Author: monbiot

Remote Control

How the media shafted the people of Scotland.

If the ozone hole had been discovered ten years later, governments are likely to have done nothing.

The rest of the UK doesn’t need to be rescued by Scottish votes: independence could inspire transformation everywhere

Scots voting no to independence would be an astonishing act of self-harm

And the case for reintroducing big cats. A weird and wonderful tale.

Do you feel left out? Perhaps it’s because you refuse to succumb to the competition, envy and fear neoliberalism breeds

Allan Savory tells us that increasing livestock numbers can reduce desertification and reverse climate change – but where is the scientific evidence?

The justifications for extreme inequality have collapsed. But only the Green Party is prepared to take the obvious step

The Natural Capital Agenda looks like an answer to the environmental crisis. But it’s a delusion.

Get ready for a radical rightwing insurgency that could be stirring within the Conservative Party.

As soon as an animal becomes extinct, a new bill proposes, it will be classified as “non-native”.

Neonicotinoids appear to have devastating effects across the natural world: we need a global moratorium.

Is life extension science an astonishing promise or an astonishing threat? Or both?

The government’s decision to capture England’s only free-living population is unjustified and irrational.

The real enemies of press freedom are in the newsroom.

Buried in the Infrastructure Bill is an astonishing and hitherto-unnoticed contradiction.

Is the government preparing to dispose of our forests and other public land?

We cannot reach people by terrifying them; there has to be a positive agenda.

How to ensure that nations slide ever further into selfishness, and ever further to the right.

In an extraordinary coup, farmers’ unions and the UK government have torpedoed the European Soil Framework Directive