If you were a visitor to the site over the last couple of years, thank you for coming but here’s the thing: you were a very rare thing. How can […]

There is, apparently, a war on against Straight White Men. SWM, it’s said, are the newly marginalised, denied protection and resented by society. “If you want proof,” they say, “look at Cologne: […]

As serious critiques go, comedian Jon Mason’s brief analysis of identity politics last week must rank as one of the weakest pitches for intellectual gravitas in history. The reaction to his […]

In the Independent today the new chief executive of Friends of the Earth, Craig Bennett, finally acknowledges the environmental movement is too white and too middle-class and needs to engage […]

By Marcus Toynboyalé & Brad Keyes Former climate scientist Rajendra Pachauri has at last provided some public clues as to why he stepped down as the moral voice of the […]

Giant multinational car manufacturers are putting your safety at risk – for profit. LFG has identified a weakness in seatbelt warning beep systems: namely, they do not randomise and dis-harmonise […]

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GUEST POST BY STEWART JEFFERYS OF THE GUARDIAN   First they came for celebrities’ voice mail, hacking their way past default passcodes to the salubrious morsels contained therein with wolf-like […]

Today Jeremy Clarkson was suspended from the BBC show Top Gear for allegedly landing a blow on his producer’s head (over an argument about food). As per the use of the […]

As you can see from the chart, LFG rates amongst the top five UK institutions passionate about reporting on climate change. Over the last year in particular we’ve made it […]

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Since our new launch at the start of the year your Best-Non-Governmental-Organisation-Forever thankfully gained a lot of interest from concerned people all over the world. Brilliant. Thanks to everyone who […]

Dear LFG reader, Thanks for signing our petition on [that particular issue] and supplying us with your email address as a necessary part of that process. We will let you know […]

So on twitter and facebook at the moment everyone’s asking why the heavily trailed, historic ‘Brouhaha in Bristol’ between a bunch of climate sceptics (in the audience) and the object of […]

Millions of people will be gathering today all over the world to explain why action on climate change is needed urgently. Amongst them, Jeffery Archer, ex-MP turned novelist, stands out […]

With the president of the Royal Society, Sir Paul Nurse, recently advising anyone interested in science to crush and bury anti-science types, web project Skeptical Science’s new 97 Hours of […]

For people who work in mental health provision Robin Williams was a life saver. Often gruelling, unrewarding and grey, working in mental health is one of the hardest occupations a […]

With the news that a woman collapsed and died from suspected Ebola infection at Gatwick Airport today (it turns out she didn’t have the virus), scientists are warning of a […]

It remains true that we all live under the climate. And in Britain in particular, that means we love to talk about it. This is something to encourage: open, honest […]

Earlier this month there was some good news for the climate and people concerned about it: the BBC has finally woken up to the foolish idea of balance in the climate change […]

A few weeks ago it was ‘Time For Change’  according to University College London (UCL) in the way climate scientists engage with the public about the dangers of climate change by, for example, […]

Attendee at the launch of Hillside Science Centre last week, Vivienne Westwood, as working class as she’s ever been, today launched her Talk Fracking campaign (talkfracking.org), backed by such luminaries […]

To that vocal minority who like to drone on that ‘doom-mongering’ or ‘catastrophism’ is an apparent ‘tactic’ of reactionary, conservative forces… one word: John. To the majority of that vocal […]