How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot The Guardian - UK · Mar 28, 2025
What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge spread on to UK farmland? Toxic waste – and ministers don’t care Water companies let waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. When it is recklessly used as fertiliser, we are all at risk, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot The Guardian - UK · Mar 21, 2025
Britain’s food supply is precarious – and Trump’s chaos is spreading. I have a plan. Do you? I’ve started a stockpile, but that isn’t the answer. If crisis strikes, the government needs a strategy to protect us all, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot The Guardian - UK · Mar 16, 2025
The fact that humans can only survive on Earth doesn’t bother Trump – and I know why He is surrounded by people who have plans and dreams beyond our planet. Vengeful nihilism is a big part of the Maga project, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot The Guardian - UK · Mar 5, 2025
The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US? So much of our intelligence and military systems are shared or reliant on the US – if it becomes the enemy, it is already inside the gates, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot The Guardian - UK · Feb 27, 2025
Extremists would not need to create an authoritarian state in Britain: Starmer is doing that for them The PM and his ministers are supporting illiberal laws that hard-right authoritarians could apply with zeal, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot The Guardian - UK · Feb 22, 2025
There are many ways Trump could trigger a global collapse. Here’s how to survive if that happens It could be wildfires, a pandemic or a financial crisis. The super-rich will flee to their bunkers – the rest of us will have to fend for ourselves, writes columnist George Monbiot The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2025
GB News host compared to Nazi appeasers for defence of Trump on Question Time A GB News host who advocated for Donald Trump on the BBC’s Question Time was compared to the fascist appeasers of the 1930s ... The National (Scotland) · Feb 14, 2025
It’s straight from the Trump playbook: Labour is tearing up the machinery of government If Starmer and Reeves really want a greener, cleaner, wilder nation, then why attack vital state bodies that are already on their knees?, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2025
How Labour can make homes more affordable Letters: Puncturing this Ponzi scheme is the only way, writes John Worrall. Starmer doesn’t have the guts, says Stan Collins. And Rob Harris doesn’t want to see capital gains tax applied to his home The Guardian - UK · Feb 2, 2025
Look at Labour’s acts of environmental vandalism and ask: did I vote for this? Our rivers, our wildlife, the air we breathe: the government is sacrificing all to the insatiable god of GDP – and mocking our objections, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2025
Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market Private developers offer politicians a simple solution for bulldozing through this crisis – build more. But it won’t work, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot The Guardian - UK · Jan 26, 2025
Trump and Musk have launched a new class war. In the UK, we must prepare to defend ourselves Across the world, societies are reverting to oligarchies. How to resist? Fight for democracy with all we’ve got, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot The Guardian - UK · Jan 19, 2025
Cambridge water credits are a gift for developers Letter: Cambridge councillor Jean Glasberg on how large-scale developments can be pushed through by the government in an area that’s the driest in the country The Guardian - UK · Nov 28, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Nov 28, 2024 This society lauded a police officer who lied and cheated and ruined lives. At last, a reckoning As a ‘spy cop’, Bob Lambert callously betrayed innocent women. The official inquiry must ask harsh questions of him – and the state, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
The Guardian - UK · Nov 21, 2024 Trump’s science-denying fanatics are bad enough. Yet even our climate ‘solutions’ are now the stuff of total delusion The ‘progress’ made at Cop29 has been on carbon markets: a world of magical thinking, over-claiming and distorted truth, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Bored Panda · Nov 20, 2024 “Shoutout To All Of These Celebs”: People Praise Stars For Leaving Elon Musk’s X, Here’s Who Left Citing increasing misinformation and hate speech, these stars decided to quit the Elon Musk-owned platform. The post “Shoutout To All Of These Celebs”: People Praise Stars For Leaving Elon Musk’s X, Here’s Who Left first appeared on Bored Panda.
The Guardian - UK · Nov 15, 2024 Picture an all-seeing eye scanning the dying Earth – and then lighting on our ‘solutions’ at Cop29 What would it witness in Azerbaijan? A species that knows it is destroying itself but is too greedy to change course, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
The Guardian - UK · Nov 7, 2024 Trump has pledged to wage war on planet Earth – and it will take a progressive revolution to stop him Voters have never been swayed by ‘rational debate’. Only a genuine change in the way we do politics can prevent the march of the right, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
The Guardian - UK · Nov 2, 2024 Can democracy survive now the world’s richest man has it in his sights? A vote for Donald Trump next week is also a vote for Elon Musk. He’ll have even greater power than the US president, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
The Guardian - UK · Oct 29, 2024 Trump’s greatest feat has been convincing ordinary Americans that he’s on their side. He is not The Republican candidate embodies all the worst aspects of capitalism, condensed into human form, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
The Guardian - UK · Oct 22, 2024 A dualistic view of illness doesn’t help those with ME/CFS Letters: Peter White, Trudie Chalder and Michael Sharpe, and Dr Jake Hollis, respond to an article by George Monbiot
The Guardian - UK · Oct 18, 2024 Maeve Boothby O’Neill died because of a discredited view of ME. How was this allowed to happen? Chronic fatigue syndrome is as physiological as a broken leg. We must learn all we can from this tragic case, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
The Guardian - UK · Oct 11, 2024 Labour’s carbon-capture scheme will be Starmer’s white elephant: a terrible mistake costing billions The supposedly green project – brainchild of the previous Tory government – will increase emissions, not reduce them, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2024 As the waters rise, a two-year sentence for throwing soup. That’s the farcical reality of British justice Why do the mass killers of the fossil fuel industry walk free while the heroes trying to stop them are imprisoned? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot