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In Love with the State

Rightwingers say they hate big government. As their current campaigns show, it’s not true.

Here’s the full line-up for the first Left Hook debate tour

Online astroturfing is more advanced and more automated than we’d imagined.

I’ve finally joined Twitter

Shocking new financial manouevres by the British government show who it’s really working for.

You thought elections counted for something? Look at what wasn’t in the manifesto.

The sale of England’s state forests is a chance to do something interesting. It’s being squandered.

A leaked document, published exclusively on monbiot.com, shows that the government has been secretly protecting bankers’ bonuses.

This is the text of the leaked document referred to in Bonus Balls.

It’s time for those who hate the greens to stop issuing death threats – to me and others.

There’s still plenty of money in the pot for someone attempting Tony Blair’s arrest

What could be sillier and more invidious than the Observer’s “eco-power list”?

Who threatens us most – peaceful campaigners or a private militia run by police chiefs?

Why does England have weaker rules on opencast mining than Wales and Scotland?

Conservatives have perfected the trick of defending power by attacking it.

Come and have an argument

According to the latest smear campaign, I’m the new Howard Hughes. Sorry to disappoint you.

Government ministers have declared an end to hostilities that never begun.

Here’s the remarkable, hidden truth about our housing crisis.

The level of excess winter deaths in the UK is higher than Siberia’s. This is why.