Opinion: Flat SUV Tyres and Soupy Van Goghs: 2022 Was a Vintage Year for Climate Protest
Clare Hymer
The government's insatiable protest crackdown has forced climate activists to get creative this year, writes Clare Hymer.
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Feature: Students Are Occupying Schools and Universities in Protest at Climate Chaos
Clare Hymer & Sam Knights
It’s been four years since striking students forced the climate crisis onto the global agenda. Now, they’re trying a new strategy. Clare Hymer and Sam Knights report.
Opinion: Charles Isn’t the ‘Climate King’
Clare Hymer
Britain’s new king says he wants a “revolution” to tackle the climate crisis. But all he really wants is a veneer of respectability whilst he shores up his historic privilege, argues Clare Hymer.
Feature: ‘I’ll Take My Chances’: Londoners Risk Fines, Sewage and Drowning to Swim in Heatwaves
Clare Hymer
London has so few affordable outdoor swimming spots that in soaring temperatures, people are increasingly resorting to whatever water they can find. Clare Hymer reports.
Report: Welcome to Slacker School: Learning From the Best How to Work the Least
Clare Hymer
Lockdown has clarified that there is more to our lives than bullshit jobs, and nothing better than living them on company time. Clare Hymer meets some of Britain's most skilled skivers.
Long Read: Whatever Happened to the UK Youth Climate Strikes?
Clare Hymer
Two years ago, young people across the UK walked out of school in the first of a wave of 'climate strikes'. But despite its rapid and extraordinary growth, the youth strike movement's future was in jeopardy even prior to the pandemic. Clare Hymer reports.
Novara FM: Only Pleasure Can Save the Planet
Philosopher Kate Soper joins Clare Hymer to discuss alternative hedonism, political optimism and post-growth living.
Interview: Interview with George Monbiot
Clare Hymer caught up with George Monbiot about climate change, the media and his new book Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis.
Occupy, Strike, Resist: 3 Lessons from the Warwick Occupation
Clare Hymer and Connor Woodman
Following a two-week occupation, Warwick students have won major concessions on their demands that the university oppose government higher education reforms, agree to fair teaching conditions for hourly-paid academic staff, and scrap a protest injunction.