From another perspective, a sausage is an offal-filled intestine, or the macerated parts of an electrocuted or asphyxiated pig or other animal – generally parts that you wouldn’t knowingly eat – mixed ...

Civilisational erasure is the term the Trump administration used in its new national security strategy, published last week. It claimed that immigration, among other factors, will result in the ...

It felt like walking up a mountain during a temperature inversion. You struggle through fog so dense you can scarcely see where you’re going. Suddenly, you break through the top of the cloud, and the ...

I began by trying to discover whether or not a widespread belief was true. In doing so, I tripped across something even bigger: an index of the world’s indifference. I already knew that by burning ...

If this were just a climate crisis, we would fix it. The technology, money and strategies have all been at hand for years. What stifles effective action is a deadly conjunction: the climate crisis ...

This Labour government would have banned the Labour movement – alongside all the other protests that secured our freedoms. Imagine a movement arising in this country that seeks to overthrow ...

Forgive me if I’ve got this wrong, but I seem to recall the country voting the Tories out last year. Part of the reason, if I remember correctly, was their staggering incompetence and insouciance, ...

The election of Zack Polanski as Green Party leader could be the moment our political drought begins to break. Nor can the government point out the blindingly obvious: that it is not asylum seekers ...

The precedent is uncanny, and the failure to learn from it downright mystifying. Keir Starmer is rushing gladly towards the catastrophe Boris Johnson inflicted on himself in 2020. Had he set out to ...

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 ...