Labouratory

We should use the political space being opened by the Labour resurgence to develop a new, participatory economy Read more.

The Meat of the Matter

Farming animals is as unsustainable as mining coal. Read more.

Common Wealth

Hope lies with a great, neglected sector of the economy, through which we can create a system that is neither capitalist nor state communist. Read more.

The Smog Chancellor

Who is the world’s leading environmental vandal? The answer may surprise you. Read more.

Urge, Splurge, Purge

The demand for perpetual economic growth, and the collective madness it provokes, leads inexorably to environmental collapse Read more.

How Do We Get Out of This Mess?

Here are my proposals for a new politics, designed for the 21st Century Read more.

The Lady Has Turned

Aung San Suu Kyi should lose her Nobel Prize, as a result of her disgraceful complicity in genocide Read more.

Don’t Look Now

The media avoids the subject of climate breakdown – to do otherwise is to bring the entire infrastructure of thought crashing down Read more.

Natural Language

If we want people to engage with the living world, we should stop using such constipated terms to describe our relationship to it. Read more.

Pollution Solutions

Electric cars address only a small part of the problem – we need to rethink the whole crazy transport system. Read more.

Out of the Wreckage

A New Politics for an Age of Crisis By George Monbiot. Forthcoming – to be published 5 Sept 2017 by Verso Books. Read more.

How Did We Get into This Mess?

Politics, Equality, Nature By George Monbiot. Published 2016 by Verso Books. Read more.

Game of Chicken

Global trade once made us rich. Now it unleashes a full-spectrum assault on our well-being. Read more.

Missing Link

How a secretive network built around a Nobel prizewinner set out to curtail our freedoms Read more.

The Lie of the Land

The Lake District’s world heritage status reveals a widespread betrayal of the living world, by both conservation groups and the UN Read more.

Black Box

Unesco’s tragicomic aversion to public engagement. Read more.

Covering Fire

The public inquiry into Grenfell Tower will be a farce unless it examines the long-running assault on public protections. Read more.

Secrets and Lies

Brexit should be halted until we know who paid for the Leave vote Read more.

A Plant in Government

Another deadly tree disease threatens these islands, but the government will do nothing to keep it out. Read more.

They Got Their Bonfire

The Grenfell Tower inferno is what deregulation looks like. Read more.