A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
What does the good life—and the good society—look like in the twenty-first century?
A toxic ideology rules the world – of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Only a positive vision can replace it, a new story that re-engages people in politics and lights a path to a better world.
Politics, Equality, Nature
Where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it
Global trade once made us rich. Now it unleashes a full-spectrum assault on our well-being.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 26th July 2017
How a secretive network built around a Nobel prizewinner set out to curtail our freedoms
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th July 2017
The Lake District’s world heritage status reveals a widespread betrayal of the living world, by both conservation groups and the UN
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 12th July 2017
Unesco’s tragicomic aversion to public engagement.
By George Monbiot, published on monbiot.com, 12th July 2017
This is supporting material for my column on the Lake District’s acquisition of World Heritage status, that will be published on this site under the title Lie of the Land.
The public inquiry into Grenfell Tower will be a farce unless it examines the long-running assault on public protections.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th July 2017
We don’t allow defendants in court cases to select the charges on which they will be tried. So why should the government set the terms of a public inquiry into its own failings? We don’t allow criminal suspects to vet the trial judge. Why should the government approve the inquiry’s chair?
Brexit should be halted until we know who paid for the Leave vote
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th June 2017
Should the EU referendum be annulled? For the past year I’ve been arguing that this would mean defying a democratic decision – even if it was informed by lies. Democracy is not negotiable.
Another deadly tree disease threatens these islands, but the government will do nothing to keep it out.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 21st June 2017
The less you care, the better you will do. This has long been the promise of conservative politics on both sides of the Atlantic. People who couldn’t give a tinker’s cuss about the consequences of their actions are elevated to the highest levels of government. Their role is to trash what lesser mortals value.
The Grenfell Tower inferno is what deregulation looks like.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 15th June 2017
For years, successive governments have built what they call “a bonfire of regulations”. They have argued that “red tape” impedes our freedom and damages productivity. Britain, they have assured us, would be a better place with fewer forms to fill, fewer inspections and less enforcement.