First Strike
Drawing on the successes and failures of the past, we must help young climate strikers to win their existential struggle
By George Monbiot, published in the Guarduan, 20th February 2019
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Re: generation
Why older people must stand in solidarity with the youth climate strikes.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 15th February 2019
Crisis? What Crisis?
The governments’ inability to respond to our democratic emergency is one symptom of systemic political failure
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th February 2019
The Mask of Anarchy
Why disaster capitalists are praying for a no deal Brexit.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th February 2019
Waste Colonialism
The UK government is flagrantly flouting its own rules, allowing our scrap tyres to be sent to India for burning.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th January 2019
Mutually Assured Salvation
A world-changing experiment in London’s poorest borough shows how to break out of our disastrous spiral of alienation.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th January 2019
Testeria
Fearful masculinity harms both men and women. There are better ways of growing up.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 16th January 2019
Don’t Breathe
Pollution is now the biggest threat to children’s health. So why is it so neglected?
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 9th January 2019
The Mind Hackers
Researchers at public universities are developing new ways of shutting down our capacity for independent thought.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 31st December 2018
You Want It Darker?
The remarkable story of how the hard-right Koch brothers funded a Trotskyite splinter group.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th November 2018
Dark money is among the greatest current threats to democracy. It means money spent below the public radar, that seeks to change political outcomes. It enables very rich people and corporations to influence politics without showing their hands.