Author: monbiot

A Hunger for Justice

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will be responsible.

How Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson turned a metaphor into a reality.

The absolute madness of the proposed new food rules.

How a new film stitched me up like a kipper.

Let’s focus our campaigning on things we can actually change.

Immigration is the only thing that will keep wealthy nations viable.

A eureka moment in the pub could help transform our understanding of the ground beneath our feet.

Corporations and oligarchs are using offshore courts to tear down democratic decisions – and our governments say “welcome”.

What the governments of the Global North don’t care about, they don’t measure.

Why don’t we get to grips with the climate crisis? Partly because most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich.

To Bill Gates, overthrowing the power of the ultra-wealthy seems to be – literally – unthinkable.

There’s an urgent need to replace our total mess with a codified constitution.

The government is trying to set us against our ecosystems. We must resist this Trumpian gambit.

This Labour government would have banned the Labour movement – alongside all the other protests that secured our freedoms.

Austerity costs us a fortune.

Alongside the genocide, the Israeli government is destroying the ecosystems of Gaza, perhaps permanently.

The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.

Astonishingly, the Tufton Street junktanks that shaped Liz Truss’s agenda are still operating at the heart of government.

The election of Zack Polanski as Green Party leader could be the moment our political drought begins to break.

Marvellous giants are returning to our shores, which means only one thing: pathetic inadequates using them as a test of manhood.