Yes our government is stuffed full of idiot toffs. Yes we have an ongoing medical crisis to which idiot toffs...
On International Women’s Day a former conservative home secretary was abruptly 'no platformed' by students at Oxford University - thirty...
We have built an entire global economy and monetary system on the idea that resources are infinite. This isn't too...
. The first lie about the 'Green New Deal' is that it's new. Those of a certain age and world...
To have any hope of averting or even surviving the looming apocalypse, some entrenched ideas and cultural shibboleths are going...
Euphemistic language is often an indicator of denial, avoidance and sublimated shame - it is a way to talk so...
Before we begin Why does vague euphemistic language surround the looming collapse of civilisation? On the face of it -...
Introduction On psychological defences against reality, my therapist observed simply that 'we all use em and we all need em'...
Keir Starmer - you remember him? The guy who dreamed up that brainiac maniac kamikazee fudge-ball Brexit strategy that delivered...
Important world events are tough for The Guardian's 'coverage' factory to deal with - I mean things that actually happen...
So Donald Trump - as befits a total narcissist, found the time while strolling around a golf course to set...
Last year Jaron Lanier gave this interview to Channel 4 News. Its well worth watching and left me feeling uneasy....
“The oligarchs have discovered the formula for persuading the poor to vote for the interests of the very rich” Some...
Now we have all been wondering why Labour lost the election and a friend sent me this video from the...
I am stunned by the overuse and erroneous deployment of the word 'stunning'. Yes I am lying nearly dead in...
It is something I will seek to explain to my son as he gets older - there are three types...
In a secondary school essay a long time ago, I took Coleridge to task about his explanation for the vile...
If only the environment was a super-villain. Populist outrage always needs a human enemy and societal urgency requires something immediate...
The only debate genuinely supportive of a just and sustainable world is the only one you will never hear from...
"What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that...
I already know the result of the election with total certainty. No need to look at opinion polls or complex...
Millions of people have been inspired by the young environmental activist Greta Thunberg. Aged 15, she painted her simple sign,...
Picture the scene - at a series of press events and amidst a flurry of tweeted delight from Labour's right...
When the opinionators of The Guardian unite with the Blairite rump in the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) to give Jeremy...
Congratulatory cheer abounds as various bodies are declaring a climate emergency. This is not to be decried or belittled -...
The Extinction Rebellion movement is the current flagship of climate change protest. I applaud their well branded PR campaign which conveys...
Will eXtinction Rebellion succeed and somehow avert the onrushing climate apocalypse and planetary ecocide? Should I be on the streets...
Small bands of campaigners on the ecologically sensitive west coast of Ireland are fighting Texan fracking giant Fortress Energy over...
Here’s a small thought experiment that even the editor of the Guardian, Kath Viner, should be able to manage. Who...
Whether human beings survive this century and the next, whether other lifeforms can live alongside us: more than anything, this...