Cover Reports

Visitors: 342 [thrive_text_block color=”light” headline=”What an extraordinary dereliction of duty that our politicians leave headteachers to fix a public health crisis”] [/thrive_text_block] Deregulation, the government and many newspapers assure us, saves money and time and reduces frustration. That’s the theory. But, as I see every day, it doesn’t quite work like this. My youngest daughter’s […]

Visitors: 341 [thrive_text_block color=”note” headline=”Growth must go on – it’s the political imperative everywhere, and it’s destroying the Earth. But there’s no way of greening it, so we need a new system”] [/thrive_text_block] Everyone wants everything – how is that going to work? The promise of economic growth is that the poor can live like […]

Visitors: 310 [thrive_text_block color=”light” headline=”The way discredited stories spread after a chemical weapons massacre in Syria should be a matter of serious concern”] [/thrive_text_block] What do we believe? This is the crucial democratic question. Without informed choice, democracy is meaningless. This is why dictators and billionaires invest so heavily in fake news. Our only defence […]

Visitors: 269 [thrive_text_block color=”light” headline=”The rupture of 2008 presents a chance to throw out our iniquitous system that busts the planet – here are some ideas”] [/thrive_text_block] We are still living in the long 20th century. We are stuck with its redundant technologies: the internal combustion engine, thermal power plants, factory farms. We are stuck […]

Visitors: 229 [thrive_text_block color=”light” headline=”The suffering inherent in mass meat production can’t be justified. And as the artificial meat industry grows, the last argument for farming animals has now collapsed”] [/thrive_text_block] What will future generations, looking back on our age, see as its monstrosities? We think of slavery, the subjugation of women, judicial torture, the […]