Author: monbiot

Betrayal

Those who claim to defend the national interest are bent on its destruction

Towering Injustice

Those who died in the Grenfell Tower fire were killed in an official war against public protections

Ignoble Prize

If the Nobel Peace Prize means anything, it should be stripped from Aung San Suu Kyi for her complicity in the massacres in Myanmar/Burma

Aquamancy

How natural flood management could save homes and lives downstream

Unprostrated

I have prostate cancer, but I’m happy. Here’s how.

Contrary to Reason

Steven Pinker claims to champion Enlightenment values. But his latest book is an affront to them

Parklife

Our national parks are ecological deserts, run for the benefit of a tiny minority. It’s time we reclaimed them.

Commonhealth

A remarkable experiment suggests that emergency admissions to hospital can be reduced by tackling loneliness

Resisting Resistance

A US-UK trade deal threatens to export the horrors of US corporate livestock production

Revolt of the Robots

How we can find meaning, purpose and pride when the workplace no longer offers them

The Sting

Repeated warnings that the Private Finance Initiative was an outrageous rip-off, dumping ultimate risks on the taxpayer, were ignored

Eating the Earth

A rough transcript of my speech at the Oxford Farmers’ Conference debate, on the motion “This House Believes Eating Meat Will Be A Thing of the Past by 2100”