Author: monbiot

How to Change Everything

An interview with The Ink, about where we are, how we got here and where we need to go.

The obscene thing I witnessed was like a parable of the madness of extreme wealth.

Labour must repeal the laws that led to shockingly disproportionate prison sentences for environmental protesters.

Here’s why the government should tax the rich and tax them hard.

The US, always a questionable friend, threatens, if Trump wins, to become our greatest threat.

Oligarchy is the default state of politics, and it is surging back. How do we stop it?

How Britain’s oldest animal welfare charity became a byword for cruelty on an industrial scale.

The crucial green policies missing from Labour’s manifesto.

The Greens are the only party with a chance of winning seats that is not beholden to oligarchic power.

An election is a device for maximising conflict and minimising democracy.

By appointing extremists to set the limits of free speech, the government protects powerful interests from challenge.

There’s a new asset class being traded between corporations. It’s called children in care.

Thanks to neoliberalism, government in the UK feels like one long trick played on the people.

Why do so many people obsess about false conspiracies, but ignore the real ones?

Secret funding, offshore donors, control by the ultra-rich. Sorry, but this is not democracy.

The tricks and scams which enable the offshore owners of England’s water companies to clean up, while leaving us with their mess.

Peaceful protesters are facing extreme and multiple punishments for the same offence: the offence of trying to defend Earth systems.

What we want to believe and what is true are seldom the same thing.

There is no natural law stating that bullies have to dominate our lives.

A remarkable political innovation in Devon could be the beginning of a new politics.