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The scheme for supporting renewables that the UK is importing from Germany has been a disaster there.

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In fighting for science, we subscribe to a comforting illusion: that people can be swayed by the facts.

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I’m being hounded for taking a stand against feed-in tariffs: here’s a riposte to the critics.

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A TV debate about whether climate change is happening

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The feed-in tariffs about to be introduced here are extortionate, useless and deeply regressive.

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How the ultra-rich enslave themselves

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Wherever Blair goes, our campaign ensures that he can never be free from the fear of arrest

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Today I am launching a new fund – www.arrestblair.org – to reward people who attempt to arrest the former prime minister

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As the new badger cull shows, we revert to irrational destruction as soon as our economic interests are threatened.

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Avatar half-tells a story we would all prefer to forget

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How do we break a system which now permeates every aspect of our lives?

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This is what the failure of the climate talks means.

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The useless, destructive talks at Copenhagen show that the treaty-making system has scarcely changed in 130 years.

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We’ve finally had our battle, and it was not to his advantage

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This is what the US president should say in Copenhagen

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I meet the mayor of London and have a good old ding-dong

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The talks at Copenhagen are not just about climate change. They represent a battle to redefine humanity.

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Is Lord Monckton an asset or a liability?

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Shocked by the hacked emails? Wait till you see what the other side’s been up to.

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Here’s the evidence for the contentions in The Real Climate Scandal

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The harm this country could do in the next two weeks will outweigh all the good it has done in a century.

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Yes, the hacked climate emails are damaging. But here’s the one you’d need to see if you wanted to show that manmade global warming is a scam.

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It’s probably too late to prepare for peak oil, but we can at least try to salvage food production.

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Local papers are vanishing. Does it matter?

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Why the sudden surge in climate change denial? Could it be about something else altogether?

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His bid for the EU presidency gives us the best chance we’ll ever have.

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Why has Mr Justice Eady been allowed to conduct a one-man campaign against free speech?

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A damning judgement on army killings suggests that officials at every level have covered up torture and murder.

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People who claim that population growth is the big environmental issue are shifting the blame from the rich to the poor

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The Spectator’s new editor has lost it before he even had it.

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The Trafigura scandal is just one of thousands of cases of the rich world’s fly-tipping

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As the Plimer affair shows, climate change deniers are all leaf and no plums

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Here are the emails I’ve exchanged with the climate change denier Ian Plimer.

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Here are the emails I’ve exchanged with the Spectator over the Plimer affair

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Impeded by Gordon Brown, the G20 has decided that bankers won’t be properly regulated.

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We need a radical new approach to cutting greenhouse gases, and it might have arrived.

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I set out to catch all my own fish, and live the wild life again

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A debate with Paul Kingsnorth

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The fight against the superstores is a struggle for democracy

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Why was the Big Green Gathering shut down by the authorities?

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Rising rates of teen pregnancy and STDs in the United States are the result of programmes intended to stamp them out.

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Here is the simple mathematical reason why large scale carbon offsets can’t work

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Why have government agencies been paying to increase the number of flights?

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The UN’s proposal for decriminalisation is senseless and destructive

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Let’s divert the money spent on arms to addressing the real strategic threat.

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The 300 year colonial adventure is over at last, which is why Britain is in political crisis.

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Why is no one brave enough to stand up to the fishing industry?

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It’s a thousand times bigger than the one we’re talking about, so why doesn’t it ignite public anger?

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As BA reports massive losses, isn’t it time to scrap the airport expansion programme?

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Why has policing in Britain gone so mad?

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The funding for academic research has been taken over by business

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Here are some estimates for how much fossil fuel we can use, and a call for a global moratorium on new prospecting.

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My video interview with Hazel Blears gives us a glimpse of what might be coming if she seeks to replace Gordon Brown

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The British government’s business department exists to undermine democracy.

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The rightwing press has briefly turned against the police, but normal service will soon resume.

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Why does the government refuse to make contingency plans for peak oil?

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Why are plastic bags treated as the root of environmental evil?

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The widening of the M25 is a private finance initiative scheme that requires little private finance. Or initiative.

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James Lovelock says the government’s enthusiasm for wind farms approaches fascism. What is he on about?

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The debate over biochar hots up.

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Here comes the latest utopian catastrophe: the plan to solve climate change with biochar

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If you think preventing climate change is politically difficult, look at the political problems of adapting to it.

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Pay drivers to scrap their cars? We might as well burn ten-pound notes in power stations.

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The US and British governments have created a private prison industry which preys on human lives.

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How the poor were airbrushed from history

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An unsentimental appraisal of our energy choices doesn’t boost your popularity.

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Someone Else’s England

You don’t have to be a nationalist, or English, to accept the case for an English parliament.

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An open letter to Hazel Blears MP, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

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Today I launch a prestigious and coveted award. Who will the lucky winner be?

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A new mobilisation could revitalise politics in the UK - but only if you get involved.

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