This will be Keir Starmer’s HS2: a hugely expensive scheme that will either be abandoned, scaled back or require massive extra funding to continue, after many billions have been spent. The ...

How could this happen in the 21st century? The question could apply to many issues, but this one sends you reeling. A brilliant and lively young woman with a common illness was repeatedly disbelieved, ...

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 ...

Privatisation and austerity don’t cut costs: they just pass them on to us.

Yes, we are pro-nuclear, but the proposed Hinkley C plant should be scrapped.

A New Politics for an Age of Crisis By George Monbiot. Published by Verso Books.

George Monbiot uncovers what many have suspected but few have been able to prove: that corporations have become so powerful they now threaten the foundations of democratic government. Many of the ...

How Britain’s oldest animal welfare charity became a byword for cruelty on an industrial scale.

There’s a new asset class being traded between corporations. It’s called children in care.

Almost everyone in public life participates in the assault on truth.

The livestock industry is furiously lobbying to shut down alternatives, and tame politicians are giving it what it wants.

Hidden in the detail of the UK’s carbon capture and storage scheme are unlimited financial liabilities and huge environmental costs.