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EXCLUSIVE Our Promise to Afghanis: ‘We Must Not Fail Them’
Rich Martyn fears for the fate of people like the interpreter and teacher he met while in Afghanistan, and explains how the tragedy also affects others who served there

EXCLUSIVE How to Save the World in 15 Years – Part Three: The Looming Death Spiral of Carbon-intensive Industries
Disruptive technologies and societal change could allow us to reach net zero much quicker than anticipated, if we make the right choices now

Age is a Feminist Issue in the Arts
The announcement of a new writing prize for under-35s raises questions about how age limits create barriers for women writers, says Joanna Walsh

EXCLUSIVE How to Save the World in 15 Years – Part Two: Net Zero is Not Enough
Just as we underestimated the speed and scale of climate change, Nafeez Ahmed argues, our narrow, linear ways are leading us to underestimate the scope of potential solutions

Cummings’ Brexit Confessions Reveal the Hollow Heart of a Hallowed Project
Jonathan Lis explains how the admissions of leading Brexiters five years on expose the continuing corruption of British politics by outright lies

Light and Shadows: Law-Makers and Populist Attacks – A Transatlantic Comparison
Amid the multiple similarities between the populism of Donald Trump and Brexit, Peter Jukes and Heidi Siegmund Cuda look at the stark differences between the way in which the UK Parliament and the US Congress deal with threats to democracy

EXCLUSIVE How to Save the World in 15 Years: Part One
As the IPCC issues its direst warnings yet about an inevitable rise in global warming into the 1.5C danger zone, Nafeez Ahmed proposes a better way out of its dystopian vision

Right-Wing Media’s Manufactured Fears Over ‘Blasphemy’ are Another Arm of the Culture War’s White Jingoist Agenda
Constructed fears around the return of blasphemy laws enable Islamophobia and distract from a reactionary recasting of British values, says Dr Richard McNeil-Willson
Will the Government Take Action on the Sewage Pollution Crisis?
Stuart Heaver reports on the last chance for the Government to avert the sewage pollution crisis by making water companies responsible
Delay is the New Denial: How Big Polluters Continue to Fight Climate Science
light of the IPCC’s report warning that climate change is a ‘code red for humanity’, Thomas Perrett reports on how fossil fuel companies have subtly changed their tactics to continue avoiding the reforms required to combat greenhouse gas emissions
Touring in Europe: The Broken Instruments of Brexit
Philippe Auclair discusses the cultural isolation and loss which will result from British musical artists being deterred from performing in Europe
The Church’s Leaders Continue to Demonstrate their Inability to Speak Truth to Power
ngland are apparently characterised by "elites", Reverend Joe Haward considers why those in positions of privilege and power within the Church of England are so reluctant to expose the right’s dangerous and divisive narratives