We’ve taken drastic action to try to stop the election from
being won by outrageous lies.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th
December 2019
One of the golden rules of journalism is that you don’t
break an embargo: a block on publication until a certain date. For the first
time in my career, I’m breaking one now. The moral case for doing so outweighs
the moral case for respecting it.
The
political parties have finally woken up to the environmental crisis. But the
media hasn’t
By
George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th November 2019
The current Labour Party has a weak instinct for power. This undermines its chances, but it reflects some rare and important traits.
By George
Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20th November 2019
The government proposes the cultural cleansing of the Romani and
Traveller life from Britain.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th
November 2019
Boarding school, a peculiarly British form
of abuse, has devastating impacts not only on the boarders, but on those they
grow up to dominate.
By George Monbiot, published in the
Guardian 7th November 2019
If politicians genuinely respected “the people’s
will”, they would let us express it between elections.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th
October 2019
This is my rationale for getting arrested with Extinction
Rebellion
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 16th October
2019
The oil
companies have successfully transferred blame for their actions to us. It is
time to fight back.
By George
Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th October 2019
By understanding the
psychological buttons they’re pressing, we can stop demagogues from destroying our
democracy.
By George Monbiot,
published in the Guardian 2nd October 2019
Is this democracy’s death spiral? Are
we falling, in this and other countries, into a lethal cycle of fury and
reaction, that blocks the reasoned conversation on which civic life depends?
Let’s bring back Britain’s missing rainforests, and create
national parks worthy of the name.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 25th
September 2019