By John Pickard In part 1, we looked at how carbohydrates in general are more refined and available in greater abundance than they were in
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By John Pickard For many people who are not of a religious persuasion, including yours truly, Christmas is still a time for eating good food
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Planning and the climate
By Michael Roberts The only way humanity has a chance of avoiding a climate disaster will be through a global plan based on common ownership
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COP15: the two horsemen of the apocalypse
By Michael Roberts COP15 started this week in Montreal, Canada. This is the UN’s biodiversity summit. In effect, it is an international meeting to discuss
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Twitter welcomes back thousands of Nazis
By John Pickard While the UK government is putting through parliament a rather tame bill to oblige social media companies to protect children who go
By Michael Roberts Kohei Saito is an associate professor at Tokyo University and an erudite Marxist scholar. Not a candidate for a best-seller in the
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Another cop out?
By Michael Roberts COP 27 started over the weekend. COP stands for the conference of the parties under the UNFCCC. Under the 1992 UN framework
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Climate change – on track for 2.6 degrees
By John Pickard In two weeks’ time, COP27 will open in Sharm El Sheik, Egypt. It is a year since COP26 was held in Glasgow
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Panorama: The Green Energy Scandal Exposed
Letter from Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye CLP) on the latest green-washing scandal. The full programme can be viewed here. Panorama’s reporter, Joe Crowley, investigates
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Energy at the heart of war
By Gauthier HORDEL of La Riposte It has become obvious to everyone that energy is at the centre of conflict. Since 2021, its price has increased
