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Keir Starmer’s attack on our planning system is an almost-perfect repeat of Boris Johnson’s disaster. Why can’t he see that?
Power on Dartmoor is highly concentrated in surprising hands. Commoners. In most places, a commons is a distributive, ...
It’s no longer even pretending. Last week, the BBC, already the UK’s most prolific censor, instructed the presenter Evan Davis to drop the podcast he hosted in his own time about heat pumps. It was a ...
Those of us who try to defend wildlife are horribly familiar with bad laws. But we’ve never seen anything like this. The government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill is the worst assault on England’s ...
A disastrous military project in the northern Amazon will destroy some of the most pristine forests on earth.
Those who claim to be “conservatives” would shred the very fabric of the nation.
In the first of a series of columns about possible solutions, I explore how commons could transform society and the distribution of wealth ...
Why older people must stand in solidarity with the youth climate strikes.
Environmentalists are foolishly following Prince Charles over the spiritual abyss.
Why morons succeed in US politics.