Author: monbiot

How Wolves Change Rivers

A short extract from my TED talk.

If you join foreign conflicts you’re prosecuted as a terrorist, however just your cause.

Did an undercover policeman help to instigate a major riot?

Never mind the evidence, we’ll do something eye-catching.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chainstores.

The hidden and remarkable story of why devastating floods keep happening.

A shocking new bill threatens to make this country feel like a giant shopping mall.

In which the author recounts a chilling and idiotic brush with death.

A winter’s tale of guns, gold and greed.

Why do we transfer the real health risks inflicted by coal onto nuclear energy?

A conversation with Steve Wheeler for Dark Mountain

Amazingly, the BBC seems happy to be exploited by covert corporate lobbyists.

Materialism promises satisfaction. It delivers despair.

A new government appointment provides a chilling insight into its priorities.

Politicians and officials are desperately seeking to justify their transatlantic assault on democracy.

The BBC’s disgraceful failure to reveal who its contributors are speaking for.

The argument seems, once more, decisively to favour veganism.

Advertising and consumerism dull our capacity for empathy.

A government-backed industrial lobbying campaign is being funded by a stealth tax. It’s an outrage.

A shocking case of denial highlights the problem that Catholics – and Pope Francis – have with history.