Caught in the Crossfire
Brexit isn’t about Europe, and isn’t about the UK. It’s the outcome of a civil war within capitalism.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 25th November 2020
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Democratic Revolution
Full-scale participatory democracy would change everything. It has the same revolutionary potential as the universal franchise and women’s suffrage.
By George
Monbiot, published in the Guardian 16th September 2020
Rotten to the Core
The UK’s economic
and political life revolves around corruption.
By George
Monbiot, published in the Guardian 11th September 2020
Fear,
shame, embarrassment: these brakes no longer apply. The government has
discovered that it can bluster through any scandal. No minister need resign. No
one need apologise. No one need explain.
For Your Eyes Only
The opaque
and secretive networks on which Boris Johnson builds his power.
By George
Monbiot, published in the Guardian 2nd September 2020
Population Panic
The obsession with the birthrates of the poor has a grim history,
and is used by the rich to transfer blame.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 26th
August 2020
Finding Our Feet
Landed power, built on theft, slavery and colonial looting,
crushes our freedoms. It is time to reclaim them.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th
August 2020
Watery Grave
Across the UK, our rivers are being
turned into filthy, dead gutters, at astonishing, heartbreaking speed.
By George Monbiot, published in the
Guardian 12th August 2020
You can judge the state of a nation by the state of its
rivers. Pollution is the physical expression of corruption. So what should we
conclude about a country whose rivers are systematically exploited, dumped on
and bled dry?
Dysbiosis
The great
majority of people do not want to return to business-as-usual after the
pandemic, but our governments are determined to make us do so.
By George
Monbiot, published in the Guardian 22nd July 2020
Contract Killers
Coronavirus deals
worth billions of bounds have been awarded by the government to “unusual”
companies, without advertising or competition.
By George Monbiot,
published in the Guardian 15th July 2020
Road to Perdition
How did wildlife
groups start collaborating in the destruction of nature?
By George
Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th June 2020