Electric cars address only a small part of the problem – we need to rethink the whole crazy transport system. Read more.
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A New Politics for an Age of Crisis By George Monbiot. Forthcoming – to be published 5 Sept 2017 by Verso Books. What does the good life—and the good … Read more.
Politics, Equality, Nature By George Monbiot. Published 2016 by Verso Books. Where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it. “Without countervailing voices, naming and challenging power, political … Read more.
Global trade once made us rich. Now it unleashes a full-spectrum assault on our well-being. Read more.
How a secretive network built around a Nobel prizewinner set out to curtail our freedoms Read more.
The Lake District’s world heritage status reveals a widespread betrayal of the living world, by both conservation groups and the UN Read more.
Unesco’s tragicomic aversion to public engagement. Read more.
The public inquiry into Grenfell Tower will be a farce unless it examines the long-running assault on public protections. Read more.
Brexit should be halted until we know who paid for the Leave vote Read more.
Another deadly tree disease threatens these islands, but the government will do nothing to keep it out. Read more.
The Grenfell Tower inferno is what deregulation looks like. Read more.
The media was exposed in this election as wildly out of touch with the nation. This is not surprising, as it lives in a hall of mirrors. Read more.
This election could transform our captured, corrupted nation. The outcome, as ever, belongs to those who turn up Read more.
We have enough physical and ecological space for public luxury for all. But not enough for private luxury for all. Read more.
How dark money is subverting democracy in the UK. Read more.
The attempt to turn the Lake District into a World Heritage site would be a disaster Read more.
Those who claim to be “conservatives” would shred the very fabric of the nation. Read more.
I would rather live with Jeremy Corbyn’s gentle dithering than Theresa May’s brutal efficiency Read more.
A note on the poison gas attack at Khan Sheikhoun, Syria Read more.
By reframing the economy, Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics changes our view of who we are and where we stand. Read more.