Bristling Badger

Further to yesterday's post about police visiting someone for tweeting rigorously annotated references to UKIP's policies and, desp...

This clipping comes from the Newbury Weekly News, 22 February 1996. It was the height of the protest against the Newbury Bypass, hundreds of...

Barton Moss near Manchester has been the front line of the anti-fracking campaign in the UK. Police have shown a predictable level of impart...

Remember folks, the lack of adequate flood defence and relief is because all the money goes on foreign aid, not because flood funding was ...

 This week I got a Facebook message from an old friend about their five year old. Today J heard the term 'Eco Warrior'. Discussio...

The 2010 Coalition agreement spelt it out in clear terms. Liberal Democrats have long opposed any new nuclear construction. Conservative...

In the early hours of Monday morning around 30 activists invaded West Burton power station on the Nottinghamshire/Lincolnshire border. Alth...

As adults have to face the fact that the myriad potential of youth is largely unfulfilled, so they tend to idealise their formative years. N...

Around fifteen years ago several large multinationals tried to introduce genetically modified crops to Europe. They were met with suspicion,...

Oops, bit late. The other day was Earth Day, and I published a guest-post at On This Deity about it.

Following last month's piece about the Newbury Bypass, I've written another article for Dorian Cope's kickass On This Deity si...

I've been a fan of Dorian Cope's On This Deity blog since it began . Bright and bold writing commemorating aniiversaries of the his...

For those of us who generally spend too much time on news sites, it was curious to see Rupert Murdoch decide to put his papers behind a pay...

I went to Reading Festival once, nearly 20 years ago. It has none of the character of Glastonbury, none of the quirks and charm of smaller f...

In February I unpicked a Daily Express article about dawn raids to check bins with hefty fines for people who don't recycle (back on pl...

Shell have been planning to drill gas fields off the Western Irish coast at Rossport, County Mayo. There has been a concerted campaign agai...

I know it'll only lead to trouble, but sometimes I can't help checking out the Daily Express. The other day they swivelled their ...

The other week I was at Shared Planet , the annual chinwag for People And Planet people. It's always a really effervescent occasion, ...

I can’t understand why there aren’t rings of young people blocking bulldozers and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants ...

Despite the government's enthusiasm for a third runway at Heathrow , it's reported that Heathrow's owners have decided not to b...