Author: monbiot

The Lady Has Turned

Aung San Suu Kyi should lose her Nobel Prize, as a result of her disgraceful complicity in genocide

The media avoids the subject of climate breakdown – to do otherwise is to bring the entire infrastructure of thought crashing down

If we want people to engage with the living world, we should stop using such constipated terms to describe our relationship to it.

Electric cars address only a small part of the problem – we need to rethink the whole crazy transport system.

A New Politics for an Age of Crisis By George Monbiot. Published by Verso Books.

Politics, Equality, Nature By George Monbiot. Published 2016 by Verso Books.

Global trade once made us rich. Now it unleashes a full-spectrum assault on our well-being.

How a secretive network built around a Nobel prizewinner set out to curtail our freedoms

The Lake District’s world heritage status reveals a widespread betrayal of the living world, by both conservation groups and the UN

Unesco’s tragicomic aversion to public engagement.

The public inquiry into Grenfell Tower will be a farce unless it examines the long-running assault on public protections.

Brexit should be halted until we know who paid for the Leave vote

Another deadly tree disease threatens these islands, but the government will do nothing to keep it out.

The Grenfell Tower inferno is what deregulation looks like.

The media was exposed in this election as wildly out of touch with the nation. This is not surprising, as it lives in a hall of mirrors.

This election could transform our captured, corrupted nation. The outcome, as ever, belongs to those who turn up

We have enough physical and ecological space for public luxury for all. But not enough for private luxury for all.

How dark money is subverting democracy in the UK.

The attempt to turn the Lake District into a World Heritage site would be a disaster

Those who claim to be “conservatives” would shred the very fabric of the nation.