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Oh dear. PJ Harvey is guest editing tomorrow's BBC Radio 4 Today programme. In theory this oughtn't to be a bad thing: well, not in my book for I have adored the Dorset rock goddess for many years. (With Kate Bush, she is...

Is this the biggest, most shocking, most scandalous scandal in the history of scandals? I think it just might be. Get a load of this from the Guardian's environment pages, courtesy of Leo Hickman. It seems that Godfrey Bloom,...

Until recently George "Reverse-Cassandra" Monbiot was very, very worried about Peak Oil. Here's what he wrote in 2007: The disasters invoked by the peaking of global oil supplies can be avoided only with a “crash progamme”...

  A glorious interview with James Lovelock in today's Guardian. Essential reading for everyone, greens especially. In it, the inventor of Gaia theory and godfather of modern environmentalism declares that wind farms...

Many of the most brilliant Right-wing politicians, journalists and polemicists started out on the Left: Ronald Reagan, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Hitchens, Paul Johnson, David Horowitz, Martin Amis, Toby Young, Clive James,...

What do solar energy companies have in common with Second Lieutenants on the first day of the Somme? Yes, that's right. (H/T GWPF) In Germany, especially, the attrition rate has been amazing. According to Reuters, no fewer...

‘When will we learn How evil Ma-an is? When will we learn how totally ungrateful And really hateful Humans are????’ Why don’t we cry - Or better still die? - By throwing ourselves on a pyre, For our crimes...

George Monbiot on Japan: You will not be surprised to hear that the events in Japan have changed my view of nuclear power. You will be surprised to hear how they have changed it. As a result of the disaster at Fukushima,...

In today’s Guardian Britain’s first and (thank Gaia!) only Green MP Caroline Lucas tells us that climate change is “one of the greatest threats” to Britain since the Second World War...

Bob Ward is sad. Very, very sad. “Why won’t anyone listen to us any more?” he wails at the Guardian’s Komment Macht Frei. One or two helpful commenters have tried to explain the reason. But unfortunately,...