Author: monbiot

Punishment Posting

Want to cast someone into the outer darkness? Then give them the environment department, that should be the most important portfolio of all.

If we saw it anywhere else, we would recognise our political funding system as utterly corrupt

The Chilcot report is utterly damning; but it’s still not justice.

The Labour Party can survive, but only if it’s prepared to form an alliance with other parties

The decision to leave the EU is a disaster, but also a great opportunity for renewal

Those who want to leave the EU refuse to make the most crushing argument against it. Here’s why.

The European Union looks thoroughly rotten – until you compare it to the alternatives.

Crisis after crisis is being caused by a failed ideology. But it cannot be stopped without a coherent alternative.

Academic standards go up in smoke in a wildly biased paper on burning in the British uplands.

I’m still alive – but keeping quiet about it.

I am starting to hate the European Union. But I will vote to stay in.

Oil, the industry that threatens us with destruction, is being bailed out with public money

My interview, in his 90th year, with Sir David Attenborough

I see the people on trial for occupying a runway at Heathrow as democratic heroes.

National park authorities inflict mass destruction on wildlife and habitats, then call it conservation

Who is most responsible for high abortion rates? The religious right.

How the government learnt absolutely nothing from the recent floods.

An ability to contest the circumstances of our birth is an essential element of our humanity.

How public money and crazy policies speed water off the land and into our homes

The joints of meat that do more damage than a long-haul flight