#Monbiot

Very often it seems to me that other people love the land more than its "owners" do.https://twitter.com/cainscrimgeour/status/1381680254314541060 Why should wealth translate into greater legal and political rights over the fabric

Powerful column by @NickCohen4 on the extreme rightwing culture warriors who began their political lives in the deeply weird far-left cult that Frank Furedi built among his students: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/20/the

The rich people telling A-level students "don't worry about your grades, just stand on your own two feet" would starve to death if they were left alone in a house

It's 6 am and I have to be up writing an email to Noam Chomsky because he seems to have learned nothing from denying genocide in Cambodia and Bosnia. Putin

If you can bear it, please read these four articles, published across 5 months, in sequence. They show how and why the total fiasco of the government's Covid-19 response unfolded.First:

OK, so this is what we're going to do. We double down on support/giving networks for the people this government is going to dump on. It won't make up for

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George Monbiot calls out the racism and colonialism that persists in his own movement in the form of population-control.His answer: in order to stop climate change we have to stop

Brexit is the outcome of a civil war within capitalism. The stuff about foreigners and sovereignty and blue passports was just a smokescreen for some extremely determined economic interests. And

Remember when the Labour Party's travails were all Jeremy Corbyn's fault? Remember when Labour needed to become "sensible" and "moderate" and to turn to the right to be electable? Remember

George Monbiot has, to nobody’s shock, decided to blame state outsourcing is to blame for the UK’s troublesome coronavirus response. He gets it completely wrong: the bureaucracy failed to engage

I was unemployed for ten years. Basically the whole of my 20s. During that period, as now, unemployed people were relentlessly demonized and scapegoated. Including by (then prominent) Labour MPs.

I'm sorry to deflate the mood, but I think it's now time to face some cold realities. 1. It's brilliant that Trump lost, but Biden epitomises the reasons why Trump

An extraordinary shift, and credit where it's due.BUT: the great unsayable, that the BBC won't allow anyone to voice on air, is that the driver of planetary destruction is not

Boris Johnson is systematically destroying rival centres of power in the UK. Here's how he's doing it, and here's who's helping him. My columnhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/01/no-10-lobby-groups-democracy

Last night I caught up with #ALifeOnOurPlanet on Netflix. Massive kudos to David Attenborough for the great shift he has made. Just two years ago, he called such film-making a

When you consider the defensive rings set up around established power in this country, you begin to question the very notion that we live in a democracy. Let’s list them: