The German Disease
The scheme for supporting renewables that the UK is importing from Germany has been a disaster there.
The scheme for supporting renewables that the UK is importing from Germany has been a disaster there.
In fighting for science, we subscribe to a comforting illusion: that people can be swayed by the facts.
I’m being hounded for taking a stand against feed-in tariffs: here’s a riposte to the critics.
A TV debate about whether climate change is happening
The feed-in tariffs about to be introduced here are extortionate, useless and deeply regressive.
How the ultra-rich enslave themselves
Wherever Blair goes, our campaign ensures that he can never be free from the fear of arrest
Today I am launching a new fund – www.arrestblair.org – to reward people who attempt to arrest the former prime minister
As the new badger cull shows, we revert to irrational destruction as soon as our economic interests are threatened.
Avatar half-tells a story we would all prefer to forget
How do we break a system which now permeates every aspect of our lives?
This is what the failure of the climate talks means.
The useless, destructive talks at Copenhagen show that the treaty-making system has scarcely changed in 130 years.
We’ve finally had our battle, and it was not to his advantage
This is what the US president should say in Copenhagen
I meet the mayor of London and have a good old ding-dong
The talks at Copenhagen are not just about climate change. They represent a battle to redefine humanity.
Is Lord Monckton an asset or a liability?
Shocked by the hacked emails? Wait till you see what the other side’s been up to.
Here’s the evidence for the contentions in The Real Climate Scandal
The harm this country could do in the next two weeks will outweigh all the good it has done in a century.
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.
It’s probably too late to prepare for peak oil, but we can at least try to salvage food production.
Local papers are vanishing. Does it matter?
Why the sudden surge in climate change denial? Could it be about something else altogether?
His bid for the EU presidency gives us the best chance we’ll ever have.
Why has Mr Justice Eady been allowed to conduct a one-man campaign against free speech?
A damning judgement on army killings suggests that officials at every level have covered up torture and murder.
People who claim that population growth is the big environmental issue are shifting the blame from the rich to the poor
The Spectator’s new editor has lost it before he even had it.
The Trafigura scandal is just one of thousands of cases of the rich world’s fly-tipping
As the Plimer affair shows, climate change deniers are all leaf and no plums
Here are the emails I’ve exchanged with the climate change denier Ian Plimer.
Here are the emails I’ve exchanged with the Spectator over the Plimer affair
Impeded by Gordon Brown, the G20 has decided that bankers won’t be properly regulated.
We need a radical new approach to cutting greenhouse gases, and it might have arrived.
I set out to catch all my own fish, and live the wild life again
A debate with Paul Kingsnorth
The fight against the superstores is a struggle for democracy
Why was the Big Green Gathering shut down by the authorities?
Rising rates of teen pregnancy and STDs in the United States are the result of programmes intended to stamp them out.
Here is the simple mathematical reason why large scale carbon offsets can’t work
Why have government agencies been paying to increase the number of flights?
The UN’s proposal for decriminalisation is senseless and destructive
Let’s divert the money spent on arms to addressing the real strategic threat.
The 300 year colonial adventure is over at last, which is why Britain is in political crisis.
Why is no one brave enough to stand up to the fishing industry?
It’s a thousand times bigger than the one we’re talking about, so why doesn’t it ignite public anger?
As BA reports massive losses, isn’t it time to scrap the airport expansion programme?
Why has policing in Britain gone so mad?
The funding for academic research has been taken over by business
Here are some estimates for how much fossil fuel we can use, and a call for a global moratorium on new prospecting.
My video interview with Hazel Blears gives us a glimpse of what might be coming if she seeks to replace Gordon Brown
The British government’s business department exists to undermine democracy.
The rightwing press has briefly turned against the police, but normal service will soon resume.
Why does the government refuse to make contingency plans for peak oil?
Why are plastic bags treated as the root of environmental evil?
The widening of the M25 is a private finance initiative scheme that requires little private finance. Or initiative.
James Lovelock says the government’s enthusiasm for wind farms approaches fascism. What is he on about?
The debate over biochar hots up.
Here comes the latest utopian catastrophe: the plan to solve climate change with biochar
If you think preventing climate change is politically difficult, look at the political problems of adapting to it.
Pay drivers to scrap their cars? We might as well burn ten-pound notes in power stations.
The US and British governments have created a private prison industry which preys on human lives.
How the poor were airbrushed from history
An unsentimental appraisal of our energy choices doesn’t boost your popularity.
Someone Else’s England
You don’t have to be a nationalist, or English, to accept the case for an English parliament.
An open letter to Hazel Blears MP, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Today I launch a prestigious and coveted award. Who will the lucky winner be?
A new mobilisation could revitalise politics in the UK - but only if you get involved.