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Butchery of the Planet

Defending the living world and its people requires a shift from meat to a plant-based diet

Price Less

The “natural capital” agenda is morally wrong, intellectually vacuous, and most of all counter-productive

The Oxytocin Tent

The wonderful things I learnt during my treatment for prostate cancer

Payments for Not Mugging Old Ladies

This is George Monbiot’s response to the government consultation document Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment in a Green Brexit

Close Harmony

Why loneliness afflicts us – and how we should address it, in words and music

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