The great majority of people do not want to return to business-as-usual after the pandemic, but our governments are determined to make us do so. Read more.
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Contract Killers
Coronavirus deals worth billions of pounds have been awarded by the government to “unusual” companies, without advertising or competition. Read more.
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Are Trump and Johnson paving the way for fascism, or for something different, but just as bad? Read more.
Road to Perdition
How did wildlife groups start collaborating in the destruction of nature? Read more.
Lying In State
History, as the government tells it, is one long lie, airbrushing a host of atrocities. Read more.
Sold Out
The government intends to use a US trade deal to bypass democracy, override Parliament and rip down our public protections. Read more.
Rings of Power
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is not so much a democratic leader as a monarch with a five-year term. Read more.
Culpable Negligence
The disastrous collapse of the UK’s pandemic response has been caused by the deliberate evisceration of our health services. Worse is coming. Read more.
The Machine Stops
The government knowingly and deliberately de-prepared the UK, even as the pandemic began to bite. Read more.
University of Life
Ecology and Earth systems, from which all life flows, should be at the heart of learning. Read more.
Michael and Me
How did the radical film maker Michael Moore become a hero of the far right? Read more.
Bail Out the Planet
We have the opportunity to reshape our economies to support life on Earth. Governments should take it. Read more.
Permanent Lockdown
We have been shut out of most of the UK’s open land for centuries. It’s time this changed. Read more.
Let’s Nuke the Virus
Governments attend to imaginary threats, while neglecting real ones. Read more.
A Zombie Love Story
All over the world, mutual aid groups have blossomed where governments have failed, as people support each other through the pandemic. Read more.
Real Life
This coronavirus is the wake-up call for a complacent civilisation. Read more.
Prescription for Disaster
In the UK, the US and Australia, governments built on dirty money cannot be trusted to protect us from the coronavirus. Read more.
The Extinguishing of Joy
The boats supplying the fish we eat are killing dolphins so fast that they are heading towards extinction. Read more.
Suing For Survival
Our legal action against the government aims to shut down fossil fuels Read more.
A Slow-Burning Scandal
The government refuses to act on toxic flame retardants in our bedding and furnishings. Read more.