Repeated warnings that the Private Finance Initiative was an outrageous rip-off, dumping ultimate risks on the taxpayer, were ignored Read more.
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A rough transcript of my speech at the Oxford Farmers’ Conference debate, on the motion “This House Believes Eating Meat Will Be A Thing of the Past by 2100” Read more.
The government’s 25 Year Environment Plan is a work of cowardice Read more.
If you want to see real no-platforming, look at the newspapers Read more.
To be aware of the wonders of the living planet is to take on an unbearable burden of grief Read more.
This is the question everyone should be attending to – where is the food going to come from? Read more.
How the waste and inefficiency of neoliberalism attacks our children’s health Read more.
Economic growth will destroy everything. There’s no way of greening it – we need a new system. Read more.
How the guardians of nationhood conspire in its destruction. Read more.
How a chemical weapons attack in Syria spawned a shameful series of conspiracy theories Read more.
My adventures in the golden realm. Read more.
“We do not need to change human nature. We need to reveal it.”. Read more.
The Sheffield tree massacre is one result of the monstrous, impenetrable officialdom that neoliberalism creates Read more.
The scale and speed of environmental collapse is beyond imagination. Read more.
Our representative democracy is scarcely worthy of the name. 21st Century politics demands a more participatory system Read more.
Some radical ideas for reshaping the economy. Read more.
We should use the political space being opened by the Labour resurgence to develop a new, participatory economy Read more.
Farming animals is as unsustainable as mining coal. Read more.
Hope lies with a great, neglected sector of the economy, through which we can create a system that is neither capitalist nor state communist. Read more.
Who is the world’s leading environmental vandal? The answer may surprise you. Read more.