Pasturised
The cottagecore, romantic path to starvation and environmental breakdown.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th May 2025
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Blatantly Biased Collaboration
A remarkable before-and-after experiment provides conclusive evidence: the BBC favours the right and excludes the left.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 1st May 2025
Billionaire Death Cult
This new legislation is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems in living memory.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th April 2025
The Urge to Destroy
It’s a cast-iron relationship: the more unequal a society becomes, the better the far right does. Here’s why.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th April 2025
Arrested Over Tea and Biscuits
It’s not disruption that’s being prosecuted in this country. It’s dissent.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3rd April 2025
The faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: coordinated global lobbying by the rich and powerful, fronted by rightwing junktanks.
How Capitalism Crashes Democracy
It has two main strategies, and you can see them both at work, right here, right now.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th March 2025
A New World
You can’t do it differently until you imagine it differently.
By George Monbiot, adapted from a BlueSky thread, 2nd April 2025
One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools – neoliberalism and fascism – it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives.
First Sight of Land
For the first time, the government is consulting on a Land Use Framework for England. It’s an important step, but there’s a long way to go.
By George Monbiot. This is my response to the government’s Land Use Consultation, sent on 23rd March 2025.
RIP FFS
As deliberately-contaminated sewage sludge is spread on farmland, it feels as if humanity is on a suicide mission.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 21st March 2025
If humanity has an epitaph, it might read something like this: “Knackered by the things we missed.” It is true that several existential threats are widely known and widely discussed. But some of the greatest dangers we face appear on almost no one’s radar.
Pro-Social Hoarding
We face a potential global food crisis, and no one is secure until everyone is secure.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 16th March 2025
I hate to sound like a prepper, but I feel bound to confess that over the past month I’ve been stockpiling food. I think, if you can, you should do the same.