Author: monbiot

Resist and Rebuild

Don’t despair: we will fight back, and, eventually, return stronger than before.

We’ve taken drastic action to try to stop the election from being won by outrageous lies.

The political parties have finally woken up to the environmental crisis. But the media hasn’t

The current Labour Party has a weak instinct for power. This undermines its chances, but it reflects some rare and important traits.

The government proposes the cultural cleansing of the Romani and Traveller life from Britain.

Boarding school, a peculiarly British form of abuse, has devastating impacts not only on the boarders, but on those they grow up to dominate.

If politicians genuinely respected “the people’s will”, they would let us express it between elections.

This is my rationale for getting arrested with Extinction Rebellion

The oil companies have successfully transferred blame for their actions to us. It is time to fight back.

By understanding the psychological buttons they’re pressing, we can stop demagogues from destroying our democracy.

Let’s bring back Britain’s missing rainforests, and create national parks worthy of the name.

For the sake of life on Earth, we should set an upper limit on the money any person can amass.

Neoliberalism has stalled, so the fanatics in government are using Brexit to revive it.

History will be kind to the protesters who plan to stop flights at Heathrow airport. They are climate heroes.

Thanks to shocking failures of government, every tree, almost everywhere, is now threatened by killer plagues

The livestock industry is trashing the living world, and free-range, pasture-fed meat is the worst offender.

In the midst of climate breakdown, governments around the world are funding and protecting the fossil fuel industry

Why are so many nations now led by extravagant buffoons? Because the nature of capitalism has changed.

Governments have built a heaven for landlords and a hell for tenants. It’s time to change the system.

As I’ve found to my cost, the billionaire press seeks to kill change before it happens.