It’s a cast-iron relationship: the more unequal a society becomes, the better the far right does. Here’s why.
Author: monbiot
Arrested Over Tea and Biscuits
It’s not disruption that’s being prosecuted in this country. It’s dissent.
How Capitalism Crashes Democracy
It has two main strategies, and you can see them both at work, right here, right now.
A New World
You can’t do it differently until you imagine it differently.
First Sight of Land
For the first time, the government is consulting on a Land Use Framework for England. It’s an important step, but there’s a long way to go.
RIP FFS
As deliberately-contaminated sewage sludge is spread on farmland, it feels as if humanity is on a suicide mission.
Pro-Social Hoarding
We face a potential global food crisis, and no one is secure until everyone is secure.
Fossil Record
Could Trump and Musk be seeking to end our time on Earth?
Axis of Autocracy
If the US is now our enemy, how do we defend ourselves?
Nigel Says Thanks
By defending the UK’s draconian anti-protest laws, Labour is laying the ground for an authoritarian government.
Non-Linear
Trump’s assaults on governance could trigger systemic collapse. Here’s how it might happen, and how we can prepare.
Broken Levers
This is how Labour’s war on regulations will stymie its own policies. It is irrational and self-destructive.
Cold Fanaticism and Intolerance of Dissent
The UK government’s pursuit of growth at all costs hands this country to predatory capital.
Homing Device
Labour’s housing strategy makes a dysfunctional system bigger. We need systemic change.
Motherfrackers
Trump’s presidency is a reversion to autocratic tyranny. Only concerted resistance can stop it from spreading.
Institutional Sexism
State-sponsored rape, lies and deception – then a cover-up operating right across official life.
Ground Truthed
Soil carbon markets are going to collapse. And that’s a good thing.
Lords of the Desert
These people are prepared to destroy everything, as long as they can command the ruins.
The Reversion
Trump’s win is a return to the default state of centralised, hierarchical societies – like ours. That’s the problem.
Emuskulation
Elon Musk threatens to do to democracy what he did to Twitter.