regressive.

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How the ultra-rich enslave themselves

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Wherever Blair goes, our campaign ensures that he can never be free from the fear of arrest

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Today I am launching a new fund – www.arrestblair.org – to reward people who attempt to arrest the former prime minister

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As the new badger cull shows, we revert to irrational destruction as soon as our economic interests are threatened.

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Avatar half-tells a story we would all prefer to forget

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How do we break a system which now permeates every aspect of our lives?

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This is what the failure of the climate talks means.

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The useless, destructive talks at Copenhagen show that the treaty-making system has scarcely changed in 130 years.

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We’ve finally had our battle, and it was not to his advantage

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This is what the US president should say in Copenhagen

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I meet the mayor of London and have a good old ding-dong

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The talks at Copenhagen are not just about climate change. They represent a battle to redefine humanity.

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Is Lord Monckton an asset or a liability?

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Shocked by the hacked emails? Wait till you see what the other side’s been up to.

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Here’s the evidence for the contentions in The Real Climate Scandal

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The harm this country could do in the next two weeks will outweigh all the good it has done in a century.

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Yes, the hacked climate emails are damaging. But here’s the one you’d need to see if you wanted to show that manmade global warming is a scam.

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It’s probably too late to prepare for peak oil, but we can at least try to salvage food production.

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Local papers are vanishing. Does it matter?

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Why the sudden surge in climate change denial? Could it be about something else altogether?

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His bid for the EU presidency gives us the best chance we’ll ever have.

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Why has Mr Justice Eady been allowed to conduct a one-man campaign against free speech?

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A damning judgement on army killings suggests that officials at every level have covered up torture and murder.

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People who claim that population growth is the big environmental issue are shifting the blame from the rich to the poor

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The Spectator’s new editor has lost it before he even had it.

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The Trafigura scandal is just one of thousands of cases of the rich world’s fly-tipping

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As the Plimer affair shows, climate change deniers are all leaf and no plums

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Here are the emails I’ve exchanged with the climate change denier Ian Plimer.

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Here are the emails I’ve exchanged with the Spectator over the Plimer affair

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Impeded by Gordon Brown, the G20 has decided that bankers won’t be properly regulated.

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We need a radical new approach to cutting greenhouse gases, and it might have arrived.

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I set out to catch all my own fish, and live the wild life again

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A debate with Paul Kingsnorth

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The fight against the superstores is a struggle for democracy

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