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An extraordinary shift, and credit where it's due.BUT: the great unsayable, that the BBC won't allow anyone to voice on air, is that the driver of planetary destruction is not
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What is Trump?He’s the culmination of decades of oligarchic power.Decades in which billionaires became the motive force of politics.Dethroning Trump in November is crucial. But the bigger task is dethroning
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Last night I caught up with #ALifeOnOurPlanet on Netflix. Massive kudos to David Attenborough for the great shift he has made. Just two years ago, he called such film-making a
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One of the biggest mistakes on the left is the confusion between solidarity and conformity. Solidarity does not mean a ticklist of prescribed beliefs.The demand for conformity destroys solidarity. Without
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At the risk of alienating yet another economic sector, I've just read a paper which suggests that keeping honeybees is even more harmful than I thought: massive suppression of wild
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The photo used on the BBC's story about Boris Johnson's pledge to increase the area of the UK's "protected" land illustrates our bizarre notions of protection. Anywhere else on Earth,
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Far-right politics has a standard script. It goes like this:A great evil stalks the land.It’s a plot by a shadowy cabal.Only a few of us have understood it. A saviour
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There is a real elite: the very rich and the politicians who support them. They have 2 tricks for diverting blame for the multiple disasters they cause. 1. Focus it
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One of the bitter lessons I have learnt is that those of us who are excited by new ideas are few in number. Many people feel deeply threatened by them,
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There is no such thing as "the news". At any time, millions of events and trends are happening around the world. Editors select a tiny handful of them and declare
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While the right makes a clean sweep of the institutions, the left is splintering, divided by small differences and lethal culture wars. The right preaches individualism, yet moves as a
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Every day, people tell me "you should do this, you should do that."I’ve worked as an environmental journalist and campaigner for 35 years, and believe me, we have tried every
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