A Hunger for Justice
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will be responsible.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th January 2026
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Dumb and Dumber
How Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson turned a metaphor into a reality.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th December 2025
Mincing Our Words
The absolute madness of the proposed new food rules.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20th December 2025
Most of what you eat is sausages. I mean, if we’re going to get literal about it. Sausage derives from the Latin salsicus, which means “seasoned with salt”. You might think of a sausage as a simple thing, but on this reading it is everything and nothing, a Borgesian meta-concept that retreats as you approach it.
Hatewashed
How a new film stitched me up like a kipper.
By George Monbiot, adapted from a BlueSky thread, 16th December 2025
This is a note about what I see as a serious breach of journalistic ethics, in the making of Sofia Pineda Ochoa’s online documentary Greenwashed. She interviewed me for the film, but neither before, during or after was I given any idea I would be its target.
Total Futility Rate
Let’s focus our campaigning on things we can actually change.
By George Monbiot, published as a BlueSky thread, 15th December 2025
Because the issue of population change is so widely misunderstood, I’ll seek to lay it out simply. This note explains why there is almost nothing anyone can do to change the global population trajectory, both as numbers rise, then as they fall.
The residual rise is due to:
Arc of History
Immigration is the only thing that will keep wealthy nations viable.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 12th december 2025
Shaking It Up
A eureka moment in the pub could help transform our understanding of the ground beneath our feet.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th December 2025
It felt like walking up a mountain during a temperature inversion. You struggle through fog so dense you can scarcely see where you’re going. Suddenly, you break through the top of the cloud, and the world is laid out before you. It was that rare and remarkable thing: a eureka moment.
Come And Get Us
Corporations and oligarchs are using offshore courts to tear down democratic decisions – and our governments say “welcome”.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 1st December 2025
How do you reckon our political system works? Perhaps something like this. We elect MPs. They vote on bills. If a majority is achieved, the bills becomes law. The law is upheld by the courts. End of story. Well, that’s how it used to work. No longer.
Gulf of Understanding
What the governments of the Global North don’t care about, they don’t measure.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 21st November 2025
Storm Front
Why don’t we get to grips with the climate crisis? Partly because most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14th November 2025
If this were just a climate crisis, we would fix it. The technology, money and strategies have all been at hand for years. What stifles effective action is a deadly conjunction: the climate crisis running headlong into the epistemic crisis.