With the death of Pope Francis, the world loses not only a church leader but also a moral compass
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Drought Britain: radical solutions are the only reasonable solutions
The hostility to the environment from the remaining two Tory leadership candidates is truly terrifying — we have the solutions to the looming water crisis in front of our faces, but who will fight for them, asks ALAN SIMPSON
Parched grass on Parker's Piece in Cambridge, as a drought has been declared for parts of England following the driest summer for 50 years
LYNNE WALSH previews the Bristol Radical History Conference this weekend
Keir Starmer’s £120 million to Sudan cannot cover the government’s complicity in the RSF genocide or atone for the long shadow of British colonialism and imperialism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
EASTER ISLAND may now be a world heritage site, but its once complex and integrated society finally collapsed in an orgy of civil war and cannibalism. In today’s Britain, this is replayed in the Conservative Party leadership race. The direction of travel is not much different.
In Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, Jared Diamond described how arrogance and overconsumption brought a once-prosperous society to its knees:
“Easter’s chiefs and priests had previously justified their elite status by claiming relationship to the gods and by promising to deliver prosperity and bountiful harvests. They buttressed that ideology by monumental architecture and ceremonies designed to impress the masses.”
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