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Articles from George Monbiot

Driving Us Mad

June 27, 2025 - 16:35 -- Admin

A massive new road scheme will solve precisely nothing, while costing the Earth.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th June 2025

There appear to be two main determinants of what infrastructure gets built. The first is whether it provides large and lucrative contracts for powerful corporations. The second is whether ministers can pose beside it in hard hats and yellow jackets. Otherwise, it is hard to explain the decisions made.

Four-Year Plan

June 3, 2025 - 19:42 -- Admin

Keir Starmer has accidentally given us four years in which to build a new political system. We should seize the chance.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th May 2025

Planning His Own Demise

May 16, 2025 - 22:46 -- Admin

Keir Starmer’s attack on our planning system is an almost-perfect repeat of Boris Johnson’s disaster. Why can’t he see that?

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 15th May 2025

The precedent is uncanny, and the failure to learn from it downright mystifying. Keir Starmer is rushing gladly towards the catastrophe Boris Johnson inflicted on himself in 2020. Had he set out to stymie Labour’s chances of re-election, he couldn’t be doing it better.

The Commoner-Kings

May 12, 2025 - 17:17 -- Admin

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.

Pasturised

May 12, 2025 - 13:52 -- Admin

The cottagecore, romantic path to starvation and environmental breakdown.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th May 2025

Arrested Over Tea and Biscuits

April 7, 2025 - 20:31 -- Admin

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.

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