Henry Brown

The government has spent years telling us that austerity and low pay are essential to prevent inflation. Now we have the austerity, the low pay and the inflation.

The @JustStop_Oil activists now lying in tunnels at the entrance to oil terminals are among the only people who really get it. And for their pains and their courage they are piled on by people who don't have the guts to look our predicament in the face, let alone act on it.

Just as the gas crisis should not be used as an excuse to resume fracking, the food crisis should not be used as an excuse to trash our remaining wildlife. There are much better ways to respond. My column. theguardian.com/commentisfre…

We need a government that focuses relentlessly on the survival of humanity and the rest of life on Earth, not one that generates scandal after scandal with its self-serving, greedy and venal behaviour. We have the worst people in office at the worst time.

Here's my article about who we are, why we're trapped, why we are heading for planetary collapse, and what we must do to prevent it. It might not be saying much, but I think this is the best thing I've written. theguardian.com/environment/…

Yes, absolutely, ban intensive poultry units. But how does switching to organic chicken, as the Soil Association proposes, reduce the need for feed, and hence the pressure on the living world? The answer is to stop eating chicken. Of all kinds. And switch to a plant-based diet.

Scapegoats - an evolution. 1980s: Single mothers and immigrants. 1990s: Political correctness and immigrants. 2000s: Muslims and immigrants. 2010s: Europe and immigrants. 2020s: Woke and immigrants. Curiously, the people in charge are never to blame.