This mess allows great scope for interpretation, which ruthless operators readily exploit. Think of Boris Johnson’s use of Henry VIII powers and his prorogation of parliament, or Tony Blair’s attempt ...

The government is trying to set us against our ecosystems. We must resist this Trumpian gambit.

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

There is nothing that cannot be corrupted, nothing good that cannot be transformed into something bad. And there is no clearer example than the great climate land grab. We now know that it’s not ...

Everything that makes campaigning against fossil fuels difficult is 10 times harder when it comes to opposing livestock farming. Here you will find a similar suite of science denial, misinformation ...

Every week, sometimes every day, someone writes to me asking for advice about the career they should take. I can’t, unfortunately, respond to them all, so I thought I should try to formulate some ...

Dartmoor National Park is not dying; it is being killed, and these are the killers.

It’s the greatest medical scandal of the 21st century. For decades, patients with ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome) have been told they can make themselves better by changing ...

I hope you are very well. I’m writing a column for the Guardian today about genocide denial, in which Edward Herman will feature prominently. I have just finished reading his book The Politics of ...

“If Bush wins”, the US writer Barbara Probst Solomon claimed just before the election, “fascism is possible in the United States.”(1) Blind faith in a leader, she said, a conservative working class ...

There are elements of fascism, elements borrowed from the Chinese state and elements that reflect Argentina’s history of dictatorship. But most of the programme for government announced by Javier ...

If human beings were without sin, we would still live in an imperfect world. Adam Smith’s notion that by pursuing his own interest a man “frequently promotes that of … society more effectually than ...