Keir Starmer has accidentally given us four years in which to build a new political system. We should seize the chance.

The “Tragedy of the Commons” is one of the modern world’s most dangerous myths.

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 ...

For the first time, the United Kingdom’s consumer debt now exceeds our gross national product: a new report shows that we owe £1.35 trillion(1). Inspectors in the United States have discovered that 77 ...

To understand this moment, we have to recognise that there is an existential struggle on both sides. While environmental scientists and activists fight for the very survival of the habitable planet, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sentences were handed down just as Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina. As homes were smashed, trucks swept down roads that had turned into rivers and residents were killed, in the placid setting ...

Whenever there’s a leak of documents from the remote islands and obscure jurisdictions where rich people hide their money, like this week’s release of the Pandora papers, we ask ourselves how such ...

There’s one question I’m asked more than any other. How do you cope? Like other environmental journalists, I spend my life rolling in the excrement of humanity. Every day, I must think about the ...

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 ...

There are several services and assets I would like to see nationalised. But at the top of my list is neither water, nor trains, nor development land, much as I’d like to see them brought under ...