Thanks to the government’s draconian new anti-protest order, it’s almost impossible to tell whether you are or are not breaking the law.

There are some things we rightly find intolerable, such as the possession of poorly trained, aggressive dogs. There are other things, whose impacts are many thousands of times worse, that we decide ...

Here’s how it happened before – a mass extinction caused by fossil fuel burning. It will happen again unless we step back from the precipice.

Has Boris Johnson ended his holiday? It’s hard to tell. He was never committed to government, even during national emergencies, as his serial absence from Cobra meetings at the beginning of the ...

If the government’s amendments to the Police Bill are passed, we are on the path to authoritarianism. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian, 1 st December 2021 This is proper police state stuff ...

The story of the past 500 years can be crudely summarised as follows. A handful of European nations, which had mastered both the art of violence and advanced seafaring technology, used these faculties ...

The supermarkets could kill organic farming’s potential to revolutionise the foodchain By George Monbiot. Published in BBC Wildlife Magazine, November 2000 It’s hard to think of any industry which has ...

Do Not Resuscitate. This tag should be attached to the oil, airline and car companies. Governments should provide financial support to their workers while refashioning the economy to provide new jobs ...

We are defending ourselves against the wrong threats. For decades, UK governments have been fighting not just the last war, but a redundant notion of war, spending hundreds of billions against ...

Imagine that you could buy, in thousands of shops across the country, canisters containing toxic gas. Imagine that some people walked the streets, squirting this gas into the face of every child they ...

No effective means of stopping climate breakdown is deemed “politically realistic”. So we must change political realities.

How a dark money network is taking power on both sides of the Atlantic. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3 rd February 2017 It took corporate America a while to warm to Donald Trump. Some ...