The weird, uncanny consistencies of far right politics. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 6 I’ve been thinking about a famously orange-skinned former presenter of trashy TV programmes, who ...

For many years, certain car manufacturers sought to obstruct the transition to electric vehicles. It’s not hard to see why: when you have invested heavily in an existing technology, you want to ...

There are several services and assets I would like to see nationalised. But at the top of my list is neither water, nor trains, nor development land, much as I’d like to see them brought under ...

A functioning society depends on equality before the law. If crimes are not treated equally and dispassionately by the justice system, we lose trust in democracy and each other. But as sentences begin ...

Yes, we are pro-nuclear, but the proposed Hinkley C plant should be scrapped.

A New Politics for an Age of Crisis By George Monbiot. Published by Verso Books.

It’s ridiculous that governments leave it to people like me to communicate the need for environmental action.

How Britain’s oldest animal welfare charity became a byword for cruelty on an industrial scale.

I had an unhappy time at university, and I now regret having gone to Oxford, even though the zoology course I took – taught, among others, by Richard Dawkins, Bill Hamilton and John Krebs – was ...

Privatisation and austerity don’t cut costs: they just pass them on to us.

George Monbiot uncovers what many have suspected but few have been able to prove: that corporations have become so powerful they now threaten the foundations of democratic government. Many of the ...