Full-scale participatory democracy would change everything. It has the same revolutionary potential as the universal franchise and women’s suffrage. Read more.
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The UK’s economic and political life revolves around corruption. Read more.
The opaque and secretive networks on which Boris Johnson builds his power. Read more.
The obsession with the birthrates of the poor has a grim history, and is used by the rich to transfer blame. Read more.
Landed power, built on theft, slavery and colonial looting, crushes our freedoms. It is time to reclaim them. Read more.
Across the UK, our rivers are being turned into filthy, dead gutters, at astonishing, heartbreaking speed. Read more.
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.
Coronavirus deals worth billions of pounds have been awarded by the government to “unusual” companies, without advertising or competition. Read more.
Are Trump and Johnson paving the way for fascism, or for something different, but just as bad? Read more.
How did wildlife groups start collaborating in the destruction of nature? Read more.
History, as the government tells it, is one long lie, airbrushing a host of atrocities. Read more.
The government intends to use a US trade deal to bypass democracy, override Parliament and rip down our public protections. Read more.
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is not so much a democratic leader as a monarch with a five-year term. Read more.
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 government knowingly and deliberately de-prepared the UK, even as the pandemic began to bite. Read more.
Ecology and Earth systems, from which all life flows, should be at the heart of learning. Read more.
How did the radical film maker Michael Moore become a hero of the far right? Read more.
We have the opportunity to reshape our economies to support life on Earth. Governments should take it. Read more.
We have been shut out of most of the UK’s open land for centuries. It’s time this changed. Read more.
Governments attend to imaginary threats, while neglecting real ones. Read more.