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Gulf of Understanding

What the governments of the Global North don’t care about, they don’t measure.

Why don’t we get to grips with the climate crisis? Partly because most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich.

To Bill Gates, overthrowing the power of the ultra-wealthy seems to be – literally – unthinkable.

There’s an urgent need to replace our total mess with a codified constitution.

The government is trying to set us against our ecosystems. We must resist this Trumpian gambit.

This Labour government would have banned the Labour movement – alongside all the other protests that secured our freedoms.

Austerity costs us a fortune.

Alongside the genocide, the Israeli government is destroying the ecosystems of Gaza, perhaps permanently.

The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.

Astonishingly, the Tufton Street junktanks that shaped Liz Truss’s agenda are still operating at the heart of government.

The election of Zack Polanski as Green Party leader could be the moment our political drought begins to break.

Marvellous giants are returning to our shores, which means only one thing: pathetic inadequates using them as a test of manhood.

Thanks to the government’s draconian new anti-protest order, it’s almost impossible to tell whether you are or are not breaking the law.

The government’s proposed new rules will allow a flood of toxic chemicals to be sold in the UK.

England’s privatised water system leaves us incapable of responding sensibly to droughts.

How “humour” opens the door to far right politics.

Without resistance, a combination of new laws and new technologies of control will rush us towards dystopia.

Cynical operators seek to divide rural and urban people. But what we want is fundamentally the same.

A massive new road scheme will solve precisely nothing, while costing the Earth.

Protection should be the default state of the oceans.