Dartmoor National Park is not dying; it is being killed, and these are the killers.
By George Monbiot, adapted from a Bluesky thread, 11th May 2025.
This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity.
The cottagecore, romantic path to starvation and environmental breakdown.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th May 2025
Thank you for the opportunity to provide feedback on the draft strategy. Prosper Australia is an economic think tank working in the Georgist tradition, with a long history of research into property taxation. We wish to raise one major point: the draft strategy lacks an infrastructure funding strategy. The draft recommendations cover several governance and […]
A remarkable before-and-after experiment provides conclusive evidence: the BBC favours the right and excludes the left.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 1st May 2025
This new legislation is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems in living memory.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th April 2025
Let tax reform drive your voting decision this election with the Prosper Australia 2025 policy scorecard.
The post 2025 Federal election scorecard first appeared on Prosper Australia.
Most credible researchers believe immigration affects house prices. The questions are: how much, and at what cost?
This post aims to establish some baseline facts on the basis of which sensible arguments can be made about immigration and housing. Key points:
It’s a cast-iron relationship: the more unequal a society becomes, the better the far right does. Here’s why.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th April 2025
Advice for homebuyers and citizens: home-deductibility and housing guarantee schemes both deserve your derisive laughter, whoever backs them.
Has Labor done a dodgy deal with the Liberals in Macnamara, or is it just another a case of another Tory in Labor clothing?
“Fighting Tories. That’s what I do.”
Famous words of current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
A dozen or so years later and that heartfelt statement seems a distant memory.
It’s not disruption that’s being prosecuted in this country. It’s dissent.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3rd April 2025
The faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: coordinated global lobbying by the rich and powerful, fronted by rightwing junktanks.
Donald Trump is still trying to slash his nation’s trade deficit. Australians may recognise this task: we tackled it in the late 1980s, failed, and found that it mattered less than we thought.