Author: monbiot

The Urge to Destroy

It’s a cast-iron relationship: the more unequal a society becomes, the better the far right does. Here’s why.

It’s not disruption that’s being prosecuted in this country. It’s dissent.

It has two main strategies, and you can see them both at work, right here, right now.

You can’t do it differently until you imagine it differently.

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.

As deliberately-contaminated sewage sludge is spread on farmland, it feels as if humanity is on a suicide mission.

We face a potential global food crisis, and no one is secure until everyone is secure.

Could Trump and Musk be seeking to end our time on Earth?

If the US is now our enemy, how do we defend ourselves?

By defending the UK’s draconian anti-protest laws, Labour is laying the ground for an authoritarian government.

Trump’s assaults on governance could trigger systemic collapse. Here’s how it might happen, and how we can prepare.

This is how Labour’s war on regulations will stymie its own policies. It is irrational and self-destructive.

The UK government’s pursuit of growth at all costs hands this country to predatory capital.

Labour’s housing strategy makes a dysfunctional system bigger. We need systemic change.

Trump’s presidency is a reversion to autocratic tyranny. Only concerted resistance can stop it from spreading.

State-sponsored rape, lies and deception – then a cover-up operating right across official life.

Soil carbon markets are going to collapse. And that’s a good thing.

These people are prepared to destroy everything, as long as they can command the ruins.

Trump’s win is a return to the default state of centralised, hierarchical societies – like ours. That’s the problem.

Elon Musk threatens to do to democracy what he did to Twitter.