Believers in the possibility of a better civilization, one rooted in increasing co-operation and harmony, find ourselves in a world where demagogues are empowered to bring about the polar opposite, writes Jeremy Leggett. A new despotism rooted in isolationist nationalism and conflict is gaining strength. The battle is not lost: but first we must understand the dangers.
Appropriate civilization versus 'new despotism': one month into the Trump Presidency Jeremy Leggett | 22nd February 2017 News Future Politics Society Technology Energy Media Renewables War …
Sir David King is credited with bringing climate change to serious political attention. But he is also a campaign of GM crops. How does that square?
An audience with Sir David King Jon Hughes | 1st February 2007 News David King Climate Change Gm Nanotechnology Global Warming Politics Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Climate Change Biotechnology Gm …
In the teeth of determined oppostion from the British government, the EU has agreed on new regulations to curb speculation on food prices, reports Nick Dearden.
EU defies Britain to curb food speculation Nick Dearden | 17th January 2014 News Food Finance Politics guatemala-food-market.png In the teeth of determined oppostion from the British government, the …
The Land Workers Alliance gathered yesterday at DEFRA's London HQ to protest at the corrupt relationship between Government and corporate agriculture - and the deliberate marginalisation of small farmers, our most sustainable producers. Ed Hamer explains ...
Small scale farmers are feeding our future! Ed Hamer | 18th April 2014 Comment Food Farming Politics UK lwa-protest.jpg The Land Workers Alliance gathered yesterday at DEFRA's London HQ to protest at …
One of the world's biggest energy companies has been caught out in what may be the biggest ever climate scandal, writes Bill McKibben. Way back in the 1980s ExxonMobil knew of the 'potentially catastrophic' and 'irreversible' effects of increasing fossil fuel consumption, but chose to cover up the findings, spread misinformation on climate change, and go for high carbon energy sources.
Scandal! Exxon knew about climate change, boosted denialism, misled shareholders, went carbon heavy Bill McKibben | 9th March 2016 News Energy Climate Change US Politics exxon.jpg One of the world's …
If we are to move beyond the political impasse generated by the IPCC report and prevent catastrophic climate change we must look to market mechanisms, specifically price competitive renewables, writes Oliver Tickell......
The IPCC has spoken. Now what? Oliver Tickell | 2nd October 2013 News Climate Change Ipcc Renewables Carbon Tax Politics solar.jpg Giant solar installations, like the 4,000 MW power plant planned for …
The cash-strapped Cumbrian Museum is rebranded to tell 'The Sellafield Story'. The UK's favourite scientist Brian Cox and Government Minister Baroness Verma provide razzmatazz along with the Happy Robot. Lollypops anyone?
Beacon of Nuclear Truth? Marianne Birkby | 12th June 2014 Reviews Nuclear WMD UK Politics beacon-museum-cut.jpg The cash-strapped Cumbrian Museum is rebranded to tell 'The Sellafield Story'. The UK's …
Technology is crucial to all the big issues, but criticism is hampered by mythologies and structures of power, writes David King. Designed by and for corporate interests, modern industrial technologies embody a 400-year old technocratic philosophy of control of nature and people which must be confronted.
Exposing technocracy - the mindset of industrial capitalism David King | 27th June 2015 Comment Technology Politics Economics Society blue gathering flyer-cut.jpg Technology is crucial to all the big …
Paterson's speech to Parliament on the continuation of the badger cull was not so much a masterpiece of deception, writes Lesley Docksey, as a crude botch-up of errors, wrong statistics and a failure to understand the very real problem of TB in cattle.
Lies, damn lies, and Owen Paterson's badger cull Lesley Docksey | 10th April 2014 Comment Badgers Natural World UK Politics badger-cull-protest.png Paterson's speech to Parliament on the continuation …
A Japanese court has found the government and Tepco culpable for the Fukushima nuclear disaster for failing to act on clear warnings of the dangers of seismic shocks, writes Shaun Burnie. The ruling is sending a shockwave through Japan's 'nuclear village' and may end all prospects of any mass restart of reactors.
… the formulas used by the regulator in computing the scale of earthquakes, which he …
Clear and well written, Julie Hill's opus sheds light on the issues of waste and consumption but provides solutions that are too simplistic to be of real use, argues Ruth Styles
The Secret Life of Stuff Ruth Styles | 20th January 2011 Reviews Waste Recycling Consumption Reviews Green Alliance Politics Tax 51zecbd5z2l._sl500_aa300_edit.jpg Clear and well written, Julie Hill's …
In its haste to get fracking, the UK Government is neglecting safe, clean alternatives that could be providing low-carbon gas and heat energy, writes Keith Barnham. The technologies are already well established in other European countries and are picking up fast here too - so why the insistence that only fossil fuels can deliver the UK's energy needs?
Safe, low carbon, inexpensive: the renewable alternatives to fracking Keith Barnham | 8th July 2015 News Energy Fracking Renewables UK Politics lund-biogas-purifier-cut.jpg In its haste to get …
Members accepted that there is a limited role for atomic power at their Glasgow conference yesterday......
Lib Dems' green boast under threat as party votes for nuclear Rowena Mason The Guardian | 16th September 2013 News Energy Politics Nuclear ed.jpg Members accepted that there is a limited role for …
The eruption of nuclear weapons into today's election campaign should ignite a real debate over the UK's Trident missile system, writes Oliver Tickell. The notion that the UK is more secure with nuclear weapons than without is a dangerous illusion. The truth is the reverse - they are far more likely to make the UK a nuclear target, than to protect it.
Nuclear weapons are more likely to annihilate the UK, than to save it Oliver Tickell | 9th April 2015 Comment War Nuclear Politics super-etendard-cut.jpg A Dassault Super-Etendard aircraft of the …
The UK is embarking on a reckless endeavour in its attempted nuclear union with China, write David Lowry & Oliver Tickell. China's investments will come at a high price, one that transcends mere money and the undoubted security risk inherent in its control of key elements of our energy infrastructure. At risk is the UK's very future as a sovereign, independent nation.
The UK-China nuclear deal is an existential threat to our nation's future Dr David Lowry Oliver Tickell | 20th October 2015 News China UK Nuclear WMD Finance Politics sizewell-cut.jpg The UK is …
Britain has a huge role in effecting the global energy transition to renewables, new shadow energy secretary Lisa Nandy told the Labour Party Conference. But that will mean a complete reversal of Tory policies to attack wind and solar, lock us into polluting fossil fuels and overpriced nuclear power, and maintain 'big six' profits at consumers' expense.
Clean, affordable, secure, democratic: our green energy future Lisa Nandy | 30th September 2015 Comment Politics Energy Renewables UK Climate Change COP21 Corporations westmill-solar-cut.jpg Britain …
As Michael Gove gives his first speech as Justice Secretary, promising to update our 'creaking and outdated' courts, Paul Mobbs writes that 'reforms' to date have only deepened the injustice that afflicts poor defendants: penalising the innocent, burdening those who plead 'not guilty' with heavy charges regardless of ability to pay, cutting legal aid, and halving the number of duty solicitors.
A 'poll tax' for English justice - subjecting the poor to 'trial by ordeal' Paul Mobbs | 23rd June 2015 News Law UK Politics Human Rights. justice-old-bailey-cut.jpg As Michael Gove gives his first …
A consistent pattern is emerging in the UK government's plans and policies, writes Paul Mobbs: the stripping away of human rights and freedoms; the detachment of public institutions from democratic accountability; an increase of the powers of the state; and the empowerment of corporations at the expense of people. We must act to preserve our liberties, while we still can.
Behind the Magna Carta spin, Britain's 'dictatorship of the 1%' is taking shape Paul Mobbs | 11th June 2015 News Human Rights Politics UK Society Fracking Health great-dictator-cut.png A consistent …
Last February's explosion at the WIPP dump for long-lived intermediate-level nuclear waste from the US's nuclear weapons program remains unexplained, writes Jim Green. But with the site's history of ignored warnings, 'missing' safety culture, lack of supervision and dubious contractor appointments, it surely came as no surprise - and further accidents appear inevitable.
New Mexico nuclear waste accident a 'horrific comedy of errors' that exposes deeper problems Jim Green Nuclear Monitor | 27th November 2014 News Nuclear WMD USA Corporations Regulation Politics …
A bill to quadruple the UK's aid funding to a profit-driven 'private equity' company owned by the government comes before MPs today for its third reading, writes Global Justice Now. Trouble is the investments do little or nothing for the poor, and instead entrench corporate power in health, education and infrastructure. Parliament should seize this last chance to reject the new law.
UK's 'development for profit' private equity arm set to grab £6 billion of aid funds Global Justice Now | 10th January 2017 Activism Development UK Law Politics beggar-india-cut.jpg A bill to …