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Putting the Con into Consultation

An online tool that changes your answers is not the only problem with this attempt to fake public consent for dredging a dolphin reserve. Read more.

False Promise

The belief that economic growth can be detached from destruction appears to be based on a simple accounting mistake. Read more.

Pregnant Silence

It’s about time we discussed the real population crisis. Read more.

Strategic Incompetence

The agencies supposed to protect the living world have been neutered, and polluters and wildlife destroyers now have a free hand. Read more.

Moral Blankness

A leaked letter from David Cameron offers a remarkable – and terrifying – insight into his mind. Read more.

The Dolphin Killers of Cardigan Bay

Why does the Welsh government propose this gratuitous act of destruction? It refuses to say. Read more.

Loved to Death

The UK’s national parks should be redesignated as ecological disaster zones. Read more.

How to Build a Crisis

Banks and corporations are being liberated from the rule of law, and are ripping the world apart. Read more.

Nothing to See Here

In the greatest environmental disaster of the 21st Century (so far), Indonesia has been blotted out by smoke. And the media. Read more.

Home Ground

Britain’s housing crisis won’t end until we face some uncomfortable truths Read more.

Human Kind

Fascinating new lines of research suggest that we are good people, tolerating bad things. Read more.

Surgical Strike

The US bombing of a hospital in Afghanistan is just one symptom of comprehensive military failure Read more.

On Bullshit

The hideous pollution case I stumbled on illustrates our failure to see the harm caused by animal farming. Read more.

Inhospitable Planet

There may be water on Mars. But is there intelligent life on Earth? Read more.

Wiping the World Clean

The Ecomodernists launching their manifesto today propose solutions that are both ignorant and brutal. Read more.

Smoke and Mirrors

Pollution, as scandals on both sides of the Atlantic show, is a physical manifestation of corruption. Read more.

Power Failure

Yes, we are pro-nuclear, but the proposed Hinkley C plant should be scrapped. Read more.

The Same Hymn Sheet

What the secular left could learn from evangelical Christianity. Read more.

The Iron Mask

Living as if seen from the future. Read more.

Rural Idiocy

The BBC’s coverage of the countryside is a biased, unquestioning, deferential disgrace. Read more.